CONDITIONS IN BELGIUM.

Colonist, Volume LXI, Issue 1, 12 April 1919, Page 5

CONDITIONS IN BELGIUM.

WIDESPREAD UNEMPLOYMENT

AND INDIGENCE.

(Australian & N.z'. Cable Association.)

■..-. ■ London, April I.^ The ■ "Daily Telegraph's" Brussels correspondent says the number of unemployed in Belgium is 850,000, and is still_ increasing, while upwards of two million are receiving relief. The delegates at the Peace Conference have been instructed to insist on. securing raw materials, with a view to providing employment. ! . The Germans, during the occupation cf Belgium, courtmartialied 110,000 on charges of espionage and helping soldiers to escape to Holland.