BELGIUM.
' * A NEW. STORY. . - ' - GERMANS QUITE'FRIENDLY. ■ (United Service.)- '* Received 10.45 p.m., April 2nd. *' " "LONDON, April. 2. Mr Wh'itaker' states >in "The Timers" that the Germans are " remarkably lenient to -Belgium. Brussels . and Antwerp are well supplied with food, which is, produced in Belgium ~as- plentifully as before the war. 1 Shops and theatres are crowded with fashionablo women, s These statements' have produced a sensation,' ' because, all the world understood that Belgium is starving. The Belgian Embassy does not deny their truthfulness, but the Secretary of the Belgian Committee writes generalising upon the people's ''"'—'ships during: the German occupation* a • '
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Timaru Herald, Volume CVI, Issue 16235, 3 April 1917, Page 7
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