HUNS IN BELGIUM
WHOLE COUNTRY MINED. GERMAN OFFICER'S ROASTNOTHING WILL RE LEFT STANDING. .Australian and N.Z. Cable Assn.) Received August 28, 9.05 a.m. NEW YORK, August 27. Huysmans, an expert munition maker, who escaped ironi Belgium, has arrived in the United States. He says the Germans have mined the whole country, including the towns and cities, while bombs, electrically controlled, have been laid everywhere. A German officer boasted that if the Germans were forced to retire from Belgium they would not leave anything standing. If the Belgians refuse to do munition work their wives and daughters are deported to Germany.
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Waikato Times, Volume 87, Issue 13270, 28 August 1916, Page 5
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