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Show oo NEUTRAL PROTEST TAKINGJEF FEET Germans Beginning to Reduce Re-duce Number of Deportations Deporta-tions From Belgium. RETURNED MEN REPORT Were Forced to Work in Trenches, Food Bad and Treatment Harsh. Amsterdam, Holland, Dec. 4, via London. The newspaper Les Nou-vello Nou-vello says the Germans are beginning to reduce considerably their requirements require-ments as to the number of unemployed unemploy-ed to be deported from Belgium and that the greater part of the men who presented themselves at Liege last week have been sent back to their homes. Only a few men were taken from the surrounding villages. The newspaper adds that apparently apparent-ly the protests of neutrals have begun to produce some effect. Invalids and boys of fifteen years who have returned re-turned to Ghent, Les Nouvelles says, report they were forced to work on trenches in the district "of Sotons and that their food was bad and their treatment harsh. Revolt In Antwerp. London, Dec. 4, 12:30 p. m. Two Belgians who have arrived at Sluls-kill, Sluls-kill, Holland, from Ghent, report that there was a revolt in Antwerp on November No-vember 30, in which between two and three hundred inhabitants and many German soldiers are said to have been killed, according to a Reuter Amsterdam Amster-dam dispatch today quoting a Sluisklll correspondent The roported revolt was due to a call upon the inhabitants for work In Germany. |