Show T I OF liVING I- I j BELGIUM IS YE VE PROBLEM 1 Soar to Such Heights t it ht Public W Wont Won't on t Pay Refuse to Work I sd Jan 13 ConditiOns Conditions here herd In Belgium generally are 1 ard ud The J prices of or food have haved j ja I d a a distressing height Coffee e equivalent of or about 5 5 a 1 meat and butter jOi sugar h i. i rca rs 40 cents each Men's Mens i f p poor quality cost from I IMen's Mens Men's shoes arc are about the thc the 8 clothing A moderate meal In j J costs the equivalent alent of ot 5 streets o of ot Brussels are aro filled crowds from morn morn- i because scarcely anybody ny fly work Tho The shops many of I indeed aro closed sell next to ig g for lor two reasons in tho the first I because causo the they have c very verr little 1 I and secondly because tile the fare so high that tho the public can can- II II's s 's afford nord to pay them The j have ha been ver very much Id I d about pi prices Ices They always 5 thaL as soon as the tho tho war was ws I nd ind the armistice was vas signed the aries of ot Ufo life would be bo procurable I irmal prices Their anticipation len een cn far from being rc realized In I people have havo to pa pay nowadays ns as is much as when the Germans In iI Brussels Men JIn e to Work number of or places of or amusement has Ind in- in ig g houses and antI the like d to a great reat extent ther grave o economic difficulty out ut of pf what is called tho ent fund This was created durie dur dur- duroe ie e war to aid workmen to enable them to ut t having to be dependent upon ralls In the first instance this forked ad adan advantageously an but after Ho lie a a. different state of ot things A V. V workman worman who was being fed t. t 1 1 i. lI li f t U iJ J i received cel cd from tho unemployment regular gular pay of ot about francs ith tn th for doing nothing and num nun t C these workmen well wen content l heir lot refuse to r return turn to work worl t Repair 1 Lines ln I railways telephones and ana telesIn tele tele- sIn Belgium have hae been for tor destroyed The Belgians their best to restore them vIlI tale take a long time before the jellum condition Is re established puro mischief the Germans ded de de- d id all aU that they could For in in- It tho rails on the line ine ine between erke to Bruges Bruge and anti Ghent were to iio pieces three or four tour yards ards In rand and this was as done dono In the most atlo manner a l special machine brought up to sever tho rails one The lino Is now being gradual gradual- but ono one can still see the of or rail ranged rang In hears heaps l ho track between n on one town pother Another other Is 15 most difficult in where the thc lines are to sonic some ex ox but ut t only temporarily re jone one on or two trains are aro run In Iny inyl y iy but the they go very ery slowly many man hours 8 over Journeys journe's which rh lasted from half hair an hour to ur r. r Until the tho communication are restored the glum will ho bo or very dlf difficult t and cannot go down I I 6 |