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Show BELGIUM GATHERS DATA AND NAMES ON DEPORTATIONS Vt.VVRtU, Doc. , 3:10 p. m. The Bcl-i Bcl-i plan government has received lists of persons deported from various localities. 1 Their names aiul information as to wlicth-j wlicth-j er they wero working at tho time of the rtc-portutlon and whether they were of ln-' ln-' dependent menns is contained in the lists. Bonie of these lists show that among tho deported wero forty-two persons of : position and who owned property and who wore neither Idle nor indigent, such us farmers, small shopkeepers, tho hotel proprletnr, tho station master and his principal ussistant. students and artists. Another list, from Nlveltes. names thirty-nine thirty-nine persons wtio were employed and who were making & livelihood, but who were carried off to labor In Germany. "Tr townspeople at Jemappes," says an eye-witness account received here, "wero assembled and examined as to their strength, are, and general appearance, appear-ance, verv much as though they wore cattle. Five hundred were picked for transportation. Kach was asked to eifrn a paper saying- that he engaged voluntarily volun-tarily for work in Germany. The men wero told that 'If you sign. It will be asy to place you In Germany. If you refuse, you probably will be sent to the front to work In the trenches.' Few jvrsons signed the paper. One man of 42 who signed was overcome by remorse two days later and handed himself." Numerous narratives received by this I "underground railway'" described trains j passing through towns packed with men ; who were being deported. Sometimes. It Is sivid. they were singing the "Ura-! "Ura-! haneoune. ' the Belgian national hymn. or the "Marseillaise," mid sometimes , they were cursing Germany and shaking : their fists at German sentinels and shout-lug shout-lug insults at them. j |