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Show DEPORTATION OF ! BELGIANS DETERS PLANS FOR RELIEF LONDON, Dec. S, T:04 p. m. The Duke of Norfolk, chairman of the executive ; committee of the national committee for relief in Belgium, today gave the Associated Asso-ciated Press the following statement in i regard to the effect the deportation of B'-lgians will have on the American relief commission: The recent order issued by the military mili-tary governor of Brussels throws further light on the German methods in Belgium. It requested the delivery without delay of lists of unemployed under threats of rigorous measure and in default of which the German authorities will themselves select Belgians Bel-gians to be transported to Germany. The lists which are demanded are those drawn up for the relief commission commis-sion and tho national commission- This is directly contrary to the conditions con-ditions laid down by the allies and accepted ac-cepted by the German authorities at the outset of the negotiations in regard re-gard to relief measures. On June 7, 1915. Lord Crewe, lord president of the council, writing to Mr. Page, the American Ambassador In London, stated expressly that If the German authorities desire to use the machinery machin-ery of the commission and the na tional committee for the purpose of coercing the working population of i Belgium to employ themselves against their own will and conscience, direct- ly or indirectly, In the service of or for the benefit of the occupying army, they must themselves provide for the relief of these bodies and all arrangements arrange-ments between his majesty's government govern-ment and the commission must cease. The condition was accepted by the German governor of Belgium, who hound himself in express terms in a dispatch from Baron von Der Lanc-ken Lanc-ken (civil governor of Brussels) to Minister Whiilock on July 25, 1915, as follows: "That tho governor general will not make use of the national commit toe to force the Belgian population to emptov itself in the service- of tho German army eonlrary to the M'pn-la M'pn-la lions of The Hague convention." That the 11ms of unemploved now demanded are i hose drawn up for purposes of relief is admitted bv the Germans. The Nord Deutsche Alle-g'uueine Alle-g'uueine Zeitunjr on November if says that the Belgian municipality refused to supplv the Germans with lists of unemployed in their districts and whh;h they hud drawn up for the American relief commission, in consequence, con-sequence, control had at first to he eMcndod to the whole population. We al.-o know that Councillor Keh-vinol Keh-vinol of Brussels whs arrested for refusing re-fusing to give up such a list. On thir own admission, therefore. th Germans violate the undertaking given hy t he Gorman government in Belgium, when they demand the uso of the machinery of the American relief re-lief commission for the purpose of forced labor and the refusal to give up the lists drawn up for this commission com-mission is used to justifv the transportation trans-portation of others than the unemployed. |