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Show TEUTONS OPPRESSIVE 111 PRIVVTEMATTERS Visitors at Brussels, Belgium, Bel-gium, Find Graft Is Predominant Pre-dominant Feature. SPEECH IS LIMITED Persons Meeting on Streets May Not Talk Longer Than Five Minutes. Special Cable to The .Tribune. 1 LONDON", Sept. 30. The news which reaches here from the beautiful captive city of Brussels Is as a rule not very cheerful, thougli very often we see evidence evi-dence that the citizens of the city have ' not yet lost their sense of humor, for which they are justly famous. A Dutchman who visited Brussels last week, with the consent of the German authorities, says that the kaiser's of 11- J clals and troops seem to have an idea . that they have stayed their time in Brus- 1 sels and. this may be the reason why they seem to be taking advantage of pretexts to extract fines from the inhabitants. 1 Woman Is Fined. Recently a woman was arrested and sentenced to eight days' imprisonment or to pay a fine of $6.25 for standing at a stopping place of the street cars where she had an appointment to meet her sister. sis-ter. As she did not take the first car that came along she was promptly arrested. , It has been strictly prohibited to stop in the street and speak to several people and the conversations of two persons meeting accidentally or by appointment are limited to five minutes. A prominent German in Belgium has just committed suicide. The manager of the National bank at Antwerp, M. earlier, ear-lier, was arrested at the Central station as he was alighting from a train from Brussels. His offense was that he had refused to turn over to the Germans the sum of 400,000,000 francs ($80,000,000), in his charge, in exchange for German paper. German Disobeys. Immediately after liis arrest he was packed off to an unknown destination in Germany, and Von Blssing's government appointed Herr Buschweiler, a German who for many years had lived in Belgium, Bel-gium, to be his successor. Herr Buschweiler, although still a German Ger-man subject, had learned to love his new country, and he was generally respected, even in these turbulent times. He had no sooner been appointed manager of the National bank of Antwerp when the German Ger-man authorities requested him to exchange ex-change the funds in the bank for their scrip, but to their astonishment they met with a prompt and absolute refusal, and when they proceeded to use stronger means Buschweiler committed suicide rather than do as he was bid. |