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Show GERMS COOTIE t SP0LIM POLICY Make Demand Upon Belgian Bel-gian Banks for Billion Francs.' HAVKE, Sept. l.", 0:15 p. m.' The Belgian miuibter of finance, Alois Von de Vyvere. has issued the following note: According to news from authorized author-ized sources, the German authorities authori-ties of occupation are pursuing against the Belgian population a policy of spoliation even graver than that already denounced by the Belgian minister of finance after the first reports in the Dutch press. The Belgian National bank is not the only national bank which they desire to reach. The German commissary, at Brussels demands that a loan be made toi him not of 750,000,000 francs, as first announced, but of .1,000,000,000 francs, of which three-fifths three-fifths is to be furnished by the 'Belgian National bank and two-' fifths by other banks. All the directors of the Belgian National bank are threatened with arrest. M. Cnrlier, one of the directors, di-rectors, already has been arrested and taken to Aix-la C'hapelle, and is being treated with the greatest brutality, bru-tality, lie has been forced to wear a prison garb. Such arc the barbarous bar-barous methods of intimidation to which the German government has taken recourse in attempting to insure in-sure the success of its forced loan. The Belgian minister of finance denounces this odiovis abuse of power by the authorities of occupation. occupa-tion. The act is all ' the more abominable in that it aims at extorting ex-torting from Belgium, already so maltreated, her own financial resources re-sources to use in making war upon her. |