Salt Lake Tribune | 1918-10-09 | Page 2 | Belgian Males Being Deported

BELGIAN HS BEING DMTED Germans Are Enslaving Population for Use in Military Work. HAVRE, Oct. 8. The Belgian government govern-ment has issued ft statement that from the coast to beyond the city of Bruges the male population between the ages, of 15 and 45 have been brutally torn from their homes and forced to labor on Ger-, man military work. ! The text of the statement reacs: "The Beigian government has been con-1 ferring with the allied governments on the subject of meaaures which are necessitated neces-sitated by methods ot systematic destruction de-struction and piliaga which the enemy Is employing in territory he is obliged to evacuate. "Belgium has ben from the beginning of the war exposed to outrages of the German armies. At the very moment the new imperial chancellor is proclaiming his anxiety for the happiness of peopiea and his will to work for the deliverance of humanity, the Pelgian government receives re-ceives news of fresh excesses on the part; of the German armies in occupied Bel-glum. Bel-glum. "From the coast to beyond Brutes the male population from 15 to 45 years are being torn from their homes and S ib- , jecied to the most brutal treatment. , Those men are compelled to work at forced labor for the military needs of the enemy. i "A vengeful clamor would ar:? from' the hole world if at the moment of leaving Bela'an soil the German army, renewed with redoubled cruelly t". ex-; cepsts which marked te invasion of Belgium and if they undertook to consummate con-summate the ruin of the country by pillage, pil-lage, arson and the wholesale- deportation of the people.'