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Show lead who remain behind at work. There is only one word that. can deecribe It: 'It la a hell!'" Thst deportations could be Justified by any danger to public order la characterized char-acterized as sbsurd. "The population has no arms," the memorandum say a. "Surroumled by a harrier of death dealing electric wires, the population Is Jlterally held aa In a cage." Germany's Industrial Tactics Flayed By Associated Press. WASHINGTON, June 4. In a memorandum mem-orandum presented by Minister de Car-tier Car-tier and made public by the state department de-partment today, the Belgian government govern-ment aaaerta that Germany's Industrial strangulation of occupied Belgian. Polish Po-lish and Lithuanian territory, followed fol-lowed by slavery of the conquered peoples, peo-ples, has been carried on under a plan worked out in cold blood during August. Au-gust. 114. by Dr. W. Kathenau of Berlin. This Is In answer to Germany's claim that the deportation of Belgians for enforced labor was a military and economic eco-nomic necessity. Moreover, replying to the German statement that deportation deporta-tion have ceased. It Is declared that they continue "without care for the seeds of hatred that are sown In the , hearts of the victims and those near 'and dear to them, and which threaten I to render all social Intercourse impossible, impos-sible, perhaps for centuries, between two Important portions of the peoples of Kurope. The general headquarters at Berlin. Jt la charged, decreed the systematic economic exhaustion of Belgium on the RaUienau plan for the exploitation of all the economic resources of occupied occu-pied territories by the German war machine, stifled Belgian competitive Industries fur the benefit of tierman in-dustrlea in-dustrlea by the wholesale removal of machinery and raw material, by unjuat sequestration, and by prohibitive tariffs; tar-iffs; bled the country white by war taxes of Over a billion francs and by other financial disabilities; prevented relief for the unemployed thus created ,by forbidding public work and technical techni-cal Instruction, and, finally, made their enforced Mlenetis the excuse for deporting de-porting them like cattle to Germany or to the firing line to serve In war - work against their own brothers. ."Compelled, in spite of themselves. says the memorandum, "to undertake heavy toil and to work outdoors during dur-ing the severest season of t he year, without having been trained or hardened, hard-ened, exposed to nrt tilery fire, deprived de-prived of proper clothing, and sonrcely nourished, a multitude of thene unfortunates unfor-tunates soon full from exhaustion and from Illness. The mortality on the spot seems to le conaidei -at tin. The sirk and dying who can still be trans-ported trans-ported are sent home, with lesa regard re-gard than slaves received In antiquity. Through the pitiable convoys of these repatriated Begianti there has been re-vtnlpd re-vtnlpd the lif which thHr compatriots |