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Show F000 SUPPLIES TOBECUT 01 GERMANS SAID TO HAVE THR; EN ED TO STOP THE RELlE: SERVICE IN BELGIUM. Belgians Ordered to Immediately sume Former Activities, Un:. Penalty of Having All Charit. able Organizations Closed, Brussels. A proclamation 1 by the German governor of Er. on November 6 threatens that the Belgian people return immec . and resume their former act;. Germany will close all charita..T ganizations which now feed tht populace. Well informed Brussels res;; claim the German contention tha: Belgian people are unwilling to sume their activities is unfc;:. The Belgians, they say, are enough to work, but this is impv-since impv-since all their automobiles and ';. have been taken by the German t making it impossible for them tu coal and raw material for th tories. The Belgians, it is declared, -the miserable, half-blinded hor; -: of the mines, fed them and s-; to work; but no sooner were : horses strong enough to pull . I than the Germans confiscated ; ! for the army. Now the factor;--without coal and iron or raw ials. The industry, which was mous in many parts of Be'.giu::; been ruined. The farmers have lions of beets rotting in the houses through inability to tr;: them to the factories. The workmen, Belgians mi.: are willing to work for one-fo. their ordinary wages, but the :'. owners, unable to provide the : sary material, have been obliei miss the men. |
