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Show Male Population of Bel- gium Are Made H ARMY . OUTR A G E S I Fresh -Excesses Com- mitted While Berlin H Talks Peace, IH I HAVRE, Oct. .The Belgian gov- j ! eminent has issued a statement that, i from the coast to beyond Ihe city of I Bruges, the male population between i the ages of 15 and '15 have been bru- tally torn from their homes and forced ll ! to labor on German military work. jl I The text of the statement reads. "The Belgian government has been. conferring with the allied governments ilH I on the subject of measures which are M necessitated by methods of systematic ' destruction and pillage which the ! enemy is employing in territory he is jfl obliged to evacuate. ' "Belgium has been from the begin-I begin-I ning of the war exposed to outrages of the German armies. At tho very mo-ment mo-ment the new Imperial chancellor is .proclaiming his anxiety for the happi- ness of the' world and his will to work 1 for the deliverance of humanity, the 1 ! Belgian government receives news of H j fresh'excesses on the part of the Ger- , i man armies in occupied Belgium. Belgians Brutally Treated. I "From the coast to beyond Bruges IH Hhe sale population from 15 lo 5 years is being lorn from yheir homes and IH , subjected to the most brutal lrea.t- ment. These men are compelled to jH work at forced labor for the military IH forces. j IH "A vengeful clamor would arise in , the whole world if. at the moment of ' leaving Belgian soil, the German army j ( renewed with redoubled cruelty the i excesses which marked the invasion of Belgium and if they undertook to con- i ! summale the ruin of- the country by I pillage, arson and the wholesale dc- ; ! portation. of the people." ilH ! GERMANS APPLYING, TORCH. ; JM ' AMSTERDAM, Oct. 8 The evacua-j evacua-j tion by the Germans of the Belgian 1 coast "region is continuing, the fron-: fron-: tier correspondent of the Telegraaf i 'reports. The telephone lines between jH 1 the frontier and tho coast were being taken down yesterday and today. Tho IH stores of material at Knokke, near tho coast, five miles from the Dutch border, have been set on fire, the re- 'H ports state, and many factories have 'H been undermined in preparation for fH their wick destruction. IH As part of the occupying troops jjH would have to choose between capture and flight when the evacuation occurs, instructions have been given them, says tho correspondent, to escape to t Holland in civilian clothes with the j ' object of evading imprisonment and ; 1 subsequently returning to Germany. , oo |