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Show .BELGIAN WOMEN , FORCED TO LABOR' i i The correspondent of the Times at Amsterdam writes: 'At Blankonbergho, the Germans; I forced a great number of servants to i 'leave their situations and tried to ' compel them to tako up tho work of 1 unloading, docking, and transportation i for tho army. Tho young girls refused and were shut up in the Hotel Velve-1 dere, which serves as a prison. Most of them persisted in their refusal and were liberated; they woro requisitioned requi-sitioned again and sent to difforont places, oven to the wall of tho port of, Zoebrugge in order lo work there for; tho Germans. Daughtors of farmers! and tho bourgeoisie from tho surrounding surround-ing country have also been requisitioned. requi-sitioned. "Tho military authority does not sparo-ovon tho -disable and ill. Tho Telegraaf correspondent on the fron- . tier reports that a disabled man who happened to remark that he had only one leg was told that there was work that he could do with his hands. A one-armed man was told: 'We will give you a one-armed comrade and the two of you can do one man's work.' "The communal school at Dudzeelo has been transformed Into a penal colony. Tho building is surrounded with barbed wire, liko a prisoner's camp. The chateau near Bruges is also employed as a penal colony." The Rheinische Westfalische Zei-tung Zei-tung recently contained a communication communica-tion emanating from the Labor Exchange Ex-change of Cologne, which said in part: "Industry meets with more and moro difficulty in procuring artisans, difficulties that can bo romcdied only in so far as tho supply of labor permits. per-mits. Tho central intelligence office for manual labor asked at once that foreign artisans should bo called on for aid. These artlsons will not bo able to replace entirely the Gorman workmen, to say nothing of their demands de-mands In respect to wages, which are very often In inverse ratio to their capacities. Experience, moreover, has still to teach us whether tho employment employ-ment of women from the occupied territories ter-ritories will be of advantage for the munition industries. The demand for women workers in the metallurgic industry, in-dustry, as well as In chemical and explosive ex-plosive industries, Is very great, and the supply, according to the figures is still diminished." oo- |