Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1915-04-16
BELGIAN FAMINE
never EXISTED,
ASSERTS GERMAN
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moval or damaging OF pieces OF art,
to protect same if in danger and if
it WAS at AL possible to transport
them to the deuOts of museums in
Brussels for sdfekeeping 1t is un
! necessary TO mention that according
| to The Hague convention OF 1907 not
single piece of art has been taken
from Belgium to Germany. though the
| Partisan papers. journals such as Ma,
tin, Echo de Paris. etc, still publish
long lists OF paintings which We are
said TO, have taken to the Berlin mu-
scum: but it is a deliberate untruth.
Nov We come to starving Belgium.
| 4 general want Of food has never been
felt in Belgium. you can even hardly
speak of a prohibtive rate Of food
| month Of October. especially in the
coal districts Milk and vegetables
were everywhere abundant
The wheat scarcity was soon lifted
through the importationS from Amer,
lea via Rotterdam. Until that arrived
Germany exported wheat to Belgium.
What could be complained of is chiefly
opportunity for work For it is the
policy of the rich employers to stay
in England or France without troubl-
ing themselves about their factories
and workmen in order that the German
| government should have the trouble of
caring for them. In spite of this the
| agricultural work is thoroughly car.
| ri Cd oil NIT IN
exception of the corner around YDres
Beet Sugar Industry Kept Up.
The beet sugar industry is every,
where in full swing. Coal is trans
ported, the railroads are running with
German service and in the life of Brus.
sells there is hardly a difference to
| be seen from former times. You find
the cafes and restaurants always full
and moving picture shows and cafe
Chantants, etc, are prosperous.
| The devastations from the war are,
l must confess, quite considerable in
some parts of the country. In the
beginning of August and September
| many villages and small towns such as
Wise, Battle, Dinant, Aershot were
burned because the civil population
shot on the German troops. This also
refers to Louvain which, due to the
night revolt and shooting, lost almost
one-sixth of the town from fire. La
ter this franctireur war ceased general.
ly and only such villages and towns
lsuffered which were contested for by
both sides.
TO the latter belong several vii.
lagos between Brussels and Antwerp
Also the towns of Duffel and Lierre
which are situated near the outside
| forts Of Antwerp and which by the
heavy bofnbardment we're almost en-,
tirely destroyed. Take Termonde, for
instance, which has been nine times
bombarded by the Belgians, as we'll as
the Germans, according to who oceu.
| pied the city. The devastation of such
places is rather greater now than was
the case in former wars, because the
artillery of today has greater effect
To blame anyone for that would be ut
terly unjust
Situation Worse on East.
| 1T is the misfortune of war and
to come right down to it, such mis-
| fortune has struck Belgium in a small.
er degree than the utter devastations
| by the Russians of the southern and
eastern parts of East Prussia, about
which, however, no one in foreign
countries seems to care. And people
must take into consideration that not
a single civilian in East Prussia took
up arms against the Russians, because
our Prussian population is far more
trained in this respect than the Bel,
gian; and they know that war is only
| to be conducted by the troops. What
people do not report in foreign coun.
tries is the fact that in spite of all
| known war damages by far the larg-
est part of Belgium, though occupied
| by our troops, remains absolutely IN
damaged. Even In Antwerp you have
| to search for signs of the lombard
ment. In Client, Bruges, Brussels, at
Mons. Journal to be brief, everywhere
the Germans have entered without
meeting resistance-not even a win
| dow pane is broken. This also refers
to the eastern part of Belgium near
| the border ,of Holland.
The city of Liege itself, not the
Notifications, is in spite of being taken
by storm almost untouched with the
CASSplIOu VI uOuSSS IlOUu WulCu sur
dents and other franctireurs shot on
our troops.
1T will be dreadful in West Fland
ers and Ypres where during the last
months the war has ragged. have
not been there but / know the German
| shells have done there no more dam
age than those of the English, French
and Belgium.
Nov enough of Belgium One would
never come to an end if one once
went into details. Time will bring
forth the facts, whatever our enemies
may write while the war lasts
| had in Belgium a very interest
ing time and was in a peculiar kind
of work for a man who usually sits
at the writing table all day | only
once approached the firing line of the
| batteries near Mechels. It was most
stirring, but rather humiliating not to
| be allowed to take an active part
| Germany Aims to Better Conditions.