The Tabor independent. [volume] (Tabor, S.D.) 1913-19??, 1916-11-23
Women HurI Themselves Upon
Railway Tracks In Vain e.
fort to Delay Removal
of Loved Ones.
THOUSANDS SENT AWAY
Those Who Refuse to Go Pun.
w Depart For
Germany Singing Nation
al Battle Hymn.

St'C q WIN WV "
The number Of .Belgians deported BY
the Germans up to date, according to
information given the Associated Press
from a reliable source. apparently IL
between 10000 and 10000. and they are
being deported at the rate OF about e..
900 daily. .
Antwerp, 1t was said, has been CON-
manded IT, furnish $4,000, which prob.
ably Is rot more than 10 per cent of its
able bodied population, but the com
mune, OF Lessines has lost more than
1000 from a total population. including
women n children, of 1000, repre-
senting virtually every able bodied man
excepting officials.
The entire Belgian population, the
narrator said, is terrorized because the
people realize they are entirely help
less. Crowds of hysterical women and
children gather at the railway and re-
cruiting stations and many women at
Jamappes/ threw themselves on the
rails to prevent the departure OF q
train Of emigrants and had to be for
chilly removed by German soldiers. The
men are frequently loaded into cattle
cars and spend one or two days or the
journey. They are strongly determined
to refuse to work, believing that IL they
are not employed in military works
they will be compelled to replace Ger
mans and be forced to work directly or
indirectly against the Belgian army and
Its allies. The deported men in trains
passing through Liege are declared to
have been heard singing h Marseil-
laise n other patriotic airs.
Frenchmen Punished.
The newspapers report a case near
Vallencines OF 80 Frenchmen who, inn
pressed by the Germans. refused to
work, and are declared to have been
tied to posts for 48 hours, until half of
them tainted from hardship and
hunger.
Many prominent Belglans are report
ed not to have hesitated to risk their
liberty by the strongest of protests to
the German authorities against the de-
porations. Various official bodies nave
drafted resolutions of protest and the
senators and deputies of Antwerp and
Hainault provinces have taken especi-
ally strong action in the premises and
are said to be daily expecting deporta-
ton. p r... . .sI
Neutrals in Belgium, especially the
ministers are receiving many appeals
TO try n induce their governments to
intervene. The newspaper La Libre
Belgique which a maintained q wide
circulation throughout Belgium for
more than a year, despite the alleged eff
forts OF h Germans to discover its
authors n suppress the sheet, has
published a special number containing
al appeal to the neutral nations.
Can Remit Wages.
Z The officers deputed for the enroIlo
ment of the workmen are said to Gay
visits to various towns n order the
assembly at the railway stations OF vir-
tually all males under heavy penalties
for refusal to comply. The wording Of
the notices varies in the different sec
tion Of Belgium n northern France.
One notice posted In northern france
gives assurances that h men will not
be employed under continuous fire. The
Antwerp order notifies students to
bring their books and musicians their
Instruments. The authorities promise
h men good wages and liberty TO
remit money from Germany to their
families in Belgium. All Of them are
offered an opportunity to sign a vol
untary agreement to work. They are
informed, 1t was said, hat IL they re-
fuse to sign they will be treated worse,
but virtually all refuse to do SO.
Wherever the males assemble for de-
portation, doctors examine them and
h physically unfit are eliminated, to-
gether with municipal and relief Off
6ials. Those without regular employ
ment are the first selected for depor-
tation.
After Skilled Workers.
The principal object or the deporta-
tons, 1t was said, tappears to be to Sc
cure skilled workers. Men regularly
employed have been enrolled from sew
eral communes. A large number was
taken at Jamappes from factories
which were running, and were self SUD-
porting, n bank employees were inn
pressed at Mons. The relief. organiza-
ton at Luxembourg province was carry
ing IN public work and giving en-
p1put,napf| 70 manu- man h,xk kA~ r-n-tx-
stopped a month ago, and the laborers
thus rendered unemployed are being
deported.
Despite the statements credited to
German officers that the deported men
will not be employed In military work.
h Belgians are declared to fear the
contrary as II has been reported that
large bodies of men have been taken to
northern France and employed In cut
ting timbers for trenches and thai
others in northern Belgium have been
forced to dig trenches.