The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1916-11-23
DEPORTAT|0NS OF
BELG|ANS MARKED
BY P|T|FUL SCENES
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
Depart For
Germany Singing Nation
al Battle Hymn.
THOUSANDS SENT AWAY

The Hague. (via London). Nov. 90
The number of Belgians deported by
the Germans up to date, according to
information given the Associated Press
from a reliable source, apparently is
between so, 900 and 10000, and they are
being deported at the rate of about g.
600 daily.
Antwerp, it was said, has been COM
manded to furnish $1,000, which prob
ably is not more than 10 per cent of its
able bodied population, but the COM
mune OF LesSineS has lost more h
1000 from a total population, including
women II children, of 1000, repre-
senting virtually every able bodied man
excepting officials.
h entire Belgian population, the
narrator said, is terrorized because the
people realize they are entirely help
less. Crowds of historical women and
children gather at the railway ana re-
cruiting stations and many women at
J&mappes threw themselves on the
rails to prevent the departure of a
train Of enigrants n had to be for
chilly removed by German soldiers. The
men are frequently loaded into cattle
cars and spend one or two days on the
Journey. They are strongly determined
10 refuse to work, believing that if 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
It's allies. The deported men in trains
passing through Liege are declared to
nave been heard singing the Marseil-
!alse and other patriotic airs.
Frenchmen Punished.
The newspapers report a case near
Vailencines of 60 Frenchmen who, i'm
pressed by the Germans, refused to
work, and are declared TO have been
tied to posts for IS hours, until half Of
them tainted from hardship and
hunger.
Many prominent Belgians are report
ed not to have hesitated to risk their
liberty by the strongest of protests to
the German authorities against the de-
poratlons. Various official bodies have
drafted resolutions Of protest and the
senators and deputies of ANTWERP and
Halnault provinces have taken especi-
ally strong action in the premises and
are said to be daily expecting deporta-
ton.
Neutrals in Belgium, especially the
ministers are receiving many appeals
to try and induce their governments to
intervene. The newspaper La Libre
Belgique which has maintained Il wide
circulation throughout Belgium Cor
more than a year, despite the alleged eff
IOrts or the Germans to discover it's
authors and suppress the sheet. has
published a special number containing
an appeal to the neutral nations.
Can Remit Wages.
Ihe officers deputed for the enroll
ment " the workmen are said to paw
visits % various towns and 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
lions Of Belgium and northern France.
one notice posted in northern France
gives assurances that the men will not
be employed under continuous FIVE. The
AntWerp order notifies students to
bring their books and musicians their
Instruments. The authorities promise
the men good wages, and liberty to
remit money from Germany to their
families in Belgium. All of them are
offered an opportunity to sign n VOL
untary agreement to work. They are,
INFORMED, 1t was said, that if they re-
fuse to sign they will be treated worse.
out virtually all refuse to do so.
Wherever the males assemble for d.
portation, doctors amin them and
the physically unfit are eliminated "a
gether with municipal and relief Off
Gals. Those without regular employ
ment are The first selected for depor-
tatiOn.
Alta Skilled Workers.
The principal object of the deporta-
tlons, 1t was said, appears 10 be to Sc
-~~N - n WV u 81. Men lGC1ll2llN
employed nave been enrolled from sev-
eral cornmunes. a large number was
taken at Jamappes from factories
winch We're running, and ware self sup
porting, and bank employees were i'm
pressed at Mons. The relief orcaniza-
ton at Luxembourg provinces was cnrrv-
ing on public work and living en-
pioymeiit to many men, hut the works.
stopped a month ago, and the laborers-
mus rendered unemployed are being
deported.
Despite the statements credited to-
German officers that the deported men
VIII not be employed in military work,
the Beigians are declared to fear the
contrary as 1t has been reported that
large bodies Of .len have been taken to,
noIlhern France and employed in cut
ting timbers for trenches and tlat
otners IN northern Belgium have been.
forced to dig trenches.