Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1916-11-18
Thirty Thousand Dcported
to Germany for Can
non Food.
HUNDREDS TAKEN
WITHOUT RATIONS
English Diplomat Hopes
American Opinion Will
Show Self on Issue.

r ONDON. Nov 17.-UO:50 p. M
Il Thirty thousand Bclgians already
have been deported to Germany. ac-
cCrGing to information received here
through official rhannels. Reports
from the same sources say the Ger
thousand, Judging from the order is
sued in a number of cities for all
males over II to report for inspection.
The municipal council of Tournai
has formally declined to accede to the
German demand. the reports say, pro-
testing that hitherto it had acquiesced
to all German orders. General Hopr
fer theceupon imposed fine OF 200
600 marks, it is added for the refusal
of the council to furnish a list of male
inhabitants, with further fine of 20
600 MARKS daily as long as the coun
ell refused 20 give the list.
Took Them Away.
A circumstantial report from the
Mons district says that the entire male
population over II was sun moncd to
report at German headquarters at \
O'Clock on the morning of October 20.
Tho priests, professors, teachers. local
officials. members of the rood COM
mittec and the physically defective
were dismissed, bur 1t is ADDED 1,20O
men. composing 20 per cent of the
eligible males both employed and un-
employed. were selected and imme-
diatelv placed on cattle trucks and
started for Germany. Being ignorant
OF the purpose of the summons, the
men had assembled without clothine
for travelling and without food. and
relatives who hurried to the station
with food and clothing were refused
access to the men, the reports add.
In statement made to the Asso-
ciated Press today Lord Robert Cecil
minister of war trade. uttered a
vigorous protest against Germany
deportation of Belgians and declared
that the people of France and Eng
land no less than the people of Bel
gium "hope that American public
opinion will show itself not only in a
few DAYS or weeks of protests and
criticisms but in steady pressure upon
the invaders of Belgium, to conduct
the war against the soldiers of the
allies in the trenches and not against
the helpless civilians whom they have
in their power
Lie Is Hurled.
Lord Robert reviewed the measures
taken by the entente allies to provide
relief for the Belgians and character
lied as a "lie' what he termed Ger
many's attempt to Justify its actor
by saying that England was respon'
sible for unemployment in Belgium.
Three times during the past year,
Lord Robert continued, 1--WE hav,
proposed to the Germans a definite
scheme whereby the exports OF Bel
gian manufactures and even import!
of raw materials might be made free
under the control of the Belgian relic
commission and that the commission
might control all the funds arising ou
of the trade. To none of these pro
posals have we had a reply. The
Germans have consistently refused t
do anything to assist the relief com
mission and Belgian industry. instead
they have eXacted forty million franc:
month from Belgium, requisitionet
every kind of machinery and raw ma
terial, seized the funds Of the nationa
bank and have restricted exports.
Belgium Drained.
"They have drained Belgium dry and
stripped her bare and we all know
this policy was deliberately calculated
to create maximum amount of un'
employment in order that when the
proper moment arrived their slave
raids might begin.
THE Belgans are going to Germany
on no ordinary work. They are tC
he caught up and crushed in the grea
new German machine for mobiiZine
labor.
"They will be scattered to all the
remote corners of Germany, from
Silesia to Westphalia and once caugh
up on the machine, they will never re
turn to Belgium. 1t is this grindinl
up of nation piecemeal that is tn,
most horrible feature of the situa
ton"