The Sentinel=record., 1916-12-17

order is in mo wise threatened and
 that all influences. mn,al and civil,
 would support you spontaneously
 were it in danger
 1 The unemployed are not a bur
 den on official boncyolonce. it is not
 from your fnnds that they receive as-
 sistance.
 In his reply tne governor general : no longer urges these two first con
 siderations. but he alleges that 'doles to the unemployed from whatever
 source they may come a present.
 must finally be a charge upon our finances. and hat it Is the duty of a good administrator Co Tighten such charges he adds that '.rolonecr un- employment would cause our work men 10 lose their technical proli- | ciency, and that in the time of peace
 to come they would de useless to in- dustry
 True there were other ways in which our finances might have been protected We might have been spar.
 ed those war leyies which have now reached the sum of one billion francs. and are still mounting up at the rate
 of 40 millions 9 month; we might have been spared those remisIions
 fin kind, which amount 10 several
 thousands of millions. and are ex-
 hausting us.
 There are other Nays of provid- ing for the maintenance of profess sional skill among our workpeople.
 such as leaving to Belgian industry | its machinery and accessories, it's | raw materials and its manufactured goods, which have passed from Bel glum into Germany, And it is neith.
 CT 10 the quarries nor to the lime l kns 10 which the Germans them l selves declare they will send our un. , employed, that our siecialists will go
 to complete their professional educa.
 tion
 'Thc naked truth is that every de. ] ported workman is another soldier for the German army. He will take the place of a German workman, who will be made into soldier. Thus the
 situation which we denounce 10 the 1 civilized world may be reduced to | these terms: Four hundred thousand workmen have been thrown out ol work by no fault of their own and largely on account of the regime ct
 the occupation Sons, husbands and | fathers Of families, they bear their unhappy lot without murmuring, re | spectfm of public order; national 1 solidarity provides their most press ! ing wants; by dint of unselfish thrift and selfdental they escape extreme lie-tituuon, and they await with dig i lity and in mutual affection which our national sorrows have intensified the end of our common ordeal.
 "Grous of soldiers introduced themselves forcibly in the homes og
 these people, tearing the young peo rle out of the arms of their parents, 1 the husband from hls wlle, he f4th- CT from his childre1, at tho point of | the bayonet they block ,he entrances ] to the homes ore IenttL5 wives and mothers from rushing out 70 say a 1 last farewell to them; they aIgn the l Captiyes in groups of forty or fifty and push them forcibly into ire ght cars; the locomotive is under pres sure, and as soon as train load is ready, an officer gives the signal and | they de art. Thus another thousand Belgians reduced to slavery. without previous trial, condemned to tha pen | alty which comes next in cruelty to 1 the death penalty; deportation They don't know how long their exile is 1 going 10 last, neither do they knew where they are going All they know is that their work will benefit
 the enemy. Several of them have ! heen brought to sign-by coercion or 1 Ay threats-an engagement which
 they dare to call voluntary
 While they certainly take the nm
 employed, they also take large numbor-in the proportion of one quarter for the Arrondssement of Mons-of men who were never out of work and belonging So diversified professions-bu bakers. tailors brewery workers, electricians, farm.
 CTS; they even take the youngest men, college and university students,
 or young men from other high schools
 This in spite of the fact that two high authorities of the German Elm pire had formally guaranteed the lib- erty of our oompatriots.
 'The day after the exploitation of Antwerp, the frightened ropulace
 asked itself what would become of : the Belgians of military age or those
 which would arrive at that age before
 the end of the siege. Baron von Huene, military governor of Ant .Merp. authorized me to reassure in his name the frightened parents.
 However, as rumors were running that in Antwerp, Lieee Namur and . Charleroi young men had been seiz- ! ed and Forcibly carried off to Ger many, l asked Governor von Huene to fonfirm to me in writing the verb al guarantees which he had given me. He replied that the rumors per taiuino tO dpnortations Wara without