Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1917-04-22
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poured into BRUSSELS. Tho delegates
of the committee for rclie. in Bel
eium returning to Brussels told the
most distressing stories of he scenes
cf cruelty and sorrow attending the
seizures Daily, hourly almost, since
that time appalling stories have ieen
related by Belgians coming to the lie
cation. 1t is impossible for US to veri-
fV them, first because it is necessary
for us to exercise all possible tact In
dealing with the SUI jeCt 1T all anl
secondly because there is no means OF
communication between the occupa-
tons Gcbiet and the Etappen Gcbiet
The well-known tendency of sem
satonal reports to eXaggcrate them
selves. especially in time Of war and
in situation like that existing here
with no newspapers to serve a a clear
ing house for all the rumors that are
as avidly believed as they are eagerly
repeated, should of course be CON
sldcred. but even if a modicum of all
that is told is true, there still re-
mains enough to stamp this deed as
one OF the foulest that history re-
cords
Die From Cruelty.
II am constantly i'm receipt of re-
ports from all over Belgium that tend
to bear out the stories one constantly
hears of brutality and cruelty. A
number of men sent back to Mons are
said to be in dying condition, many
of them tuberucular. At Malines and
at Antwerp returned men have died.
their friends asserting that they have
been victims of neglect and cruelty, OF
cold, of exposure, of hunger.
Il have had requests from the bur
gomastcrs Of the communes from Ia
Louvlere asking that permission be
obtained to send to the deported men
in Germany packages of food similar
to those that are being sent to prison.
ers of war. Thus far the German au-
thorities have refused to permit this
except in special instances and re-
turning Belgians claim that even
when such packages are received they
are used by the camp authorities only
as another means of coercing them to
sign the agreements to work
1T Is said that in spite of the liberal
salary promised those who would sign
Voluntarily no money has as yet been
received in Belgium from workmen
in Germany.
intense Hatred Born.
"One interesting result of the de-
poitauons remains to be noted, a re-
suit that once more places in relief |
he German capacity for laundering |
almost as great as tho German ca
)acitv for cruelty.
They have dealt mortal blow to |
my prospect they may ever have had |
If being tolerated by the population .
IF Flanders; I'm tearing away from
nearly every humble home in the land /
/ husband and a father or a son and
'rothcr. they have lIghted the fires or
latred that will never go out; they
lave brought home to every heart in
he land in a way that will impress
Is horror indelibly on the memory Of
hree generations n realization of
vhet German methods mean not, as
With the early atrocities, in the heat
# passion and the first lust of war,
mt by one Of those deeds that make
me despair of the future of the hu-
nan race. deed coldly planned,
tudiously matured and deliberately
nj Systematically executed, a deed
o cruel that German soldiers are
aid to have wept in its execution and
o monstrous that even German Off
ers are now said TO be ashamed"