The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1918-06-06
GERMAN WAR PRACTICES
Edited by Dana c. Munro, Princeton Uni
versity; George c. Sellery, University
of Wisconsin, and August c krey,
University of Minnesota
Issued bv the Committee on Public Information
University of Minnesota

ION April 30th the requisitioned
workmen were not released, but shut
up in the railway carriages.
ION May 4th, "a workmen detain-
ed in prison at Nivelles were tried at
Mons by a court-martial, ON the
charge of being members of secret
society, having for it's aim to thWart
the carrying out of German military
measures They were condemned
to Imprisonment.
On May Sth, 1915, 4S workmen
were shut up in a freight car and
taken to Germany.
"On May 14th, As men were de-
ported to Germany.
'sOn May 18th, fersh proclama-
ton announced that the prisoners
would receive only dry bread and
water, and hot food only every four
days. On May 22nd three cars with
1O4 workmen were sent towards
Charleroi."
GA similar course was adopted at
Malines, where, by various methods
of intimidation, the German authori-
ties attempted to force the workers
at the arsenal 70 work on material
for the railways, as if it were not
plain that this material would be-
come war material sooner or later.
''On May 30th, 1915, the Governor
General announced that he would
be obliged to punish the town of
Malines and its suburbs by stopping
all commercial traffic if by 10 a. m.
on Wednesday, June End, 500 work
men had not presented themselves for
work at the arsenal
''On Wednesday, June End, not a
single man appeared. Accordingly,
a complete stoppage took place of
every vehicle within radius of sew
eral kilometres Of the town.
stSeyeral workmen were taken by
force and kept two or three days
at the arsenal"
Belgians Asked to Make Barbed
Wire.
F'The commune Of Sweveghem
(Western Flanders) was punished in
June 1915, because the $50 work.
men at the private factory of NJ.
Bekaert refused to make barbed
wire for the German army.
|'The following notice was pla-
carded at Menin in July-August,
1915: BY order: From to-day the
town will no longer afford aid of any
scription-including assistance to
their families, wives, and children
to any operatives except those who
work regularly at military work, and
tasks assigned to them. All other
operatives and their families can
henceforward not be helped in any
fashion,
PunIShed for Refusal to Work for
German Army.
= similar measures were taken in
October, 1915, at Harlebekelez-Cour-
trai, Bisseghem, Lokeren, and Mons.
From Harlebeke 20 inhabitants we're
transported to Germany. At Mons,
in NJ. Lenoir's factory, the directors,
foremen, and 81 workmen were i'm
prisoned for having refused to work
in the service of the German Army.
NJ. Lenoir was sentenced to five
years Imprisonment, the five direc-
tors to a year each, 6 foremen to six
months, and the 81 workmen to eight
weeks
Interference With Red Cross.
''The General Government had re-
course also to indirect methods of
compulsion. 1t seized the Belgian
Red Cross, confscated it's property,
and changed it's purpose entirely. 1t
attempted to make itself master of
the public charities and to control
the National Aid and Food Commit
tee.
Thickness of German Rulers of
Belgium.
eff we we're to cite in eXtenso the
decree of the Governor General of
August 4th, 1915, concerning meas
ures intended to assure the carrying
out of works of public usefulness,
and that of August 18th, 1915, con-
corning the unemployed, who,
through idleness, refrain from work.
it would be seen by what tortuous
means the occupying Power attempts
to attack at once the masters and the
men"
October 18th, 1915, the German
authorities took a long step in the
development of their policy of fore
ing the Belgians to aid them in prose-