The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1918-01-14
WHITLOCK'SSTOnY
OF DEP0RTATIONS
Report of German Disregard of
Human Rights on File in
State Department.
OVERWHELMED WITH HORROR
Minister to Belgium Declared 1t Was
Difficult to Write Calmly and Justly
in View Of the Huns Gratu-
itous Cruelty.

FGctS concerning the deportation
Of BeIgians and the forced labor en-
torted BY the Hun military leaG-
erS, lchicb ercited the Indignation Of I
The cirili.ed rorId, haze been thus
officially set FORTH:
The plan of setting forth the essen i
tial facts of the deportatiors and
forced labor of Belgians is set forth
by the committee on public informa
ton as follows: the documents. that
is to say, small fraction of those
which could be cited, tell the story and
only such comments are added as are
needed to enable the reader to easily
grasp the connection of events.
1.-THE deportations were the
/ most vivid, shocking convincing. single
happening in all our enforced obserya-
ton and experience Of German dis
regard of human suffering and human
rights in Belgium. Vernon kellogg
in Atlantic Monthly, October, 1917.
A summary of the whole situation,
/ down to January, 1917, can be OBJ
/ tanned by reading continuously the re-
! port of Minister Whitlock, taken from
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""'''ooN Opp0oeu al 'H9"
I'm order To understand fully IN
situation, 1t Is necessary 10 go b"'h L
the autumn OF l9lf NJ the tune W
were organizing the relief work tn
b ComIte Nauonai-'He heISiah relieI %
l ganlzauon that coltahorateS WIN IN
co'liiiiiSNl"H lol ie''ei III '.lii
propoSe'l an Arrangement ~ "iie
lhe beiSlan government Nhoulu pa
to Its own employees LETT IN bel&luh
ana other uhempioEed men oeS'oe
the wages theF hao oeeh actuNtoLue
Ct TO receive. Inc bel3lahS "iSlGu
n 60 this ooth Tor HUMANITARIAN 'l''" %
trouc purposes; they NlShed 20 pr
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n OF livelihood anu at the same 'LL1
,, 10 prevent lhelF WORRYING loI lAle w
mans reIuSeu 10 ue eoilI'eClcu
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BeIgiah committee lil"t II h"u 'I''i
posslhliltleS OF oi'h9er th"t nul On
would 1t place premium Oh iuIeheN
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ate the "eTm2hs- however me l'oii
was adopted, ana mas beeh c0h'lAu,
IN practice, ana on the rollS q =
Comite National have been borne u
names OF hundreds OF thousahaS
some 'oo'oo0' / beileVe-oI luie III
receiving this DOLE dlstriputed tlroui
the communes.
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however, vas a constant template
to German cupidity. Many times III
sought 10 obtain the lists OIL the q
meufs' Dut We're Always lol'e'i ~
clam that under the guarantees e
erIhg the relIef work. the recoFoS
the ComIte NATIONAL anu us Nlrio
-, suborganizauonS were immune. Ia
er than risk any interruption OF I
raNltallenent, 1or Wllch, "ilile lo'
to own any oblgauon 10 America
Germans have always been crater
II since it has had the erect OF keep