Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1918-01-11

TON COUNTY TRIBUNE, WAUSE
appeals and German answers.
''1n the matters of the requisitiOn
made by the German authorities on Oc-
tober 20, 1916 (requisition of a list OF
wOrkmen to be drawn up by the mu-
nicipality)
1.-The municipal council resolves to
maintain it's attitude of refusal.
1T further feels it its duty to place
on record the following:
THE city of Journal is prepared to
submit unreservedly to all the exigen-
cies authorized by the laws and Gus
toms of war. Its sincerity cannot be
questioned. For more than two years
it has submitted to the German occu-
patton, during which time it has lodged
and lived at close quarters with the
German troops, yet it has displayed
perfect cOmpOSure and has refrained
from any act of hostility, proving
thereby that it is animated by no idle
spirit of bravado.
I'm his declaration dated September
2, 1914, the German governor general
of Belgium declared: 4 ask none to
renOunce his patriotic sentiments
"The city of Tournai reposes con-
tidence in this decoration, which it is
bound to consider as the sentiment of
the German emperor, in whose name
the governor general was speaking. In
accepting the inspiration of honor and
patriotism, the city is loyal to a funda-
mental duty, the loftiness of which
must be apparent to any German Off
GER
Answer Is Lecture and Fine.
"Tournai 23rd October, 1916.
"In permitting itself, through the
medium of municipal resolutions, to
oppose the orders of the German mill
tary authorities in the occupied ter
ritOry, the city is guilty Of an unexam-
pied arrogance and of a complete mis-
understanding of the situation created
by the state of war.
"The clear and simple situation is
in reality the following:
''The military authorities order the
city to obey. Otherwise the city must
bear the heavy consequences, as have
pointed out in my previous explana-
tions.
"The general commanding the army
has inflicted on the city-on account
of its refusal, up to date, to furnish
the lists demanded-a punitive con-
tribution of 100000 marks, which must
be paid within the next six days, be-
ginning with today. The general also
adds that until such time as all the
lists demanded are in his hands, for
every day in arrears, beginning with
December 81, 1916, sum of 10000
marks will be paid by the city.
"HOPFER, Major General,
en-Kommandant."
The Commission Syndicate of Bel
gian workingmen also attempted to in
duce the German authorities to aban-
don their terrible plans.
Recited Wrongs of Workmen.
Commission Syndicate of Belgium,
Brussels, 30th Oct, 1916.
| ITO the Governor General of Belgium ]
"Excellency: The measures which
are being planned by your admins
| tration to force the unemployed to
work for the invading power, the de-
| portation of our unhappy comrades
which has begun in the region of the
etapes, move most profoundly the en-
| iTa in n1 in, al lrriII
'The undersigned. members and rep
resentatives of the great central So
cialist and independent syndicales OF
Belgium, would consider that they had
not fulfilled their duty did they not ex-
press to you the painful sentiment
which agitate the laborers and convey
to you the echo of their touching com
plants.
''For more than two years the la
boring class more than any other has
been forced to undergo the most bit
ter trials, experiencing misery an(
often hunger, while its children fal
away fight and die, and the parents
of these children can never convey tc
them the affection with which theil
hearts are OVerH0Wlng-
Pathetic Appeal Disregarded.
"Our laboring class has endured
everything with the utmost calm an(
the most impressive dignity, repressint
it's sufferings, it's complaints and heav!
! trials, sacrificing everything to it
ideal of liberty and independence. Bu
the measures which have been an
nounced will make the population draiI
the dregs (of the cup) of human sor
row; the proletariat, the poor upol
whom unemployment has been forced
citizens of a modern state, are to b,
condemned to forced labor withou
having disobeyed any regulation o
order.
"In the name Of the families O
workmen among which the most pain
full anxiety reigns at present, who's
mothers, whose f1ancees, and who's
little children are destined to shed s.
many more tears, we beg your excel
lency to prevent the accomplishment
: of this painful act, contrary to in
ternational law, contrary to the dig
nifty of the working classes, contrar
to everything which makes for wort
| and greatness in human natrue.
1--WE beg your excellency to pardo
! our emotion and we offer you the hon
age of our distinguished consideration
(Appended are signatures of men
bers of the national committee an
the Commission Syndicale.)
! Won Bissing in his reply, Novembe
} 3, practically admitted the truth of th
: complaint by attempting to justify tn
] | measures protested against.
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