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ber- 25th and left Antwerp on Sunday, October 18th. He draws a striking picture of the ruthless Germanisation of Belgium, describes what he saw of Germany's immense war, equipment, and tells of the German officers boastings about their imminent arrival in London
Iarrikod in Brussels on September 25th from Ostend, travelling via Grammont, The first thing I did was to obtain passes. from the German Government to go any where Iked in Belgium, aid after that I had no trouble in getting into the German line, as easily made friends with the officers and mense
I found life in Brussels very quiet. The big department shops are only open for a few hours in the day. What struck me principally were the hordes of German tourists about the place. The Germans have settled down in Brussels altogether, and many officers have brought in their families The authorities are bringing in hundreds of Germans every week-clerks, postal officials, and the like. They have introduced their own German stamps into Belgium, surcharging them with the word Belgien (German for Belgium) and the value in Belgian money, The Post Office has been completely Germanised,
Two weeks ago 450 Belgian postal clerks and postman went out on strike, declining to work any longer with Germans, The same day all the post-boxes in Brussels were placarded with a German poster telling the inhabitants to fetch their letters from the Post Office A few days later I was sold stamps at the Central Post Offee by a young German who had been imported with hundreds of others from Germany to take the places of the strikers. The Germans are making house-to-house canvass right through Bel gium for all the young men remaining These are taken away to Germany to work on the farms or to be drilled. *** FOR THE TIMES,
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The officers seem to have received match ing orders hurriedly, but before leaving, the waiter said, they cut the paintings with knives, shot holes in the furniture, and tore great holes in the carpets. They always paid for their dinners when ordering, signing the bills with a rubber stamp of King Albert which they took from the King's desk
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When he told me this I had my doubts of the Germans ever seeing Calais, but the said, "My dear boy, we have a calendar German officer, remarking my incredulity, of dates to go by that we don't fail to keep, and since the beginning of the war we have kept every date, and the dates. we have made for England will be kept promptly, RIAA
At Brussels he took his leave, saying to mo"Unless you go to England soon, I shall be there long before you All our arrangements are made, Daily Mail.
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The Ipoh correspondent of the Malays
The Gare du Nord was filled with soldiers, while the Grando Place in front was occupied by their motor-cars- with machine guns at each corner. The Palace Hotel across the square is entirely occupied by Germans, and no outsiders were allowed BRIGHTENING PROSPECTS IN THE, MALAY STATES, to enter without a pass. In the restaurant of the hotel the Germans have fitted up a find of dais: at one end, and here and there are desks for the use of superior officers. This room is used for the pre- sentation of Iron Crosses to the troops. Slightly wounded Germans occupy two floors of the Hotel Metropole, and superior officers are also quartered here. I stopped at this hotel and had many talks with the officers over their coffee.
The only English newspaper procurable in Brussels was The Times, and that only at imminent risk. Freign newspapers aro absolutely prohibited, and three newsboys found with foreign journals on them have already been shot. As long as Ostend was in the hands of the Allies The Times used to come up by special relays of messengers, and it cost me three and a half francs (about 35.) a copy. saw a single copy of The Times sold at the Hôtel Métropole to an English Red Cross man for £8. — I was very careful not to be seen reading my copy, and used to keep it hidden between the mattresses of My first visit in Brussels was to the famous Palais de Justice (Law Courts) I was admitted on showing my pass to the guards. The offices wore open and were cccupied by Germans. They had made a fortress of the place with sandbags, which were piled high round one side of the building, while telescopes and machine guns were mounted on the tower. From here I went on to the King's Palace, where I found one end occupied by the Red Cross. The other wing is tenanted by the only civilian present. Field Marshal von der Goltz, the German Governor-General of Belgium, and his personal staff and guard. The royal garage attached to the palace is now filled with some of the German Emperor's own motor-cars bearing the imperial crest and sont to Brussels from the royal palace at Potsdam on the special instructions of the Kaiser IDEA
Across the mad from the palace is the Royal Museum of Arts of Brussels. The Germans have installed hero a special operating theatre for their wounded. It is a positive shame that such a fine old building and its contents should be exposed to damage in this fashion when there are at least a hundred of the finest buildings in Brussels fitted up by the Belgian Red Cross unoccupied.
FORCED TO SING.
A detachment of the Army Air Corps was quartered at my hotel, and I often used to chaff the airmen as they left the hotel for one of the aviation camps to go oni reconnoitring duty Give my regards to London!" I would say, and they would answer, "London will wait till its turn comes!' On Thursday even ing, October 15th, the General Staff entertained about 30 or 25 Army airmen to a banquet. They had their coffee and liqueurs in the smoking room, where I was
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England with an inset map of London. Here they spread out a large map of A major began to deliver some remarks, illustrating what he was saying with a pointer. Though they talked low at times I distinctly heard them remark the England, the War Office, and the House location on the map of the Bank of of Parliament. After the lecture bottles of champagne were opened and presently the officers began to talk to me. declared that the next two weeks were to They be the busiest weeks of their lives, for they were leaving the next day on route for London, I would here remark that since their rebuff before Paris the Germans say that they will go first to London before entering Paris
The Botanical Gardens in Brussels are No English persons of any description used by the Germans as a resting place are allowed out of Brussels. The treat for their soldiers on short leave. And the ment of English people by the Germans is regiments that come down from the front pitiful. Anybody in a café suspected of want a rest, I can tell you. On October being English is asked for his passport, 13 I saw half a battalion come in after and should he be English is sent off to fighting round Antwerp. Out of 450 mon Germany a prisoner Consequen ly the every one with the exception of about 30 English in Brussels remain in their houses the officers striking the men as they not molested, If one attempts to leave the marched with their swords and shouting town he is arrested and sent off to at them, Singen!" (sing). I would Germany by the next train. The General hear the click of the officers swords on Staff issued special orders last week,
Mail writes:
A lighter atmosphere has been intro- duced into the mining industry by the riss in
the price of tin. There are those who araoptimistic enough to think that the bad days are now over, but the general feeling is that the present rise must not b regarded as more than a temporary move believed they thenporary demand is ment, osused by it to the neighbourhood of $60 per pioul in the course of the next ten days and that we will have once more to pass through a period of anxiety.
Despite the low prices it is wonderful the amount of activity in the Kinta district. There can be few mines paying just now, but beyond a good number of the smaller Chinese mines, efforts have been made to continue operations. This in the majority of cases has meant loss, and now the question naturelly arises how long can these propositions continue to bear such loss? There can be no deny tell its tale in closed mines unless prices ing that the continuous strain will soon keep nearer 870 than 360. To thoroughly realise this wo have only to think that most mines have been working without profit and often at considerable loss, for was in the unfortunate position of having the past six months. The mining industry to face the crisis created by the war with strength that had been greatly diminished: previous by the low prices ruling for some time.
The great thing at the moment is to bring about a judicious reduction of the labour forces. Without being unduly possumuistir, we may anticipate that the prices will not reach $70 per pical for some time yet, and that they will probably soon fall to 800. If the strain is continued the mines will be forced to dismiss a large. proportion of their labour Hitherto they have tried as far as possible to meet the situation without dismissing many of their coolies. But the astram will now tell, and we will find that they will be forced to dismiss a large proportion of their of the moment. We cannot afford to blink facts. The bad times have created crime gang robberies and burglaries have been pretty numerous, I am afraid, than is
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the men's bayonets. All the men were Binging different tunes. The iron hand of the Prussian officer over his men has not relaxed under the influence of war All the formalities of drill and discipline and one month's pay are enforced as usual.
her became very friendly with a high The Germans take great care of their men. For instance, the Royal Baths and German officer in Brussels and gladly the Bain Savern, which are run entirely availed myself of an offer he made me to by Germans, are largely patronised by fake me in his car to Cologne and back the soldiers. I saw tired men going in We left early one morning and went by parties of 150 to have a Turkish bath and way of Namur and Liége. We rushed a swim before proceeding to the Botani through Namur without stopping, but the cal Gardens or the Royal Park to sleep destruction I saw on every side rade my As soon as the men are in condition again blood run cold. The sight of the starving they are sent back to the front or, as they and destitute people on the roads and say, on their way to London in the ruined villages was horrible. We All the grounds of the Palace of Laeken, spert just the night at Cologne. I talked one of King Albert's gammer residences, with several people at the hotel. Like the are, occupied by troops, but the palace officers, they believe that England will be itself was occupied only for three days by overthrown, and there is oven talk of her officers. The waiter who was commissioned being made a province of Germany. On to bring in their meals from one of the the way back from Cologne my Gorman Brussels hotels vaxed indignant over the army friend expanded on the strength of destruction the German officers did among information which he said he had received the pictures and old furniture. The through from Berlin during his night a officers would only dine at the palace, stay at Cologne. He told me that ** new The order would be to serve dinner for 20in. guns were being forwarded direct fifty officers at eight and for ion servants to Calais" for the bombardment of at ten. This went on for three days just England, to be carried out in co-opera after the occupation of Brussel,
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