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TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 8, 1917.

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A BELGIAN SLAVE RAID.— TRAGIC SCENES.

..

The following report by an Eye-witn of the Exigian deportation in the district a Warro Bas been recaired from the Belgian Legation in, Puking

those who must go! Thars, cash man as (he arrived" la asked if he will sign an agreement, that is, consent to work "for the Germans, earning moanwhile ja largo- The work of aboosing begins. By groups † salary. It he consents, be gives his name fef a thousand, the man ara conducted to; } and address, and the là authorised "to a dubool building, where the agent of the festorn to Ra hone, so that he may maku German authoritisi keeps offos. To get his properations and depart så the and oi at this school building the road runs by a law days. If he refuse-and that is the banks of the Dria. It is the pictures the case with an immonsa majority--ho is qua spot of "Warre

In normal. times. menatad, threathned with all calamities,

there is an atmosphers of peaceful gristy. I and gom to join the tumultuotis group of THEN the alarm clock rang this

of cheerfulness. This morning, "at the those who did as he did, digalßad and. morning did you bound from bed, Tho district of Wavro (Brabant) con-

windows of the bouse, the anguished faces | unbending, and be la greeted with wide awake, bright eyed, clear mindots of twenty-tire commun-thers reef women, of children, of a people in cheers. for victory-the victory and whistle while you dressed i Did you go to breakfast with the appetite of 2,800 communes in Belgium. The arder tears. horse and leave for work feeling "fit, which summoned at Wayres the entire brimful of ideas and energy, roady to do

with

will

Imate population between the ages of 17 ta 're the average gitizen. Tou 58, of twenty-two villag of the diatrist stretched and gaped and Isaich "another day, and you

uneasy and not a bis

by dostarono slowly feeling vague-of that.. ramo-about 20,000: man-mad of four hours. the crowd is finally con- and encircled by cavalry. Then it is c

and

NOTICE.

There ain people of "the roofs. Į of a man who submits, but whose spirit They all gaze greedily at the passing lines has no submission. We are still waiting. They want to see once more, perhaps. They are waiting for the number to be for the last time, & husband, a son, a sufelandy large. When it is, it is mur brother, perhaps a fiance. After a wals rounded by soldiers with fixed baypoets.

ducted to the school. I watched the mon route for the station! ** Two officerA The day's backs were a thing to posted on November 11th, and rendimi

I know a number of them.' I saw a let† march u little in advance, their horse- dread. Something nasty had crawled

of their faces grow suddenly very pale, whipe-yes, their horse-whips in their in your mouth sad slopt there all hight

All men,between the ages of 17 and 30 They walked in verg, drmily. But they bands. The side streets are followed. You had no appetite, your work was mechanical and lacked purpose. True inclusive of the commune- of-wru any ghustly pale. One feels the anxiety From time to time a weeping woman, an You go in the cut finally and pulled requested to present themselves on witch freezes than, arrests the blood in old man, having come this far by the through after a fashion, but you weren' a success and you realized it You lacked November 15th, 16, at sigh: 'clock their veins. These are the married men, mest tremendous effort, maanges to alip ambition, energy, vin, nerve force and am. (German time), nt. Wavre market. the men who have just lait with and between the ranks, for ece last farewell.

couldn':

n's concentrate. There was no plan. The burgo-master should be pre-children, and who ask themselves, are for a supreme embrace, but at once the you joy or

happiness in the day's work or Kathy The men" concerned should 'be they going to see them, again very 9008. soldiers push. thélu back, at pore, often the reward it brought you.

Such

symptoms don't necessarily carrying their identity cards, and, in case If not, not for a long period, one never before that longed for embrace the the that you are ill but they are and their maldekarte (rand of control), knows, perhaps never. The others, the main street, which, is, reached, at the erisin indications of weakened nerve Shall hand baggage will be allowed.young men, go with a proud step. There windows of the houses the poor people force and evidence that your nerve

cell's The who fail to appear will be is defiance in their eyes. As they still watch, watch with their dry, fevered are not being properly acurished and strengthengi... Your whole system in prted without delay, all of this semi-houses all the heads less, ceddened with tears, and almost Land by foreh, to the places where they are are raised. listening.' A rumour, a sound mechanically wave their handkerchiefs. physical-is below par mental and

Bwides, they are liable to very which growe, pro-it is-ges, it is, wing- But those when they thus salute, do not heavy fins und long imprisonment. ing. Almost one would say it was the wish to break down. Is is to reassure the you can nothing better or get quicker Priests, deviors, lawyers, schoolmasters. Brabancocne," yes, and that was the courage of those deur ones who see them action then by taking a few weeks' freatment of the wonderful realyd professoreseed not present in Marseillaise coming from the courtyard thas; is is in order to prevent an exhibi

of the school. And in fact, at the end of tion of wonkness before three soldiers who | called fargol. This is the most remark å selves.... able prescription ever found for putting

that pourting are the men who have are guarding them Nearly all of thema back the

pi pep" in folks who

already been taken. To is they who" are march with head hight they wave their | Are chronically tired, devitalized or run The Imperial Kreischef of Sivehiem

singing the Belgina and French anthems. i hats, and they sing, they sing unceasingly, down. The chief reason for its success

Gaur vos SeaWERIN

When they we wx. they all cry ous as they sung in the courtyard, of the that it contains some of the most im

And the notice Don's sign, don't sign." They are school. Bus there were veices that, are portant elements of active living nerve force. Sargol acts. quickly. It

was not pested until sewn o'clock in the splendid. There is no anguish here. husky and full of teurs. They niarch. straightway into your nerve cells and blood and freshens and brightens you morning, an hour when all men who are They are over that full of bravado, a rede At each corner of a street there is a short right up. I

zot out of work use wirely in the Inctories pride, of ziaruline virility. There are struggle. Always,one or mother of the you ambition, courage, vital vim and does

does or in the yards. They were expecting, no complaints. When one among the prisoners tries to escape, but always a habit forming drug; they were feusing this order.. But, with men sees a friend released he asks him borseman pursues him and brings hin

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your only 50 per cent. effort to work.

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Safas, Arm-onaire, & Wardrobe and Queen's, The Pharmacy, that it would be delayed; a vague hope, sent away; and then be starts, to sing biow from his whip one of the officers has |

Toilet Tables, Double and single draws. mounted Bedsteads, Cob, &c., Muscel Incur Puratare, blackwood Ware, including Cabinets, Wardrobes. Ben Fendors and Fire Brassen, a fuw lete Porcelains, &e, Pantry, Bath Room and Kitchen Utensils,

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A few lota of Turkish Towel, Bath Tovals, Brass Vas, Piss Finger Bowls.

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FIGHTING FOR.'

one of them hopes which instinct keeps

of not already sent him back. And then the muc, pale, hix ists clenched, is quiet for alive, against all resoring, in the soils

a few minutes, Was passes in bis: if the people. Undoubtedly they had not believed it. They did not believe it until,

We go in by a Srst room. A doctor is thoughts! What passes in the bearts' of when, the notice was posted, suddenly there, who examines these men who are

those others who, marching by ther homes, throw themselves into, the arms" among the women and children came the armed with a medical certificate. Eu panic-stricken desolation of complete sur

seus indulgen quite generous; he of their wives, kiss their children, and prise. The workers, who did not know of liberates an of them A second room.

are tort from them by a soldier? They bad to be warned; they had to be Here the fate of ruch nun will be decided. use quiet, too. But pretty soon, ozce warned so that they might have time to briskly, thechanically, in a few seconds, agic, they are singing, with a louder prepare, so that this day they might spend and without appeal.

veles They are not going to break down. Que peremptory with their dear one-the lust. perhaps word--and it

Fianly the procession comes to a level slavery or freedom. and together to take such pregnutions. Here are trasy uniforms-Kreischef, civil crossings They are collected on the rails, poor, unavailable, such sa were posible. commissary officers, and all have that between two embankments. The station The weeping women went fetch their military rigidity which permits of no dis. is quite close, and a train of cattle-trucks is is waiting. One can see nothing more. meu, to take them back to their bodies cussion. The three delegates of the com-

One hears only, shouts, songs, the "Braban and there were heart-breaking eens mune-generally the bungomaster. poignant but admirable in the feelings of alderman, and the communal secretary conse, and the Marseillaise again, the simple, stoical devotion which they authorised to assist in the examination of This lasts a long time, a very long time-

Jours sacral.

Night has fallen. About six "The greater part of these homes their own villagers, can quite evidently de are poor: swo years of war, of dear living, nothing. Two officers, who divide the 'clock, suddenly, the singing voices are of rations have brought about destitution; duty between them, make the decisions.drowned by trumpet calls. Music? You. there is nothing in the house but the one on each side of the room, they they have sent into the station a rug portion of food strictly measured for cachexamine the men rapidly, beginning with mental band, and it is this band that ote; and to-morrow, if the father, if the the young men of 17 to 2 years of Los celebrates, with the accented music of "a. chest son is sent away, there will be no They look at the identity card, which military march, the departure of that more resources. That matters nothing gives the trade and social position of the there is no thought except for the belied folder. being who is threatened; in the bundle they are preparing they put the last warm garment, the last blanket, all the bread hey have left, everything-to-morrow."Are you unemployed?" and immedi- march, quick, exasperating. They have indeed, when he is gone, who will want ately, whether the reply is negatire ere. But where? No one knows. What affirmative, the decree, inczorable. If the to do? No one knows. Will they ever

Professor Gilbert Murray has contri- No one buted to the Westminster Gazette "a We all remember the cid philosophie: card given a trade which would be useful come back? No cue, knows, **Inhos," the officer cries, "Left turn,”

No one knows. What we do remarkable statement on what the Allies doctrine of the Social Contract? sa the Left turn! That is the road to Germany, know, that from now on we shall live with are fighting for

origin of ordered society; that men lived, To go out of the room they mast

that, heart-rending" memory, and tho "It is proverbially difficult he writes, at first in a gate of nature, with, na of the man summoned the way to the through a dor divided by a barrier into saguish. And even if they come back,to define un elephant, though quite easy lang, no duties to one another, no relas chief town of the canlon is long; one two narrow corridors and guarded by two never again can they live in security, that to know one when you meet him. And tionships-Home homini lopus, avery soldiers. The left-hand corridor gives security of the old days when it was way belligerent when talking to neutrals man a wall to every other man, and then, to another room, where are thought that such things were no longer finds himself in a similar dificulty. We finding that condition intolerable, they more trains. They must walk, caithered those who are to go. their bags. So they must leave early. • If the officer prios "Right tural" it....im for six o'clock the procession, the liberty. The man passes before an under melancholy and interminable procesion of car, who puts a stamp on his identity begins on the roada, in the, biting old card. The right hand corrider leads to, an the dark November morning, the freezing open window before which is 2 table. wind, for the weather is cruel. Nature. They must climb that table, on to another menacing and dark, accentuation the table placed outside the window and angrish in their hearts. But they must jump down into the street. It looks like Maniaazny, his servant, ware prosecured Western American, or to "sher that we present Government of Germany in ita This "impression of despair an escape. It is, indeed, an impression by Sub-Inspreide Elliot, the former for ourselves embody any particular principle dealing with foreign nations has sought. must not be given. Most of the men bave of fight. Thoto is so impression of relia!; permitting an unlicensed person to drive. Partly He lives.too far off. He has not to alamp out of existence.... forbidden their families to accompany or comfort, for the heart is still torn his inator car, and the latter for negligawe say such strange thing Partly also. Put baldly thus, this degree of

mast the particular wild beast about which them; the anguish of the separation might thinking of the others, the poor others driving against the rules of the road, and make them show, wosknews.. This must pot be, so nearly all of their are going end.

And then the sightmare is not yet at an driving without & license. The evidence I believe, the vary magnitude of the catas wickedness will seem hard to believe of One must still contemplate: the shows that on the night of 11th Doctissue makes it difficult for us to explain much nation as Germany. The neutral one. One sees, marching to their Calyxbominable, étering Berrow Creus ber, Captain Monios cas, driven by the hard task to stata that cause, to put into ager in abuse. But I think we can see and for neutrals to understand. It is a will suspect that we are just resting our Fenly groups of men, marching in all still gather unforgettable remembrances of second accused, dashed into the motor words, however imperfect, the centre of how it came about. Germany is the great

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them. I do not suppose that ung- own definition will stand criticism much better” than these I have mentioned, but I will venture to put down the way in which the isage strikes me.

TOE FIRST ESSENTIAL. -

know as, it were by instinct the sort of met together and made a Contract, and thing that strikest as" Hannish" or hence Lose civilised society. Before say Teutonic." And the mest sincerely contract is possible there must be at least pacific song us Bayo perhaps "most the elementary understanding that, if a strongly the sense of being engaged in a mas pledges his word he should keep it. profound struggle against Evi. But it is It is that primary understanding, that incult to make this fealing seem justi elementury sense of bintherhood or of a public right, which it seems to us the fod, or even quite intelligible, to

GERMAN MILITARISM.

meagre bundles wers vary beavy. Only end of the little side street hers is the lim. Gode of the Bombay Burma Trad our profound feeling country of specialisation. Above it she a few women, who have not been able to rowd.. It has grown. It was insting tooing Corporation. The sinash took place Government of the people by the has produced the specialised soldier na control themselves, follow, weeping. Here is Wavrs. The little village lies grim and long it was too much anxiety; from all near the Masinic Lodge, do the Com People, for the poople"? That is a prin- the humano soldier, the Christian soldier grey on this sad morning. It is hemmed ruthers, the wives, the fiance, weeping- Mr. and Ms. Goffo sustained some, in with every fibre of their haing. But is it to be a soldier and gething else, to de the villages the women had come the mander-in-Chief's Foad, and as a result (ciple, which Americans have paid for with this chivalrous, soldier with the sense of their bloody and which they understand all duties but the soldier wie is trained by troops, who, at all openings, bar the They catch hold of those who have juries, and their vehicle was also damn extetly Demceracy for which we are fight-regard all the rest of human relations, way Men are engulfed in the returned, denunding news, sobbing. I god, Captain, Moxins stated, that his

coltatry's 7 Teighbours merely wou streets loading to the market-place, be ho inken, he for whom they are waiting. borrest Muslim held, 20, driver my The Republic of France, the gall bla huge square, with its low houses, with their beloved, the chief, the prop of the foense, and under instructions from him imited Monarchy of England, and the mice to be duped and conquered, shaky facades, sorrowful remains of house, the min whose departure da was simply taking the car back to Autocracy of Rosals We sometimes see all life according to some system

shy, and feel that we are fighting for perverted biology as a mare struggle of rayage invasion. It has been completely everything? They don't know, they Obrerament House, Mount Road, from democracy, and is a Manse it is true; but forces and fraud The Getmans have evacuated, and all the roads which lead cannot reply: they come out into the the Masonic Lodge. Hir Worship find democracy along cannot be the exact sted this type of soldier, sble, com to it are empty. Only one can see, the midst of imploring women, into the midst Captain Manins. Rs. 25. Maisy was definition of our cause.....

centrated, consciencelesa, and root end of these roads behind the warring of the pics, sobbing peopls, for they are band guilty on all three counted it then ght for civilisation less and then what no other people in troops, the crowd from which come cries all sobbing, even those who can again sentenced in the aggregate to pay a fine against barbadison 7 The thesia is difficult the world has done--they have given the names, words. of enoursgement, or even clasp to their henge their men who has of Rs. 65.

worde of farowall, to the poor people, been given to them.

sounded up, villsgo by, village, who are up dan s waiting, dejectedly, pitiful, in their impoboace, and their hu

Daring ble time what goes on for the Among them remember, with a little reft, to the left in that room, where are

ARE YOU GETTING RESULTS ?— STE

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BIRON OFFENHEIM DETAINED.

to maintain. In material civilinionation over to his guidance. Of course probablyinGermany is stually our west have armies. We all have military superiorbey organisation of German exparts and strategiats, Bas with tháo roak trade, of railways, of schools of things of the soldie in the last roourt, Ine intellectual, some, at lont to a superficial the executioner. We call him up onl glance to be the very acme of civilisation when all other means have failed. But Same writer sguid say that we were Germany the midier is always preso ighting for Christianity agamat Godless He is behind the diplomatist, behind the

but chef is not, as if slaids, very educator, behind the, proschar persuasive statement. They cho point to behind the philosopher In his many ealitly lives still lived in Germany, the man of science in s tas, the / bookshelves of their professore

Bar Robert Emanuel Oppenheim, London and Faris, was detained at New York, resently on honil the Dutch liner Noordam," by order of the State Department. No reason was girem for this setian, but it

that

the American authorities were

instigacion:

divinity are loaded with German books of other nations the devotion and theology and I helly of the publi

that we and our Frenchy Aller galte, she jumpzéseion of a natio

musauny, di None of those, staža:

there