Through the Iron Bars; (Two Years of German Occupation in Belgium)
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Between the acts of the German adminis- tration in Belgium and those of the African slave drivers, we are now unable to discover any differ- ence whatever. The old plague which had been the shame of Europe for more than two centuries has risen again from its ashes. It appears before us with all its hideous characteristics. People are torn from their homes and sent away to foreign lands without any hope of returning. Any protest is crushed by the application of torture in the form of starvation,... exposure, and their kindred ills. . . There is, however, one new point about the modern slave: his face is as white as that of his master. The nineteenth century stamped out black slavery. It was left to the twentieth century to reinstate white slavery. It is the purest glory of the English-speaking (1) I should ask the reader to confront this declaration with the statement made by the Belgian workmen in their appeal to the working classes of the world. " On the Western Front they force them, by the most brutal means, to dig trenches, construct aviation grounds .
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