The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, January 29, 1919, Page 8

_ makes no other man poorer, and yet LIFE UNDER HUN WAS LIVING HELL ‘Englishman Tells of Four Years | in Bruges During Occupa- _ tion. | CRUELTY OF KULTUR RULE’ Determined Efforts by German Officers | to Break Spirit of Belgian Resi- dents Prove Futile—Fined indiscriminately. London.—Life under the German heel is vividly portrayed in the diary of Mi. Humphrey Page, an English- | man who lived four years in Bruges during the German occupation. Events are recorded showing determined at- tempts by the German officers to break ; the spirit of the Belgian residents proved futile. The ramifications of | kultur-rule also are shown. Here are | some of the events, sketchily told: In September, 1916, the Bruges city council! was directed to find a speci- fied number of workmen for the Ger- mans under penalty of $25,000 fine for each day's delay. All who refused to | work were imprisoned. | M. Schrauvune, leading attorney, | discussing this affair with Belgians | in a cafe, said he would not work for the Germans, and considered Bel- | gians who did as cowards, The next | day the attorney was summoned be- | fore the German commander, fined | $750, sent to Sedan for six months’ | hard labor, but never was returned. There were all sorts of petty | tyranny. French and English adver- ; tisements on bulldings had to be re- | moved. Even printed funeral notices | in French were forbidden. i Ban on King’s Picture. i No resident over ten years old was | allowed to be in the streets without | a passport containing his photo. was a punishable offense to exhibit | portraits of the Belgian king and queen. German officers stood at church doors to confiscate coins, worn | as brooches or lockets, bearing the likeness of the Belgian king. . No one was allowed to be on the Ni streets after 8 p. m. Occasionally, when the whole town was punish d | for some alleged offense, every resi- | dent had to remain indoors after 6 | Pom, an especial hardship for the poor in summertime. One of the sources of. income to the German overlords was. fines inflicted on persons whose watches or clocks Kept ;Belgian time, instead of Ger- Mmap,,as ordered by the kaiser, :.Ap-officer sent to Inspect the con- vent, of St. Andre, a girls’ school, .re- Ported that the sister who showed him around had.a wrist watch show- ing Belgian time. The sister was fined $250. A Grand Place shopkeep- er;.was imprisoned three months for telling an officer Belgian instead of German time. With the beginning of 1917 prices | Ba A pound | 3 of all commodities soared. of. starch cost $2.50, an ordinary candle 60 cents, ordinary shoes $15 to $20 a pair, re-soling same $3, while dress goods and flannels became so expensive only the wealthy could buy. Food supplies were unsatisfactory and the Germans did nothing to alle- viate them. In were confiscated, German soldiers going from house to house and build- ing to building to strip away the metal. Uses Funeral for Propaganda. 2 On February 2, 1917, some German planes dropped bombs by mistake on Bruges. Von Buttlar, commandant, decided the funeral of the victims could be utilized for propaganda pur- poses. He got a wreath und 2 pho- tographer, and while the mourners were about the grave, made them line up, put himself in the center and had , the scene recorded. On September 3, 1917, allied airmen dropped bombs at the Bassin and were fired at from St. ~ Croix. Shells fell in Bruges, killing ,,& dozen people. The German officers ,Pefused to allow funeral mass notices to be posted unless the line “killed by English shells” was added. The Belgians refused and the notices were torn down. “Two Germans constructed bomb- proof cellars accommodating 200 to 1,000 persons each. While excavating they came upon 8,000 hidden bottles | of wine belonging to M. Ganshof. The wine was taken without payment. The bomb-proofs were for Germans and people in small houses without cellarg had to take their chances at . might, although they could use the “public refuges” in daytime. “PEW GOLD MINERS DIE RICH, Money Made in Gold Mining Rarely Sticks to Man Who \ Makes it. TU UL Seattle, Wash—Few gold miners , ever die rich, according to A. J. Blake. ‘whol was one of the first pioneers who staked claims in the Seward Peninsula district, of Alaska, before the rich . Nome beaches were discovered. “It’s a peculiar fact,” said Blake, “that money made in gold mining rarely sticks to the man who makes it. 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