Lord. Grey of Falloden has sent an admirable letter to
the Belgian Minister in London on the subject of the deportations in Belgium:— "Your Government will not expect from their Allies any elaborate expression of the horror and indignation which they, in common with the whole world, feel in the presence ox these practices, hitherto resorted to only in connexion with the slave trade. It will be enough if I assure you that his Majesty's Government are ready to support the Belgian Government in. every step they desire to take in securing the cessation of these atrocities and the punishment of their perpetrators."
Lord Grey of Falloden then goes on to point out that the one way to end such appalling outrages is to end the war. A Belgian appeal• to the Vatican and Spain states that three hundred and fifty thousand men have already been deported. The German pretence that work was being found for the unemployed broke down almost at the start. Agriculturists and manufacturers, for instance, have been carried off from their homes to perform forced labour. The only consolation is that the Germans must be desperate to think it worth while to put themselves under the ban of all civilized countries.
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