File No. 763.72115/2441
The Minister in Belgium (Whitlock) to the Secretary of State
[Telegram]
Brussels,
October 18, 1916, 4 p. m.
[Received October 20, 1.30 p. m.]
[Received October 20, 1.30 p. m.]
9. For the information of the Department of State: German military authorities have impressed over 1,200 Belgian laborers in the territory of the Etappe, Flanders, and taken them to work in Germany. There is an effort to have same thing done in occupation territory, but the Governor General is opposed and Von der Lancken1 has gone to Berlin to induce Government, if possible, not to apply this measure to the occupation territory.
Whitlock
- Chief of the Political Department of the Government General.↩