Office of the Historian

File No. 763.72115/2781

The Minister in Belgium ( Whitlock) to the Secretary of State

[Telegram]
Brussels, January 16, 1917, 11 a.m.
[Received January 17, 2.15 p.m.]

32. I understand that the deportations from Brussels will begin within a short time. They continue here and there in the country, [Page 673] though with diminished frequency, and we are told with milder methods. The civil government is still trying to have the policy abrogated but has not yet succeeded in impressing its views upon the military authorities.

Whitlock