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Children from Taft are Lost in BelgiumWere Visiting Grandmother. Now Dead, Victim of War —Enquiries of Belgian Consul Bring No Results Taft Settlers Subscribe to Aid Afflicted Fellow-countrymen—Atrocities Confirmed.In Hpite of the efforts of the Hoi- Mrs. J. I)aetn who was in the city gtun consuls at Calgary and Ottawa, on Monday declares that there.is no Mrs. J. Dnom of Taft is unable to doubt as to the atrocities committed obtain any tidings of the where* by the German soldiery in Belgium, a 1 abouts of her infant son, two an I a l'rom letters that she has received s i alf years of ago, and of a daughter, she is convinced that half the tale of s- | •(. years of age, who were left with outrage has not been told, One let-o their grandmother at Aloflt, Belgium ter told of Belgian soldiers being a when Mrs. I)aem returned last murdered in cold blood opposite the o May from a visit to Belgium, home of her mother-in-law and many t The little boy was born in Revel- other acts of brutality have been con-e stoke, firmed.| Mrs. C. Daem, the children's grand- The Belgian settlers at Taft are t mother died last month, a victim of doing all they can for their afflicted i, the war and the children’s mother fellow countrymen. Fifty dollars has has been unable to obtain any re- already been subscribed and sent to suit from her anxious enquiries. Belgium in addition to many other Aiost is a city of 3i»,0O0 population, gifts.
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Revelstoke Mail Herald
Ravelstoke, British Columbia, CA
Wed, Oct 07, 1914
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