Some of the interned warriors attempted to escape, and six were shot by the Dutch.

Nor will they permit contraband articles of war to go through their country.
While the Dutch may sell their own supplies as they please, all imports of rubber, copper, or petroleum must be accounted for, and their reexport to Germany is forbidden.
Germany also holds 30,000 Belgian soldiers as prisoners.

England took 18,000 severely wounded Belgian soldiers into her hospitals, and 80,000 refugees are being there cared for largely by private enterprise.

The losses by the war are difficult of estimation.

But at the present time there are 7,000,000 people in Belgium, most of whom must be fed by the outside world.
Belgium is the one nation from which the people have never migrated.
Beyond war there is only one power that can move the Belgians from their soil, and that is the influence of the Church.
Representatives of American railroad and industrial interests are in Europe endeavoring to induce emigration from Belgium to the United States, but it is doubtful if these efforts will meet with any success.
There are in the United States to-day only two Belgian settlements, one of about 1000 people in Montana and one of about 1500 in western New York.