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Excerpt from The History of the Commission for Relief in Belgium, 1914-1917
Transport into Belgium by canal difficulty of securing lighters and tugs - Negotiations with the Germans in regard to canal transportation-german guarantees relative to lighters and tugs - The plans for the creation of a Special service of canal transport - The creation of the Shipowning Department - The Germans give trouble - Bonds required for use of Belgian lighters - Achieve ments of the Shipowning Department. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.