BEHIND THE GERMAN LINES.
FORCED FRENCH LABOUR. CIVILIANS TAKEN FROM HOMES. COMPELLED TO WORK IN THE FIELDS. (Received 2.45 p.m.) AMSTERDAM, July 14. On the pretext that the British Navy is stopping food supplies, the Germans transferred -fifteen thousand civilians from Lille, ten thousand from Roubaix, and five thousand from Tiircoing tb Meziers and Charleville, employing them in agriculture
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Auckland Star, Volume XLVII, Issue 168, 15 July 1916, Page 6
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