FRENCH GIRLS DEPORTED.

Auckland Star, Volume XLVII, Issue 179, 28 July 1916, Page 6

FRENCH GIRLS DEPORTED.

TO WORK IN GERMANY. ROUNDED UP LIKE CATTLE. PARENTS DISTRAUGHT WITH GRIEF. GERMANS ADMIT CHARGES. (Australia- and X.Z; Cable Association.) (Received 2.10 p.m.) LOXDOX, July 27. , The following letter, smuggled out of Lille, has been received by the New York "Times": —"The Germans have deported ten thousand young women and girls from Lille, including 5701) girls, aged 15 to 25. They wore rounded up by the Imperial Guard, which surrounded the city at three o'clock in the morning, visited all the houses, and called the roll. The women were sent into empty workshops, and then the Germans | herded the weeping and terrified girls I into old carriages and cattle trucks, and the trains steamed off into the night to an unknown destination. The parentare distracted with sorrow and grief. 1 implore the Press of the world to publish- these, facts." These charges were submitted by the American Ambassador to Berlin to the German authorities. It is understood that they admitted that French people had been deported to do agricultural work, but insisted that the numbers were exaggerated.