TERRIBLE INDICTMENT
HORRORS OF DEPORTATIONS London, January 19. The "Morning Post's" Paris correspondent stateß that a girl recently alj Lille makes a terrible indictment of the German deportations. Soldiers raid houses in the middle of the night, and . machine-guns are trained on the streets. Well-to-do, unmarried girls are taken, haphazard with prostitutes, in order that all may he reduced to* the same level. Before'going they are threatened with a revolver, and forced to sign a statement saying that they, are leaving voluntarily. All girls aro placed at the disposal o£ officers and men, and are subjected to a; strict medical examination. A family ransomed one girl on payment' of two thousand marks. The only others who have returned have.fallen ill, become enceinte, or are suffering from- nervous disease. Several are insane.—Aus»* N.Z. Cable Assn.
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Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 2983, 22 January 1917, Page 5
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