RUMOURS OF INVASION

Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 3039, 28 March 1917, Page 5

RUMOURS OF INVASION

■CONTRADICTED IN HOUSE OP COMMONS. _ London, March 26. Rumours of invasion were current in London and iho provinces for fortyeight hours, but were dispelled by Mr. Bonar Lawin a statement in the House of Commons. He said he was unable to find any foundation for them.—Aus.N.Z. Cable Assn. THE HEEL OF THE HUN LIFE IN THE OCCUPIED DISTRICTS IN THE WEST. ■ (Reo. March 28, 0.65 a.m.) London, March 26. 'An Englishman who had been living uninterned in Roubaix, Lille, Brussels, and Antwerp since the outbreak of war thus describes life in the occupied territories:—"The German rule at the outset was comparatively mild. Civilians were ordered indoors at 8 o'clock in the evening, except for one fortnight when they were sent indoors at 5 o'clook because they cheered a British airman who brought down a Fokker over the town. Roubaix was repeatedly plastered with orders regulating civilian lifo. Every German viotory was compulsorily celebrated. English and French newspapers were smuggled iif 'The Times' was loaned at 2s. per hour. The poorer class paid a frano for admission to a back room every week where the war news was read. When the Allies declared a, blookade in March, 1915, the German iron heel appeared, and the civilians wero treated more rigorously, and fined."—"The Times."