WORK FOR GERMANS
FRENCH TOWN REFUSES
A HUN THREAT.
(Received August 17, 8.50 a.m.)
AMSTERDAM, 16th August.
The town of Hnlluin, in North France (ten miles north-north-east of Lille), was commanded to perform work, and the people refused on the grounds that the work was intended for the German Army. They referred to the Hague Convention.
The German Commandant replied that German military authority will not depart from its demands, even if it meant tha destruction of a city of 15,000 inhabitants.
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Evening Post, Volume XCII, Issue 41, 17 August 1916, Page 7
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82WORK FOR GERMANS Evening Post, Volume XCII, Issue 41, 17 August 1916, Page 7
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