THE SLAVERS.
NEW YORK, August 20. Tlio ‘New York Times’ publishes a lottor from Mr Cyril Brown, dated Sedan: “ I am told that 22,000 French civilians—men, women, youths, and. Young girls—' ha.ve been evicted from Lille, Roubaix, and TOnrooing, and distributed, chiefly m the Chamjiagne district. 1 visited the evicted civilians at tiedan and 13 other villages. An ofiiccr stated that,2,ooo had been, (Sent tiack because they were evicted -through a mistake. Ho said the difficulties of feeding masses of people caused this action, ancl ho was inclined to believe that it was done to relieve the nou-inilitarv pressure on strategic railroads, also from the necessity of obtaining workers to gather the bountiful harvest in Northern Franco. '“Tiro military commander in the Sedan district .related how he had solved the problem of housin# 700 by the eotta-e sva-■-cm, allotting 12 to 16 to a. house. Men and women are kept separate unless they arc married, and girls are placed in the care of married folk. Immoral women are segivgatod near tho Belgian border, where there are no troops.”
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Evening Star, Issue 16198, 21 August 1916, Page 3
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