GERMAN VANDALISM.
HAM DESTROYED
(Ree. September 13, 7 p.m.) . LONDON, September 12 Reuter's correspondent at French Headquarters says: Ham is the largest town in the devastated country which the Germans spared in their retreat last year. It has now been visited with a destruction even more complete and more unjustifiable than Noyon. They methodically destroyed it by fire. The inhabitants were evacuated and infernal machines placed in the houses and fires were started. By pressing a button miles away bridges were blown up. .... Ham was undamaged by shell fire, neither side being interested in firing on the .town. Tlie only excuse that the Germans could * make was that it blocked the roads against- pursuit. This was invalid. The destruction of bridges alone has made it impossible for the French to enter town until they were replaced.
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Grey River Argus, 14 September 1918, Page 3
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