FRANCE.
HER RUINED DISTRICTS.
WORK OF HEROIC WOMEN
[“TIMES” AND “SYDNEY SVN” SERVICE.)
(Ueccived 10. 9 a.m.) London. Aug. 9.
Some British members ol the Allies commitlee for agricultural relief who imxe returned froni a x isit io t?ie rained disiricis oi France state that it is impossible to exaggerate the extent of the distriieiion in the Marne ami ihe Meuse departments. I'he Germans hart' shelled and (ired places wholesale. Manx- villages are without- a sign ot life, the people who remain Jiving underground. Cultivation is still carried on by French women who ar-' loading and driving carts, reaping and cultivating land within a lew kilometres of the trenches lhey are working uncomplainingly amidst desolation and ruin, and ihe whole valley of the Marne is under cultivation. People in England are generously responding to the committee s appeal for stud cattle. The King has headed the list with five rams from the famous Sandringham flock.
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Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume IV, Issue 431, 10 August 1915, Page 5
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