CAPTURE OF LILLE.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume LXXIV, Issue LXXIV, 21 October 1918, Page 5

CAPTURE OF LILLE.

OUTRAGES BY DEPARTING HUNS.

PARIS, Oct. 18. One hundred and twenty thousand inhabitants remained at Lille. The Germans deported all boys over 15 to an unknown destination.

Captures at Ostend included a Tirpitz battery with an enormous quantity of material, which the Germans could not withdraw. Tremendous explosions have been heard. It is believed the Germans are destroying the big batteries. The capture of Lille was the occasion of universal rejoicing. The capital was beflagged for the first time in the war period. Captured German guns were massed round the statue of Lille in the Place d© la Concorde.—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn.

PARIS, Oct. 19. The Havas Agency's correspondent at Lille says the enemy yesterday bombarded'the town with long range guns. Prior to leaving they destroyed the municipal waterworks and gas and electric installations, and carried off all electric appliances. They perpetrated hideous outrages on the female population, forcing the women and young girls to undergo "medical inspection," on the protest of safeguarding the health of the army. They carried off all securities in the banks at Lille, and robbed and pillaged in every direction, destroying furniture and breaking open doors of buildings.— Aus.-N.Z. C.A. and Heuter.