BATTLEFIELD RELICS.
' ENRAGED RETREATERS
LOOTING AND DEPREDATION,
(Press Assn.—Reed. 10.30 a.m.) LONDON, Sept. 14.
Reuter reports that thousands of
citizens visited the battlefield of the .. Marne on Sunday, gathering relics, mostly German helmets, weapons, and fragments of shells.
Starving German soldiers are being brought to Meaux in troops. One British soldier brought in five in a woeful state of rags and.dirt, with their feet protruding from their boots. .
The retreating invaders vented their rage on the better class houses. They smashed the mirrors and cleared the cellars. Half-emptied champagne and absinthe bottles strewed about testified to the suddenness of the retreat.
One wounded German prisoner had in his haversack fifty stolen purses and pearl necklaces.
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Northern Advocate, 15 September 1914, Page 5
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