UNDER GERMAN RULE

Nelson Evening Mail, 28 July 1916, Page 5

UNDER GERMAN RULE

VWHAT IT IS LIKE. WO'MEN AND GIRLS TAKEN OFF IN THE NIGHT. Australian and N.Z. Cable Association.) (Rec. July 28, 11.20 a.m.) NEW YORK, July 27. The following letter, smuggled out of Lille, has been received by the New York Times:—"The Germans deported 10.000 young women and girls from Lille, ' including 5700 girls aged 15 to 25. They were rounded up by the Imperial Guard which surrounded the city at 3 o'clock in the morning and visited all the houses i and called the roll. The women were ; sent to empty workshops, and l then j herded with weeping, terrified girls into old carriages and cattle trucks, and the ] trains steamed off into the night to an | unknown destination. Parents are- dis- | tracted with sorrow and ' grief. I vm- | plore the press of the world to publish these facts." These charges were submitted by the American Ambassador at Berlin to the German authorities. It is understood that they admitted thatFrench people had been deported to do agricultural work, but insist that the numbers are exaggerated.