THE GERMAN LEVIES.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LI, Issue 15748, 24 October 1914, Page 4 (Supplement)

THE GERMAN LEVIES.

HUGE SUMS DEMANDED.

A newspaper correspondent gives the following details of the advance of the Germans through Northern France before they were repulsed. The department of the Aisne suffered heavily, especially in the northern part, where violent engagements took pdare at Hirson, Wassigny, Bohain. and Vervius. Guise was entirely devastated. It was shelled for the first tin" I v Germans and was occupied, but it was retaken by the m 1,".-, ail. , ;.-.,..! in-.r i.-i...... i U l.i o„,, finally retaken by the German.'. During the three attack's 12.000 shells fell in Guise. St. Quentin was also heavily shelled, and part of Uic town destroyed". The museum was saved. The Germans made the following levies during their march southwards. £' Brussels S.OOP.CPO Lioss Province i.UW.WiO Liege City lOU.ikiO le.uva.n -l.UOl) Bribant Province 18.TO0.ijC0 Lille 280,000 Armentieroi i.'iJ.Ot)o Amiens . -. 10.000 land 100.000 cisar?) Lens .. 40,000 Roubaix and Turcoinn 40,000 Tnrmondo . 10.000 Ghent: 100.000 rijar?. '2ioo pr.l lons pctrjl, -CO i.';ilions n.iuiiai V.l c.a. I.IU iocs of eats, 100 buycles to motor-cycles, c.c Total cash . . £-23,852.000 It is one thing to malic a leiy, am.thei to enforce it. Brussels has, as yet, only paid about £140,000 of the blackmail, and Germany is now likely to get very little more.