FORTIFYING LILLE.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LII, Issue 15884, 3 April 1915, Page 2 (Supplement)

FORTIFYING LILLE.

DAY AND NIGHT WORK. Tub following information concerning life in Lille under the German occupation has been lunushed by an escaped Belgian nil SOlier :—■ Or"' -The chief occupation of the Germans is the completion of their defences ot the city, ihey are constructing reinforced concrete trenches from the Dunkirk "ate to the Arras gate and round the citadel the work is going on dav and n j . t ■ •Troops continually pass through the city. They are lodged in barracks which have been rebunt by the Germans. All the kitchens and the sanitary arrangements have been rebuilt in accordance with German ideas. Wltl3 -All the civilians in the city are forced to register themselves at the town hall In the suburbs, at Mons-en-Baroeul not. ably, the Germans requisitioned the inhabitants to burn the bodies of their soldiers '-M Delcsalle, the Mayor of Lille has behaved like a hero. During the bombard .nent when the people wewmhing about half demented, all who met M. Delesalle and asked him where they should go received the same answer: 'Goto ™ {""■' There he sheltered more than a hundred homeless beings.-.