LIFE OF THE DEPORTED.
LILLE WIFE'S LETTER
The Germans have now notified the names of the localities where the impressed populations of the invaded regions have been deported. Those left behind now know, therefore, the- whereabouts of their relations, but are not allowed to communicate with them. A young woman carried off from Lille into the Ardennes has managed to send a few lines to her husband, who is in Paris. Sho says:—"There am a couple of dozen of us here from Lille. We are billetted on the village folk, who have done their best for us. Some of us have been able to get beds to sleep in. We are most sharply overlooked. We have to start work at 5 a.m. It is hard toil, but I am keeping well. Wo are fed much the same as at Lille-rice, corealine, bread, and water. We are not allowed to have any of the vegetables we have to gather from the fields, and anyone keeping a single potato even is severely punished. We are told that we shall be sent back to Lille at tho end of September."
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LIII, Issue 16372, 28 October 1916, Page 2 (Supplement)
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