GERMAN FEARS FOR SAFETY OF CIVILIAN POPULATION.
ALLIES REQUESTED NOT TO BOMBARD FRENCH TOWNS. HOLLAND AGREES TO SHELTER FUGITIVES. Renter. (Becoived 7.40 p.m.) AMSTERDAM. Oct. IS. A Berlin official message states that the German command has requested the Swiss Government to inform the French that owing to fears of bombardment a severe panic is probable among the civilians in the region of Lille and Valenciennes, and intimates that the Dutch Government has been asked, and has agreed, to shelter fugitives as far as possible. A further Berlin message announces the plight of 30,000 civilians, and proposes that the Allies should agreo to refrain from bombarding towns in Northern France, adding that. Germany is prepared to como to an agreement for part of the population to cross into the enemy lines. It is stated that failing compliance with this suggestion Germany will not be responsible for the safety of civilians in the occupied territory. .
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LV, Issue 16983, 17 October 1918, Page 5
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