RETURNING FROM GERMAN CAPTIVITY: THE FIRST BATCH OF THE ABDUCTED PEOPLE OF LILLE SETTING FOOT AGAIN ON FRENCH SOIL. The Germans have been shamed into stopping the new slave trade, which had shocked the whole civilised world, although not until some twenty thousand persons—mainly women and children from Lille and other towns in Northern France had been carried off to work for their German taskmasters, under circumstances of revolting cruelty. By slow degrees they are being repatriated, and recently the first batch of htty landed on rfrenen soil. They were brought by steamboat from Flushing, whither the Germans are sending their victims. —From the Graphic.
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Otago Witness, Issue 3277, 3 January 1917, Page 28 (Supplement)
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105RETURNING FROM GERMAN CAPTIVITY: THE FIRST BATCH OF THE ABDUCTED PEOPLE OF LILLE SETTING FOOT AGAIN ON FRENCH SOIL. The Germans have been shamed into stopping the new slave trade, which had shocked the whole civilised world, although not until some twenty thousand persons—mainly women and children from Lille and other towns in Northern France had been carried off to work for their German taskmasters, under circumstances of revolting cruelty. By slow degrees they are being repatriated, and recently the first batch of htty landed on rfrenen soil. They were brought by steamboat from Flushing, whither the Germans are sending their victims.—From the Graphic. Otago Witness, Issue 3277, 3 January 1917, Page 28 (Supplement)
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