ALLIED ADVANCE BRINGS JOY TO THE OISE EXILES.
PARIS, March 21. As the good news of y the . continued Allied advance flows into Paris, it finds the strongest echo among the refugees from the liberated districts, who are now m tho Palais Royal, where the inhabiitonts of tho Oise debartment are installed. Great excitement prevails, people flocking into the galleries and gardens, discussing the war bulletins and speculating on the chances of a speedy return to their homesteads. Tlie joy of victory, however, is chastened by the anguish at thp ruthless devastation wrought by the Germans. The people are 'beginning to realise that the smiling French provinces, which were invaded l m 1914, among the richest m France, are for a great part waste desert land strewn with ruins: that many villages and townships are but names upon the maps. And the old fury of hatred against the invader revives and the anger glows to white heat. It seems as if the accumulation of the world's animosity was not sufficient for the German high command who are evidently bent on leaving tin indelible mark on the sites which wit nessed the' beginning . of tho retreat. 4
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XLIV, Issue 14285, 30 April 1917, Page 3
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