HOW TO BE FRIGHTFUL.
LONDON, Oct. 19. Among tho Gerijianprisoners,especially of the latest classes, aro spme cases of hunger typhus, sa"y,s Mr Perry Robin-: son (Times correspondent m "Flanders). Manuals have been found on these prisoners insti-uctih'g them how to behave when England is captured. Mayors should be taken, and should be kept as hostages; and villages requisitioned for 900 sausages or fined £500 if the inhabitants -conceal food. Tlie prisoners confess that they .do not expect ever tiO use this! valuable work. a ■■• . SQIIEEZma; LILLE DRY. The .Times correspondent at Paris states that as soon &s Lille had paid* the forced! levy of £I^ooo,ooo the Germans demanded' £1,500,000. The Mayor protested, and "w aa threatened with a fine of £50,000 for each day's delay. He replied, "Lille is bbWed beneath oppression, and' cut off from' the outer world, and unable to, appeal. She will pay at the dates fixed because the knife is at her throat."
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XLIV, Issue 14441, 30 October 1917, Page 5
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