THE GERMAN WAY.

Colonist, Volume LVII, Issue 14150, 29 July 1916, Page 5

THE GERMAN WAY.

WOMEN AND GIRLS DEPORTED [ , FROM LILLE.

A TERRIBLE STORY

(Australian and N.Z. Cable Association-)

New York, July 27: ~

,:The following letter, smuggled out of Lijle, has been received by the "New York Times" :—^«'The ; Germans .deported 10J000 young' women and girls"-from Lille, inelu<3ing 5700 girls aged from 15 to 25. They were, rounded tip by the Imperial Guard, which suriHiunded, the city at three, o'clock in the morning and visited all the houses and called the roll. .

'.'Tlie wonien' were sent to empty workshops, and then herded with weeping terrified girls into old carriages and cattle trucks, and the trains steamed off into the night to an unknown destination. * The pax'ents are distracted with sorrow and grief..... I implore the press of the world to publish these facts."

These charges were submitted-by the American Ambassador at Berlin to the German authorities.1 It is understood that they admitted that French people had been deported to do agricultural work, but insist that the number's v f ere exaggerated.