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IN NORTHERN FRANCE AND BELGIUM. A BRITON'S STATEMENT. (The Times.) eßceived March 28. 12.55 a.m. LONDON, March 27. An Englishman who has been living uninterned at Roubaix, Lille, Brussels and Antwerp since the outbreak of war, describes life in the occupied territories. The German rule at the outset was comparatively mild, civilians being ordered indoors at 8 p.m., except for a fortnight, when they were sent indoors at 5 p.m. because they cheered a British airman who brought down a Fokker over the town. Roubaix was repeatedly plastered with orders resulting the civilian life, and every German victory was compulsorily celebrated. English and French newspapers smuggled in the towns were loaned at 2s an hour. The poorer class paid a franc for admission to a back room weekly, where the war news was read. When the Allies declared the blockade in March, 1915, the German iron heel appeared, and civilians were treated more vigorously and lined.
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Waikato Times, Volume 88, Issue 13447, 28 March 1917, Page 5
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