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Show H MOST OUTRAGEOUS ATROCITIES. FROM all quarters of the countries that have been under the heel . of the enemy comes stories of brutality toward helpless women and children, theft of provisions intended for their help and other acts H of savagery. H' Telegrams arriving in London continue to furnish proof of out- fl rages committed by the Germans in their retreat from Flanders. The H , enemy set fire to Roulers in several places and cross roads were mined. M Inhabitants tell heart rending stories of pillage and violence and say V just before the end the Germans stole their food so as to force them l to consent to quit their homes. M A correspondent of the Havas Agency on the British front tele-m tele-m graphs that on Friday afternoon shots were fired at the crowds in K , - Lille from a German airplane and several persons were wounded. W The enemy also bombarded the town with a long-range gun. The m l Germans have destroyed the municipal water works and gas and electa elec-ta trie appliances. W " n September 30 the .Germans carried off all securities which ' were .still in possession of the Bank of Lille. W ' Two outstanding crimes disgrace the invader the deportation of i women in October, 1916, and the carrying off of men, which was effected ef-fected ten days ago. These men went out of Lille singing tlie "Marseille." "Marsei-lle." j The' Germans have robbed and pillaged in every, direction,- de- )' f strtiying -furniture and breaking open floors and ceilings. When the Germans left Ostend they drove every head of, cattle, out of town. "" When the Allied troops arrived there was no milk in the place and the children were suffering badly. The British landed thousands of tins of condensed milk and many tons of flour for the inhabitants. The Burgomaster of Ostend was taken into a torpedoboat destroyer, de-stroyer, at the request of the king and queen of Belgium, who went minutely into the condition of the Ostend inhabitants. Dr. Calmette, director of the Pasteur Institute at Lille has written a letter describing describ-ing the action of the Germans in carrying off the last three horses remaining at the Institute for the Production of Anti-Diphtheria serum. In view of the fact that this action is not only contrary to international in-ternational law, but also in opposition to the most elementary dictates of humanity, Monsieur Calmette demands that reparation be e: -acted. A war correspondent with the Canadian forces described how at Montigny a German officer lived on friendly terms with a French family for eighteen months. One evening he failed to return and at three o'clock in the morning the house was blown up by a mine, everyone every-one in the large family being killed, except an infant son. Revela- . tions of the sufferings of Lille under German occupation brought the following comments from the London observer : "Recovery of all the dense industrial population around Lille en- ' abled the people to tell for the first time a tale of things which will never be forgotten and never can be forgiven until compensation at its fullest has been exacted and punishment at its sternest has been meted out. Young women and girls, young men and youth have been taken away like slave hordes by the enemy. Their unhappy parents par-ents know not what has become of them. Lille has been looted, Pictures Pic-tures and other collections of its well known gallery and museum have' been rifled. Its inhabitants and their neighbors have been forced! to pay fifteen million pounds sterling in fines and tributes. When these are made good, let the Allies begin to speak of lenient treatment for Germany's people. Until justice is done, let them not talk in soft t tones if there is one corpuscle of sound, red blood in their veins." t Bridgeport Life. |