Show UNS DEPORT GIRLS GiRLS' lz o r FOR WAR AR ZONE 4 1 DRUDGERY I It Lorraine t 1 Lorna ine Gets of Taste aste I of Given Belgium By HENRY WOOD United Press Correspondent THE TilE FRENCH AR ARMIES IN 11 tANCE 1 April 20 The Thc The latest grip gript rip t Germanys Germany's i Germa ys y's iron hand on Alsace Alsace- I orraine is to force the women and Is who still remain there to aban aban- on n their homes and anti perform manual labor in fn the war zone The s system stem of deportation 1 and virtual sla slavery rp Is the ifune as ns that Inaugurated b by Yon Von ting rung In fn Belgium and northern France According to letters which have Just reached Leached France from the two stricken provinces r s man many of oC these women and are now being beinS' obliged cd to dig both oth th trenches drenches and tunnels Despite the he rigid igi surveillance c which h h o Germans exercise over the me tt ants of ot Lorraine Alsace the latter find means of getting getting- letters into prance France usually by wa way of or Switzer Switzer- find nd which give v vivid vh h descriptions of or h- h regime which tho Germans are ow Imposing there I One of at these letters from tram Essy les OW ancy fancy and which succeeded ed In petting getting rough to in Switzerland reads JIG IG TRENCHES TRENCH ES In certain villages the young girls o o employed in digging ig trenches and innels nels until we are arc forced to wonder W these unfortunate ones can keep their their strength strength- Another other letter which got through to final inal deals more at length with the inner In which the Germans are enslaving the girls and nen of Alsace This letI let- let I r reads hn In the boches have e rated the deportation of at numerous omen men and young young- girls into the tho mili- mili eiry rY zone on the French front trant where key fey ey are forced to work The news- news pers apers pe do not speak about this but reprint the response given b by bydie he die German Getman government to Deputy I lauss The government go stated that ri tho ho female personnel there are only I per cent of the young girls who are arender arender arender 17 years of at age Among Among- these here hero are some who volunteered Quite naturally because many fac- fac ones ories are closed and in order not to tarve to death one is forced to ac- ac ept whatever presents itself to say of the other means of persua- persua lon ion that tho the boches have at their dis- dis osal The The he government o continued Its reply y y saying that all young oung girls under 7 are ro now to bo be sent back to their first those that are arc now corking against their will wm and later II it tho rest as fast as ns circumstances III m permit wit Jt lt has now been d decided to grant aves ayes aves of or absence to lo soldiers rs from Al Ali Al- Al i Lorraine cc-Lorraine the same as ns to others others' I Therefore the they have not had an any up- up to-date to Tho The foreclosure of or French properties properties prop prop- continues on ever every hand The chateaus tie de la Ia near Strass- Strass bourg belonging belonging- to the des Bussieres famil family has lias been s old to a boche emi emi- emigrant emigrant grant for marks At Mulhouse and there is a shortage of coal coat At Mulhouse several schools have been closed and the classes in the others doubled into In- In order to save coal At and andIn andIn andin In all the other villages the boc boches es are tearing up the floors and demolishing demolishing demolishing demol demol- everything everything- To speak French an and especially to a French prisoner entails always a fine fino of or 20 O to 30 marks marls Leather is becoming scarcer and nd scarcer but the dealers In it are do doIng doing doing do- do ing a great business The rhe leather factor factory factory fac fac- tor tory of Adler A at Stra had Its profits increased the tho first year of ot the war per cent tho the second year 1213 per cent Up until 1913 Krupp had never employed employed employed em- em a single woman On December r 31 1915 1916 they were employing employing- AcCor According to the time this number has now been quadrupled To tranquilize the population the newspapers state that the Americans will only be able to send In France several hundred or possibly several thousand soldiers who will succeed in escaping the submarines All the othI others others oth oth- ers the they assert will be sunk Another letter fr from m a priest announces announces announces an an- that the entire population of or Alsace Lorraine Ine between 17 and GO CO years ears of age has been ordered mobilized mobilized mob mob- for civilian work Priests are included CLOTHING SCARCE Still other letters declare that cloth of or all kinds has become so scarce that It is not to be found and r is likewise disappearing disappearing- At the letter continues contin contin- ues both men and women are to be bo seen going gains about barefooted man many not even oven having wooden soles solea with their paper thongs Other letters state that in tho the two provinces as elsewhere in Germany German the bulk of the wearing apparel is now made out of or tho the paper substitute for Cor cloth which has been devised in Germany Germany Germany Ger Ger- many since the be beginning of the war |