Show HUN UN RULE WAS ONE OF HORROR British Prisoners Given Starvation Rations in Lille LilG- LilG Occupation HI bly Universal Service Lon London on Oct 20 Correspondents of pi British newspapers who entered LI LIMe Lille e with wih the allied aled troops have telegraphed revolting In details of oC the treatment to toI I which British prisoners of or war year were were sere subjected In that cl city I Rev Ro Mr 11 Moore a British chaplain In Lille Lile in the course of oC a statement to tho the correspondent of r the Morning Post said There Thee were moments when I thou thought ht m my nil mind was ataS going when I saw the tho sufferings of or our men who were slowly slow slow- l ly 1 starved in LUbe Lle and I would woul awake in the tho morning and say Thank God GodI I nm am still HI sane All Al the British prisoners prisoners prisoners pris pris- and at nt ono time th there re were 2000 of ot them concentrated here luere were kept without food for three days das and nights after their capture This was done lone I deliberately In order to break their theirS spirit S P 1 r IL ILI I r have watched TYing men go JO through the streets to their tasks task 1 knowing that In a tt n very few days lays I would have to bur bury them I have seen poor French women carrying plates of or for fOI them thorn and little children giving sic sic- ing Ing them at the lie risk of or being s sent ent to prison The German authorities at first w would not permit me oven even to bury the B British dead deal Three woun wounded ed men the het f first of oC Kitchener's arm army to arrive e arri in L Lille iMe were taken to tho general hos hos- pital p ital I managed to get et to them and p rayed prayed with wih them them only only one ono was isas ron eon a as clous-as as the they were dying Suddenly t the he authorities decided to clear out the lie h hospital and those dying ding men were m moved oved to another Ono One of or them dle died 1 I CI th t. t nH b v Arc Are J N For Fol two hours I went from pillar pilar t to post to-post o post trying to see the other two men a and nd finally naly appealed to the governor of L ilbe General von yon HeinrIch I pleaded with his adjutant an and he ha was so 10 I t touched that ho promised to Int Intercede with the governor go In thirty minutes s she l lie he ie came back and said sall It was impossible t ble ile adding Les Los sont finis finis' nis I h havo avo seen these famished men ral raking ln t through h piles lIles of rubbish in the tIme streets o of f LiMe Lille Lle picking out bits of ot cabba cabbage e l leaves eaves and other and eating eatn t them hem eagerly 3 crl It H was almost enough h t to o send sent us mad mad and and we could do noth noth- l ing ag The correspondents also have ha e re received received re- re c authoritative o concerning concerning con con- c the treatment of or women In Iii 11 Lille le The correspondent ent of oC the tie Manchester Man Man- I c chester hester Guardian telegraphs Aft ACol M tIme he first terror of at the German occupation one of at the worst days dars camo camu when Just before E Raster ter in Mild nG young oun women of or Lille were ero forcibly s seized l ell and sent away to work Worl In the tho fields felds hundreds of oC sables miles mies from their homes It t was a reign relyn of oC terror tenor for fot er c every girl in itt Li Able Lille and to for I ller ler parents Different quarters of oC the town were wore chosen for this conscription of or girls and machine guns guns were posted poste at each end of oC tho the street an and families were or ordered or- or dered to gather In the doorways when German officers came around and made arbitrary choice choke saying to one girl You You Ton and to another You and order men to take taku them Girls Girl Girl Dragged A Mr r. r Moore told me that lint some sonic girls were dragged dragged from their beds and carried car car- ried screaming away The They were girls i in all conditions of life One I al met tov to- to v told me she was chosen but escaped escaped es en- es- es by br threatening to kill 1 herself borsch rather than go 10 For FOI It was wag to be a p L lifo of misery and horror to any girl of or decent Instincts One Ono of or them who atho was taken and spent six months In Ili this forced labor labou I. I told mo me Bhe had no change chango of or linen in Ii I that time and slept on a truss of straw In an old barn at first with men wh who were ivere put into the same barn with wih them then I I and then only onh with wih women They neer nover never nov nev er had enough to eat cat In the early earh days though food tood was better later laer and man many i of tho the girls fell rel Ill HI from hunger Their r brothers who also were taken suffered 1 more Unspeakable things happened an am and there Is Js no forgiveness In the tho h hearts of or those who suffered them |