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Show STRAGGLERS SEEK SHELTER If. FORESTS i tSpo-i,il Cabin hy t rraiir;einri.f v.jtli London Daily Tolrfji a .Ii ami Inloniarinnnl News Servirc.l KKTI-:r:XAY. l-'ra noo. Sept. JO. The hni-rcrs of ar are still a very dlsturb-int; dlsturb-int; elomeu! Io the refugees who in regular regu-lar streirinis have returiied or are re-(ui'nins re-(ui'nins to devastated village?. H is ten days riinre tlie main body of the kaiser's army back-t lacked rapidly rap-idly ufi.'u- its terrible gruel ling in tlie fircat battle of the Marne, but hundreds of tierniau soldiers, fully armed y remain in small parties. Tliey are distributed over a wide area and, in all the niean-( ing of the word, are lost men. In tlie course of tlie battle they had become detached from their regiments and sought shelter in the heart of the same woods in whieh untold numbers of their wounded comrades have died. I 'riven to desperation by hunger and the pestilential stench with wiich these fair forests now reek, the fugitives are sallying forth after nightfall on the hunt for food. Stories of their actions are terrifying the peasantry. There is much work for the territorial terri-torial troops who remain in the district. Battles are arranged dally, but the Germans Ger-mans are not easy bir'ls to snare. They might be. if they knew their main army had retreated more t ban 100 miles, but they are absolutely ignorant of such information. in-formation. When captured and told the facts they appear mystified and invariably invari-ably express pleasure that for them the fighting is over. Many of them have gone without food for four or five days at a time and for lour or five more have managed to keep body and soul together eating turnips or beet roots from the fields. Many houses had been broken into' bv thprn in the dead of night and pillaged, the inhabitants inhabi-tants being abused or put to flight. But the French deal summary vengeance ven-geance to these marauders when caught Yesterday morning at a little town nea: here five Germans were shot for an at tack on an old woman. |