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Show OLD HALLS OF NIEUPORT ARE IN RUINS By ANDRE BEAUMONT (Special war dispatches of the Interna tonal News Service and London Daily Telegraph ) NORTHERN FRANCE, Dec lo For fifty da s Nie port has been bombarded and the ancient town Is now a heap of ruins Not a house is in act. Entire Quarters are lytnir in ru ns and the streets are littered with wreckage. A.mong the famous bui dings destroyed is the old market hal s, which was In tie st le of the Gothic and Roman tran 6 Uon periods. Whle the bombardment of Nleuport continues persons who have come from the region of La Ba see state there is heav artll ery Are ear Armentieres with she s falling a short d stance from the town The prosperous town of Houpl nes close to Armentieres continues to suffer as it Is still under German shell fire A i number of Its houses workshops and ; public buildings have been destroved and the Church of t. Charles is now only a -va t pile of ruins. |