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Show THREE-QUARTERS DF ARRAS iW II RHUS Frightful Work of German Shells, Lille Has So Far Escaped Destruction By PATRICK DE BATHE 8po tl Cable tr Antaismta V h London Dai r Te ftsraph and In arn&Uona Nawa Sorv ca JOPTHERN FRANCE Dee i With the exception of Lille Fives a suburb of Lille that city has been spared by the Qern ans Arras on the other hand has suffered terribly correspondent who left Lille No vember 29 states that the inhabitants have not suffered from any unusual exactions The Germans have satisfied tbemsolves with levying upon necessa ries of life they have even undertaken to see to tho importation of eggs but ter and milk The cafes are open and the tramways are running between L He, Koubaix and Tourcoing All the workshops and fac tones have been left intact M de la Salle the mayor is compared to the redoubtable Max of Brussels He seems to exercise a wonderful influence over the German authorities and fights with the greatest tenacity for the nghta of his fellov citizens. Typhoid contrary to roports has not broken out in Lille Se oral cases have been reported from the, German army any one of which if it develops in the town is removed to the neighborhood of Lomme. All of the hospitals in Lille have been taken over bv (he German authorities They are full of German wounded. The Oiief German surgeon in charge of the Ked Cross work at L lie told a French doctor that the Germans lost over 150 000 men on the banks of the ser The Btory of Arras is different Tlra dailv number of shells poured upon the town is now reduced to an average of 200 The hours of bombardment are al ways the same from 10 15 a m to mid dav and from 2 p m to 6 p m Dining Din-ing the night a marmite as they are called is dropped at hourly intervals to mark time and replace the clocks which have been destroyed The hospital of St John has been completely destroved. two bare portions of its east wall are all that remain The Hotel Des Postes is three-quarters n ruin the historic belfrv is ent rely fone. The Hue Faidherbe the pnncf a business thoroughfare is in ruins, he Palais de St Vaast the cathedral, the archbishop s palace the college and every monument and historic building he smouldering in ruins Over 350 houses have been leveled and 300 others partly destroyed The total casualties, on the other hand are only sixtv killed and eighty wounded all of whom were civil ans |