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Show FRENCH HOSTAGES GRANTED FREEDOM Germans Make Exchango for Men of Equal Standing Held by Officers In Army of France. Special Cable to The Tribune. PARIS, July 8. Ten French hostnECs taken by the Germans in the invaded northern provinces havo just been sent back to France. They included M. Noel, mayor of Noyon ('the extreme noint still held by the enemy in France), a senator and the principal of tho chief French encineerinK school, the Kcolc Centrale; M. Trepont, prefect of Lillo; Count do Francqueville, brother-in-law of the lale Count Albert do Jinn and cousin of Count do Francqueville, member mem-ber of the Institute of France. Count de Francqueville, who is mayor of a village in Pas-de-Calais, and seventy-two years of age, remained at his post wdien the Germans arrived. A tavern keeper whom he had convicted informed against him, accusing him of keeping wireless telegraph posts in his house. The Germans searched the latter lat-ter and found nothing. Nevertheless, in October, 1914, they carried off the aged count, who was in a precarious state of health, their chief reason, ap-parentlv, ap-parentlv, being that he speaks German perfectly, lie was shut up in the same room with ten other prisoners, anil given giv-en a straw mattress to sleep on. These ten hostages were exchanged with ten Germans interned in camps, including the German consul at Tunis, and various German former hotel proprietors pro-prietors in Paris. |