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Show BERLIN REPUDIATES GERARD STATEMENT AMSTERDAM, via London, May 25. An official statement has been issued in Berlin in regard to United States Ambassador Am-bassador Gerard's declaration that the inhabitants of Lille were deported from the city in April and May of last year and made to work on land for the German Ger-man army and the German civil population. popu-lation. The statement says:. The population of the German home land did not share in the corn harvest of the occupied territory and the inhabitants of occupied northern France solely benefited therefrom. Stocks used in feeding German soldiers sol-diers were replaced by similar quantities quan-tities taken from Germany. The statement says the population was sent home as promised after the harvest. |