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Show Wtli BEMOANS HAVOC ATOLD HOME Boche Ruthlessness Shown at Lens, French Boxer's Birthplace. LONDON, Dec. 1. "Georges Carpen-tier. Carpen-tier. the world's champion boxer, who gained such popularity in prewar days throughout Europe, and especially In Great Britain, is a native of Lens," writes a London correspondent. "The town having been liberated, his impression impres-sion on the events is interesting. "I met him today as he left the Join-ville Join-ville flying school, where he has been working as an instructor since he was certified as unfit for flying. " 'You may be sure,' said Carpentler, 'how happy the news made me. I am going to join my family, who were evacuated evac-uated from Lens eight months ago. " 'My poor Lens! How the cursed boche have ruined it. Fight months ago when rny parents left it our little home was still intact, but what remains of it now? " 'Lens is but a heap of ruins, !f we are to believe the military correspondents who have scon it from a distance and the account given by my comrades who have flown over the. town. 'While I was in the flying corps I flew over the town several times. My ! parents were still there, and as I flew above it at a low height I tried to catch a glimpse of tbern. " "In spite of what has been said-, I never dropped any letters or leaflets. I feared reprisals on my parents too much for that. " 'I frequent! discerned intact the little lit-tle house which I had bought for mj' parents with my first earnings. Poor Utile Ut-ile home, shall I ever see anything of it again but ruins? " 'Never mind. rny native town is cleared of the accursed enemy. " 'Even that, however, does not complete com-plete my happiness. Lens is of comparatively compara-tively small account, however dear it may be to my heart. It Is ihe whole of French occupied territory wmch has to he freed forever of the boche who has "sullied its sacred soil." "Carpontier lost a large portion of nearly near-ly S100,0"1 he had saved when the Germans Ger-mans took the coal mines of Lens and Courrieres. "With Dcschamps, his manager, he invested in-vested many thousands in the coal mines of these districts, but he is a shrewd business man, and he did not put all his eggs into one basket" |