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Show IBOCHES STRIP LILLE All Machinery, Food ! And 15,000 Persons Gar-ried-to-Ger-many- j By Associated Press. WITH TIIK nniTISIl roitCKS IN KltANCF.. Oct. It IIavaa. During; the lajit fifteen days of their occupation of Lille the Germans took away into captivity 15,000 of the inhabitant of the city. By United Preea. LNIXN. Ort 1 Hirltl-h Admiralty Wlreleaei. Although first reports Indicated the town of Lille waa left Intact, the houses have been stripped of all their vnluuhles and the food auppllea lootM. The Jxndon Morn In a; I'oat, giving a description of how the German aet about crippling l.llle's induHtrles, declared that not only did they commandeer all stocks, hut they ripped machinery out of the factories and sent tt to (iermany. There are rases In which Frenchmen, buying machinery In Switzerland, Switzer-land, have found that It waa the looted machinery of Lille, aold by the (iermana. No doubt many more cf these machines have been act up .1 Germany for use after the war. The Hermans sought to destroy not only the present, but the future town and Its work, from Us bombardment and capture on Oct otter 11, liH, to the date of Ha Ulceration, they did not cease from robbing and murdering and Inatiltlng the unfortunate Inhabitants. In one month, November, 1114, It lad to pay "contributions" of 6.0t0.000 francs. Young girl were arrested on trumped up charges and outraged In prison. |