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Show GERMANS ARE WELL POSTED Absolute Thoroughness Shown by Their Distribution of War Fines and Requisitions. Paris. The discrimination with which the Germans distributed war fines and requisitions in the towns they occupied in Belgium and northern north-ern France and tbe precision with which they chose the most solvent citizens as hostages has been a surprise, sur-prise, but wixen the details became known the facts carried their explanation expla-nation with them. For instance, the first detachment of uhlans that entered the city of Lille was guided by a- man who had left his job as superintendent of an important factory in the city to rejoin his regiment. regi-ment. At Soissons, when objections were raised to the exacting proportions of the requisitions, the commanding officer offi-cer called his aide, who turned out to be a well-known business man of tbe town, who, of couree, knew its re sources thoroughly. "You see," said the officer, pointing to the aide, "there's no use resisting. We are posted by someone who knows." Similar instances were reported from Belgium, showing that every inch of the ground had been carefully studied; the ready money in every town estimated; every suitable horse and every ton of hay located, and the plans of every bridge drawn up. In France their statistics went so far as to show how many bottles of wine might be expected in each locality. |