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Show Women Are Carried Off and Those Left Disclose the Horrors of Huns. CHICAGO, April 20. New stories of the suffering and abuse of French women and children in the city of Noyon after the recent retreat of the Germans came to Chicago today in a letter from Mme. Alexis Carrel, wife of the celebrated surgeon of the Rockefeller Rock-efeller fund. The letter was sent to the board of the French wounded shop. Mme. Car-rell Car-rell took the first ambulance into Noyon Noy-on after the evacuation. In her letter she says: "Every woman between the ages of 14 and 30 had been carried off nine days before the retreat by the Germans. Ger-mans. The young women who were left in Noyon were all about to become mothers by German fathers. In several sev-eral instances mothers had been taken tak-en away and their children left behind. be-hind. "In the orphan asylum the children were so crowded that their beds touched touch-ed and they were forced to sleep without with-out mattresses or covering. |