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Show I i oo LENS TORN UP BYTHEGERMANSi Railways and Tramways Concerted Con-certed Into Piles of Twisted Rails Population Gone. PARIS, Oct. 9, An official "eye! witness" who has visited the neighborhood neigh-borhood of Lens since tho Germans withdrew from "the city reports, that railways, and tramways are torn up and are converted into huge piles of twisted rails. Mayor Bahley of Lens says that the city has been virtually levelled. The population of 35,000 is entirely gone. Tho Germans have flooded the galleries of the coal mines which used to turn out 35,000,000 tons a year. Reports show that Roulers and Thorout have been destroyed by fire. |