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Show HUNS REE ON TIM CITIES WITH THE ALLIED ARMIES IN FRANCE AND BELGIUM, Oct. 23. The defense south of Valenciennes apparently ap-parently constitute only one of several Intermediate lines of resistance which the Germans have constructed, but they probably will attempt to hold on there. During the last three days, British troops in approaching towns have been careful not to shell them when there was the slightest chance that civilians ci-vilians were in the town. The Germans, Ger-mans, once driven from the towns, promptly turned their guns on them, killing and wounding' civilians in several sev-eral cases. In the town of Hasnon a German shell crushed a dwelling house and fifteen women and children hiding in tho cellar were killed or wounded. ThB civilians fgenorally have displayed dis-played marked 'courage. This heroic act of French woman stands among many: As the Germans were getting ready to evacuate n certain town, the woman saw them placing an explosive charge under one of tho most important impor-tant bridges in the region. The. Germans Ger-mans nttached a slow fuse and went" away. The French woman crept down the river bank under the bridge and removed the charge, leaving the slow fuse. The next day the Germans fled from tho town, the last group setting off the fuse. It spluttered and sizzled and the Germans ran, but nothing happened. |