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Show ROUBAIX AND TURCOING CELEBRATE WITH THE BRIT;SH ARMY IN FRANCE. Sunday. Oct. 20 Roubaix and TURCOING today celebrated their deliverance from tho enemy. The' people of the two cities were wild with emotional joy. - There were kisses, hugs and handshakes for every British soldier. There was good reason rea-son for Roubaix and Turcoing to celebrate. cele-brate. The swash-buckling Germans had gone, leaving in their wake as much ruin as they could do. Homes Are Sacked. Nearly every home in the city had been sacked and things that could not be carried awa were destroyed. Piqued at being forced to leave the towns, the Germans went to extreme lengths to delite, destroy and steal. Roubaix and Turcoing were systematically systemat-ically burglarized. . In Boucaixthe Germans Ger-mans cut fine leather seats from chairs, ripped pictures from their frames and oven took the cloth coverings cover-ings of mattresses. Apparently they went through the fine old homes of the city with tho idea of seeing how thoroughly thor-oughly they could wreck the interiors. In many places they deliberately broke up everything "thoy could lay their hands on. Country Scorched for Miles. For miles around Roubaix and Turcoing Tur-coing the countryside has been singed and scorched by the red heat of war. Broken cannon, rusted rifles, pieces of shell, barbed wire and the bayonets and other equipment of soldiers are scattered all abount. There are miles of mangled fields -where the shell era-ters era-ters are so thick that it is impossible to tell where one begins and the other leaves orf. Here and there are mounds of machine gun nests of stone, concrete con-crete and dirt. Trees are leafless and many have been chewed to pieces by flying shells and bullets. Ostend Overjoyed to See Rulers. LONDON, Oct. 21. Tho .men, women wom-en and children of Ostend wore so overjoyed when the king and queen of Belgium landed there Thursday that many of them heartily kissed the rulers rul-ers of the liberated town. King Albert and Vice-Admiral Keyes of the British Brit-ish navy, saya the Dover correspondent of the Daily Mall, were carried to the town hall on-the shoulders- of-men-in the large crowd. which greeted the king and queen at the landing. All ordinary or-dinary bonds of restraint were loosed In the happy delirium of the occasion. The queen walked to the city hall surrounded sur-rounded by a great crowd of children. AMBASSADOR OFFERS FLOWERS. PARIS, Sunday, Oct. 20. American Ambassador Sharp today placed at the foot of the statute of tho city of Lille a wreath of flowers. He a'lso deposited a shield bearing an inspiration inspira-tion of homage to the city from the j .United States, J |