TERRIBLE FATE OF FRENCH WOMEN

Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2836, 29 July 1916, Page 9

TERRIBLE FATE OF FRENCH WOMEN

. CARRIED OFF TO WORK IN GER- . MANY. ' Australian-New Zealand Cable Association. • New York, July 27. " Tbe following letter smuggled out of Lille lias been, received'by the "NewYork -Times" "The Germans deported 'ten thousand young women and girls from Lille, including 671 M girls aged from fifteen to twenty-five. They were rounded up bv the Imperial-Guard, which surroundeil the city at 3 o'clock in the morning, visited all the houses, and'called a roll. The women were\sent to empty work: shops, and the soldiers then herded the weeping. and terrified girls'into old carriages arid cattle trucks, and the-trains steamed off into the night to an unknown destination. 1 "The parents are distracted with sortow and grief. .I, implore the Press of the world to publish these facts." These .charges 'were- submitted' by the American Ambassador at Berlin to the German authorities. It is understood flint they admitted that French people had been deported to do • agricultural work, but insist that.the number is exaggerated. .