FRENCH GIRLS HELD A HOSTAGES
SCANDALOUS TREATMENT BY THE GERMANS.
Paris, February 25.
''t'Hommo Libre"-' states that a thousand hostages have been selected from piominent French people, including refined girls,, wlio have been taken from their homes and sent to the Holzminden Cainp, as a reprisal for the Allies' air raids. . They are exposed to scandalous treatment. When thirty of the girls refused to make sacks for the' enemy the.y wero'locked up without fbiid and light for over a month. Their mattresses and bedclothes, and even their woollen underclothing, were taken away, and they- were only released when a Spanish inspector arrived on a visit to tho camp. The Germans made an effort to liido tho outrage,'but the Spaniard learnt the facts. —Aus.-Ji.55. Cable Assn.
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Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 137, 27 February 1918, Page 7
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125FRENCH GIRLS HELD A HOSTAGES Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 137, 27 February 1918, Page 7
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