THE GERMAN SLAVE RAIDS.

Rangitikei Advocate and Manawatu Argus, Volume XLI, Issue 11651, 21 August 1916, Page 5

THE GERMAN SLAVE RAIDS.

AN AMERICAN'S INVESTIGATIONS. THE GERMAN STORY.

New York, August 19,

The Times’ correspondent, Cyril Brown, writes from Sedan:—lam told that 22,000 French civilians — men, women, youths and young girls—have been evicted from Lille, Rouhaix and Tnrcoing, and distributed chiefly in the Champagne. I visited evicted civilians at Sedan and thirteen other villages. An officer stated that 2000 bad been sent back because they were evicted through a mistake He said the difficulties of feeding masses had caused the action. lam inclined to believe it was dons to relieve nonmilitary pressure on strategic railroads. It was also due to the necessity for obtaining workers to gather the bountiful harvest in Northern France. The military commander in the Sedan district related how he bad solved the problem of housing 700 by the cottage system. Twelve to sixteen are put in a house. The men and women are separated, unless they are married. The girls are placed in the care of married folk. Immoral women are segregated near the Belgian border, where there are no troops.