HORRORS OF INVASION

Taihape Daily Times, Volume 8, Issue 128, 31 May 1916, Page 3

HORRORS OF INVASION

Two and a-quarter million French inhabitants still remain in the territory of the North and East occupied by the Germans In alll these regions fresh beef is worth 5 francs 50 centimes a pound, and eggs bring 75'centimes each. Even at these prices they are obtainable with difficulty by those who can afford such costly luxuries The entire civilian population, excepting the Germans, w»n> have immigrated since the occupation began, would suffer but for the generous aid of the neutrals The average French working man consumes on the average two pounds of provisions a day and now he is obliged to live on the fourth of what he is accustomed to. The products of the soil have been exhausted largely by requisitions for the German troops. Fifty thousand children in the region of Longwy are nearly air of them without proper clothing, and the sanation is said to exist throughout the occupied regions, it bieng almost impossible to find clothing at prices which the improvished population is able to pay. Poorly nourished and insufficiently clad, these people are the object of a great deal of anxiety on account of their exposure to disease and epidemic The French National Relief Committee, impressed with the urgent need of further relief in the form of clothing a-s well) as provisions, is issuing an appeal for cloth ing supplies and money from Frenchmen inhabiting uninvaded regions. The supplies contributed are forwarded to the population through th e good of the. Swiss Government.