THE LILLE DEPORTATIONS.

Taranaki Daily News, 13 January 1919, Page 3

THE LILLE DEPORTATIONS.

OH! THE FRIGHTFUL NjICHTS!

A recent message from Paris stated that a tjroup of mothers residing in Lille aro entlcavoriaij to obtain the prosecution of tlic iCaiwr on tha ground tiiat Gengr.n officers c.A'ritil oil their daughters "in April, lSi'U. Marguerite Buchei, who was r, citizen of Lille during the German occupation, has recently published an account of her experiences.

P.efcrrirg to the dcportnticr.') hi 1!>16 she says:—"Friday night and Saturday there began the .•oqaiaiiioa'aj; of men, women, young men, aatf yoia;! ffcrls. Ob, the frightful nights! liov.' tr.n one tell of this horror ia stall a vo.v tint the world will be able to realise the anguish? What quarter of the totr.i would be exploited eo one know. Bach one retired i;i fear Kid "tkwabliaf, saying 'Will it happen to 113 to-night.' At three in the morni££ soldio:-j v.e.e posted in certain streets which vcru dominated at each end by maehiac The Germans entered the houses, &ad ; - a each member appeared before them tV.oy pointed out ike c.ies vhicli rhouM accompany them, and told them to be rcadv to follow ia Mf r.a hcv.v. . ,

Think of the agony of pavenfc 5a isw&X their children uepr.rt i.i a ifl\"!SwT,v on.i what place, #sd «t>& whom! Imagine the oi. i", mother who had t-/o dsiigliisss, 02c ii.t~.ii/ and the other sixteen vcsts of e.ge, TJ-tya a soldier said to her: 'Choose wliicSi cS tlio tv/fi you vish to At the end of eight d.v,. u tUo jiLOMi-ipticn ws". fjyJeil- The priest:: lcsiitjcd to announce tUa fact from ti.o pxil^i'ia oril: r (.> the s.Tjyjcij? c£ the/i' V. hj remained. Hut T/V.t had bcccsa ol tfeoss who Had Iwa torn frcr-i their hom?-;? A girl ..lio rotUiT.cd in Ootouer, six months fficr her departure, .t.ivu lis some detail:.. Shp said that rJtoui 400 o? them, n:wi a.id v.-oino.i, slop; thy ttrsi nighs cn i!>o dirty strwr fchca from sfsKc."., r.nd &;.ill filled viUi vt» odon of sr.ii.ijL'. If c.v? rcfuccd to do whc.t vsa conrair.cdcil tho pcmishmt'nt who p»vs:st«d in ivf!:J-:;j to submit to the obligatory ccaiissy visits, disappear, ctl, acd vo one ever k;ru what biwao of litoM-" The writer tlwn prccecOn to fewilv other forms of punishmoni. to iwitieh tha ykurn* wara.MfrjMtad,