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A meeting of proteaf was arranged, and while that meeting was skbined in pro-z gress the pincards appeared upon the walls of Lille. The town was full of troops, and a new general arrived to. direct operations. The placards uppparod on the 18th. Never had Holy Week soon, the puurongs in Lillo crowded with con-i- Bregationa so fervent in their prayer solation uttered by the clergy listened t Nover were the words of pity and con
superior. If, in such circumstances, five towards une Inhabitants of the french with more hopeles
of their troops
probably placed under Brusiloff as a lem- porary ineasure. Assuming that these were ail, the Russians and five Armies Against the Austrian five, and though we HORRORS OF THE DEPORTATIONS. are not concerned to conurm or deny tho Austrium complaint thuttae Russians gready outnumbered them, there was noting to wall about, The Austrian positions were strung, their troops. nuvicious and frean, and their heavy artillery and machine guns inuen Austrian Armies were well beaten, we departments in entury occupation is a
At 3 o'clock on Saturday morning at must ascribe the merit to the skill of the lasting monument of werman shaine. The
Tourcoing, Houbaix, and Lille the evioues contained roerein a summarized goldiers of Germany marched down to Russian commanders and, the gallanty in cue Note which the French Government occupy positions for this victory. By
mis patched to neutral Powers. o'clock in the morning they had sir. this document it is set forth:-
rounded the Fives quarter which was be
rst district attacked. At cross-road,
patrols 10 or 15 men with fixed bayonets battere machine-gun sections, and then.
on the doors of the houses, ordering th inhabitanes out into the street. Outsid each house there hung a list of all thị inhabitants, and there was no means of escape. Au officer, accompanied by a non- commissioned officer, selected their slaves, who were given from 10 minutes to an hour and a half in which to prepare themselves for their departure and bid farewell to their families.
Un various occasions 100 Government of
The 6th "Austrian Army under Panzer / opernikona nave been sent to us by, our the Republio has had to draw the atten- and at end of each street, they installi
room,
tion of neutral Powers to the proceedings employed contrary to Treaty by, the Ger
itary authorities in dealing with inhabitants of the French territory which they temporaruy occupy, “ubm
The Guvernment of the Republic is to-day obliged to place under the notice of foreign Governments the documents which Jurnish proof that our enemies have decreed tres measures of even greater inhumanity.
and Lilie, separated without pity iron their families and forced to work in the fields in the departments of the Aisne and the Ardennes
A DELUBIYE TRÚCE
On Easter Sunday there was & truces, and the ruinour went round among the French that the vehement protests of the Bishop had moved the German general's neart, that the neutral Powers had inter- vened but when the work was resumed. gain in the early hours of Monday morning, the dismay of disappointment added to the whole horror. For a whole week this infamy continued. The Ger mans imposed upon themselves only two merciful restrictions. They left, child, ren below the age of 14 and their mothers, they took some older members of their and in taking girls below the age of 20 tamily with them."
In the first days of June, when the Russian Southern Armies began their great offensive which has been so britnat
TWO MONTHS OF VICTORY. from the borders of Roumenia to the
Such excement accounts of all these Pripet was held by five Austrian Armies. Baltin stood on the right between the Correspondent at retrograd und f. Wasuburn that only a very brjet précis Roumanian frontier and Baczacz To
of events is necessary in order to recall the left of it slord the so-called Southern the leading features of these feriarkable Army under Bottuner, between Buczacz and Zalozce. From the latter town to occurrences. The Russian higher Com Dubno the front was held by the and mand said very little, but the Russian Austrian Army under Böhm-Ermolli Boudiern Armes struck very hard. To the northward again was the 1st Brusiloff attacked along the whole of his Austrian Army under Puholto von Bring, me front though, of course, mort who carried on the line to Kolki on the drively and in greater weight at cer Styr, while the remaining sector up totain points than at others in order to the Pripot was covered by the 4th Aus prevent the enemy from drawing troops On the order of General von Graevenitz, And with the aid of the 64th Infantry trian Army under the Archduke Joseph from scoters not attacked. It is a mis
take to suppose that the Russians were regiment detaclied by the Gerain Ferdinand,
overwhelmingly strong in guns. It was General Hendquarters, about
20.00 All these armies were well entrenched | rather a novelty for the Austrious to ex- direnen subjects, young girls of between the little sugar-coated laxatives which unitions when they had occupied for perience the fire of heavy guns and to 16 and 20 years of age, young women and meu up to the age of o, without distine cure Constipation, "liverishness," Bilius. Kariter in the year fuey had have a taste of curtain fire, but on the
mumæred 44 Givisions of inanery and whole the Russians were sparing of am- | tion of social condition, have been torn oneness, Sick Headaches, foul smelling of rally, out the 1st Gen divention and limited their artillery pre-from their hores at oubaix, Tourcoing.
Of chemists, also 60 cents the phial, son and une ord Guard division had been paration to 12 hours or to 30 at most. post free, from Dr. Williams Medicine sent to france, we too Austrian ord. They then broke in before the enemy had it, and ord divisions, a inoved, nito recovered from his surprise or had time Uo, 98, Szechuen Road, Shanghai.
ino Trentiau, leaving not more than to aller his arrangements. We certains
elbow visions of intaury in front of General cavy the Ruasion, their
Better iflostration of this fresh crime Drusilon when the rather broke up iron wach makes inngs practicable in ing
of the Imperial German Government than ms billete and launched his attack Tae Kast which are not practicable in the
could be furnished by any comment is to aggregate strengia, or the five Austrian west, but we must aunt that the pre be found in the placards of the German Andies can be provisionally estimated at ciples upon which the dussian commuterities, the surrowing protests of the 900,000 men, and the combatant, strength der, acted nave seen proved to be souku. at dɔ0,000 rifies or thereabouts. The Ger-
Three Austrian Aranes particularly man General von Lansingen held the suffered from Brustoff's. assault. coumand of the Group of Annies on the Pithullo was pidly beaten and driven Austrian loft. His leadquarters were at out of his trenenes by the Armies of hovel. "Too Austro-Hungarian General Kaledin and Baklarot, weile a part of Headquarters wore at Lemberg, but, Boum. Ermolli's Army fared no better. owing to the number of German generals in the south the strong Anny of Leatt who interfered, the Archduke, Friedrichsky immediately asserted its superiority control was rather nominal than real over Pitanzer-Bnitin and began the course The distribution and strengths of the or victories which it has continued un German Armies which held the nine from interruptedly ever since. In the first quence of the increasing dificulties the Pripet to ne buitis were given in this week of the offensive the Russians cap caused by England in the reeding of the recall tured 1,049 officers, 100,000 men, 124 can- Population. It is remarked that the Journal on April 29th. Let us nat, at the date named, there were 45 non, and 184 machine guns. Von Both-zure of contraband and the stoppage of
mer's Army alone acid firm. The victa enemy's commerce are acts of war infantry and 10 cavalry divisions on this 450-mile frout, with a combatant strength torious Russian columns flowed pasta deportation without military neces -of about 000;000 rilles,
The raids were accompanied by terri Very little has him. The Archduke Joseph Ferdinand sit not. Further, it is pointed ont
was separated from his friends and that before in complete stoppage ble scenes of grief and sorrow, and not since come away or can come away in VIEW of the strong pressure against these driven back upon the Germans in the itemy's trade Germany had stripped the a few elderly people lost their reason Occupied territorica of all products which when they saw their daughters being fronts. Thus the Russian Higher Cou-north
The advance continued during the would have ensured the subsistence of the carried off. Some of the men, especially mand had to deal with 87 Austro Ger man divisions of infantry and 140cond week Lutsk and Dubno fell. inhabitants, and organized the exploita of the Landstorm, scened to be conscious cavalry, all well entrenched, provided Czernovitz was taken by Lechitsky on tion of the labour of French vilians that they were engaged in shameful work; with a formidable force of artillery, and June 17th, and by June 24th all Buko for her own profit. After a short exam- some of the officers, too, admitted that well equipped with machine guns and all vini was occupied up to the foothills of nation of the evidence M. Briand con-nothing could ever cleanse the Germani the la est iugations for trench warfare the Carpathians. Kaledin and Sak- tinues in his Note:-- Though the Russians had done much to haroff pressed forward to the Stokhed, mprove their railway communications, driving the Austrians before them. Be they remained markedly inferior to their tween June 4th and 23rd the three Armies
Loped of Brusiloft had captured refusing to dis neutralizo this disadveninge by a general '194,041 inen, 219 caupon, and 044 machine law, committed with considered will anc elves scenes which one would have attack which would prevent thỏ German gaus, besides immense material of war of with methodical preparation in advance thought might melt the heart even of
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from shifting their troops about, while the promise of active operating by the Allies in the West rendered it probable that no very great strategic transport of German troops from West to East or in vergely would take place.
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Mayor and the Bishop of Lane, which are annexed to this Note
Selection among the rest of the popu iation was governed by general considera- tions. Girls whose hands showed signs STRIPPING OF TERBIYQBY,YS
of work were taken in preference to the The Note then gives a statement of the others; servant girls were taken nearly facts drawn up by the French Ministry everywhere, and in many cases their mis- War and examines the contention os tresses, declining to be separated from the German military authorities that the them, went with them to share the un massed exodus "decreet at Lillo and to-known futuro. The proportion of women buix is justined as the necessary conse taken was between 20 and 30 per cent.
"The whole of the declarations which follow show clearly that without mmed are necessity of excitement of battle to
the German authorities have reduced the
Two hundred schoolgirls of 15 wors taken away, but on the whole, it was the labouring classes who suffered, and in some instances young girls of good family who had been removed have been sent back.
flag from this fresh stain put upon it. Indeed, it is said in Lille that a number of officers and men are in the Citadel, awaiting their trial for
By this act of honour they
VICT:MS' DEFIANT SPINIT,
red then-
Against all this black horror · stands out the splendid spirit of its victime.
On leaving their homes they were collect-
all kinds. In these 19 days of victory it is fair to suppose that nearly the hal untappy inhabitants of the invaded dis- German-the maddened woman whose of the Austrian combatants were madistricts to a condition which can only be husband, son, and daughter were taken, casualties. Two large and increasing compared with that of slavery." who cursed them in their race, in their The evidence conveyed to the neutral woman who broke out into a sweat of wives, and in their children or the salients appeared in the Russian front, one in the north, the so-called Lutak Powers deals not only with the astound-blood when her boy was taken, and whose salient, and the other in the south, where fe expectations were to a large ex-Hanzer-Baltin's Army was cut in half g svo raids in the north of France shattered reason refused to recognize
but gives in addition a black picture of tent realized. Only four German divi and one part of it driven across the Car- sions came east between June 4th and pathians away from its friends, Violent inhabitants of the rest of the occupied vers
the long martyrdom imposed upon them when he was brought back. July 1st, while since the opening of the aghting continued on Bothmer's front regions. It is impossible to reproduce operations on the Somme no more Ger and in the far north General Evert's all the letters dealing with the slave man troops have been sent cast at al Armies snade their first attempt north raids, but the details the following Some six or eight, Austrian divisions of Baranovitchi on June 13th, but up began to flow back from the Italian front fortunately failed. It was the fly in the account are drawn from the official Ger-
and from the one late in June, but, as was anticipated by amber of the general attack, but Evert's man placards and from the evidente 01. General Cadorna, this process took long, assaults, succeeded as they were by those sufferers and it has as yet scarcely exercised any of Furopatkin at a later date, hud theoritics issued an appeal for agricul
At the beginning of April the German influence upon the march of events. O effect of chaining Hindenburg's Armies the the other head, the launching Brusiloft's attack in a measures pendently of the agreed-upon date, before even the other Russian Armies were in movement, enabled the Germans to oppose it with more troops than would have been available bad all the attacks of the Allies more perfectly synchronized.; It is probable that Brusiloff moved so sarly in response to an Italian appeal Russians are good comrades and respond chivalrously when their Allies need help.
THE RUSSIAN ARMIES.
to the soil and of preventing him from tural labour. As last year, when the detaching many units to his hard-pressed crops were got in they were til dispatched Allies farther south,
district, numbered and labelled, and in the churches and schools of their
merchants, all joined in the common carted off in cattle wagons to the station harlots and young girls, ragamuffins and misery. Yet, as the first of these slave- sangs drove to the railway station, these to Germany, and the labourers were wretched folk were defiantly shouting The various Austrian and German robbed of the fruit of their toil, the re-Vive la France, and for the first time authorities who were taking a hand in sponse to this appeal was meagre An since the Germans entered Lille rang the management at this time strove very order for wholesale deportation followed out the song of freedom and revolt, the hard to mass troops at Kovel and to these terms:
Marseillaise." Those left behind had southward in order to check the Russian All the inhabitants of the house, with an attitude no less noble. advance. The first fresh troops from the exception of children below 14 years wrote a man of Roubaix It breaks
1 saw these herds of people go France came in about June 17th. of age and their mothers, and old men, Several divisions were lent by Himlenmust be ready to be transported within one's heart. The women as they passed burg to restore the situation, including an hour and a half. An officer will tried to throw little parcels to their the 18th, 22nd, and 81st Divisions, while finally decide who is going to be taken husbands, brothers, or sons; the young the Austrian 4th Army was placed in the concentration camp. The inhabitants fellows on the whole held themselves posture to resist after its Archdural com- of the house therefore must gather in sturdily; some of them were singing. It is not permissible to reveal more of mander, had been removed. With the front of their domicile. In case of bad With Wives was girls who had the Russian dispositions than our North troops Linsingen opened a violent attack weather they will be allowed to remain of the women and young girls who ar Allies have seen fit to disclose in their upon the Stokhod line during the third in the lobby. The door of the house mast been taken. You can imaging the state. various official communications, The week in June, and not only held the remain open. All appeals will be use of parents who saw young girls of be Northern Group of Armies, under Gene Russians for the time, but even droveless, No inhabitant, even those who will tween 16 and 20 years of age going off ral Kuropatkin and the Western or Cen then back a few miles. Here and at not be deported, will be allowed to leave in the midst of young chaps of all sorts tral Group, under General Evert, have Baranovitchi very fierce encounters took his home before 8 in the morning, Gerand conditions. And whither? That no seen much hard fighting during the past place without marked advantage on Dan time. Every one will have a right one knows. The wind of sorrow is blow- two months, but nothing has been said either side, but in the south Lechitsky to 13 kilogrammes (about 271b,) of lug-ing round us, but for all that we keep about the Armies which they contain or carried all before him, took Kimpelung, kage. If there is any excess weight everyour courage and are confident." their commanders. On the other hand, if Luty, and Kolomen, and reached Dela-thing belonging to that person will be 20,000 DEPORTED: has been disclosed that General Brasiloff tyin on July 8th,
refused without ceremony. The baggage Kaledin and Sakbaroff were obviously must be separate for each persen, and
Some 25.000 had at least four Armies under him at
persons have been deported from the towns of Lille, Roubaix, and the opening of operations namely, the checked, and it was necessary to support must have a label clearly written and 3th Army under General Kaledin on the them. The 3rd Russian Army of General firmly fixed. The address will give sur Tourcoing alone. Detailed evidence as Sharoff to the south of him, followed the north and made a most opportune her of identity card. It is absolutely would appear to have been scattered be right, the 11th Army under General Lesh came up into lino at this moment ou name and Christian name, and the bum to where they have all been sent is not forthcoming, but the majority of them by the 7th Army under General Shches- and effective diversion. It was apparent necessary in your own interest to take Lechitscy on the left. To these four north-west of Chartoryisk were broken as a blanket, good shoes, and linen various labours; some on the soil, others bacheff, and the 9th Army under Generally unexpected. The Austro-German lines utensils for eating and drinking, as well tween Seclin and Templeuve down to the Ardennes. Thero they are employed in there was added early in July the 3rd by its first attack, and west of Kolti the Every one must have his identity card. road-mending, some in the manufacture Amy under General Lesh This latter enemy was overthrown. This happened Anybody trying to escape deportation of munitions and in the digging of belonged to the Westerns Group and was on July 4th, and it resulted in the relief will be mercilessly punished--Etappen trenches But the fact which is the most
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A WEEK OF SHAME.
of the Russian Armies, to fresh victories,
appalling to those who have studied the Leah and Kaledin continued their ad
question of Germau atrocities is that the vance while Sakharoff further south
women are employed in cooking for the broke the enemy on the Styr-Lipa front moved from its more heroic duties at German officers,
The 64th Infantry Regiment was re German troops, and as servants to the at Verben, crossed the Styr, captured Verdun, and sent, on an order from Berestechko, and, crossing the Slouurka, General Headquarters to sco to the threats, by violence, by executions, im
The inhabitants have been forced by fought a forious battle and occupied Brody on July 28, West of Lutsk Kale-carrying out of this inhuman proclame-imprisonment and deportation, to make tion, which should make of the Holy trenches, bridges, roads, and railways; din simultaneously broke through the whole front line of the enemy, while tek of 1910 a week of shame for every to work in factories and mines to make German. In the town where the blackest sandbags for use in the trenches. They Lechitsky pursued the enemy in the south misery has long prevailed, rumour as to have been forced to work during in up to the main ridge of the Carpathians, what was about to befall had filled the human hours for no pay, in conditions All, the Iussian Armies made great cap hearts of every one with apprehensian of the atmost misery without food, tures of rilles, guns, and was material, During the three weeks which preceded liable to fogging, and to other odious while the grand total of prisoners taken the posting of the placard there had been punishment at the hands of the slave by the Southern Armies during June isolated raids. A tramcar would be drivers. They have been deported and and July amounted to 380,000 men.
stopped by a detachment of troops, and carried off to work in the mines and three or four men or girls ordered out of factories of the Rhineland and West it, and taken off there and then for a phalia. But perhaps the most serious known destinations. The protests of the revelation contained in the latter part English manufacturing districts are Bishop and French civil authorities of the report, ie that large numbers of making efforts to impress upon Govern against these inbuman proceedings weterivilians who were in Germany at the ment that there must be a drastic change uneeded. The only reply of the general outbreak of war, and were interned, the Consular Service after the war to the Bishop's personal remonstrances have been brought back to work imme Members of Chambers of Commerce are was, You Bishop, be quiet, and get diately behind the German lines in assisting the movement.
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