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BAYONETS IN THE RUHR THE WAR" AS A RESIDENT SEES IT,
A privato letter from the Rahr, received in London, recently, gives some impres sions of the occupation from a resident's point of view:-
The butter come out quite fresh and cool, we were delighted, as there is none baro, and everything else very nice and very useful. Your postcard came a few days later tha day afterwards the whole post and parcels in the Hamburg train were taken by the French..
MILLION-YEAR-OLD SKULL DISCOVERED IN SOUTH AMERICA.
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"I wonder if you understand our con dition here at all. It is no new, occupar tion-it is plain war. For instance, yesterday we walked calmly through the main street, suddenly out of the pos office (in which they have troops) armed soldiers with bayonets rushed out, threw down everybody in the street, what a few shots, and retired after this brave act. Or in Wanne, our children's Transport
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