PEASANTS' RETURN TO LIBERATED FRANCE.
PITIFUL SCENES OF DESOLATION. I A TRAIL. OF DEVASTATION. Australian and N.Z. Cable Association* - (Received April 10, 9 a.m.) , . LONDON, April 9. The newspapers publish, a remarkable, . private letter" which describes the ' peasants* return to reconquered •France. It all smells of the Boehe.. One cannot mistake it. It is awful passing through the' scenes p of desolation, villages - smouldering, • churches blown up, cemeteriesdesecrated, and the peasants' iumi-~ ture scattered outside the rained. . cottages. '" "' ' "'_ m All males between 15 and W), besides robust women, have beenr carried off. The men were compelled* to salute the Hun officers by removing their caps and lowering them;' to the level of the elbow. Therer were freqxient roll calls, and as each., man answered he filed past the Boche officer with uncovered head fifteen; metres before reaching him anas fifteen 'metres after passing him.
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Marlborough Express, Volume LI, Issue 83, 10 April 1917, Page 4
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144PEASANTS' RETURN TO LIBERATED FRANCE. Marlborough Express, Volume LI, Issue 83, 10 April 1917, Page 4
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