New-York tribune., 1917-07-15
Germans Garry
Off French Gin,
In Cattle Tu,|
Outrageously Treated. h. /,
Forced to Work ina.
Fields

In the "Revus des D.ux M.,....
juno is, 1917, there 10 an ,-s..
Nine. H. Celarie entitled Ems.
en- esclavsgs pour cultivsr h -
Journal d. une deportee," vAla ~
to be read in terms Of what v.,,
tainly happen to the young r,l, !,
American city, such Is Y,v y
Providence or Albany. il Il. A.
were to be worsted in this Va,
The journal quoted BY NM, c.l.
is that Of an unmarried girl 0, ,lB.
Northern France deeply uG,,
girl, gently nurtured, belongi,, !,
of the best middle class fsnill.
responding to the family Of /, ,.a
an American bank. This gid 4
scribed as Yvonne Z.
She is asleep in bed. Th,u
loud knock at the from. doc, {,
girls mother answers it. Gsrru
diers brush past her and burr n.
girls bedroom. Get up ,ad 4,
The officer will be here In q m,
You are to leave in twenty rlr.a
cultivate the fields in another as
conquered France" The girls M
protests; is roughly sileneed. ihr|
is marched of under armed w
Other German soldiers, ouaa 4
mark: Zach! You've csugh. ,rr
one"
Yvonne < is herded ra "a.
Der OF other girls and With wa sr|
The girls are Of all classes-xru,
upper class, middle clam-,wa,
of them members OF a partieuIu NJ
in Lille. Some are as youn, Y d,
teen. Yvonne is thirty.
Several hundred Of them an n,,.
through the streets. Father, ,i n
ers witness their departure !r
with rage or in dumb agony. nsr
are pushed into cattle trucka q
travel all night, German soliIm
each truck with them. Mex. ig q
arrive in the Ardennes They On %
to pass one by one into an empty IN
there to be inspected, stripped 10
by a German medical officer. 7.in
rage drives some Of the girls b E
determined, desperate proua 3
those later in line are treated m
decently.
Assigned to different French r-s
in the Ardennes, the girls fhi ne
horror that the Germans hau
nounced them as women Of wg
and that the inhabitants ns.vtt
unwilling to receive them. o.
door Of the empty house In stn
group with Yvonne y VA =
ciled the Germans fastened ~
"Six women" Stray soldien a.;
constantly 10 look them ovsI
sign was, Of course, regarded 49,
fetal invitation. The girls liyAt'
terror stricken, with their Nsn
the wall.
Presently another "mediesF ~
ration-revoltihg, indecent, "n
"The victims meet again on ne
square. trembling with anger
with shame. They dare not i''In.
dare not question one Nv.
Slowly. by unfrequented paths ~
meet no one, they return 70 ""
where they live" -.
Three of the companions eI :"
Y sob despsringly. 1--WE sw n..
logued as good for anything V y,.-
a TOUT" These young si'h ~. ~,
explains, "hsd heard too many ~
since the invasion to be ignora,nSs
of those words. IlH
among other things
a woman has been possessed ".1
man, if a child is born, q N'a
TO Germany TO be brought upn.
dier, while a daughter IS m '
a
though they have never done ~ -
before. Each group OF neg eer,
is under the direction Of . Ge',s .st
servist. In some cases u NV -
much as say a word 10 one
while at work they are lasaeI 20
face. In other cases, es ~ a.t<
the soldier in charge selee" .,ue
he fancies and tries TO force y. ,,,u 4
nit to his lust by giving nu -,rss
tcrly beyond her Strength; ~ ,,,ssr
blows, by every form OF ~, .
while pursuing her with
posals. ,spss
mix prostitutes with uIa ~. csrr
When protests are mace, s,a
reply: "Oon't make such : n ~
are French and all alike is,sS
Just as readily be: you "'
and all alike~. IN ,h
In some cases, evidently u,.sf
Of corrupting them, the Se' ..rs ~
Frenchmen IN ,ns Csssr
as these dcported glrss. s,n., "
girls living alone in a nOsa ..a.,a
quired to lodge German ,;,,ls ssi
Half starved. sleeping ' .Ora "
ceaseiess fear and grief. s.u.iiss sss
Whether because they ,s~s.st Z
less in the fields as for 'Ii TAT ~
noses. or whether because .Ssr. .
in Lille managed i .i., ior Gn,Iy
eight out Of 5000 depcf.rs ~
sent back 70 Lille. i'0"
among them. ,,r l.ports'is
These recent Lille osr icy saiss, J,
merely an incident 10 :. - unss
still continued series =; q irrsas,S I
not the acts ts.SS..tsrsi,.t Z.
liberatc and sustsins.a suthsss
tion, carried out BY '' -
resentativea .--<r