The Devils Lake world and inter-ocean., 1918-11-06
CRUELTY
us IS PROVED
DOMAIN IS GOOD EXAMPLE OF
GERMAN TORTURE AND BRU-
TALLY.

With the British Army in France,
Nov. 2.-H any one doubts the cruelty
of the Germans to the French civilians
let him visit Domain. During three
years the Germans allowed the people
of Domain three dead army mules for
fresh meat. All horses, cows, cattle
and poultry were requistioned, as
were the crops. The penalty imposed
ON cevilians for harvesting their own
grain was 80 marks ($20), including
seizure Of the grain. The owners could
mot pick fruit from their own trees,
and could not gather their own veg
etables, except under severe restric-
tions.
The 10000 inhabitants remaining in
Domain were nearly starved. They are
emanciated, yellow, sickly and con-
sumpive but brave nevertheless. On
Sunday when the Prince Of Wales with
General Sir Arthur Currie and the
general commanding the Fourth di-
vision of Canadians entered Denain to
attend the simple ceremony of thanks
for the liberation of the city the prince
passed thru the battered streets which
were lined with cheering and weeping
old men. women and children. Under
the banners of all nations the party
came to the square where the empty
pedestal Of the Frnch General Villars
marks the smallness of the Germans.
The bronze statute was stolen by the
Invaders. Here the party was halted
and was received by the civic author
tiles and a flag presented to the bth
division which was the first to enter
the town.
Next the party proceeded to a little
:Ihell torn church where while the
: prince stood under the torn roof the
priest told Of the city's tortures. With
tears IN his eyes he said simply to the
prince, Thank you" The thanks
were for the deliverance. If the prince
had. been with the Canadians on Oct.
- when the town was taken he would
have realized what the deiiverance
meant. Under the imputuous Of At
tick the Germans ran fighting in the
outsirts Of the town.
Trying to make a stand by the rail-
road they were bobbed out with trench
~mortars. A boy sergeant headed the
soldiers who mopped up the town.
The civilians when they knew that
the Germans were gone rushed to the
soldiers and kissed the Canadians as
they were never kissed before.
Boys stoned the prisoners waiting
at the intelligence station, asking,
care the Germans going to return
that way?"
IN cutting up the dead horses women
struggled madly with each other for
Il share. pushing one another away un-
til it resembled shambles. Boys and
girls ran home with ribs and steaks
over, their shoulders soaking clothes,
while mothers remained to strip the
fat from the intestines. Sunday the
prince was able to see the Canadian
doctors attending the civilian patients,
manv Of whom, weakened by lack of
food, were ill and suffering from boils.
The Tommies are sharing their rations
with the people and special lorries are
bringing tons Of food for the people OF
Denain.
German soldiers in the ranks were
not So bad, telling the people when
light shown from their windows or it
appeared that they were doing some
thing for which fines were imposed
The German officers and above all the
under officers were the worst. They
had neople fined for walking across q
street and collected boys as laborers
A general forced an old gravhaired
man to kneel at his feet for forgetting
to bow. when he passed. The German,
said it would be worse when the Brit
fish came because while the Canadians
were good soldiers they were Savage
savage beasts" However,. the people
. Of Denain think otherwise.