Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1918-10-19
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not sweep through the city, but passed
on either side of 1t in hot pursuit of
the Germans. the last of whom cleared
out at o'clock yesterday morning
other side of the town. This was a
useless proceeding because the British
troops did not need them. They went
outside the city because they had no
desire to give the Germans the slight
est excuse for bombarding it after
they were forced to leave.
Similar Scenes Elsewhere.
Scenes similar to those in Lille
were repeated everywhere over the
vast stretches of territory wrested
from the Germans. All the roads in
the rear now contain the familiar carts
of refugees, on which are the usual
household goods and babies. But these
women and children with them are
laughing and smiling as they hurry to
get back to their homes. The last
time they Travelled these roads they
were going in the other direction,
fleeing in terror from the enemy.
Many of these refugees, living In a
zone scared by war, will not find their
homes at all. Some of them will find
only wrecked and f1re-scarred skele-
tons. But there are many more who
will find their homes intact, for the
allied armies almost everywhere on
blue where there has been no war
since the Germans swept through so
rapidly four years ago.
Bombarded With Embraces.
LONDON, October 19.-The Daily
Mail correspondent on the British
front, describing visit to Lille, says:
1T was physical struggle to adj
vance and a sentimental struggle to
wish to witness All the mothers
wanted their babies kissed, and one
was bombarded with embraces, hand
shakes. cheers and thanks
Imagine the better part Of one
Wama' all crowded into one or ' two
streets. all hysterical with joy and
all intent on expressing their graft
tude on being liberated.
What had bitten into the souls of
1916. Mothers did not know where
their daughters had gone, nor what
had been their fate. To the very last
German exploitation went on in it's
usual manner Commander Won
shirts and a thousand pairs of trous-
ers on Tuesday.
Except for few quarters of the
city especially near the stations on
the east side Of the town, one would
not know that Lille had been within
the range of hostile guns. Win
dows along whole streets were as
clean and bright as in peace times.
The telephone exchange was one of
the exceptions. 1t had been blown to
pieces by the Germans. The enemy
had stripped the houses of all metal,
all pianos had lost their metal parts
and anything suggesting brass was
taken away.
Cow Hidden for Four Years.
what is said to be the supreme
feat Of the war at Lille was the sue
cessful concealment of q COW for four
whole years. This COW is now being
decorated to meet the British troops.
Menin, as well as many other villages
between that place and Roulers, has
been visited. The west side of Menin
has been swept by fire. All the viii
lagos had been systematically looted
Many poor people, with their goods
heaped on carts, have been overtaken
by the allied forces. In one case Ger
man prisoners saw goods restored to
houses the roofs of which had been
blown off. The walls of many houses
were intact, but the windows, sashes