The poor wretches at
whose door a sentry watched, were collected together at some
place or other, a Church or a school. Then the mob of all
sorts and conditions of people, or all grades of social
standing, respectable young girls and women of the street,
was driven to the station escorted by soldiers marching at
the head of the procession. From there they were taken off
in the evening without knowing where they were going or for
what work they were destined.
And in the face of all this our people evidenced restraint
and admirable dignity, although they were provoked that day
by seeing the automobiles going around which were taking
away these unfortunate people. They all went away shouting
"Vive la France. Vive la Liberte!" and singing the
Marseillaise. They cheered up those who remained; their poor
mothers who were weeping, and the children. With voices
almost strangled with tears, and pale with suffering, they
told them not to cry as they themselves would not; but bore
themselves proudly in the presence of their executioners.
Another document shows better than all this talking the treatment the
French have been receiving from the Germans for over thirty months.
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