still spasmodically bombarded, and as for Ari greater part of it is in rui few inhabitants who per staying in the town live in their cellars and venture out when the bombardment dies away. A few shops are open in the parts of the town furthest from the German lines, but they have little to sell except their old stock of grocers. Ahere 1s neither gas, electricity nor petroleum, and even water is wanting, it being impossible to repair the mains while the shelling con-ight the place is plun, solute darkness. There is no artificial light in the houses, the supply of candles having given th out, so that the cellar-dwellers are obliged to go to bed soon after sunset and remain there till dawn. Zhe only residents who still—lis above ground are the bishop, seigneur Lobbedey, and a few of his clergy, who remain in the episcopal palace, which has hitherto been spared by the enemy's shells. Th> bishop and his few priests celebrated the usual services on All Saints' and All Souls' Day in a church which had offered comparatively little, the cathedral being unsafe; and the congregation was made up of a handful of people who had come out of their cellars at the risk of their lives, The old and infirm are dying off rapidly, but they can. not even have decent burial, as cemetery is one of the points for which the French and German troops are fighting hardest. At first the bodies of deceased townspeople had to be soaked with petroleum and burnt in the open apace in front of the railway station. They are now hastily interred in a piec> of ground more or less sheltered from the enemy's fire by the walls of a convent. One wonders what will happen to Lille when the Germans have to abandon it.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.