Refugees from Belgium ai ud Northern France Stream Into Paris; Families Depleted by Machineguns ERROR at "the barbarity a! was expressed by Col. J. United States' Ambulance Corps London, May 23. 14 inhumanity" of the Germans 'A. Sparkes, commander of the in France, in a microphone interview over the Paris Radio yesterday.
The Germans, Col, Sparkes said, had deliberately attacked his ambulances, although they were plainly marked with the Red Cross, and although his people had made a practice of attending to German wounded, when they encountered any.
He had also been terribly shocked to see the Germans attacking Jong lines of unhappy refugees along roads. He had seen German planes flying low over these people, bombing and machine-gunning them mereilessly—Reuter. a eet ere ats Paris, May 23.
In the dusty courtyard of a barracks in the outskirts of Paris yesterday, there passed an endless stream of human derelicts who have been driven from their homes ear ale eae In Belgium and northern France by the advancing German armies.
in all this crowd of 5,000 or 6,000 Biter Re, mete persons—husbands who' lost wives moos ce a long the way and mothers who left acer lie Gans the bodies of their children lying' fon the road after the passage of enemy. bombers—not a single tear or a gesture of desperation was seen. ne they were 100 tired to feel anything Jean Seghers, who had cultivated a term west of Brusstle said, Malone now. My wife. snd two ehitdrens-we were expecting 9 third Sivfere unable fo move, and somebody took after, grandmother and Banda, who afe over 80 3ear ihat has happened to my family now T cannot tell, T. snd a. group friends have been bicycling since Friday. "We did 150 kilometres a day, making wide detours to avoid ths main roads which were being combed by German bombers.
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