The Archive · 1940

German Atrocities in France

FROM THE FOUR WINDS

Women, Children, Old Men Machine-Gunned; Hope For Revenge and Faith Deep in People's Hearts Shanghai, June 8.

'OW the Germans have been machine-gunning refugees on the roads of France is described in a letter received by a French lady residing in Shanghai from her friend in Paris.

This letter, written in Paris on May 21, is not a professional report, romanticizing the facts to make them more striking, it is the sincere reaction of-a woman with those sights still fresh in her mind.

'The plight of eight orphans, whose mother was killed on the road, Is viyidly described in this letter by' the writer who spent an afternoon of one of the large reception centres of Paris, where refugees arrived day and night red, with swollen and bleeding feet, carrying what little they could save, but without a trace of panic or comme the enemy will Be punished snd that a German Wisiory la moral

Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.

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