Vichy Checks Up on Ruin Wrought by War Vichy, Aug. 30.
Further information received on the extent of damage in several of the more important towns struck by the war, revealed yesterday that Beauvais was badly hit and that neither Lille nor Troyes was spared.
In Troyes, the whole of the district in which was located the Famous St. Gilles Chapel was razed to the ground.
Several districts in Gien were blasted into piles of ruins. Tours, however, escaped with comparatively little damage, although roads close to the Rue Nationale have many houses charred and blackened by fire. The St. Julien district is badly damaged.
Poitiers and Saumur were less seriously hit than Gien or Orleans, but worse than Tours. Several old houses in Blois were demolished by shells, as were the well known fountains on Louis XII Square, and the new quarter of the city.
Very little is as yet known of Brittany, but the province is believed to have escaped damage as a whole. No information at all has arrived on me departments of Meurthe-et-Moselle, and the Vosges.—Havas.
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