left open. All
complaints will be unavailing. No inhabitant of a house,
even those who are not to be transported, can leave the
house before eight o'clock in the morning (German time).

Each person may take thirty kilograms of baggage with him.
Should there be any excess over this amount, all that
person's baggage will be refused regardless of everything.
Separate packages must be made up by each person, and a
visibly written, firmly secured address must be on each
package. The address must bear the person's name, surname,
and the number of his identification card.

It is very necessary for each person to provide himself with
utensils for eating and drinking, also with a woolen blanket
and some good shoes and some linen. Each person must have on
his person his identification card. Whoever shall attempt to
evade deportation shall be punished without mercy.

ETAPPEN--KOMMANDANTUR

The threat contained in the notice cited here was carried out to the
letter. Here is an account of it from the communication addressed by
M. D----, formerly the _receveur particulier_ of Lille, to M. Cambon,
formerly the French Ambassador to Berlin:

On Good Friday night at three o'clock the troops who were
going to occupy the designated section, Fives, came through
our houses. It was dreadful. An officer passed by, pointing
out the men and women whom he chose, leaving them a space of
time amounting to an hour in some cases and ten minutes in
others, to prepare themselves for their journey.

Antoine D. ... and his sister, twenty-two years of age, were
taken away. The Germans did not want to leave behind the
younger daughter in the family, who was not fourteen. Their
grandmother, ill with sorrow and terror, had to be cared for
at once. Finally they met the young daughter coming back. In
one case an old man and two infirm persons could not keep
the daughter who was their sole support. And everywhere the
enemy sneered, adding vexatious annoyance to their hateful
task. In the house of the doctor, who is B.'s uncle, they
gave his wife the choice between two maids. She preferred
the elder and they said, "Well, then she is the one we are
going to take." Mlle. L., the young one who has just got
over typhoid and bronchitis, saw the non-commissioned