officer who took away her nurse coming up to her. "What a
sad task they are making us do." "More than sad, sir, it
could be called barbarous." "That is a hard word, are you
not afraid that I will sell you?" As a matter of fact the
wretch denounced her. They allowed her seven minutes and
took her away bare-headed, just as she was, to the Colonel
who commanded this noble battle and who also ordered her to
go, against the advice of a physician. Only on account of
her tireless energy and the sense of decency of one who was
less ferocious than the rest, did she obtain permission, at
five o'clock in the afternoon, to be discharged, after a day
which had been a veritable Calvary. The poor wretches at
whose door a sentry watched, were collected together at some
place or other, a Church or a school. Then the mob of all
sorts and conditions of people, or all grades of social
standing, respectable young girls and women of the street,
was driven to the station escorted by soldiers marching at
the head of the procession. From there they were taken off
in the evening without knowing where they were going or for
what work they were destined.

And in the face of all this our people evidenced restraint
and admirable dignity, although they were provoked that day
by seeing the automobiles going around which were taking
away these unfortunate people. They all went away shouting
"Vive la France. Vive la Liberte!" and singing the
Marseillaise. They cheered up those who remained; their poor
mothers who were weeping, and the children. With voices
almost strangled with tears, and pale with suffering, they
told them not to cry as they themselves would not; but bore
themselves proudly in the presence of their executioners.

Another document shows better than all this talking the treatment the
French have been receiving from the Germans for over thirty months.
This document is a German notice which was found at Holnon, northwest
of St. Quentin. The document bore the official seal of the German
commander.

HOLNON, 20th July, 1915.

All workmen, women and children over fifteen years of age
must work in the fields every day, also on Sunday, from four
o'clock in the morning until eight o'clock at night, French
time. For rest they shall have a half-h