Evening Republican, Volume 59, Number 101, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 May 1917 — PROCLAMATION. [ARTICLE]

PROCLAMATION.

Inhabitants of both sexes are strictly forbidden to leave their houses so far as this is not absolutely necessary for making short rounds. In order to buy provisions or water their cattle. They are absolutely forbidden to leave their houses at night under any circumstances whatever. Whoever attempts to leave the plate, by night or day, upon any pretext whatever, will be shot. Potatoes can only be dug with the coinmandant’s consent and under military supervision. The German troops have orders to carry out these directions strictly, by sentinels and patrols, who are authorized to fire on anyone departing from these inrm’ffiJTTC—* THE'G’ENERAL COMMANDING. [These restrictions imposed upon the people of Luneville are the German staff’s ideal of the state to which conquered peoples should be reduced.! .