Evening Republican, Volume 59, Number 101, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 May 1917 — NOT TO BE REMOVED. [ARTICLE]

NOT TO BE REMOVED.

German Military Authorities. The mayor of the town of Luneville officially requests the inhabitants, under the sanction of the most severe penalties, to abstain from making any signals to airplanes or other details of the French army. Tt would be very imprudent, even out of simple curiosity, to follow too attentively the maneuvers of the aircraft that fly over Luneville. or to try to communicate with the French outposts. The lin mediate steps TO enforce this, which would he taken by Colonel Lidl, commandant of the communications depot, wQuMLconsist in the .seizure. of a considerable number of hostages from the working class as well as from the middle class. In order to prevent or repress criminal behavior in war time, as well as to insure the security of the German troops and the civil population.- the special police stations flying a white flag are to receive day and night all communications which may be addressed to them on this subject. The Mayor of Luneville,— KELLER. [ln this proclamation the mayor of Luneville is made to warn his fellow-citizens against rendering any assistance to their own national forces. The threat to take hostages in case of disobedience was underlined. To be seized as a hostage in the invaded districts of Belgium and France was almost equivalent to a sentence of death.)