Jasper County Democrat, Volume 22, Number 21, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 June 1919 — Lost French Children. [ARTICLE]

Lost French Children.

A correspondent in the London- Dally Mail writes of the lost children of Lille as follows: “According to information received by me from France, the mother of Lille, through MM. G. Lyon, the sector, and E. Doumer, professor of the University of Lille, have presented a petition to the president of the French republic asking him to demand from the German government the return of their children, of whom nothing is known except that they have been taken away by the Germans, and urging that it is possible that the fear of reprisals might induce the barbarians to return the children to their mothers. The missing children include 13 under fourteen years of age, 1,109 under fifteen, 1,447 under sixteen, 1,440 under seventeen, or 4,018 In aIL