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the french from killing there [[their]] own people we might think but it was not. it was to save there [[their]] own coweredly [[cowardly]] skins, the civilian told us of corse [[course]] many intresting incidents which occured [[occurred]] in there flight. flight, it was (and cowerdly,). And a theaving [[thieving]] army at one large vilige [[village]] an officer was at the railroad station while the souldirs [[soldiers]] were [[crossed out]]tak[[/crossed out]] ransacking the houses of all the beautiful furniture and dumping it on the platform of the station, they would select [[crossed out]]the[[/crossed out]]different. things to be distributed amongst all the other officers. every vilige [[village]] we entered in france was completely [[crossed out]]cleared[[/crossed out]] ransacked what they could not take they would brake it or burn it. and then last of all leave every room if ther [[there]] was a room a dirty sewer. you cannot amagain [[imagine]] the filth [[crossed out]] of [[/crossed-out]]that can be made by a people that we have always been made to understand to be a clean people. Yet they are as Prophciteout [[proficient]] in there [[their]] dirftiness [[dirtiness]] as they were in there [[their]]killing of people. in