---
title: Improvement Era
description: Monthly periodical of the Mormon church, 1897 onward. This library holds the issues of November 1897 to December 1930.
authors:
  - Young Men's Mutual Improvement Associations
collections:
  - periodicals
tags:
  - magazine
  - improvement-era
periodical: Improvement Era
volume: 22
number: 3
published: 1919-01
publisher: Young Men’s Mutual Improvement Associations
publisher_place: Salt Lake City
language: en
type: magazine
reference: "Young Men's Mutual Improvement Associations, “Enemy Deserts Loot in Flight,” *Improvement Era* 22, no. 3 (January 1919): 263."
source:
  url: https://archive.org/details/improvementera2203unse
  transcription: Transcribed from the Internet Archive scan of each issue (the item for each issue is named in the issue's own source); unnumbered advertising leaves are omitted, printed page numbers are kept as page markers.
  identifier: improvementera2203unse
start_page: 263
end_page: 263
rights:
  status: public-domain
  basis: US publication 1930 or earlier (published 1919-01)
  source: https://archive.org/details/improvementera2203unse
  publication_year: 1919
  note: The Internet Archive item metadata carries a blanket "© Copyright by Intellectual Reserve, Inc." notice. The library owner judged it inapplicable because this issue was published in 1919, before 1931; a scan-level notice does not restore copyright.
---

# Enemy Deserts Loot in Flight

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French  Official  Photograph.     ©  Underwood  &  Underwood,  N.  Y.

ENEMY  DESERTS  LOOT  IN  FLIGHT  FROM  FRANCE.

The  Germans  were  forced  to  abandon  huge  stores  of  loot  in  their

hurried  flight  from  France.  Collected  by  organized  looting  parties,  great

quantities  of  supplies  were  foraged  from  occupied  French  towns.  This  pho-

tograph shows  a  huge  collection  of  books  taken  from  the  public  library  at

Montdidier.  The  books  were  piled  behind  the  enemy  lines  to  be  taken

away,  but  the  French  advance  was  so  rapid  that  their  plan  was  thwarted.