New Britain Herald Newspaper, February 17, 1919, Page 10

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I . : P ORTER Watch Our Belgium was to see the dog teams. ancy a big overgrown cuss of a Bel- gian in a big cart, already , loaded down with cabbages, Brusselssprouts sugar beets, and fagots, with a poor, undersized, dog hauling him over the roads. Now I know why the Belgian Toads are paved with block paving, it . \\ ale Price ™ = We Close Monday Evenings = = would not buildings, sugar factories, green fields N M 1 ~ | traffic of all kinds, army trucks, mo- ams, ponds of muddy water in the the Canadians just simply £ o ELGE‘UM THF LAND OF RUINb torcycles with side cars, trucks with nd trench old shells “give up. This place i parallel to and flowers, was the Mecca of the ! 9 -4 two and three horses tandem, dog xploded everywhere, one lone the French at Verdun. And in all artists of the world. And such liter- teams, go-carts with men and women 1d German in a pool of water in my reading of history, and you know ary lights as Robert Louis Stevenson, DESCRIBED BY LIEUT. TINKER pushers, ambulances, artillery wagons, hell-hole with gas mask still on I have read some, there is no pos- Alexandre Dumas, Sir Walter Scott, autos of all makes and sizes, and T face, graves with wooden crosse: ble fight, or battle, which can ap- and unany others of lesser renown, Bpringfield Engineer Writes Interesting Letter saw two ox teams aves of (iermans, graves of Eng- proach the horror of the fighting at made this section of Europe the Wife in This City D epicting Conditions i | | | | “Up to this time the weather had |lish, and this extended for miles and these two places. theme of their work and the scene of | Toads are pave ; e : heen very cold, with a misty rain | miles as far as the eye could reach ' “Phe countryside lactoc an their pilgrimages, And of course the | i So the dogs can get a good foot- to His | o The fcountryside Isiblastedgintolan ISl Dl ing and their poor feet won't slip. | | i | 1 | | blowing in our faces, but at Cassel |in all directions. How the Huns were ‘ jrregular cla s, .muc eans, historians of the last two thousand | 2 g in < t s e > e *jrregular clamflats, mud, in oceans, histo | 2 The Ble Hons fool ails t ds e the sun tried to favor us with fits|ever stopped is more than human nothing but plank roads would stand, years have been kept quite busy with | 0¢ DI GOES Bblo grafico ks resence, and as we slid down the ! mind can tell, how they were ever 25 are b Sy the s, recita r what has been done S 2k Jarheos = I e trees are blown up by the roots, the recital of w ] inllent G e N “We pulled out of Ostend for Dun- hill to the eastward, it came out in | blasted out of the Messines Ridge is ' cemeterios are blown off the map, am- hereabouts in the way of piling up in Devastated Country. full force and made the rest of the ! {he eighth wonder of the ages munition dumps were cxploded, chew- history. They will find plenty of ma- |y orque 1 the ronte . through the trip a pleasant one. From Cassel to i “The road to Messines is a repeti- ing the ground to bits and heaping up terial now for a long, long story. Sorobae Eonta Nt rouel A T A Caestre is. about six miles, and yvou :tion of the road we had just tra- ane , o e s Zeevecote, & e, : e . o 2 i 3 Z ve I just mud and shells into odd looking hills "'e biiped frow roUgh B0t 10| snd Gtiiere oo amdll to natan i Pae. Lieut. C. A, Tinker of the U. S. . unvelenting, with no shred of pity or then begin to get into territory which , versed, and on to Wytschaetes is the ' of earth and iron; bones /agon e e SRl e S e L rmy, in private life a civil engineer human iove. was under shell fire. Trenches, ' same thing. the last named towWn ' wheels, and wooden cross and ‘\:fe 1 e ipie g ]O-’)fo ]‘|‘\ ”“‘N (“m"‘ : “0 ‘“q ;" 1 Springfield, has written a most in- “In company with Ensign B—— I barbed-wire entanglements, shell being another sign post. not a trace . 26 curtains ar > L e aginga s ATrACes o L , OC g SR 4 . 5 i ! camouflage curtains are piled in heaps ;. ine from bed to bed, and after | to see, but we had seen so many like eresting letter to his wife, who is left Autingues, in the ever welcome heaps, demolished houses, trees well ,of a huilding or cellar-hole to be (ogether. Miles of trenches and roads aaking her home with her sister, Cadillac, for a trip along the front in riddled, and shell holes in abundance , scen, and from now on for miles the 'in this section are camouflaged with irs. S. F. Avery of 239 Shuttle Mead- Northern France and Belgium. We are the sigsns. But from Caestre on |road is over plank. the old paved B n of bagging woven into country from Autingues to the east tells the story. Hell was | road,having heen blasted from exX- chicken wire and stretched on poles w avenue. Lieut. Tinker’'s description cut acro ¢ Belgium and the desolation which aight for st. Omer, the road taking let loose if it ever was on this old istence, and the oniy method of cro: about ten feet high, giving protec- | it during the day that our sensibilis This is a good sized city in the center | ties were getting blunted, and we of sugar fields and manufacturing | took the awful evidences of destruc- districts, and has been very badly | tion as invented by the Hun as a damaged, not only by the Huns, but | matter of course a very long ride came into Roule e saw there are especially Interest- us {hrough the villages of Ardres, Nor- globe. The run of four or five miles ing the country is by laying down * (ion from sight to the wild and hur- i R08 00 . “From Pervyse to Furnes we g since they arve written from the dansques, and Mou which route to Builleul was a corker. In the first plank Jike a floor. but @ Very unm- ried movements of troops and artil- bY bombing ralds and shelling on the “7wom =~ EFomaee to Furaes — We jewpoint of an cnginecr. His let carried us outside of St. Omer to the place the road was shelled to bits, | even floor to say the least. e Tts efalistranee fnishtftcol and Meact ofith ey lites Bvvholwane i deCor Jl wriampatcnu sy buasunil aaian e e ollows north, and as the road was on a ridge half (he distance is over wooden | The next sign post says Voor- must have taken {housands of men mined not to let sentiment prolong HUDS wete stopped by the flooding of “I have always heretofore believed We¢ had a very perfect view of the bridges across shell holes and mine ; megeele, not a trace of a dwelling, weeks to make, perhaps to shield a the war. The people are back in 8 CPUERE € COOC TO B0 ) 19 hat the rich moonlight of a fair City. St. Omer was bombed by the holes, and we made very siow time. and then on to Ypres. Along here movement which only took a few Roulers trying to patch it up and get he Tand tor ‘]m””‘mp m‘r’m,“b s ummer evening was created express- Huns to a fare-vou-well, it was rid- The town of Bailleul, about the size we saw abandoned tank crashed moments to accomplish; such is the things in shape to start life anew. ;"G 00 OO0 T0E A8 St O v for poets and lovers, that the po- dled time and again, yet the three of Springfield, Vermont, is a ruin of girplanes, ammunition dumps of tre- *warfare of the day and age in which The people who were driven out of = Yy o€ VOO BEIOFe PAg TERE MO ent spell of the moon’s silve )eams 1'ig cathedrals are still standing, and, the first magnitude. Not one building . mendous size, big forests left a wilder- we live. the warring sectors have their little . Cohgerful sugar beet, of pre- as the balm that healed the love far as [ could see from the distance, left with walls, to say nothing about ' ness of stumps, cemeteries, millions “Hor are buried everywhere with problems, I can tell you, some of the ' .. dovs Long boardwalks on stilts, ick; that the good elfs and nymphs, they were not very severely damaged, roofs, the church is a pile of brick, . of shells, and debris like the rocks:a sign posted: “Dead Horse Buried land will be under cultivation next pynnine out for miles over the wa- jvho cast witchery on all who chanc in fact, none of the stecples or tow- and the streets are not distinguishable at seawall Here.” I asked a Tommy why they Season, that land which was back of ter, were used by the outposts of the o be abroad when the moon is full ¢rs were demolished, and the roofs from any other part of the ruins. | -Big gangs of German prisoners ‘took the trouble to iwrite, “Dead the lines, but the land fought over ' contending armies as observation sta. nd benign, are all about, in the Were in fair shape, too. The city is Signs were up telling where the und Chinese coolics were mending the frorse,” why not say, “Horse Burled and for four years will require vears tions, for spying out the movements flelds, the forests, the gardens, when located ina pocket at the intersection streets had formerly been located poor old highways and salvaging the Fiere,” cverybody would know the to get hack into anything like a pay- | of troops and the locations of bui- he moon laughs at us from the in- ©f several ridges of moderate height “Shells peeked at you from all the abandoned war materials. Just out- horse was dead. He said he didn't ing condition. In fact some of it is | teries of artillery. Many a man has igo sky; that the full moon. with its «'}"(} spills around at random, with a rupbish piles, graves were located An side of Ypres we met a regiment of know, so much for British wit all most impossible of use. | gone out on these walks and neve piysterious face, perhaps man, per- pagged edso of small houses extend- ail directions, junk of every descrip- Coolies, baggage and all, on the ., o fime he said, ‘Well Sir, It “From Roulers throush Thourout | returned, a bullet in the body, a fall BPe & D o e, epen o h s instanses vy the p° ton was scattered overywhere, and;march fo the flelds of Messines Ridge. | .13 b 4 bit of mess to diz up & to Ostende is a magnificent, straight, | overboard, and “missing” forever s e Lesisat Ll e el ot above i3 neses, \his town located on a hill between | “Off to the west of the road from g . s%y Now wouldn’t it, Sir? Dpaved highway, and except at the| ‘“The camouflage methods about f cameo which nature uses as a sides and a view from above is neces- two very hard fought battlefields, got Wylschacte to Voormezeele we could 9624 hors 3 s / AL S E Y sector are extraordinar: ver Bl Ad Dl e L e e T ) e C g r 0 ‘We went from Ypres across the crossings and when we came to | this sector are cxtraordinary, woven buckle to bind together her tender vily interesting, giving as it a punishing which will go down in the see Paschendacle Ridge and Mt. Kim- e whleh e b Y screens of bagging in chicken wire hearted moods. Moonlight means, ‘birds-cye’ of a typical I'rench city of TJistory of the war as unique, In fact mel where the Canadiahs gave up so « dreary wasted country through what bridges. which were blown up by the | P07 e0s OF BB RS & PG ER T 00 yeace, the gay firefly scoots across the moderate size Pompeii was a paradise after the many lives and where they gave the IS left of the towns of Moorslede and Huns in their retreat, and hastily re- "848 OF % © posts to represent andscape, the checrful cricket chirps “This country hereabouts is very un- eruption of Aetna when compared to Germans the worst beating of the Zoonebeke to the Belgian city of paired with temporary wooden struc-| MBS W (8¢ 10 POSS 0 FEPIECRR iis lay, youth plays with love, song even and is very much the same as Bailleul. war. In fact the whole region for Roulers. Between Moorslede and fures we made wonderful time, most- | UnGerbrusih, mies of 1 fe = 708 wnd poetry is inspired, the world re land around Granville or Blandford, “Several gangs of Tommies and several hundred of miles is a vast, Roulers are the temporary villages Iy sixty miles an hour. ed walls and painted concrete, all in ind s at peace. But I have seen & and you can imagine the kind of war- Chinese coolles were clearing up the treeless, wilderness. Ivery town is built by the Germans to house the “Ostend js a very remarkable sed- .o foi0. ¢ t0 make the countryside l0ok and where the very opposite holds fare which took place in the four main highways, assisted by German 'Wiped off the face of the earth, every women which they sathered from the side vesort, with big stretches of | ivo o fairlyland where the thought rue; where the first gleam of the years which has just passed, the am- prisoners, and they had a job on their 'tree is gone, every bush is gone, Belgian population for the use of the Dathinz beaches and expensive hotels s o ‘cildier would be nonsense. And noonlight sent the treacherous and pushcades and the artillery parks and hands, [ can assure you., with the every fence is gone, every country soldiers at the front. At one settle- ) and casinos. 1t has a very fine and 'y 4 .4 wire—Holy Moses! Barbed- nurderous bombing squadron on its sheltered trenches which the r- roads all shot full of holes and burfed ' road is gone, only weeds and junk to ment here is room to house, 1 would | interesting harbor with elaborate - j.0") - t1e thousand mile length! docks and h ns. And here the Ger- earch for victims: where the moon- mans had built of concrete, manned many feet deep with brick and plas- | be seen, with, of course, the graves think, about one thousand women. When we left Furnes it was dark window vantage points, but the decorations | Shoe Sale.— advt ight gave speed to the pitiless en- with hundreds of thousands of troops, ter rubbis] | of the dead showing everywhere in The Hun had intended to hold the | Mans had very important subma- | ;14 we scooted along the road ines of war; where the silvery light | aad all this had to be taken by tho ‘We went down the Armentiers little groups and in single spots along- | Hindenbu line for ever, judging [rine base. The British tried to stop | iy, u0h Zuydcoote to Dunkerqué, »f peace meant death to thousands, | Tommies and Canadians. Our boys road a short distance to a crossing side the mniain roads, buried where | from the way he built himself in | {he harbor much as Hobson did um‘hm”jh Dunkerque to Gravelines, nd life-long suffering to tens of | helped here too. and then turned north to Neuve Eg- | they were found e i chonis | Sontideo byl sinic thell Vindictive |Isesscaiit i i cl Satainito Axilii housands; where de destrue- | “The roads were cut up prefty bad, lise. This town is now only a cross We struck the main road to Lille | gauge railroads, supply depots and all | 2¢T08s the mouth of the entrance. | yoc apriving In time to sit down to jloh, (dn: the | mc : ”l“'_'”“‘ but were still in such shape that we roads, with a sign telling where the ' just outside and to the west of Ypres | the comforts of home "\‘”}‘T"' SRl A il '}m Wb 1= | dinner, and a hot dinner after 265 talked in every moonbeam and laid | could make very sood speed, but they town was formerly located. N holandlalon: N Gana R FRE T e _ | stin there, and except for having | gaect o was pretty good fun. Reiect I evensnoa s R Oe e D O O R (i el dio s i o o Cood B L i Gl 0 IR Cnetiinslveryamarcediiohile ol o pwatln . clcTiEn G Kinon sl naied B et D EEED AL where the cries of hate pain from the vicinity of St. Omer on to for what few bricks had been left by | few lonely frecs left standing and the of large, or even ma ‘\“mu_ Hun | were unable to do anything before | 4. and then to Brest and if I am placed and drowned the songs of | the front lhey became increasingly the shells were used in road making imost remarkable line of ig-zag CCicteries. We saw very few in|they were driven out of the coastal | ¥ o M0 0 B Gon ool tor peace and love { bad. A short run brought us to the during the war. Think of a town the | trenches and et el e in eadll several “”“”'",‘ ol ke Lok ok '}'”"""\‘ The concrete submarine shel- |, o0 "0 110 arst ship out of Brest “And the wild stormy night in win- | small town of Aranes, and a crooked size of Stafford Springs being cleaned | ments that we saw during the trip, | 2.thoush the losses which the Ger-|ters, built by the Hut tol uard jlo el e ey Yot PebEiiiy, BolnE B Bi#. does it not breathe of the road for about three miles, straight entirely off the fuce of the earth. Not | “Ypres is a sight to see. We could ; MaD8 Sustained hereabouts were, against Allied air raids, are wonder- | xo york, I have a few days be place and the fireside, the sheltering | up in the air, however, took us to the one brick left, not even a single cel- ! make out the ruins long before we | VETY Numerous. This was explained | ful pieces of concrote engineering, | 30 fonotine ot Washington and comforts of the homc When {he beautiful hill town of Cassel. This lar-hole. That is Neuve Eglise. | entered the town, the tower of the | to me DY a British major, as the re- | they were built to stay, but theiiy., 7 don't know what C in Tr- wind howls and the snow flies about | town of Cassel is one of the prettiest “We next went up the Messines : Cloth hall dominating the landscape, | Suit of te policy of extracting from | hombs got at the foundations of some | win will do with me in cranny-searching clouds, is not that places I have ever n in Europe. idge to Wulgerghem, a t town | and marking the place where the | the dead the fats and oils. His men | of them and they are well wrecked | "Give my love to all the folks and the night for a hearty dinner and a Located on the top of a commanding smashed up worse than Bailleul, but | ifuns tried for four long years to | captured many zroups of Germans en- | “Ostend has many very interesting | tell them 1 will be darned glad to book and a place by the coals? Na- hill several hundred feet above the | with a few old walls and chimneys | get the Canadians on the run. But | gaged in salvaging the bodies of the | bulldings and the architecture is good, | see them once more ture scurries for shelter when the surounding country, it gives you a |still standing. The country around | the (‘anadians, being a species of | dead. The method was to strip the | embracing many periods, and the ma- | HUB storm-wind is abroad. The very in- View of the northern terrain and bat- | here is indescrihable. Shell-hole | American, do not run worth a damn, | bodies of all clothing, tie them up in | terials are of the best, even in the | R BT RSO0 NURREELOE ; Sects are burrowed out of sight; the tle country which cannot be equalled | overlaps shall-hole. It took us about | which fact. the Hun found out to | bundles of four hy means of wiring | smaller buildin We had dinner. | Eyg B have hid; the cattle huddle to- | clsewhere for many miles | halffan hour tol walls "alhalr mils [Ihiskeverlasiinscage and sorrow. | round and round, pass a pole through | very late in the afternoon, in a very | CI! k KT Vi Sether for warmth; the lamp of “ I seems to be the location of a [ along the ridge, and mud and clay, | “We ate our basket lunch in the | the bundle lengthwise, and then four | 800d restaurant, with mirrors around | LEES kindness is lit and shines from every ' summer colony of wealth and good | I never saw anything like it, you put | main square at Ypres, under the | men could walk off with the lot. | the walls and modest decorations | for the wellbeing of man. taste. Several houses designed by | your foot down and when you take | shadow of what is left of one of the | The major's men captured, at one | Placed in good taste at the proper | Women's Rubbers, 63c, Damon's | Not so in the land I saw. Here the Dnglish country house architects are !a step up comes about ten pounds: most beautiful examples of the | time, sixteen men so bundied ready e i : darkest storm was the signal for a located at v _points of interest, | of clay stuck to your shoe, two feet builders art in the world. Your | for the “melting pot”—nice fellow ! #2d Mirrors and walls were well | St Elmo lodge, K. of P, will cele- dash into No Man's Lanc hroat- with the fypical English garden and ;in diameter of clay cake. Trenches | blood would boil if you could see the | the Hun. This in all probability ac. | 5¢arred with bullet holes and marks, ' brate the 55th anniversary of the or cutting was an art developed hy the ipe accessories, and the whole | full of mud and water, shell-holes | ruins of this eity your heart | counts for many of the “missing” on | Made Dy the Hun officers who came |der on Wednesday evening February Gark and stormy night; minc s WS ually alive to the mod- | five fin\»vhlp and t ;\ feet in diame- | would ache if vou could see the cem- the French, British, and Colonial here to m)(_‘ They practised their | 19. A banquet and entertainmeuwt B eiingunder <oV of the drifting vle of itecture and building. | ter, shell-holes ten feet deep and | eteries which are everywhere scal- | lists. too. marksmanship with their revolvers will be held and an appropriate pro- W raids were murderousl : ier of the town, however, | thirty feet in diameter, barbed-wire | tered about it fallen walls. The Huns G e e while waiting for their food to be | gram arranged for that evening cossful when the rain fell and S v much Erench of the old or- |in frightful arranse nt, abandoned | were all around this place in great | ,_ r’ e noanslcde on the country | gerved. A very pleasant and profit- | Nof specially @ Monday special, any nd howled and the darkness cov- der: the paved center square; the big ' gun carriages, great heaps of earth |force with all the engines of war | S NOt SO Very much damaged, the |able gucst, the Hun. When they de- | of our overcoats 1-2 price, ut Besse- i the battlefield. All forms of at- stone church; several hotels; some !where mines had been exploded, old | which forty rs of proparation and | Section being back of the actual bat- | parted from Ostend they took all the | Leland advt ered {“h‘[“mh as the . objective stores and cafc soldiers, French, | free trunks, ndoned and smashed | study could devise, and they heaped | tle lines. Touses and land show |china and silver of value from this' A meeting of the women of Belvi e o the violence of the storm nglish, American, Portuguese, Bel- | industrial railways, telephone wires, | all sorts of attack upon attack, they evidences enough of war, but still | restaurant, as well as others, but the | dere who are willing to help finish ) eined ci‘ tensity of the darkness; no gian, the French Indo-Chinese troops, busted pill boxes for machine guns, | shelled with every known kind of gun €NOUgh left to demonsirate the ! proprietor of this particular place was | Red oss work has been called for and g ce here; no rest here, and Chinese laborers. The usual big dug-outs with steps of concrete | which they possessed, they tried every | &reat naiural beauty of the country- | able to hide away and save three | Thursday afternoon, at 1381 Stane s o pe; or night, or by sun- motley crowd of civilians of all ages descending deep into the bowels of | kind of shell and gas and flame at- | side. This section, with its canals, | small silver teapots, which he brought | street cither: by day " the storm; and sexes mingled with the military. the earth, big gun emplacements of | tack which they could command, to | long avenues of . stately trees, old |out in honor of our visit. |~ Buy your shoes befere noon and get ht, moonlight, or in war—hideous, dead. lig dvt. nothing but olid concrete smashed to bits, steel drive their lines through this city, but | Flemlsh country houses and fnrmJ “One thing which disgusted me in | 10 per cent. discount at Lons’s,