New Britain Herald Newspaper, September 12, 1930, Page 18

“VOSGES SLIGHTLY DAMAGED BY WAR | thfle Battle Ketivity There—| Sears Soon Enaced ‘ Epinal, France, Sept. 12 <u=)-j As the Aisne was the ‘hinge” of | operations in the main theater of | war on the western front, so the | Vosges formed the “hinge” of! Pau's dash into Alsace, which was begun so0 ambitiously with the cap- ture of Thann in the late summer of 1914 and which ended in abso- lute deadlock in the closing days of 1915, Thereafter the department of the Vosges and that porti Alsace proper which had to Pau served as a rest sector for the French, and later as a training ground for three-fourths of the American divisions which later were to participate in the Saint Mihiel and Argonne off i Fighting in Alsace and on the | # fringe of the Vosges was of a| . desultory character, only possible | « when weather permitted, and never cmploying artiller: in a major sense. . Due to this that the first victeries were of a declsive nature, the damage was not great. The city of Saint Die in the | northeastern corner of the dgpar!-‘ ment was badly shelled during the battle of that name, but it a!andsi ~ a8 the only one to be even partial- | # ly destroyed. Cornimont, La Bresse, Gerardmer, the important railway center of Remiremont, Arches, Epinal and Saulxures, all of themr a stone’'s throw from the Alsatian border, virutally were left un- touched, and to the end of the war there was not a mark on the little | foothill hamlets of Xruth and Odern across the then German | border. | Further on into Alsace, Metze- | ral, Mittlach, Sondernach, Mulbach | and Munster were pretty well ahot | | up in the struggle for the Braun-‘ kopf, and more to the south and | in the region of Guebwiller' Alt- | kirch, Mulhouse and Thann, the damage was more noticeable in 1918, while isolated mountains in | the long Alsatian range—Hart- } manswielerkopf, the Ballon d'Al- | sace, the Schlutt, Hoehneck— were\ the targets for amllerv throughout | the war, because of their trp-l mendous value as observation | posts. | It is a pity, in a way that so SEIEWIIMTICRETRE R R L LT ERTETLAT LergmRRyE ey THAA PrYNy Pt aregy in number, were subjected to shell- ing. As early as the spring of 1916 the French weére willing to admit that the camppign of the | First Army had been motivated by sentimental reasons, and that the 50,000 men who had perished in taking and lorkopt had been thrown away in battles of no tactical importance | whatever. | ' Nevertheless, the French consid- | ed themselves fortunate that no more damage was done, and. par-.| ticularly that Gerardmer, the beau- | tiful little resort at the feet of the Schlutt and Hoehneck, was not | evep scrached. Under the circumstances, 18,000 of the 82,000 inhabitants of . the Vosges felt obliged to quit | their homes during 1914 and 1915, and records show that with the ex- | FETRNITA NG CEWIR LA L b their neighbors all* had returned by the time the Americans arrived in the sector. The statisticians ‘were = at some ® pains to list 105 towns destroyed in the department and 129 other damaged —figures which American doughboys are | permitted to doubt at will. Even | the French figure of 1938 gave only 2,122 houses destrcyed and 5,663 i~ damaged, which weuld indicate an ~ average of only twenty houses & each for the towns destroyed com- = pletely. It is significant to note that of = 120,000 acres affected by the war, » only 4,500 are listed as arable. due % to the fact that most of the fight- + Ing was in the mountains here and | ~ over land which had never been | 7 tilled and 6ver which today cattle «» Wwander in search of forage. | # To complete the picture—382 fac- | # tories wgre dismantled or destroy- TTTILNETFETHILT T 20 and 20 kilometres of railway torn up. It is probable that all ef the | .. 20, kilometres of railway were be- | ~ tween Metzéral and Munster, « neither'of which is in the Vosges. . The highways were not. are not | and probably will rever be any = Mmore famous than the rocky roads # o the Arkansas Ozarks, and hence , cannot be considered much of a | w 1088 As for the factories, it is | known that the French themselves | destroyed several when it was | ", feared that the Germans wuuld: + take Saint Die and perhaps Gerard- ~ mer, Cornimont and La Bresse, = while it is not unlikely that resi- T dents of German sympathies (and they were numerous) accounted for the rest. Obviously, under the circum- . Stances, the Vosges has quite re- covered. Which is to say that it * i3 little different than it ever was. " On a hot July day in 1918 the cof respondent patiently pared pota- *toes in a little wooden shack on | a hill beyond R On an equal % 1930 he trudged #again. The sign Sthen mysterious had faded wi snows, but there " potato parings on floor, or at least se. by ~ The Vosge. nit- “tle in the SURPRISE FOR ALL Atlantic J. Greer, 65, left didn't am up for a week. he he surprised the His about Three of funeral = Greer FOR BEST RESULTS | ‘SE HERALD CLASSIFIED ADS‘ , and the fact |y much fighting took place here, and | | ¢d the upstate counties with circulars | that the towns, few as they were 304 mail retakidy Hartmanswie- |13t foy, hours befors the primary, |the final tabulation only | vote by the Associated Press was tion. ception of those who sold out to |fries’ total was 100,585. {Master Barbers Going to the Boy Fractures Arm As | paratus with which he was working taken to New Britain General hos- 2 ed, 2405 kilometres of highway |Pital for treatment. City Items Property of Michael J. Kundra at 119 Brighton street has been attach- |ed by Constable Fred Winkle in a $75 judgment given in small claims court recently. Ijis alleged that the finding was lve in favor df Au- | Busto Comosc] but that the plaintiff | has not collected. Dr. John T. Donnelly is slightly indisposed at New Britain General hospital. Raymond M. Mintz is defendant in a $500 suit brought®by Sam and | Nathan Gender of Gender Bros for | alleged failure to keep up payments | on a note. Attorney Harold J. Eis- enberg represents the plaintiff and Constable Fred Winkle garnisheed an automobile GROESBECK 10 ASK BALLOT RECOUNT Claims Bracker Forces Tried o Split County Support Detroit Groesbeck M. Brucker, attor- ney general, Tuesday’s primary election, announced today that he will file a petition asking for a re. count of the vote in all counties of the state. Groesbeck, who has served three times as governor of Michigan, charged that the Brucker forces, which had the support of Gov. Fred W. Green, were responsible for the candidacy of Edward J. Jeffries, Debris shown scattered through cell in Amarillo, Texas, jail in which A. D. Payne, attorney | Detroit municipal judge, the third | man in the gubernatorial race, the | purpose being to split the vote in‘ Wayne county, the home of Groes- | beck r \ He also charged that misleading ampaign literature was sent out by, | the Brucker forces in the closing | days of the campaign and that a “lot of money” was poured into a‘ number of counties by his opponent during the last days of the cam- | paign. At the same time, the Groes- | beck statement continued, “they be- gan falsely charging Mr. Cady (Burt | D. Cady) dt my commiittee with what they were doing themselves.” He charged that one metropolitan daily failed to phblish a denial of Cady that excessive campaign zundsx were spent. | Groesbeck’s statement charged' that “the Green-Brucker outfit flood- matter warning them | against: a Wayne county (Detroit) candidate on the pretext that accord- | |ing to the last census Wayne county | would be entitled to more repre- sentation in the legislature and of course should not have it.” The al- leged circulation of this propaganda, Groesbeck said, was “timed for the too late for us to overcome or even explain.” Pointing out that more than 800,- 000 votes were cast in the race in | | 3,317 precincts, 'Mr. Groesbeck de- | iclared that the change for tirreg- | ularities, mistakes and errors” is | quite extensive. Brucker's lead over Groesbeck on | of the state's | 4,747. Only one small up-state pre- | cinct was missing from this tabula- | Brucker had 369,782, and Groesbeck 365,035, while Judge Jet- to State Convention At a meeting of the New Britain | Master Barbers association last.| night it was voted to attend the state association convention in South Norwalk en September 21. About five autos will convey local barbers meeting. Nick Coscina is delegate to the convention. He Cranks Farm Auto Michael Osipa, 16, of the Polish | orphanage on Bruritt street sus- tained a fracu’re of the right arm ust above the wrist today while cranking a plece of farming ap- on the orphanage farm. He was | Each member of the women's auxiliary to the Utah Wool Growers' ssociation has promised to buy one woolen dress this ye/ar. A romance of the douds The airplane carries “Dagger” Marley to adventure, tragedy and love. 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