Salt Lake Herald-Republican | 1915-07-25 | Page 27 | Society Would Protect Many Historic Edifices

u Uc WOULD PROTECT I II I I I MANY IV HISTORIC ISIO I EDIFICE H fl 7 H at top lop shows ruins of Hotel de Ville at it Arras b bot- bot of- of I I f X P torn tom ruins of President Poincare's house at Sampigny Both were victims of German shell fire t I Y i. i N Iy lr i y y t 1 yf r v. v Tn 4 I r ih P f 4 r I S 'S I yZ il w 1 a rw c J tn 1 v y r gl w r r rt t Ir y F-y f r d f rr 1 S 'S l rl t. t i Ili l r i al t S I. I 4 i g lr I rt t f lar pi J 7 1 r 4 J i r t.- t. JARIS July 24 The The Croix de Pierre a society that was organized In France short a time timo before the war roke out with tho object of ot protect- protect ig ig- historical edifices Is Js In interesting self Bolt In Jn tho fate tate of t the Important ar- ar monuments such as tho elms cathedral Soissons cathedral nd tho the city hall of Arras One Is to leave the ruins of the Reims thedral as the they stand and na build a a. v j w one on tho the site of the tho archbishops archbishop's lace ilace adjoining Tho The society Is In faor faor fa- fa or of preserving preserving- other ruins In the ate that t war loaves leaves eves them lest France Tho society also protests any reprisal on German arch archi- 1 treasures When the tIme timo comes to rebuild any f the ruined cities and towns tho the solety so- so let lety ur urges es that there be no more mora reels of lx yards width and no more I hoots without adequate playgrounds During During- the bombardment of Arras I twenty four e fOUr tY-fOUr shells struck the belfry of ot the beautiful Hotel do Ville In that city The Hotel de Ville was built In Inthe Inthe the tho sixteenth nth century and md restored In Inthe Inthe inthe the nineteenth The belfry was feet high Another target for German shells which Is today a ruin was the house houseIn In Sampigny b belonging to President The house was near noar St. St In Lorraine A London Times correspondent who visited that district district district dis dis- a week later wrote The damage at a n. peaceful little village of 1600 Inhabitant Inhabitants Inhabitants tants tant perched above the between the two ranges of hills on each side of tho the river Is confined to only a few houses one of ot them called Le Clos happens to belon belong to the president president president dent of ot the republic and has accordingly according according- ly Iy been made tho the target for tor forty-eight forty German shells during the tho two bom bom- It Is now a heaP heap of ot ruins