Salt Lake Herald-Republican | 1918-08-04 | Page 23 | Savagery of Huns Seen in Towns

SAVAGERY OF HUNS S I SEEN S EE IN TOWNS TOWN S Associated S i v. v Press i n nn SS I S 'S inn H Th 1 ij street t With the American Army on the Marno Marne Front Aug 3 Before 3 Before evacuating Saponay Sapona the Germans Germ endeavored en endeavored en- en in vain to remove remo locomotives es anti and railway cars The French and amI American heavy guns previously had severed se tho tIle railway running north from Saponay Sapona and the tho Germans were to make repairs owing to the continued continued continued contin contin- shelling Saponay and the tho district extending to Fere cn form an Important railway center of ot which tho the Germans made much use until the tho allied guns cut the tho line When hen the French entered Saponay Sapona Friday FrIda they thoy found t two o locomotives tives which the Germans had attempted to destro destroy when they discovered that the railroad had been severed revered and the railroad yards ar also had been damaged b by German explosives Friday was the first day Tar Fer-en-Tar- denol denois was not under thin tho German artillery ar nr- artillery ar- ar tillery since the tho Germans evacuated the tho village e. e Tho The French and Americans al already already al- al ready have started to restore tho shell- shell swept village A group of ot American engineers worked with the French re repairing re- re repairing pairing tho roads road and streets lIun Destroy stroy Everything E Previous to evacuating Tar Fere denois the Germans virtually destroyed every everything thIns thIns- which could be made use or of of Including mirrors beds and furniture There was was not a tingle single lo house which had hadnot hadnot not been shelled or dynamited Practical Practically Practically the only things aro are the tho weathercock on the church steeple and tho the cobblestones of ot tho the streets Tho rho trees In the tue village square were t twisted as If by a cyclone b by the farewell farewell farewell fare fare- well shells oC ot tho the Germans A largo large sign n In German at the en entrance entrance en- en trance tranco of tho the church reads Remove e J upon eli 11 t L Ib i- i iu u nw a German sign stretched across the roadway rends reads Captured C arms and loot must be stored here Tho The sign 51 n bears a hand pointing to where here a n. house once stood At a crossroads near Saponay la lay five lve saddled horses horse apparently killed by the same came shell Besides two of oC tho the horses lay dead Germans Just just justas as the they fell Cell from their saddles Crops Crop Tartly Partly harvested e ted The roadways roadway aro are littered with ammunition ammunition am nm- wagons and nd dead horses some somo of oC them with their drivers as they fell when struck b by the big shells of oC tho Franco American allies Many of oC the tho wheat sheat fields are aie partly parl harvested with the wheat stacked the Germans having reaped what the French peasants had planted Here and anti there dots can bo be seen from the tho roadway indicating where some Bome German dropped At t ono one place a German killed hilled 1 ty y shrapnel had fallen head first Into a shell hole filled tilled b by a a. downpour of oC rain It was Into this valley of ot death that tho the French Infantry camo came camo Friday mornIng morning morning morn morn- ing as tho the Germans withdrew through tho the valley valloy north of ot Saponay y Tho The French and American shells followed the Germans as ns they went Trent From the hill to tho the west and northwest of oC Saponay Saponay Sapo Sap nay the French came caine Into woods In a rainstorm from clouds so BO low that tho treetops and clouds seemed to meet and anti under their barrage the tho French marched Into Saponay Sapona To the northeast tho the Americans aro are advancing nd under tinder tho the same conditions to tho the woods east of ot the forest of Nesles and anti to tho the valley running north of ot Saponay Sapona It was here that tho the French and Americans met