Show Battlefields Battlefields Give Up Bones of Missing Eight years have I passed since the armistice was waa signed but the blood bloodstained staIned soil of ot Franco France still covers the th mystery of ot thousands of soldiers car carI carried I reed on the rolls of ot the French min minIstry of war as missing In action A large part of the old battle batUe zone has been reclaimed and the fields up- up upon upon on which men fought for for four years years year have been returned to crops In the process the farmers of ot France have baye covered thousands of ot miles of ot trenches trenched wound tens of ot thousands of ot miles ot of rusted and torn barbed wire filled In Irshell hell hell craters and lud removed with care the unexploded engines of ot war which unfortunately only too frequently cx- cx ex In the hands of ot these brave pens peas peasants ants and add more names to the death toll of ot the war These farmers have also succeeded ed edIn In finding the bodies of ot thousands ot of o French American British and Oer- Oer Oer Ger mans mana mana who fell In con conflict lct and were covered by a scattering of ot earth by bj their comrades or by an exploding shell or who badly wounded crawled by Instinct Into c n copse where death overtook them and they remained hid den from the squads who searched the th battlefields after each enga engagement ement Within the past few tew da days s 's a farmer and his son set about cleaning out the tho th underbrush In a wooded ravine on 01 their farm along the road to Tracy Trucy-Ie- Mont which the American troops tray tray- traveled clod In the final months of the war war There under a tangled mass of ot weeds they found the remains of ot 13 French and one German soldier The of ot the German was made pos possible sible b by his hili metal tag tug but Lut the nails nam namIng Ing of ot the French was Impossible an and only the peculiar manner In their boots hoots were soled enable Identification as ns French |