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Show SCENES OE HORROR 1 BATTLEFIELDS Few Left to Bury the Dead; Shells Cause Terrible - Havoc. By GERALD MORGAN. (Special Cable by Arrangement with London Dally Telegraph and International Kews Service.) G P. France (date line eliminated elimi-nated by censor), Sunday On Friday I succeeded in reaching Meaux and went straight on from there to the battlefield of Vareddes, about three miles northeast of Meaux. Horses and" men littered the ground around the semipermanent intrenohments which had been suddenly abandoned. Alongside the German artillery positions I saw piles of unexploded shells, left behind be-hind in the hurried departure. These shells were in wU-ker baskets, three to the basket. An avenue of large trees along the roadside, which the Germans had hoped to use as shelter, was torn to pieces and flung to the ground by the French artillery ar-tillery as if by strokes of lightning. The German dead had almost all been hit by either by shells or shrapnel balls. Off In one field, like a great dead bird, lay a German aeroplane, which a shell had brought down during the engagement. engage-ment. The scenes on the battlefield were terrible. ter-rible. There was no one to bury the dead, for the French army had gone on in pursuit and the villagers had, with few exceptions, left the country many days before. Th attempts to burn the bodies were neither pleasant nor successful. suc-cessful. Some scores of very old persons per-sons pottered about covering the fat.es of the dead and attempted to lig a few shallow graves. As for the horses, they were allowed to lie rotting on the ground. From Meaux north the country Is deserted de-serted and there is no one left to do anything. Later X succeeded in getting to within a short distance of the English front and had my first look at the English army in the flpid. I had previously seen Belgians. French and Germans. The men I now saw were completely intact, both in organization or-ganization and in discipline, and. what, is best of all, in morale. Considering that these men had ben pounded' back by superior numbers all the way from Mons to Meaux, I was greatly struck by their cheerfulness, determination and, particularly, particu-larly, by their serenity. They seem to know that, given time, they will beat the Germans In spite of the German organization. or-ganization. These English can neither be humbugged nor hurried and. as an American and one who has followed the armies of Japan. Russia, France and Germany, it gives me pleasure to pay them this tribute. |