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Show ii mm SHELLS Interesting Conditions Described De-scribed in the City of Famed Cathedral. FEAR NOT EVIDENCED Kisses Are Exchanged While the Roche Cannons Are Roaring Loudest. liy N. C. PARKS. Interna Uuti;U Nowh Servico HUff CorTL-apondent. KM I'M MS, I't a nee, Nov. 10.--lXVf j lauh- at .'ih.-ll In this city of the famed , cathedral, which lias itH.-lf l-,-n battered partly to ruins by Ion nan camioniidlntf. Our car stopp.d before a little pontic. pont-ic. ud nnd tobaco Miop k abort ilintancrt ! from the cath-dnil Jiiht us th.- haiser'H j ku n lie i s bean tuning up fir the nfl'-r-I noun bombardment of Hlo-im. A Telty, I u..rk-eyod girl was spooning nutt' openly and cjulto noisily with her eoldler nweet-! nweet-! heart (hi a bench In front of 1 he Htortt. j "Whiz." "booni" w nt a Hui Iip pIipII, I followed by a loud crash as it found lis Tnnrk In a re-dib-utial section a Jew hundred hun-dred yards distant, i "smack" "smack" came from tho 1 lovers' bench us tho iTish died away. j ' V hi:."- hi.,"-- "I '- "boom" . th-f shellrt were cmnig cinder and wc be-Kan be-Kan to lrl mlejuv uiniuid.-i table. Mm "Ma eheHe"' "Ah, ma ch rle!" "Sm.i-ack" frurn the bench. Former Umpire Nenous. l.'ven un army chauffeur who had once I'l.ivi-il th- d.iUK'r nf at bltralliik- pro-fe'-Munal has-1... 1 1 oam w w a- K' ttlliK ner vmi" nfi wo moved o: I nnd hadd for mi.'ther .'i non of low ii. Hut tin pretty llltlo 1'rel.ch k'lll i,H Still KJiUK-K'b d tip in tliu aims ot I h I ia inN hi j" oiihk poilu i w h. n we dr-'W out ol slk'ltt. i We t'.bl M I Irani. .h, t-'lltnr Of the rl;Hl 1 .' I-:--!., ireur dr IK.M, that i-ont iinio to 1 ul'llt in the -hailo'.T of th oath-dial, aO-Hit the " 'Ii, that's m'lhinp:." bo s.'ld. "A ft or voil'w- heard tlu in Pt several momhs1 on t iis.-.l lo tho Ho. lie fireworks ! Wh. a few Weekf , shell bit- w OUt 1 ti c side .f that hMildmK oer tlo-i,'. two ih-MiH from c-,, and one of my !av tp--i H- tiers Wonl'lll'I feTI KO tri (,' door to ,-.-e w hat had l...pp. I ni." T!ie 'iiriiliili art -l!or . firo han p1nrr hob w Hi! What ai Oi.c , i, (,,! I't tlo m'sm" T plait Tho thr- Ilootpo ma- i ,''hm-H that i:v. d to set column- of t po iIIh'UI IliO d.idv Mini. KM III KtlolliiK n' .'f;c!air-Mii- .hi I I M ,ii,d the pron hao ' m win M.,. Two i;,.ii:i,ii shelhi ihot t hrouKii t ho roof of tho pr"- i 00111. ' 'Typesetters Arc Calm. 1 ! Now- 1 h ri-c l.t ; h- .'.d too. a, poret'd on h:i;h tr o and so...' h r pi..-s v,lh .-!! Ih' cotiioiit moid of linh'-rmon. (i tvjie b ha!:d M.-r.. hoirs r h d.iV Wl'h the, "boom." "I cm" ( f i , r ma n t lis In their "urn. i m as ? 1 1 : -ij: tho a I ler- 1 ll"OH Kn-i.ch war offii't st . I meat af v. r ontrod. .:u.:h.r was prt par ing H "box," ishowtm; t n'-mber of shells that liad 1 fall, n tn I'.heim' in the prec-dii, twen-, twen-, tv-four h'c;r- and rompaMiiK U wiili iho shell roi ord of tho i-.tim; day th- prc- 1 I' itf W t eJi. I T!iron,hoi:t lllym s a vi--jfnr rncnun-I rncnun-I ters itie samo ir.d' f b-ron,-,. n t,P irm. ' b.-rdm. nt. The lew thou d civilians who r ma!ri e.i about their lutU-a much ! as they did b.-foro tho war. .Madame serv. on tunc I-., on with it i-ol.-ios for the nu.ilit e of ido but ter. but w ith a cheery m:Io th. t nuiki'i yuu forgot Gorman Gor-man artilb-rv. And you pet real whito broad h'-re for tho first time In I-'rauce. "They ii.-js.-rvo so-KothiPn for hvinc hero In this hell." said a Krei..-h officer. ",o tl'O l;o .Tinn.'M lets them have plentv of Hour at d into bre id." '-Sine Aim U. 1 '. 1 7. tho ., lips havo . boon bombm-dini; r.li.-ims lla;l with hie naal k ins and Senunn; over incoMdiarv shells. Ihdoro thev had contented thorn- I selves with umiis of smaller callbro. The urc.u pro.ie'til,-.-j fiom tho i:;ival uns !.H'e worked havoc m the int-rntr m the famous old catliodra', now only a shell. Cathedral Well Built. "They knew how to build in the oil das," .said tho caretaker, who jruided us a bout - t he intoi nu- ,.f t ho . a thedra 1. Those tv.o naval shells t:-.at broke in the roof up there would have blown to jdeces any modern church." i'or each shell that finds its mark In Uheims cathedra! th- c.-retakor makes tin affidavit attcstim,- the tact that the projectile pro-jectile struck and statintr tlu; uaniae done. These ar'l ida its are to be p rots ro-ts oi ved and to ho,'onio pa rt of t lie history his-tory of Uhoims alter the war. In other wrecked cathodralM, notablv the one at W rdun, visitors are invite I to pick up hits of the broken window ylass to carry a wa as you eniis. 1 pi Ml entering the calirdul hero you are put on your honor to pick up nothing. Kach precious piece of pja-is from tho famous rose winnow and from every other w indow in the oathodial. racli chip of sculpturing, is hclne; carefully preserved. If the skeleton skele-ton of tho fa mous old edifice survives terma 1 1 attack for tho remainder of the war. I lie a tiiodral w 111 be restored as nearly as possible to its original form. U was a tonsillar thing; that whiln the r.oche gunners weie keeping up a lively bombardment of Ilheims while we were in the city they w ere wast injr scarcely a single shell against French batteries outside out-side the town. Trench Guns Active. On our way to the first line trenches wo parsed French mms belching- awav at the Teutons, but set tins; not a si'nsjle shell In icply. I luring several hours" of ! our visit to the first, second and third lines of French trenches not a single shell exploded within SuO yards of us. 11 era in the city we saw very few French soldiers, some o them, apparently per-missionares. per-missionares. exnlorin-4 the ruins. What t he German object is In maintuiniht,' inconstant in-constant fire on the city only the Bodies themselves know. It was an extremely dull day in the French trenches outside Itheims. and a youns Fnhsh-speakiim; lieutenant who joined cur paity e.i ressed regret that there was nothinv; exciting to show. ry climbed to the parapet of a first -line trench and looked across "No Man's" Fand" to the Herman barbed wire without getting; a stir from the Hoehe. "Maybe he'll say something now." said tho lieutenant. and he fired a rifle grenade at the enemy trench. p.ut there was no response. The only sound that came to our ears in the first line was the rattling fire of a German machine 8i' directed against a French aeroplane overhead. |