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Show DESOLATE SCENE IN YPRES SECTOR BRITISH FRONT IN FRANCK AND RFLc.H.M, Oct. 8. Nowhere on the western west-ern front has the war printed more cruel marks of devastation than in the wide zone east of Vpves. where such bitter and sansrumarv fiu-n;lnfr has been proceeding a! intervals since the British launched their initial attack. This whole region, much of which hi peace times was prosperous t'armiiiK country, coun-try, has been turned by the artillery fire into a desolate waste of vast and' deep shell craters, which are so close together that in innumerable cases they are interlocked. inter-locked. Farm houses have been pulverized and ploughed under in the ruthless sweep of the shells and village sites are marked by little portions of walls where churches or oilier bip buildings once stood. Cottages are buried beneath heaps of ttirned-up earth and there is scarcely a vestige of grass or other irreeti thlno- to 1.0 cnr. i miley of Iramping. Trees have been smashed into match-"wood match-"wood and their roots turned up in grotesque gro-tesque shapes to add to the sinister aspect as-pect of the country. Here and there , where little forests had stood, the har-' har-' dier trees have clunc to their birthright J, but their limbs have been shorn from the trunks. |