Show l 1 Jr r 6 HELMETS OF DEAR DEArr NUMEROUS DAISIES AS S Slimy i 3 i Trail Left Behind as s r 5 l m 4 German e man Beast M Makes kes for Home I B By Low Lowell ll Mellett J t I United Press Staff Correspondent V WITH THE AMERICAN ARMIES IN IN THE FIELD Aug 5 Wherever the G German Gernian army beast is going its it's a slimy trail hes he's leaving I stood on hill dominating the plateau leading leading lead lead- ing fag toward Fismes this afternoon The landscape was one of unusual loveliness but moving to the plateau I found a wide path of ot destruction Villages were battered and burned fields were ft fI lacework of ot shell holes forests were uprooted and white roads were pitted although a busy labor battalion was rapidly leveling them again using crushed stone from the ruined houses Over all clung the odor of ot death Gray clad bodies of the Prussian guards who had remained to fight rear guard actions lay all about In one field German helmets were as alt thick as daisies J wood was shot to pieces In an open field between the w wood od and the town of the same name there was every indication of ot a a. battle battle bat bat- tle including great numbers of unburied unburied unburied un- un buried dead Soissons shows less recent damage than thal might be expected although it bears out the report of bf the that the Germans made some slight resistance Here and there were futile barricades barrio barn cades of the flimsiest sort stretched stretch d across the street |