Show Long Rows of Crosses at 3 Belleau Wood Stand as Reminder Remind of Toll U. U US U.S. S. S Marines Paid There Editors Editor's note This note This Is Js the Tenth chapter In the story of a former veteran who is going i back ack to to- to 1 France Trance as an advance guard o of the Second A A. E E. F. F F Fn FIt It would be a comparatively simpie simple sim sim- p pie e task to stand on on the Q bridge over the tho Ma Marne ne a at Chate Chateau for for- fora a a. a day day- day reflecting on the past But Belleau Wood beckons So do Bouresches and Lucy Lucy- Lucy le e A narrow narrow gauge train leaving the q quai ai runs UP UD to Belleau or or the trip trap can be made in a French motor motor mo tao- tor car in a half hour The road skirts this famous forest taken from the Germ Germans only after the fiercest of fighting by the United States marines The thickets and anc the stark trees on the tile high hill frown in dismal manner And the rows of white crosses In the American cemetery tell the story of that fight b back In 1918 I Tanners In the level fields around are are plowing And but but for the scarred trunks of ot trees in tho forest forest forest for for- est and rind the shattered tower lower of a a hunting lodge fodge high up up on the hill behind the tIle cemetery ry It could hardly ge guessed that wars war's ars ar's ravages had ever been known Adolph of Detroit Is is' is the caretaker at the cemetery lIe He has much of the terrain In anticipation of the visits of the members of the Second A. A A A. E B. FLouis F Ii F FLouis Louis Lejeune is working for He was captured by the Germans in 1914 and worked all during the wai wat as a gardener garden r fo for the His skill is admirable And he told a t story of the early days after the war war when the territory around Belleau was was being cleared i of the thc dangerous traces of battle An Italian employed by the French government rode up on a bicycle one day to explode a huge shell that Lejeune had discovered He had bad his pockets full of de deton detonators de- de ton tors and fuses and with 1 hag ing carelessness which turned Louie's Louies curiosity Into a a complete rout he completed his task No o danger at all aU he her t told d Lejeune Le Le- Le- Le jeune as he We leaped astride his bicycle and pedaled away aYay to more duds Is Is he 1 still around Lejeune was wasa a asked ked Yes the old gardener replied but he was very badly scattered UI up at Soissons I Tomorrow Tomorrow Tomorrow-At At Jaulgonne Copyright 1927 1027 1 NE NEA Service Inc |