Show gehan RETREAT BY TRAIL of Nm emerlean erlean and english correspondents spon dents working separately agree in reports of ruin SURN SUPPLIES FOR THE POOR wells wella poisoned and defiled fruit and shade trees cut down houte houses burned and contents looted and wrecked london tho the skeptic who Is in unable to bell boiler e ve 0 tho the reports of tha absolute with which tile germans are doing their best to blot out that flint part ot of franco france from froin which they tire anro retreating should compare the following follow dispatches written by coi respondents tit nt the front which blip 61 clement the announcements of tile the british anta french war offices these dispatches sent by dif forent ferent correspondents two wo american and two english of obeso ono of each nu nit american und anti nit nil english mail was with avith the british army one of each the french what they write about they saw with alth their own eyes these men tire experienced war nr correspondents correspond enta and call differentiate between military dan damage inge which every army must inflict to hamper lini tile the enemy and A few of the things i the Gern inns have done and tire aro doing in nit nud arbols two to of the loveliest of tile provinces of france are aio these burning supplies furnished for or the starving population by tho american relief cominis sion supplies bought by amerlean gifts to help lit lp people impoverished by german invasion poisoning and defiling with alth nil all tile wells cutting ting down all tho the fruit trees ices and trees burning every house ignio lesa 1098 of its lack hick of military value pictures crockery furniture that lint they could not take oft off with thein front from the homes of tile peasants 1 i icily tug 1119 those peasants women old men children with nothing to cat looting officially ordered the list of these heso dispatches Is alolu tile tho associated press correspondent who advanced through tills this of desolation with the british troops ile he to Is tin nn american tills this correspondent saw maw with lila its own OILS eyes captured oer inan orders tor for the looting which ordered adiong other things that nith ane to ts nem bled benr till n the boua abandoned to contaminate the water ile ho refers to tho lie wanton destruction destruct desti notion lon of the trees which la Is moro more fully do lit in mother another dispatch ire ile w writes rites i the british troops pella terri territory tury formerly fonn cily held hy by the germans they encounter the allme conditions of destruction and devastation ns in fit and peronne rc ronno only ft a few villages hinges have escaped tho the minn in fit these instances liming having been ein compelled to leave before their plans to lay iny waste could bo be carried out tho the use of cavalry by the lie and french seems to have taken tile Ger germans matis by surprise upsetting some gome of their calculations in one village supper which had been eon inid out wits was abandoned together with higuch nin nia and in other places newly noway opened boxes of high explosives were found with which file ho had planned to destroy the he villages before leaving that the wholesale do st ruction was systematized in it ft man ner of german thoroughness was shown by captured orders ou on the he subject these directed the blowing up tip of all louses houses wolla wells and cellars except those occupied by rear guard outposts tile rear guard being told held responsible for making their shelters ablo able before falling back Farial fanning ng tin lin were ill all burned or wherever a building bull dlug wits was spared it was first rendered ron dered filthy the orders ordera also directed the assembling of in via of nil all wells for the purpose of contaminating the lie water tito the destruction of fruit trees now apparently covers tile the endro bolt belt of evacuated territory even choso cling ing to tho the walls walla having been beef still stripped Ted on off wanton destruction of trees tito tho wanton destruct destruction lon of tile lio frees room Is ilso also by the lie second accent amerlean american correspondent who represents the associated press with tile french army lit in describing the ho following touching incident continuing our visit in itoye wo we encountered on oil the summit tit of tile city nn an old inan tall all with white batir lie ile waved ills his arms being incapable at first in tile ills emotion of saying a word lie ile lived lit in the last house of the lie town where lie lind had spent the exist edco of a savage for two years deciding not to see BOO the germane two days ago realizing that flint something new was in preparation he went up to the root roof of ills house and front from afar saw masses of soldiers in fit blue their sel scintillating in iho 1110 sun BUIS 1 11 I was isai waiting ting for the french lie sold bolt 1 I 1 looked for their red trousers bu but t saw only men in unknown util forra form my blood turned I 1 sat uld to tit iii self are arc they more germans hut but suddenly Budi lenly front from the smell groups alov ing across the country came detona ile tonn alone I 1 understood diey they were lie fieric french aj warriors the french clot lied in allu ho lind had arrived wo we loft left the illengo under mider tho the guld anco ance of tills this old ninn tito tho germans sali said lie lilt had reven revenged goil themselves even cun on tile holds fields lit in fact everywhere tile trees were cut down till nil the apple trees from noyo itoye to champion and tile fl alno tit trew niong along tile rond road suffered tile same fate lust luat of Destruct destruction lom tito coi respondent correspondent of t the london times with lilt tho the french anny annly tells of tile destruction wrought in ill cha chantilly tilly which was excusable for military ren red sons and then coMi continue to describe lint chilt which was mia not hilt but fo for r tile rest of their conduct there then la Is to no possible defense itt in village after village tillage especially tit in itself they burned whole kowm of licusea for foi no ronson reason whatever except for puro pure malto and lust just of tie dc house after house was na pillaged stopped tie it b by burglars lit in every dooin flint ia wits not tired lidid taken nil all tile contents away or 01 wore moro clely still lind find tanin to It tollis 1 I have written these things liti iKa before gilvil I 1 illy myself self have seen been them in ill othor other of the file tile line I 1 write walto abai it thom again ignon because I 1 cannot impress too strongly stion gly the ho rest of tho ho world lint flint tile ho power for this oils particular forni forin of evildoing ovll evil doln doing inest bo be taken away front from lits file hill zed race nice liven iven now non even cen lit in england and lit in branco itself peo ileo plo who mho linao ahmo not seen with their own on we blein not of to realize what lint Is be 1119 done one hero here ono one fact may bring it 1 home hoino to theiu it Is tile latest invention of this of bousa breakers brenk cro tile no now eat cat rennei nuit of doing ini in the lelda between noon boyon and clina lly anany of which a sure a ign tit alint a t file le retreat had not been foreseen seen until lately had and been carefully plowed and evvie OM 1 I sown BOMI thero were a considerable number of fruit trees iery ono one of thein within a certain dis distance tunce of the road had been killed they either cither linao been sawed through a couple of feet from froin tile tho ground and left lying where they fell or glis lied and backed three or four indies inches feel deep this massacre sacre of trees must le have been enri lei out by nt at lenat least three or four companies under tile alio orders or of tach officers luat just before tile tho detrent began beann tile troops were cio lit in such dutli it hurry that tile teiei even left stores kofold 0 old lil etal NN willell lil cli taley lind enre fully collected I 1 vint to jo in slot upon point flint it Is clear that it Is tile officers of tile tho german aminy who tire itlo responsible for tills this par int nicular crime cilmo of treo tree muff lation burned supplies for the poor tito correspondent of tho the blines tit british headquarters wi elites ito 9 na As fol old nien men women and children to whom the were acro only n myth welcomed tile ild nanco guards with tears are arc you wany ninny 7 asked one woman doubtfully of it etoff of licer wo we tire two million in lIllon now rid the officer the won inns relief and joy were fine to bee what flies people wanted was foot food they had hardly had any meat butter buffer or flit for months they pay bay tile geranan soldiers arc getting less to eat cot now and grumbly n good deal when tile alio french troops tir rived tit nt tergnier where the du nord lind had largo workshops and locomotive sheds they aliey found everything destroyed by dynamite A berlin grom which describes tile of the with dravid says tile greatest consideration was pidd the tito rond road from chattily to noyon boyon was ans one continual of refugees from tile villages beyond chattily they ta toy lind had been sacked and burned fly by tile germans those theao poor refugees consisted exclusively of bables and children for aweeka past the lie Gerit germans ions had expelled them from froin village titter lifter village in preparation for ho file retreat rel rent when tile ho final moment anale their houses wern flicked backed tin and then burned before their eyes cyca tile refugees were left helpless without food to await t the french nil advance vance at goyon noyon owing to tile he fuel fact that the lie G germana emmuns find concentrated there women and tin children they promised ased to leave the alio american relief sil supplies lips to feed them ifcic tile the hint iima garmun patrols to leave noyon boyon completely backed the american relief store house bouso of everything anda it ell dynamited tile tho building finally alicy tit CY turned the canni canal water with which they find flooded tile city into its ruins 11 |