| Show DOA 0 A GREAT G K E A WORK W R IN asten engineers speedily reconstruct roads and bridges wrecked by shell SOLDIERS WORK IN THE RAIN correspondent describes trip to Os oft tend finds roads once badly torn by shells almost as good as aa new Arneri american cun press headquarters larit ish front wo had tin nn impressive 11 ll today of the accomplish intents of tho the engineers lit in tills war when wo we drove into ostend the chief of the american mission nt at belgian head headquarters quartets lind had warned us 1113 dramatically against nil attempt to matto the trip at least three days daya would lo be 10 required lie ho sald tile tho roads were torn up till ly by khella aind inloe and congested with troops yesterday it light cur car had taken twelve hours houra to make twenty miles hut but wo started spurted out und and lint lind na as ft a rond road us its tiny bou boulevard loyard in III tho the middle west for the entire distance there noverne places where chero wo we lind had to inako detours through VIlla Mi lages goi find us its tile ho dozens of bridges acro ilia conal near ostend wore warp till nil blown up wo ve lind to drive on oil about ive five miles to it temporary bridge wo averaged about miles mile nn an hour soldiers work tn in rain most of tho rond road was kept up tit by british lulor labor excepting ohp thea section near Chrls trl through tile nw fill flanders swamps where belgian soldiers worked incessantly in ili ft a driving rain we hoard heard they lift biad worked nil night flight without rest and so matte hud had their operations with lilac and shovel betonio become that hint they Ild not stop stoll to look up lit rifen our speeding cur car threw slimy maro nil all over them for it they used the long lines of fernian pillbox pill box forts at one olle place wo we sav about twenty of these squat chambers clinn ibers with walls three foot feet thick and lunde of concrete re enforced with steel pipes direct shelf hits till patently parent ly bounced harmlessly oft if cheso ema forts tile the twenty pill boxes lit in sight were in it straight row find behind thein were a n half dozen larger ones to protect tho the rear when wo we lind passed tin the I 1 waste of water mud and swamp reeds and gat ln into other lowlands been trained and tiled wo we saw mort pill boxes in a reserve line A bel gin gann pennant waa using iia as it 11 chicken house and mit tile tho low apertures aper tures for machino guns lent themselves readily us ng entrances and exits for the ilia fowls descendants of these chickens should bo be in the old family home hoino for it thousand years hence or say n million ihn years rill boxes tire are boillet hing t ft will stand almost everlasting age alio scores score of drainage sluices across tho roods had nil all been cove covered reI with temporary bridges by the 4 11 following up ilia gernian de dc sti these bridges and cul culberth tire not us as neat inid find us as tho ones onca 00 tho british and Anier leans build but they hold abo irnine and that la Is tile important thing just now through the suburbs of 0 ostend wu wo passed cli cering dressed for church tile people berti so prayerfully grateful to tile british that they licy did not scein to mind ilia bo hnud wa split all over atheni anny of thell run ran oft off ilia rond road trees nud find front their tand screen shouted greet ings to tho the Hai glish As the extra or flanders hnud would even up tip tu to first floors floora of houses many of oc tile people from froin expert once ence tind find taken to second stories orles Bt front fr oni which they clapped hands and tin waved flags tile only daninger wo we saw lit in ostend wa the wreckage of tho inarene aind railway stations and tho the shattered glass in buildings on tho the ton son front tile duo to tile air concussions from british monitors pounding tho retreat ing el lenly tile tho piers lending out into tile son fion train from tile harbor basin showed of oc shells and bombs and near the end nil of tile pier filer waft wn ih alio gallant old vindictive after its magnificent part in tile Zee zeebrugge brugge bottling up ul exploit sho eho served tit no a boarding ship fillip abill carri carrial cl the to british nia rInes to climb on file lio Zee zeebrugge brugge mole hud bad been failed with concrete awl aeilt in to block ostend na U boott and destroyer bala the vindictive made it impossible for fop sizable Bli tiia to pet get into nto ostend and tile the just before the rp tried to tile work liy by making a mail ilila ship the vindictive Ilo however wever there Is in still rooan nt at high title for small inell relief ships and barges in faaet we c faw it fi converted trawler of tile tho red licit cross crosa already tn lit the fir ns as well ng as jnnny ships |
