Show LA LATE E WAR 7 AREA A EA AN EERIE PLACE strange quiet now rests over land torn by shot and shell TRAVELER AGAIN IS WELCOME plain vegetables vegetable and certain meats even choice wines again are plentiful friendly lights seen at night behind the lines in ili france this land of recent battles Is a queer lurid now over the shell torn villages find and blasted woods the lie pitted fields and ruin of all that once olice was Is a strange quiet file winter sky Is lacking lit in airplanes and great flocks of crows have taken their place A few villagers have crept back to see what remains of their homes find and holdings but probably the winter will iivo passed before reclamation and reconstruction tire lire undertaken on a large scale along the roads rep repaired alred and re bridged for the tha allies advance into german territory long camion trains move slowly and always southward they travel leisurely now for the need of 0 hurry Is gone they bring buck back tile the bah salvage age of battlefields nil at I 1 tw things that eliat go to make war ablin abandoned done d or captured endless trophies of war truck load after truck load of rifles binca and shells of water bottles lind and haver sacks guns anyo nota nets find and trench knives and pistols iness tits kits overcoats caps tin an endless catalogue of paraphernalia tire aro rought brought b in the battle zono zone Is still A full I 1 I 1 of it ali all in heaps and racks wait waiting jig sul sill vage now and then come trains of airplane callons burdened bur denell with dismantled lying flying machines ot of every type an and every nation engine and fuselage and running gear bear on tio truck find tile great wings on its specially designed trailer of them tire are unharmed but ait ninny many show bullet holes through tile frail fabric or the ruins of a crash A fair proportion of them bear the M maltese A ilese cross that marks thein beelie tile are trains of captured enemy arti I 1 ery particularly of motor batteries driven and manned nin tined by frenchmen and these are happy ou outfits tilts often tile guns tire aro decorated with evergreens ever greens and always the fren frenchi ell soldiers laugh tind gilve it greeting As they creep creel through til rough the he villages es tile the populace hocka flocks out to view lew tile cannon that tor for four years sent seat death and devastation to their land ilind and the children clamber on oil the carriages and out on the grim barrels hut but it Is tile ho troops on the way back that are most interesting returning to rest areas or to their ports of embarkation bar kation tor for home french or amerlean american their behavior Is the same always they greet everyone ec cheerily or boisterously find always the french off leers salute with alth a smile when they meet till nn american car while the men wave and shout la guerre eat cst lints I 1 or it similar illar greeting even tile c children hii cry finial vil liall to tile the pass lilt ing travelers Travel cre are welcomed strongest strangest or of till nil lire are tile the lights nt at night lit in tile ts and villages or shining shifting frIen dIlly from froin the isolated farmhouse in regions further back ayick for so long france seemed it deserted land to tits traveler by night ilour hour after hour the lite press correspondent lins lifts traveled nt at night without a glimmer to bo be seen ill ih the countryside and now from every till hill and vale tile the cheery windows shino find the villages tire anro the papers devote col tp to the of parts but it Is here in the remote port of france where here ili lina been flint lights it at night seem niest niost most wonderful even it if alwy are anro but candle or little 1 where v 1 ere onea once cammons or staff cars cara loomed loomed lightless in tho the roads to tho the imminent i n threat ol of collision and often its its tho the brilliant headlights stab tho night there in if every bollage now alie lie trav cling st allgor can obtain food not in fit Pe but enough find very the polite bild refusal to requests for lint taint usually were re calved ill I 1 linni lets or single foring i luis tits give wit any to a cheerful offering of what there la Is for the lit fort ners know now that hut lite ilio of it winter of short kudolis linn has disappeared tile rationing of f vert vertain aln foodstuffs Is still lit in effect hund tickets are necessary necess nry in public illig ill ng places no mutter matter how butter are pel dom doin to lie be lind imd and clinese cli oiso la Is scarce but of enlik vegetables annl certain mants thoro Is plenty find tile lloil it red and whito wines of tile ho country are forthcoming when at ahk isaason there Is gaine in tile tho small town hares nud and rab alts venison rod red legged partridges find the largo french find wild loar boar it Is high but not fio high ns ila it Is nt colne holne |