Show PERMANENT T NO MANS MAN'S NS N'S L LAND ND Sites of or Probably One Ono Hundred Villages Villages Vil ViI lages in France Too Dan j to Use Fifteen u e. e in the district dis destroyed by war will never be rebuilt There are 17 towns la in the Marne district tri t which will be abandoned abandoned aban han l probably iti in all of France For man many years at It least the soil soU on which the be villages stood will wm not even cn be tilled It will wUl become a 3 permanent nt No Mans Man's land According to government advices tho the sites of these villages are too dangerous dangerous dan dan- to be used again o In order to avoid old lo loss los s of life the government has purchased the laud land on which the villages villages vil vil- lages Ing-cs tood stood and aad will keep possession of it until it cnn can be made sate safe These rhese sites are tre the ones often fought over on W which lIch the ground has been turned over and over ver again burying explosives cs of all aU kinds to unknown depths There Is no trace of buildings l left ft In the 15 16 villages so the refugees faced more more thun thuD the usual 11 ha hardships hardship They h however wever and lived d hithe inthe tn in the wort worst makeshift caves a d dug due outs Only Sj signs maintained by the gov gov- emment will wall mart mark the lie sites of U lle lages w people of ot the lurking dangers Stars end anti Stripes s. s t |