Show CLOSING SCENES OF WORLD WAR ARE RECALL RECALLED ED where fighting of famous american divisions was most eff effective active writing in the philadelphia ledger corliss cloonen grims grids gave the following graphic description of war torn france and belgium at the close of the contest tho the of le catelet camelet Cat elet which Is mostly destroyed was the scene of the most intense when it was reached by the twenty seventh division to the south through vaux andigony Is the battleground of the thirtieth in this sector we saw the tunnel made by the st quentin canal as it runs tor for more than three miles below the surface of the grou ground ild this tunnel built by napoleon Is s a very unusual thing it was employed extensively ten by the germans as a safe rest billet and they fitted fitte d up the tunnel with commodious comm olious quarters offices kitchens und and even stables when the T JAC t MOM OriENT 70 DU loarl EX americans american captured tills this part of the canal they took many prisoners here as the enemy poured out of the entrance to their underground quarters like rabbits out of a warren one route led on through and lille into belgium after crossing the belgian frontier we came upon the sectors that were fought over by the thirty seventh and ninety first divisions here as a part of the sixth french army they assisted in driving t the lie germans across the river r belgium Eel glum is not france and there Is 19 it a world of difference in many ways in the first place the houses tire are all of red brick instead of stone and this elves every village a decidedly dusty appearance the trees along the roads are dlf different ferent and windmills dot the landscape with waving arms the country though ral flat Is decidedly beau because of the care it receives so crowded moreover are conditions condition in belgium with houses bouses and villages everywhere that the whole country reminds I 1 one of passing through the suburbs of some large city belgian reconstruction of course belgium also 1 has flag tremendous and pitiful areas where the war has effaced everything but as german reparations payments have bw been made to belgium unit the bocon st ruction work here Is further along than it Is in france yet there stul still remains a vast amount to be done for example we passed through a great deal of devit devastation station between ghent and merlin from mt on our way to ypres cypres and crossing the border until we arrived at lille in france on the journey back we did not see one tree left standing or one house that had survived the war for miles and miles hour upon hour we rode through a scene of such desolation as it Is impossible to comprehend there Is no doubt that the two outstanding cities of the war were verdun and ypres cypres so much Is associated with these two places that their chronicles almot almost embody the story of the war in them the hopes and fears and miseries of two nations were bound up yet after seeing both verdun impresses us as terrible but glorious ypres cypres as preeminently eminently pre tragic we had heard board so much of ypres cypres reading of the struggle there every day for years that it seemed as if we I 1 ought light to know the city when we saw it on the way we rode down the famous road never in all history lias has any road been so bathed in blood as tills this fought over incessantly as is it was for four long years following it ank takes one through the heart of the most terrible of the British fl fighting ht zones and panoramas of battlefields unfold before tho eye as mile after mile Is traversed we pissed passed through one area where we counted fourteen tanks in the surrounding fields lying just where they had been put out of action grim relics of a furious battle not even the stumps of trees are left here the devastation Is utter complete tragedy at hooge close upon ypres cypres we passed through a little cluster of wooden shacks the name of the place was hoose hooge it gave me ine a shiver to see bee it for was one 0 of the deadliest spots of the entire war it was here that the hun first used the diabolical invention of 0 liquid fire on july 30 1015 ind and the british were literally burned alive it was also at during the german attack that the hie canadians lost more than men a startling percentage of their fighting force on june 2 1916 in this vicinity where little attempt has been made to cultivate the ground again there Is not one foot of the soil which his has not been blown up at some time along the roadside roa dide we passed many cemeteries and these gave the final note of tragedy to it nil ypres cypres Is so thoroughly ruined that there is very little left to see the remnants of the once magnificent cloth hall and cathedral dominate what Is left of the town and tire are impressive even in their condition rebuilding buIld ln Is now going forward in ypres cypres so rapidly that before long rauch much of the devastation will have been r removed but it will take many long years to efface the devastation in the hearts of countless thousands wrought by the germans at aprea it la Is impossible to escape a feeling of horror upon entering ent bring the city today and yet there Is inspiration too for cypres ypres 1 means nothing it if not courage and devotion to duty and sacrifice |