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Show MANY VILLAGES NOW IN DUST Not Even Walls Remain to Mark Towns That Existed Before Arrival Ar-rival of Spiked Helmet Men. Of many smaller villages not even the ruins remain, the walls having long since been reduced to stone dust. Of old magnificent forests there are only occasional naked tree stems, with a few leafless branches. There is no living liv-ing tree for miles and miles. German gas did it. The old inferno of sound has given place to a more terrible silence a silence si-lence unbroken by living creature. No birds, no moving things in the grass, nothing but the absolute silence of a man-made desert. From the agricultural point of view ', the country is years in the future. Every square foot must be leveled and j restored. The undertaking is infinitely difficult. Any moment the workman work-man may run into an unexploded shell or a hidden death trap. Every farm will have to be equipped with a complete new drainage system. The old pipes were ripped out during I the early part of the bombardment, al- j lowing the waste water to spread out over the flat countryside and collect in depressions. |