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Show AS BELGIUM APPEARS TODAY Country's Condition as War-Torn and Barren as When the Armistice Was Signed. Although small armies of men, mostly most-ly German prisoners, have been working work-ing nearly a year, devastated Belgium looks today just as barren and war-torn war-torn as when the armistice sent the German armies hurrying back into the distance from which they had come. So immense is the reclamation task before be-fore them, it is not noticeable that the workers have made any impression at all. Ypres itself, a collection of ruins, has hardly been touched. The debris has been swept from the streets and a lean-to station put up near the site of the old. A few restaurants have been reopened for tourists and relatives of fallen soldiers visiting the zone. A small gantlet of postal card sellers sell-ers and curio venders forms regularly outside the station a few minutes before be-fore train time. Several liverymen and garage owners do a fine business driving sightseers over the battlefields. |