Ogden Standard-Examiner | 1927-02-06 | Page 7 | Vet's Bones on Battlefield

VETS VET'S B BONES ON BATTLEFiELD SA Ghastly Ghastly Remnants of Great Great War nI Dot Lands I In France INDIANAPOLIS I Ind 2nd J I Feb b Ii 5 Those 6 Those who think that the tho tra I or of the tho great great- world war haSe ha ha e en entirely disappeared under the recon recon- reconstruction era will be ba amazed when they stand on the heights Verdun and survey the battlefields of ot nine years ago Al- Al Albert Albert Al Albert bert Greenlaw of or Augusta Maine resident member of or the France convention committee in Paris said upon arrival hero here to make his midyear report Going north towards Etain ho he said eald 1 1 saw a land laud desolate and bare bale Hardly anything green waa growing The raw raIV yellow ellow earth was pock-marked pock with shell shell- shell holes holes Bare Dare as it looked beneath the top coating of or the rain rain- washed rain washed soil ar are hidden rotting re- re remains re ro remains mains of ot war I BONES Pieces PIes of or German gas masl masic American trench helmets the leather head rest rotted away rusty shrapnel bits old machine gun bullets rotten remnants o ot machine gun all bells belts all these are there for or the tho person who will serape scrape about a bit The French government still engaged In sal sal- salvaging sat sal salvaging where more than th ln mon were killed have stacks slacks of ot old 1 rifles fragments or of shell elIcIt and casings and too out of ot the tho broad brond stretch of ot dreary battlefield there thero occasionally Is brought to to light the bones hones of ot a soldier who was tilled killed hastily burled buried and forgot ten forgotten These bones are being ten ten- tenderly ten tenderly derly deny Interred at the iii hi especially built for tor the purpose So many French and Germans were killed here later Americans died hero in the bitterest Cis fighting I of or the war that the tho is III continually receiving such receiving such boneS IlS a tho the old battlefields are care care- carefully care carefully fully Cully gone over foot Coot RE REBUILDING AREA From Chateau Thierry to the Vesle river from Crom Soissons to Rheims the tile work of or rebuilding has progressed apace Greenlaw Greeniaw said Wheat again grows over the dugouts an and 1 consolidated shell holes that Americans made as they drove tho the Germans out of ot the arne Marno salient Yet here too Greenlaw said In nooks an and l corners only known to the men who fought there tho rc- rc r re remains mains of or the great war var can bo be found In quantities It i Is estimated estimated e ed 1 that It will take twenty years rears to clean up the debris left leet when the tho armies ceased fighting