Show CHATEAU THIERRY TAKES UP TASK OF RISING FROM CITY OF ASHES refugees returning to the little left by heartless hun already small stor storekeepers are operating at full blast germans german s chased out too fast to take their loot with them where marines wrote themselves into fame PA chair thierry Thier crr rv repeated is a officer and smiled nt at me pity lately les that was as interest interesting I 1 off a month ago A boche bache im potted tied me there and im just going back to join my men but bill oil bermans an t find it interesting raw now all the germans are am gone but he was mas wrong there or are ger mans mana in marching g through the streets street of if chat Chii thierry ev every dav ge german man prisoners armed w ith fill chov els and picks who ho are cleaning ont all th the we wreck eck go and desolation they left lef I 1 in their path at h mile when B they a valuated evacuated the r city I 1 on an jul july Y 22 proud P sh who a are wl wielding aid lag scythes eyth to harvest tile the crops B la in ft the fields that the called I 1 anser land mii a month ago mild TO 11 d faced boys bay from the south of germany vilio seem ansem to prefer j joba be as a chore char women with th mops and ad scrub brushes to barrt carolne lag guns gun for far the he bull kaiser r and as for far the interest of chateau thierry Th Jerry lerry the curious I 1 have visited the field of if napoleon IT a AS W waterloo too for sev a el bial at cen the they will visit the NN ft I a gorloo of the roche boche march on paris in 1918 tor for several el e l more centuries an and d thrill with mill every eu century at the story of the battle on tho the outskirts of that city where hem Arneri american cn marines artillery and ad infantrymen started led the ell buna on an their run ran for B berlin 11 and nd gave them such abood gd start that the goal Is a get ting had huttar hotter each da war activity everywhere it takes just so an hour and a half by ra rail I 1 I 1 f from r am I 1 carls aris to reach the out outpost i of the battlefields of yester yesterday dav no an hour and a halt half that runs matt by like the fast reels ofa of a cinema with kith hurried glimpses of pas IS trains loaded with horses w with lit ea cattle I 1 t with big guns and men of camione camions crowded with mith sol ell diers dem r dust colored uniforms or of it hospital spital trains marked with red end crests bud groups of chiliano Chi clil lians ihm bull ing back to see bee what Is left of thel I 1 homes an in the r dmd districts one or of tile the stations tell the ill marine of ecung g oft if to PA join I a knot final if if ral ann ilni 11 1 backs we were loaded tied mith w fth mai antl ching elang equipment showing that they were lure going up the 11 line war ar we was written in large letters as over every esery human be ac but oft off to my right was tile the lit burne me a sleepy eedy and ad peaceful flow tug quietly t through gh valley iry fl life ids hiding behind je it slopes top covered sit w ath wheat and ad splashed with fill vivid livid poppies and ad e emerging ing aguin from a clump of Z thick tr trees and heavy underbrush at L la ferte ferle there here 1 Is a great gash I 1 in the station tall mh where re a boche a plane bull swooping do down mith within a fen felt li undred bards olds of if tile the roain plopped a hall half do doyen bombs just a few nights ago and from there an mito auto road mad poel pock homr marked k cd by shelf ind holes to luns through 1 erthe t til country and pink rooted loafed all if III IS lesa and deserted descried to lucy baucage le and 13 billiau woods where the that aim alcan marines use bh bhoj a med ed the hie world just what fighting stuff hie he ald united tied SM slates so briny army Is IN made of 1 I or acy y keeps keep open ima to house E to for all 11 comers BE re there are a few doors left art 1 in the lu vitiate take list bit b it they sag ing heavily on an ro ted linthi lint fi tt lukows ere are pro space boncea through thill the mind viands and ad lets drive at wah taming leaving facetious pui lillea about the the little beads of broke at that strew the gromad round fw roofs mcf loll left look apologetic in ill the y of if the lot rutn about the them midi ine ibe v village lag laud lauddale hu idles dle about a little ahn ach that bus baa been pitiless b bat t tor ed to ruin 0 only ll 11 ill bit bits of the w walls I 1 I 1 or are ifft but bar in hi the midst of file the ko kow imes a tall cruci crucifix fl un an etchill Etchi sl tile altar its of if tile the small chapel hope on tile the right side had been cleared off and the old abbe milla toiling alone m sea searching behlog am among a all the debris bl for pr precious I rel relics I 1 A A prater book back a few fea pathetic little orna wn or if kluba glass mere all that he had bad found ad to tn fare 1 in lit his temple ga goaded ded by the dead from dju Is ie nacelle bocage to aillean wood the ie road literally tE rally is guards guarded sd liy by tile the dead ab whose bodies were covered led where he they tell fell and ad marked eked by simple wooden crosses a on way many of m bich tile th not d far trench heba t he haa be bean I 1 hung mag it in was wa the way may of if the cross in tor the american america baa bivs who it those july rims when they started forward in the face of mul murderous derous machine gun fire to smoke the bodies boches out or of tile the stronghold that assured their falling in chateau I 1 climbed over graves and shell shelf holes through underbrush and past isolated juts its of bargold wire eaton gh elements luto into the heart of the woods where he the boches bad their dugouts and at eiery step of the way dafft cult to traverse e even an now when it I 1 has been I 1 trampled ralli pled I 1 over N or and ad cleared out since face the lit battle I 1 A wondered dered at the courage of the have bivs who had faed h hidden title lichine hire guns and unknown horrors lurking larking in the shadows shadow A halon hunein jawbone lay at the doorway of a hunting lodge which had been deg aes pera tely contested tested for far and ad from tile the underbrush near or by protruded p the hunts boots of an unburied un burled hun HUB A group of dugouts off to the right was a well mell concealed by rocks and un berb der brush sh and I 1 peered down into sev SEE slid oral of them the openings were just net big enough to permit a man to wr wriggle biggle through on hla his stomach and inside was a little straw and perhaps a battered helmet or rotting g gas walk maik A good gold hole for far a dog dg it if tile dog chat loan t particular p nicular but the run con dueling officer with me assured me that a dugout of tuat that size was used to accommodate five a men during a bombardment or barrage IN ft loca hen the barrage was as lifted the men would come cable out and go to work mcain with their machine guns tte ise saw lot lots of dugouts dug outa outs lini however maser from which minell the germans never emerged the opening had blen fillad up with earth from exploding shells shelf and the sanitary troops that clun came through after the battle were ere spend spared the t trouble r auble of barving those men id y of at the shell bell holes hall had bad a sickly greenish hue bus the murk mark of a which poisons even tile the earth and around others were mounds of empty car blidge showing they had bad been used as tor for machine gunners gunnels wrote themselves vea into fame N hen he the germans entered chateau Tl thiry iry 1 in june they reached tile the apex of a triangle tile the other ends of which R were ere th at SONS and reims held the city tor for 52 days day and were rare so st ionly In trenched that the french and it american america troops sh who retook the city dill it ft hy by boutil outil king movements a alad of I a direct drive which would old baie a cost cast many an times rabot BE as many in y if lives a tile the minos m inos of the american dill am which hill wild tile the scale ot of the if fight log wrote wo 11 themselves selves into him fame fail by taking oking belleau woods a the a other the troops troop of the tha divisions eager for far a similar chance of d distinguished to sell were Is 1116 mowed d to take vaux it dl I 1 estly to the wet west of chateau which sidell became tile pivot pilot point for ties the ao that squeezed qu ed the III huns from fear too illy fly A american ell ca artillery batt battend battard erd the village to hits and then fit the ingao lei aimen I 1 armed with fill maps had been drawn hv bv in an old tone in mason a of the village lawlor in and conallen conal rial led ahe he G i who mho had tak refuge it in tooh the cellars a rs tile muon knew juht where here tile the eel lar lars of tile the were merr located because became he had bad built them ha a that he clean cleanup up ERE the mt iirtH filer lerv p liepa reint me quickly done and the lit alent tie town 1 Is now w r rebuilding b gildig walh ill equal rapidity mi bull it UPS fee on tile the imin mad from flow le la rare to chat chateau BO an tile the people are bulk back not and us as we me imd through I 1 saw am cem carpenters and plasterers it at work ork making howes houses how es habitable A group of red eyed moroccan me so soldiers were s cleaning out n court rd and further down dnn tile ali road 4 were ere italia repairing shell bell holes hall another turn and we a were alii city itself draing tile the fr the famous stone tom bridge ner r e r he e manie blame that the I 1 ri is och were tn lea beirn t III in tile the building but aih which he be A amii ad d imilie em blow blew up in ten tea inho tile tes to lit bin it I 1 the ile german anum id lit last I 1 tune 1 e climbed on up P to in a hilltop fruit from w alch alve w e overlooked the river and chec the cita mal destruction 1 ahe I lie tou towering ering cathedral steeple ind had offered ft led a gunners mark w men it hod a 1 not at been overlooked the spire of ta ibe e hotel de ville also had been shot and ad the weathercock bathe k hung at halt half mast in the equine about the city hall the houses battle had bad ber been shelled to ruin to A radiator stood out not ij in midair hom a one of the them on the second cond story m wall all of a another hung a large portrait a of f a girl bombs and had bad turn torn their may w ay through roofs bad and afterward when it I 1 walked aked through the city streets I 1 recalled real led d that the work mark of destruction had bet been n compi completed c led by mad hinds furniture iture imd had been smashed and thrown into lards and streets pic tole had been ripped from frames and even mill hit clien ate utensils fi tied had bell thrown out at to rut rust A large pirt of it the a loot hout of the cita ft w as recovered vb w hen en the germans were more hurriedly forced out and a nurse in 11 an american red cros cro s hospital which followed fl d the allied troops I 1 into B to chateau thierry told laid me of seeing great sacks filled with pod gold and silver cups candlesticks tableware and ornaments of eiery e ei y description math tt alch had been stored tre in the hospital and left in on retreat the hospital originally for far 17 french 1 has changed h caged it hands so of afi five a pro fines c and ad we was a in such a state of to u pen kable filth when hen the americans took talk it over from the rallies that it took ten das dale to clean it out not up back of the b hospital are the grounds of the ancient flat ceable chateau for which the city ug was named they once or belonged to the duke of Th thierry lerry who was one of the famous reig can enra of the early eighth century 1 I climbed through passages there which were built by his vassals that he might escape to the other side of the varne whenever his ene enemies enele le pressed film bim too closely but which relent recently ly have been used by bodies as amp protection alan durl during air raids raid from french planes tile the open openings I 1 a are re par rally filled up now so BO that they no longer afford passage under tile the river but they offer adequate prom protection tion ago net bombs bomb there are deep built wine c cellars nor with will th thousands ads of bottles bottle which the germans carried up there md and emptied an and 1 there are old stone al corrara r ran tha that t I 1 the n inhabitants claim date balk back to the battle of crecy with empty cartridges from boche bache guns gun lying beside tile atheni A city of desolation Is Clo chateau ateno but a cit whose wounds already we aie beginning to heat heal it el ea total destruction b because imse since lure the german troops were more on one elde lit of the river and the allied troops on tile the other tile on both wiles bides m was s prevented present from direct operation and ad so civilians civilian or are 1 coming 19 back the be newspaper proprietor of the place h having mg to found it that onla all one bide of his ima house so had be been I 1 for torn off air Is inhabiting alze the RE other side and preparing to out at BE news a for far those who mho are am returning scrap E berv ell scrap of cloth and ad tire linen 1 in his hia house was as carried off slid and touch much of the furniture cletro destroyed led but he found the hiher which he burte burled in his back jod ard before lie he old ltd walh fill his mile and his wife mile he has found u job ranking cooking for military police who ho are sta tinned there them A millinery shop has opened up lip and thine Is another little store of notions u where her perin perfumes and nail polish are a on an sale its fruit stands food bad cheese aps butcher stores and postcard genders venders are operating at full blast on an street corners or I 1 in baft v rooms mow that open a on lit the street ulles ol of pre protection bg of glass or even mind windows a a or ilonis in many rules cases tile the more mor imbi hahl tulle mile houses have base been leaned out I 1 und are being used as headquarters ba for the ibe military will |