| Show aub kifton UI d ro ca of V FA 5 r fl ead F ael r C 3 I 1 POO e sot of warfare and deliberate hun polica A of destruction make it of years S by LLOYD ALLEN spa special clai staff correspondent dent wp lilt br wan union france 1 Is beginning to rebuild ill the scores ot of villages destroyed by shell fir fire during more mom it alian four our years a of f war th the tusk it I 1 Is enormous us it will require years of enoil but it will be curried lied on an by the b l rench e government with alth ta boly y a email ma amount t of outside do aid and ad a german fund collected as indent indemnity n ciders it la is impossible lot for a outsiders t to try to take on an more mom ill than a small all pa part of too the reconstruct loD work in france because first estimates m show the total octal di amounts to amne something like s IS ima 00 or ap pp mabelv Is the a am amount raised by the first zo three me liberty 1 barly I 1 bans in america it a strictly a national one job this rep replacement lArs of mid ON wrecked reeked homos home lire 11 mere are hp heaps or of atones ca america Is gaigg la g to contribute some billions cil lions baw of dollars dollare yorlli of material to the ro rebuilding building of devastated prince the through th the american bed C cross our I 1 dizh aid in this direction alone a will be it will consist of the tile trib ution of supplies bought by the R red cross cm for the fact active eway war work it Z carried ed on which are now w stored rated in the red cross warehouses and not zed needed ed u urgently y by the american america armies large as the red cross relief will lie be in actual dollars it must till still be slewed HB as first old work vork rather than tile the taking hiking on an of a program of actual reconstruction that Is 1 the actual re building ull ding of demolished rec cottages tage the red caws C a es rey Is to provide alien hen tt it ran fan the necessary ry art articles lets fir french ch villagers I 1 will ill need for starting life anew during the winter months there ma wag a big demand for far at stoves c th thousands and we here a needed with one NO move r a french family could linage 0 o 0 izet get falma through the coldest neat rather lier while the home dese deserted ried during 1 ag U war days was a made led Imbi habitable bitic B vaie there were not enough otovea avail ihle to supply one tenth of the de h hb oue D V heu t the bp red crow spent speaks ot of eve n work these davi dav it he has mind ad the pro idl n of such much feces 1 acs ics Us as at stoves in medicines id and simple it does tot not anemi when of reconstruction to take an adv p adreath rt in the rebuilding of damaged there are arc scheril ri american organ 7 ia does it tint it will I 1 rebuild houses hut but these groups are 1 taking a on a A verv line cited nu corb r of ham conics and mi or are not oring to house hotels co anything thine in more linn n small proportion of the two roll at linn 11 men 11 women anal ad children hit no b homeless maleas when the armistice a us as it yea toil must a t tile tide theonell th flo ronell cauch northern till fro aai it after it dav and ad see me the deso dean ht an at deserted Al liners 1 in order TO ret cat in an idea of the wm wreckage wreck elaza ane the in ringed area cove compra fi square bloz th theonell ronell this land a anre be amly severely shelled list rd v at wit where its the he I 1 land d has han bee no bigom blast fI by ill thou wndy madg of high ahel bell and bv be maps that the ground he heen been left 11 adelm too torn term up to he be 1 fit it Is officially estimated kimt poll elace of fir farm through one of 4 tile rhe most list prod productive a atile parts ot of hove base b sen rallied mined by artillery bee tom govna 1 benr I title spoiled field are am there them la 18 not anoush all left in the way of shelter to it house anything larger then than a mray atra I 1 at ax zu s 11 it if e 4 1 T eat cut batancourt which I 1 visited a on the wa war to the forest ot of the are Arf fonne s la IS just each auch a place A few hundred yards ards away way from mat the town toi ic a noman B lead land crown cown princes grand stand B behind hind the law town as vi viewed vid d from the farm former r billed allied trenches 1 Is from which the garm german 1 crown vu prince 1 in a concrete and ad sterl observation tIon tower three there stories 5 high watched the progress a a of battle lie he could see I 1 other things th tm homes of M Malancon rt t cre crumple cuble day by it day until former I 1 homes a were mom stone heaps best s with ith protruding timbers that U bouce held bold up roofs roof SIal aucourt can be re 1 nihed only by a sign board A few fast stray german graves are marked with ill carefully lette lettered led crosses on which hib metal identification tags tage have been nailed on do lip P the road mad toward germana about three quarters of a mile mont almit bascom facoun today aday stands almost complete ly y wrecked visitors to this territory orv never mone miss seeing tile crown princes safe shelter better which was constructed inside the walls sells of a three and a halt st ator infuse bouse the only four fear wells walh left standing in the town how dow ill the house around the crown prince ss helter e cad destruction te in still a mym several shells hit it unit and the die roof Is be partly torn into adall but inside con concrete rid wells three teet feet thick hick built timing lining I 1 the h c settle actual batlle the crown prince b had nd a what he t we was probably bev tile the finest till rine elde seat tor for the III billit that can be ba found on the ions boat little btttle line has fr from the neill sea to from the roadway 1 in f front I 1 of this house jan have to tn look ionic sharp sharply i y to de hect t r ven even a trees trace of tile the t tower inside hiehle amm a point phat P hat dw feet fee down donn tile the rood mad co lir law tower or 1 1 Var on the tha old arci freeli front frontier ley is ie of at tile the more inter interest tim lne bremil towns an onto illy 80 per ct cent datOv ad tvs eyen the bell the wall of me b alles standing tell ding there here it nee haa lint louis XVI escaping idu from part mid from tie mob thit an al iv executed red him ill we was caught and ad returned reft cd ft AA here conla 1 I XVI alti ill hl him queen anse vas its leboni d and arrested fro attal A american UM negro wamda were the 11 iny 1 1 I passed through breach the town law all aarow the aher on ma the tha of bounce houa a Y M C A hut but dawe an hundred andred b feet b in moll ant 20 feet feel ulde id e was I 1 in full fall I 1 Oi Ie niHon vaLlor citing cigarette and ad ai gavini 1 awne a some a of the finest hot chocolate in Rs prance t to a crowd of infantrymen infantryman ft phe another of the american outfits uel cerad poor the hut hot all 11 anxious june to catch a steamer home by the way the chocolate he late lam can a to ten gallon called t f fair it with mth a big bre brass spigot we was placed aired on an empty packing rc case around the Is can were war discarded condensed milk tins fine the only milly cups caps a available because this hut but was just star starting t mg operations and aery ry infantryman man Us waa is supposed to drink inu A as much c b chocolate 1 ut US as he de sli all e ed d C coffee alsto e could 0 also 0 be had b ad A small sheet it iron stove love with a pil pile of kindling chopped from timbers of ruined french homm homes warmed the whole w hole place there were no negro troopers trapper in th the e hut at the time but tho the T workers evidently dently had bad a system bastam of providing for the comfort of b both th blacks and whites without jarring the susceptibilities of either I 1 saw such an art an a cement war working 1 ing smoothly in a Y canteen a in verdun the only earn corn fordable for table spot split in blocks blacks of mined coined houses it ubi where the allied tied and german garma troops 6 stood it opposite each other month in and month an out during the days dais ot of strictly tran trench warfare rf tire that I 1 I 1 were completely w wiped out 1 it y int intense ise and nd terrific bombardments bombardment but wit when either side was biking i rapid ill chance ill the a of property as a it less for instance 1 in the great ger german an druc of september 1114 ill when ala the laser kaiser was wall trilling striking at par burls purls va very little destrie if ton was c caused I 1 except at the places where the terrible flirl dag took place during tile the first battle of ill the blame th tint it 1 la along alnar by mcauvic onna na le francois I mui and devign in other ill or ami words tile the d shichio tio ans me worst mort at t the be lad 0 where S ere the battle on was turn turned d the scene of tile the fiercest fie relm ficht ins along the somme and tile the ainne aisne the rame conditions prevailed here bere the destroyed d area ts Is from 10 to 12 milo miles across in many P places tar ahn there was mas ant her kind of de at ten lon the ahe willful w kini ht bv german troops in rome of t the he h alg it rotraut all through the our even to ithe ill fuel final lights dents of WS 1911 the gerenna arm c consistently wrecked d property rather 1 the than let pt it mr revert r to in the ilie iv ranch french in a mr late bante tal of preservation W willful dest a in prance US aa a german flirten in the spring of if 1 1917 17 beat about the time till coms came st into me war or |
