Show A GHASTLY RECORD I 1 france has just published the result of her investigating commission whose duty it was to report on the damage done to real property in those parts of france since evacuated by the germans it is an appalling list tabulated and set forth without comment specifically restricted to 46 war wreckage the data covers towns and villages chiefly agricultural districts the report tersely states that edifices have been entirely destroyed partially wrecked in communities more than 50 per cent of them the total buildings have been utterly destroyed the wrecked public de city hansa halev 1379 churches chu iches and structures such stich as libraries courthouses galle ries ribs to say nothing of sixty six historical monuments when one considers the corn com ively small war area and that similar appalling lists can be compiled in belgium in poland in Galicia in serbia and on the other warring fronts it boggles the imagination centuries df 0 f endeavor wiped out in less than two years for this thing called military necessity |