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DIXMUDE. HKLiiirM. Nov* i:i
(I5y A. I*.—) Scattered over the W>
lying country between Ypres and Di\
niudc. scene of many a battle, a»*‘
thou>ands of (human prisoners un*U
guard of Hritish and l‘*eigian >oldi«* -
as well as civilians who have been
called into the gigantic task of clea
mg up the battlefields and once moiv
making it fit for habitation. They a*
stacking shells, recovering brass case
and burying the dead. There is a m
tary efficiency about their work an
the progress they e making is mo>‘
u atifying for all the government con
cerned.
One may still see the ruins of mar.
Itritish and llolgian tank>. caught in
the (lernian shell fire, now tw isted and
broken wrecks. Now they lie ruste*
and neglected, mei** shells* ol the on.*
powerful machines which went in o a*
tion. Some of them are almost burned
in the mud. others hang precariously
on the edge of dilapidated trendu* .
while still others stand high in i *
fields where they wen* abandoned by
such of their crews as survived. Mans
of them are torn and ridd l as ‘hoi •
their heavily armored -ides wort* lit;
more than paper.
IVrhaps the most impressive fea
tur<* of this dead and blackened land
scape arc the trees. Gaunt and Stark,
s. ipped of every limb and branch,
they stand out against the skyline, s ►
many lifeless sticks.
Whole villages have disappeared,
gro ind bv the big guns into mud o
du t without one vestige 'einain'MR
to mark their location. This is true
of Poelcappelle, whose former exi.;
im c wauhl not have been suspected
ha« not a I'elgian major volunteore •.
the *p format ion that hoie his battal
ion had once held its main street for
th»ve (’ays.
Many live shells still remain in the
fields . and today as a party was pass
ing within a few miles of Dixmud'*
they were startled by the explosion of
one of these “duds”.
Reconstruction is going forward.
Near tin* shuck i ■•ami hy one thrifty
Itelgian who has ictiirned to the site
e*‘ his former home is a disabled tai k,
a »he,l having ripped through its si lo
and exploded in tin* interior. f rom on *
sid « f tin* tank to that humble shack.
.<•* tehes a ciothes line, and on given
days iho family washing is hung out
to ary.
ChiMien of tk * family play in the
;• eki n tank, enacting, as they have
o ton V at i r* kited, the grim story
of the > tt That is. they play*\vhen
tie y arc* not at work, for Melgium is
p<> . .ts children to rebuild it »
home .
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BOLSHEVIK 1 ATROCITIES
• ARE BEING COMPILED BY
THE POLISH GOVERNMENT
WARSAW, Nov., 13—* The Polish
government i;. compiling the story of
die atrocities committed under l'
Bolshevik reign in the city of Minsk,
now occupied by the Polos, i^he latest,
brought by an American Red Cross
worker who has just returned from a
relief assignment in that newly occu
pied city, concerns the murder of a
1 woman hospital assistant who was
| rash enough to express the hope that
1 conditions would improve when the
town fell to the Poles.
The director of tin* hospital in ques
tion, smarting under an ill deserved
i rebuke administered to him by a surly
j official of the Red regime, warned the
latter that the arrival of the Poles
j \y >u1 < 1 bring a change lor tin* botte *.
Ear this he was deported 1° Smolensk.
!! ■; woman assistant, uho ventured a
little further in expressing her op
! i( », was shot into a grave on th»*
<1 wn before the tak’ne ol the cily by
ti 1 Polish army.
When visited by workers of the
A nerican R. d Cross < Jomi % iion *
| P 'land, the hospitals and orphanages
of the city were found in such press
ing need of food that many .of them
had been obliged to close. One home
for war orphans had been without so
n mb as a crust of bread for more
than a week. Many others had suffer
ed simile.v \rivalona. According to re
ports on investigations, only outside
aid ran rescue these people from the
chaos of terror and suffering in which
thev are submerged.
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