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WITH HE FRANCE,
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'at their way
:its a picture of ruin, dtr
vii’ages are uninhabitated]
and bsi eri but sepulchres.
ugr craters, gashed by bom
bardme it \ AT. t u d< iuir.t reds of thousands of shell
tiohsa k-. *r abandoned guns, wagons, j
heaps of a . i. id ■ • ts and all the other debris of i
four y tv:- of - 'mating, the whole route betrays
the awful c fleets * f war.
Eve •• '■, -y red ion and protecting each'
slight* -t r ’ .>< ’ ; t s the roads until torn away,
by shor • i • Tu a am r ■ countless strands of barbed
wire, most of it rust 1 by t reins crazily topsy-turvy or
its supn »rti ’ ■ rr st ' : tr.. ha e fallen to right and left. “If
it takes four ye *s to \vi i tlu war,” said some casual vis
it rtot years to roll up the barb
ed wire that has been used in n inning it."
Take trip from ruined, desolate
Ayo- (tour* •' wtv --'st t * MTcncourt and Montfaucon, the
scone of sow- o ' f'e bitt • fighting of the entire war.
Avoco ’ ‘ as i ’ mins : ' »:■* ever the American offensive;
started.
• Fo»- p $o*ic! mile nor t be road winds across foot-;
>n tre< now are
shorn bat GVa-T.c i ! ve torn the road in twain
and cun; t i out ho’ »s f ': • d more feet deep, a hundred
and more e . •» ts, i » ? round or across which engin* i
e’ rshaxe had to c.' e idled-ingenuity and the surround
-'ng o Xu *y, st ’ip n (I * f it woods, has furnished the ’*ock.
Fortum Iolv t’- r« is plenty of that.
" Toe’: > *>■' road tr* the remains of what
Were once i x \ \ eo: ifoi-taUe clugouts and buildings
blown into thousands of pieces by discharges of explosives
when the e lemy retreated. 1 arther afield and as far as
the eve can reach across the low hills are hundreds and
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thou Is of she'd TT>s, their creaters overlapping, big
and li» tie holes fro iles of every character, that have
torn and scatter* t the earth almost beyond the hope of re-;
demption.
ereisth ebris of the battlefield, guns,- hel
mets, articles of clothing, piles and heaps of ammunition,
bfokoT>.dov p and splintered wagons, cassions and trucks.
And, if one go over the scene soon enough, bodies awaiting,
bui !nl.
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The comparision between Malancourt and Avocourt
is striking - because the former has suffered so much
more. Buddings no longer have even a semblance of their
former state. Where in Avocourt wails at least still stand
here and there, in Malancourt everything has been razed
as though with dynamite, and the crumbling remnants are
seized upon to rebuild the shattered roads and make them
passable for the insatiable armies ahead that must have
more and ever more ammunition, and food and supplies.
Neither Malancourt, nor Montfaucan, nor any one of
a score of towns within the sector where the Americans
operated lias a single living inhabitant left In every di
rection is a waste of craters and up-torn earth. It is the
quintessence of desolation and nothingness.
The once beautiful wooded slopes and hills are now
torn and gashed. Great artillery bombardments have
stripped hillsides of all but the stumps of their trees,
which tower pathetically against the sky without branches
' or foliage, mere crippled relics of their former selves.)
Many of them have been shattered by shells as by lighten- j
; mg, others cut off as though by bungling wood choppers i
unable to fell a tree cleanly.
The reconstruction of Europe is admittedly going to
he a long, hard task, far longer than the war that made it
necessary. In time to come the meadows and valleys be
tween Avocourt and Malancourt will be green again, andj
the trees of the Argonne Forest will grow up as they did;
before 15)14. But as they all look now it seems very , very'
' far in t he future before the ruin, the utter destruction, can
be made good and the former status of this portion of
France restored.
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RUSSIA, Dec., 10— (Correspondence of the Associated
Press)— Russian peasants in this district are glad to be
freed from Bolshevik rule. ;
“The Bolsheviks promised us that we would have land:
and peace and plenty,one sturdy old man said to The As- •
sociated Press Correspondent,” but we soon learned what I
: iheir intentions. It was just this: ;
“Tonight l go over and steal your cow and tomorrow !
1 night you come back and cut my throat and steal it back.”;
The peasants here are now settling down to what they!
hope will be order and tranquility after a long reign ot;
Bolshevik terror.
All along che roads here one finds, in the evenings,:
peasants walking back to their houses with little bags of j
food given them by the Allies. Now, and then, they are
given a can of jam, a luxury even for the rich in Russia
now. . t nrfff Mt'f
In one village, which the Allies had not yet had. time
.0 reach with their food supplies, the correspondent found
one peasant family eating swan, which they described as
'xceedingly tough.
“It was a sacred bird with us before,” one of the peas
mts apologised. “but we have no meat and the Bolsheviks
rilled the fish in our lake with bombs from their air
planes.”
The peasants are working willingly under the kind
reatment of British and American Russian-speaking sol
ders. They were very glad to build an aviation field, cut
ting down many acres of thick timber, because they were1
old the field would be theirs for cultivation after the cam
paign. ; •
STAPLE ARTICLES ARE CHEAP IN MEXICO
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CHIHUAHUA CITY, Mex., Dec., 10—Beans are|
plentiful and cheap, meat is more plentiful and cheaper j
han in the United States, and corn, the staple of the Mex* I
can diet, is again selling at prices which prevailed before j
he revolution began. The only article of food that is scar
ce and high in northern Mexico is sugar, which is very
>carce and must be shipped in small quantities from the
United States or from Sinaloa and Sonora. The result of
Uiese^ reduced prices has been to make the Mexican work
men again a good provider after years of scant fare and
iigh prices. The low prices of staple food commodities is
ihe result of large crops and the increase in the product
ion of beef cattle on the ranges of the north.
SOME SUN — SOME 33 YEAR RECORD.
YUMA, ARIZ., Dec., — For the past 33 years a ho
tel here has displayed a large sign announcing to the pub*
(ic it will serve free meals every day the sun fails to shine
on Yuma. It is a tradition of the house that there has nev
er been occassion for making good the promise conveyed
by the sign. According to old inhabitants, there has not
been a day in more than forty years during which the sun
fa ted to shine here.
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