Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 24, Number 266, Decatur, Adams County, 10 November 1926 — Page 3

I IjlighPosition | “VS. r I I IK Ki ' ■fel I : > IS I - 1 s PBwh 1 * ~ “7 This wrecker may be said to have reached the heights of his profession. He is aiding the * dernolishment of St. Olave’s Church, London. Meuse-Argonne Battle Field Still Is Scene Os Great Desolation Vienne Le Chateau. Argonne Forest, Fiance—(United Press) — That terrible wound torn deeply into the smiling countryside of France by the Meuse-Argonne battle is not yet heal ed. Eight years have only cßanged it from a wound to a disfiguring scar. Apparently many years must pass (before the desolation caused by that ■ titantic struggle in which 631.405Americans and 138,000 French fought 610,000 Germans and broke through the great Hindenburg ended the war—is repaired. At those historic points where the shelling was heaviest such as Vauquols, Avocourt, and Montfaucon the battlefield is now a wilderness of dead rustling in the chill antuuin rains and winds. On the tops of the hills where thousands of shells tore up the subsoil nothing will grow and the scar can be seen for miles across the country. The trench lines liave fallen in. and the heavy winter rains have washed soil over the grim relics of the killing. The Argonne Is doing its best to efface the memories of eight years ago. Trees which were not killed outright have grown new branches to replan- those torn away by steel and lead, and a new forest is growing up. The sapplings are already as thick as an arm. Os course, there are still thousands of stark, shell torn boles of dead trees which will stand many years yet. The reconstruction of the villages is far less advanced than in the Marne Salient. There seems to be a blight left by the snroke and gas of battle. The little isolated ravine where the "Lost Battallion” nrade history is marked only by a crudely painted signboard. The thicket has grown so densely that it is impossible to penetrate to the positions whence only 194 of the 564 men who went in, marched out. Here in Vienne-le-Chateau where the Seventy-seventh Division from New York had it’s headquarters in a cellar only about 600 people of the 2.W0 who inhabited it before the war have returned. The building where General Alexander had headquarters has been well repaired and is now a little restaurant for tourists. The manager, M. Plot, has gathered many souvenirs of the Seventy-sev-enth. He has kindly nailed a piece of glass over the hastily blue-pencil-ed sign which once indicated the headquarters of the “Lost Battalion” to preserve it. The cook’s Indignant pencil scrawl on a door, “Kitchen You Keep Out.” is still legible. John F. Newman of New Haven, Connecticut, if he survived, will be Interested to know that his penciled name on the door is still visible. The machine-gun positions back of the house have caved in. M. Plot is still trying to restore the little ornamental pond in the back-yard but shells smashed the conduits and he cannot secure drainage. A copy of the report written by Captain William J. Cullen of the “Lost Battallion" is framed and is proudly shown tourists. *Npt far away is the Four de Paris. H Is still utterly in ruins and apparently has not been touched since the battle. The Bois de Rossignol is studded with naked stumps of shellshattered trees and tangles of barb-

ed wire. Die village of Varennes Is nearly unrecognizable. A French lawyer has built a small chateau on the road leading down toward the stream and opposite is the monumental memorial to the Pennsylvania Division In construction. It is in the form of an open Creep Temple and will be one of tin* most, impressive in France. It is costing four millions of francs and the white columns perched on the hillside are visible for miles across the valley of the Aire. The row of buildings on the main street are nearly all reconstructed, but the stream Is still choked with rubbish where the villagers ducks swim. The villages further north where the fight was less intense are pretty well rebuilt, but you can find > videm-es of the American occupation—faded divisional signs painted on the old walls. At Cheppy I saw a peasant mother wheeling her baby in a cart made of an old candy box manufactured in Boston. The crest of Vauquois and Montfaueon are visible miles away and look as though they had suffered a bad attack of smallpox. The thousands of shell-holes, rim touching rim. have not been filled, and the gases killed all vegetation. Back towards the champagne battlefields the desolation is- profoundly depressing. Mile upon mile of ruined country without a human habitation within eye-shot. Many of the villages will never exist again. Perthes-les-Hurles, near where the Second Division went in. one a pleasant village of has . ceased to he. There is only a heap of weed-grown rubbish not as high as a man’s head. Hurlus is the same except that the shattered walls of the church still stand. Les-Mesnil-les- | Hurlus is gone forever. Only a mound of rubbish marks its place. Government authorities s«v it will take a generation to wipe out traces of this great bdttle which lasted only forty-six days but in which were 1,379.405 men trying to kill one another. o German Republic To Celebrate Anniversary Berlin. Nov. 10. — (United Press) — German republicans, but mainly the socialists, will observe the eighth anniversary of the founding of the republic today. While numerous organizations, loyal to the republic, will hold meetings, the government and the bulk of political parties will take no notice of the republic’s birthday. Unlike America’s July 4 and France’s July 14 celebrations, the commemmoration of the establishment of the new' German state will arouse no nation-wide enthusiasms in this country. I Ultra-nationalists make no secret 'of their hatred of the republic and desire for the restoration of the monarchy. Conservatives in Germany at best merely tolerate the republic. Liberals and socialists standalone In their epe-n .I* ..to ijie republican order of things. Speakers at tomorrow's meeting will emphasize the recent resurgence of monarchist propaganda. They will refer to the participation of the presumptive pretender to the German throne. 20-year old Prince Wilhelm of Hohenzollern, in this autumn’s army tnaneuvres at Muensingen, Wuerttemberg—a symbol, 'it is believed, of the Hohenzollern’s ambition to strength en their influence in military circles. The oelberation, it will be pointed out, marks another milestone in the republic’s career. For Gsrmait publicans are convinced that tne republic will strengthen its foothold 1 merely by surviving from year to yeaq- and that republican sentiment will gain momentum as uTe population becomes increasingly reconciled to the disappearance of the royal dynasty. During the first years after the revolution, the socialists gained the upper hand in the state. They not only obtained the chancellorship, but also the most important cabinet ports, including the Ministry of. Defence. for their party members. Gradually, they were pushed aside by parties which represent, not labor, but the employers, big manufacturers and bankers. The strongest evidence of this shift in the control of the republic is the recent avowal of loyalty to the republic, emanating from leading industrialists at this autumn s meeting of German employers at Dresden. The tone of this gathering showed that the owners of German Industry today feel themselves strong enough voluntarily to grant a share in the government to labor—more as a sop to the weakened socialists than as a concession to socialist power. —o At Sun Set Wednesday Night. Square Dance. Thanksgiving) Turkey given away free. Thurs--dav, Armistice Day, Balloon Dance after class at 9:15. Lqts of noise. ' • Q Get the Habit—Trade at Home, it Pays

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