Evening Republican, Volume 22, Number 102, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 May 1919 — Snowdrops From Hooge. [ARTICLE]

Snowdrops From Hooge.

Hooge is an evil memory to a great number of our returned soldiers. East of Ypres, close to Maple copse and Sanctuary wood, just above Bellewarde lake, and astride the Menln road, no stretch of ground has been more often and more hardly fought over from the dark days of late 1914 until last September. The whole area of Hooge and Bellewarde is scaared and pocketed by shell holes, craters and defenses until there remains not a yard of undisturbed ground. Yet here, making gunpits March, the writer discovered on the very lip of a shell hole a clump of snowdrops gayly blooming and when in April we had to wash back from the Ypres ridges because the Germans had outflanked us on the south, he carried away with him the bulbs. They were sent home, and today in a Harbdlne garden are shyly putting up their buds of white, greenstriped, and a few days of more congenial weather will bring them into bloom. —Londbh Mail.