Evening Republican, Volume 23, Number 84, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 April 1920 — SHELLS STILL PERIL FRENCH [ARTICLE]

SHELLS STILL PERIL FRENCH

Old Ammunition Blown Up by Fires in Area Devastated by Germans. Laon, France.—Residents of the devastated districts of Fraifte are still fleeing from bursts of shell and shrapnel. The new menace is caused by small fires, which frequently set off the shells' that havp been piled up to be hauled away and exploded in some safe place. In the desolate fields thousands of unexploded shells have been picked up by German prisoners, and, though there are details hauling them away and exploding them in remote valleys every day, there are still long ranks of them everywhere. Sparks from locomotives and from small fires, where battlefield rubbish Is being burned, occasionally set fire to patches bf dry weeds, and the accidental bursts are numerous. Roads passing places where shells are being set off are guarded, but it is from accidental blasts that the danger comes.