Indianapolis Times, Volume 45, Number 225, Indianapolis, Marion County, 29 January 1934 — Page 13

TAN. 29, 1934

LEFT (top to bottom) —For the everlasting glory of the country! Women workers in a French munitions factory. With all the able-bodied men serving at the front, women shop clerks were turned into factory workers. Eyes downcast and with the grim burdens of war about their shoulders, German soldiers file gravely

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along the trenches. There is no joy in their faces, a striking contrast to the jubilant moods of an earlier date. During the long tense hours of waiting, German soldiers pass the time reading papers, writing letters, smoking and watching the inscrutable field ahead. Guns are bayoneted for use should an alarm be called. CENTER —No oratory, however so eloquent, can

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carry the horrible legend of war with such grim effectiveness as this picture. Mud, blood and desolute underbrush frame the earthy remains of a German soldier. RIGHT (top to bottom) —Beautiful Rheims cathedral, praised by artists and layety alike, feels the devastating shock of an enemy shell. A story, passed about by the superstitious French, told that the glow-

ing image of St. Joan of Arc blazed in the flames of destruction. The Uhlan grey, buckled with arms, watches over a squatting machine gun. Those strained eyes are searching out a human target. “Peace on earth, good will to men!” In mudfilled trenches spike-helmeted Huns lined the battlefront. The trenches were a huge coiling snake spread over the fair countryside.

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