New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-12-12
, Battery of Threshing
? mochines Now Work
ing in War Zone.
rpOOPS, ONCE LEAN,
BECOMING PORTLY
: Lilo, at Front Gets One More
warm Meal Daily than in
Time of Peace.

u..dausrters 81 certain Neiiiah
France. Dec. IL forwarded by
''a ..,..,bile courier TO Berlin. thence to
s's..,-A correspondent to The As
- ...,d Press SPENDING week in the
~, !, operations. has also been the
~ ~, # Generals Won iIeeringen, for
War Minister, and now COM
ding the seventh army; Won
@-.sl the espturer Of Maubeuge, and
-, Emmiel the eonquerer of Liege
and Nsmur.
Several hours were spent IN the
,,,nebes in picturesque old town.
-. German rihemen and French
,.,;o,paires plan and play grim prac-
- iokes Of war upon each other
~. positions a scant 200 yards apart.
, ,,se Of Germ troglodytes was
I.,rd in one nlace on this front. Men,
,,,,ss supplies, hospitals and so forth
..,, housed in hillside csverns. for
n.,lv stone qu-rries which were sbso-
,.,.ly nrote,ted b. a. fifty foot stone
,oof from even the most powerful she'll
Ere.
The morning was passed in an artil-
,,,, observation stand, opposite
Rbsims. where a powerful stereoscopic
,,l.scOpe. through which the fire of the
artillery is directed, brought the OBJ
server within 100 yards of the city and
II. Cathedral, and enabled him TO see
that the Cathedral and its towers we're
standing fairly intact, although black
sned BY fire.
The Comforts OF War.
A trip Of inspection was made
through labyrinth Of field fortifica-
tons and approaches along the Aisne,
At its nearest point to Paris, where the
lines are normallv 200 or 300 yards
apart. The soldiers. even in the fore
most trenches. were found living in
comparative comfort in their under
ground shelters. They are we'll sup
Piled with blankets. food and water and
clothing. and are in good spirits de-
spite their long residence IN the
trenches. DeSultory infantry fire is al
vsys in progress here, and the rattle
Of machine guns breaks out now and
then The artillery on bot sides has
thrown tons OF iron daily, but there
have been no great fights OF late IN
this SECTION Of the front.
OF all the impressions OF the trip
one Of the -Ost striking is at lett
BY the countless stacks of unthreshed
grain, stretching Tor miles in every di-
rectiOn throughout this granary of
Northern France. More than hundred
German threshing machines of the
largest size are working in the region
occupied BY the army, and six new ones
we're encountered to-day, plugging for
ward 10 Teinforce these harvest bat
isres which are doing work quite as
important as that Of the 42-centimetre
cannon. The army i not only living
on the supplies Of -four and meat de-
rived from this section of the country,
but is actually sending wheat and -four
back to Germany.
The German soldier at the front is
smiling and well fed, as he has one
nore warm meal daily than in peace
TINE. The lean greyhounds, seen after
ne dash on Paris, are again rounding
oat into portly Germans.
Songs Are Fewer.
The normal soldier at the front does
&c. sing as .Auch as formerly, partly
perhaps because he has sung himself
out and partly because singing in the
immediate vicinity Of the enemy is apt
10 draw fire, but he is neither discour-
aged nor exhausted There is no in
eelestion whatever that his nerves are
breaking under the strain of the pro-
;rseted war.
No trip to the front would be COM
pete without visit to the field hos
liiaL Health conditions are remark
soiy good, the surgeons state, even
eelter than in peace times. There has
oeen considerable typhoid, but this is
Tow well in hand. wing 10 IN vigor-