The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1914-12-13
IMPRESSION 0
GERMAN ARM
IN THE TRENCHF
REPRESENTATIVE OF THE 40.
GATED PRESS IN The s,t
OF OPERATIONS WHO n
BEEN THE GENERALS cur,
SENDS HIS VIEWS.
~ AssocIATED pPrso

Headquarters Of certain Germ.
nay in France, December IL
warded by automobile courier r.,
lin, thence TO London, 4:lI a
A correspondent of the Asa
Press in the field Of operation,
been the guest Of General Won H..
gen, formerly war minister and
eommanding the seventh army.
eFal Won Zwehl, the capturer NJ
beuge, and General Won Emleb
queFer OF Liege and Namur.
Several hours were spent q,
trenches I'm a picturesque old ,
where German rifiemen and m,
legionaries play grim practical 4
OF war upon each other from h
tieps a scaht two hundred yards a,
A race of German tregoldytez
found in one place on this front
horses, supplies and hospitals
housed in hill side caverns, form
stone quarFies absolutely prot,
from even the most powerful
fire.
The morning was passed in an Al
lery observation stand opposite Ri.
where a powerful stereoscopic d
scope, through which the fire of
artillery is directed, broueht ne
server within a hundred y.Gds Of
city and the cathedral and ens,
him to see that the caChedral ars
towers were standing fairly intag
though blacksned by FIRE.
Inspection was made OF q labsT
OF field fortificatio approaches
the Aisne at it's nearest point TO n
VheFe the lines are normally lw
three hundred yards apart. The
diers, even in the foremost trs-.i
were found living in comparative d
fort. They are well supplied \
blankets, food, water and clothing
are in good spirits. Desultory .aj
try fire is always in progress
and occasionally the rattle Of mad
guns breaks out. The artillery
both sides has thrown tons Of
daily but there have been no q
lights Of late hereabouts.
Or all the impressions OF the
one Of the most striking Is that
BY the countless stacks of unthra
grain, stretching for miles In Il
direction throughout this gTanlHI
loTtheTn France. More than 100
nan threshing machines are w0r
n the region occupied by the
nd six new ones were encountered
lay plugging forward to reinforo
theirs. The army is not only liv-I
uppltes Of -four and meal del
rom this section OF the country
) actually sending wheat and
ack to Germany.
The German soldier at the fro.
milling and we'll fed as he has
lore warm meal daily than in A
inc. The lean greyhounds seen
he dash on Paris are again ron.
ut into portly Germans.
The normal soldier at the front
OF sing as much as formerly nd
because he has sung h.-
ut and partly because singing 20
Immediate vicinity OF the euemr|
pit to draw FIRE, but he is neither
outraged nor exhausted. There I
ldication whatever that his nj
re breaking under the strain
salth conditions are remarkably
le surgeons state, even better OH
sace times. There has been 81"
able typhoid but this is now ws
and, owing to the vigorous use q.
lti-typhoid serum. The medical
artment is now cleaning out
llaees in the immediate vIcin.g
sadquarters which were found %
,phoid centers. The surgeons
olating or vaccinating the .nhA
,nts of suspected villages.
The Germans evidently are pref
q for an extended Occupation Fls
4asants. under the SUPERVISE
a Certain extent the mild conf
on Of the Germans have planted
r crops and are working in the
bridges destroyed dE
70 occupations are everywher5
rebuilt with stee.
srmany. The roads are being m
ined as usual by French labor
some cases factories are beIns
iened.