Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1915-01-15
stopped for Identification.

other newspaper men in the party
had a personal pass from the Bel
gian king and authorizations from
the British war office and French
authorities. they were stopped fire.
quently for Identification. They swung
past the earth-covered arsenal ON
the famous battlefield of Grayelines,
which two months ago was consider
ed archaic, but whose soft earthen
walls are now believed to offer bet
ter resistance to the big German
siege guns than do concrete and
stone.
The car bowlcd along over we'll
paved highway, as straight as an ar
row lined on either side by the tall
poplars which grow to q great height
in the low countries. The road was
marked by a continuous procession
of motor cars going in both diree-
tons. Officers, in what had been lux
urious limousines. whirled by, fol-
lowed by small squadrons of armored
motor cars, while heavy transport
trucks snorted along, skidding now
and then from the slippery paved sur
face into the deep mud at each SIDE
of the road, from which they are ex-
treated only after much profanity in
many languages. A car filled with
British naval officers bound for the
naval base at Dunkirk, passed at eX-
press speed.
Just before Dunkirk was reached |
shells could be seen bursting in the |
bright sunshine above the seaeoast |
and when the smoke floated away |
lazily a German Taube was in sight,
evidently attempting to reach Dun
kirk. At the same moment a French
biplane rose from the allies aviation
ground at Dunkirk. The Taube dld
not accept the challenge, but turned
and threw out smoke balls to cover
its flight Soon the Taube was a mere
speck in the sky towards the western
horizon, and the French machine
gave up the pursuit
A few moments before, the Belgian
aviator. Des Champs. in showing an
aviation bomb to some friends, had
dropped 1t with terrible results, the
aviator and fourteen bystanders were
killed.
DunklrS Military Base.
Dunkirk is a French military base,
= British naval base and an aerial
base for the allies Beyond Dunkirk
the road followed large canal
which bore enormous barges carry
ing supplies to the front. The helds
To the left were criss-crossed with
trenches built to be defended from
either direction in case the Germans
broke through on either flank. Niles
Of barb wire entanglements were
strung up with the same object IN
view.
long train of artillery horses
bringing back caissons without the
guns lined the road for a mile, while
foot soldiers began to appear making
heir way back to the bases.
The frontier was passed without
the usual customs inspection and the
party came within sight of real war
fare. All along the horizon towards
Newport shells were bursting. with
in sight of Fumes squads of weary
soldiers dragging mud-encrusted
boots, struggled back from their
thirtv-six hour watch in the trenches
Inst at dark the car swung into the
historic square Of Furnes, where the
allied rulers met in conference sew
eraI weeks ago. The square was
packed with motor cars ana trans
port wagons Of all descriptions WINE
winding through a passage kept open
for il. the French African army wiz,
It's medieval looking transport 81
carts. each drawn 10y three desert a
mules, matched through on hs N'' j
to shell-sweep Nieupoft :