The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1915-02-11

Iof the apse. But inside the debris
lies as high as q mans head.
.DixmMpde Is dead, ths grave Of
an old culture more touching than
any city OF the antique world pn-
earthed after THOUSANDS OF Years:
for here one sees everywhere mo-
MentQeg Of men still living, whose
household goods are scattered In the
streets and whose most prescfpus be-
longing half-charreG, are rotting
away in the rain.
Old Manuscript Found.
y got some idea Of the loss from
an examination OF the achises which
4 discovered half buried among the
ruins OF the town hall. Manuscripts
on fine old Handmade paper and
parchment reaching far back into
the middle ages, lay there, singed.
torn and thrown topsy-lurvq by ex-
ploding shells, being ruined by the
rain. There was correspondence
from the beginning Of the fifteenth
century, carried on in German be-
tween q merchant in Calais and the
city government Of Dixmude. There
Hay the minutes and other documents
| of the city government from the time
when the Hapseatie league was IN
| the high-tide of prosperity financial
accounts reaching back into the four
tenth century, manuscripts OF hE-
lmapisttc learning, scientific treas
ures Of an important and fascinating
character. But gladly as one would
have lost ones self with these dis
lc0yefies. This was mapifestily not this
moment to become absorbed ip them,
! for the enAmmy's FIRE was directed
without interruption at the smarket
isqnara and the former town hall and
Int any moment these lettering walls
might fal.
No hnmman being was at first to
be seen in the ruined streets. AND
iiyet there was much life In the city
but underground. Hundreds Of
eyes were watching US while We were
wandering about. At times q senti-
incl would emerge suddenly from q
tumble OF timmbers and stones 70
ward to warn US not to cross certain
streets, for there are stretches o.
ground In this desolated town that
are swept by the enemy's rifles SO In
cessantly and with such a hail OF
bullets that 1t is sure death to try
TO cross them.
Live Underground.
Again we stopped before one OF
those confused heaps of ruins. Here
were the headquarters Of the German
commandment. Forbidding as the pile
looked from the outside, 1t was some
Portable enough inside. It was some
4 .tat nxata ohAttf khrnn-fafIFth
Of lis height left standing. and Its
rooms on the ground floor being LETT
intact. Sand bags and earth had been
laid upon the debris covering the
upper floors. and this made the lower
rooms secure against exploding shells,
Candles and lamps shed a mild and
peaceful light in the r0oms, IA Light
4 that set of finely the century -old
4 splendor of the costly furniture that
had been brought in from other ruined
/ houses. There were inlaid Flemish
/ WARDROBE inmoroccp style used here
1 to SUPPORT the ceiling, there were
small mahogany tables in Empire
STYLE. with gilt ornaments In bronze
The coffee percolator was hummtng
| An ancient clock chimed at the end
Of every hour the same choral: Only
Submit to the Will of God But open
1.-The door and let In the gray daylight
and you hear the enemy's rife bullets
n ,pattering against the walls, inces-
SAINT, and yet SO visions.
i. "A tunnel, partly underground, ant
partly broken through the walls O
rooms and houses, leads up to the
Iartillery observation stand. From
there we overlooked the haiti round
The hostile trenches lie very close t.
each other, at one point not moi'
than thirty yards. The river User
now carrying high water. constitute:
the dividing fine here. On the othel
Y side we could see the French, mostly
marines, moving about In theil
Itrenches rather carelessly-what the,
might we'll do. as We were not ans
wering their wild fusillade.
@"I have now seen trenches all along
Il the western front, from the Swiss hor
der to the North sea; hut / have no
, where seen such trenches as these
, along the User river. The bitches
are cut considerably below the watel
level Of the river. aud the result Il
THAT they are constantly filled with
lwater. They are cut, not into earth
but into fully saturated mud, ant
water IL all the. tine collecting IL
them. Hence the notions are covered
J with .brush, under which broolnlets
lean he heard babbling, yet without
awakening any poetic sentiments ~
1.-THE midst OF this perpetual rffe-tire
lat intervals sinks are dug in which
1.-THE water collects, and men are KEEP
busy day and night dipping 1t out.
Anxious for Action.
81 went forward into our most ad
lyanced trenches, and what i learned
there is we'll worth telling. Men
|lliving 1nder conditions. the most qnn-
comfortable that can he imagined. yet
Laughing over all the discomforts OF
ths war, and charishing only the one
wish that the inaction imposed upon
them by. a wise strategy may soon
come TO an end and that they may
Ibe allowed ito attack the enemy that
has been lying before them for weeks.
AT the same time French corpses are
Istill lying unburied before OF
positions, left there from the lrepeat-
led attacks that failed after frightfpl
llosses for the enemy. Lifting ones
head cautiously for moment above
the lac .of our trench. zone sees piles
lnf lailant dead men with ibla0ltonad