The Sunday telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1914-1927, 1915-01-17
fiot a rouse in the Entire City
Escaped the Rain Of
Proiectiles.

tofces from the German trenches aut
1eiieying them with fresh troops 1!
dramatically discussed by cores
pendent Of the Berlinger Tageblatt
Who prefaced the story with exper-
iences Of himself and colleagues II
Getting into and out Of the firing line
we could only reach the village
HessefiT he writes Here we had
q leave the automobile I'm the mud
behind a church whose walls showed
the marks Of desperate struggle
ft1serywhere on the ground, bsndages
arms and parts OF uniforms every
thing covered with yellow mud. Be
Side the church we're fresh gavesi
Discovered by French.
From Eessen to Dixniude the road
1pr three kilometers runs parallel<t to
t1e French trenches. Every auto and
every wagon seen on the road is tan.
4 IN Under fire from the trenches which
arc only about 400 yards away.
50 we left the automobile in cover
End continued our journey on foot
keeping about 60 feet apart in orde.
70 be as tnconapicuous to the enefn,
% possible. But they had airea.y
seen us. A rolling fusillade began IL
sweep the road We jumped from
tree to tree and made part of the
distance by running In stopped posi-.
non behind a hedge.
Ihe mud was several feet deep In
places, and our way lay past trenches
iAnq dead horses. Many OF the ami
mails were chestnuts, deeply Embedded
u fiie mud. and their wide open eyes
afared into the sleaden sky in most un.
eanny fashion. Z (.
Qf 9 sudden the man ahead OF me
Shouted and jumped behind the wall
y g a building that had been laid low
He believed he had been hit, but as
luck would have it the bullet Just
missed him and had buried itself with
9 fhud On a nearby tree
FMS experience induced us to pro.
gress a little more rapidly and with
greater caution-from cover to GOV.
81.
!, One at a Time.
After a while we came to an ex-
posed railroad crossing some 900 feet
from the trenches of the enemy. First
one man bolted across the open place
hen the other, until we were all over
The bullets from the French helped
every one to lose no time.
but now we had the protection Of
5ne railroad embankment, and avail
apg ourselves Of this. we soon reach
ed the ruins OF Dixmude Several
streets and especially the market
place lie within the fire zone Of the
enemy. -
this uncanny town dwells UNI
speakaible fear Dixmude has been
s silot up as no other place in the thea.
ter of war. In the shell furrowed
streets the mud is several feet deep
z ana there appears to be not q single
4 qouse which has not been 7iit by a
! shell. But of this / am not sire
dying from one street corner d
mother, to avoid the bullets which
seem to have a sort of fountain head
at the end of each street, you Have
y no time to make many, or close. OBJ
seryations. At any rate the ruins
FORM little hills one has difficulty N
getting over.
Hail Of Bullets.
I'VE finally came to the market
place, which is constantly swept by
q hail of bullets. In a rush we eain
the shelter OF the walls of the city
aaL on the other side To one side
so q tnis are the ruins Of ST. Nicholas
cognizabie as a church today only
~ Two walls and a pillar which real
INTO the sky like naked giants.
he town Is empty and deserted
.s5ut you become aware of noiseless
Qneanny sort OF life in the houses
comes from the cellars where our
oiniers are in quarters.
We finally met the commandant OF
me place He had been decorated
with the iron cross, first class, and
showed that he was glad to see new
Noes IN this place of desolation.
q AS he explained the situation "a
us, bullets hit the walls to the left
and right OF -us. We counted forty.
I'VE IN one minute on, the wall OF q
lding close by. Zealously, by da,
ana night, this waste OF Ammunition
goes ont
The only living creature our mer
found in Ddxmude were dog an6
three cats. Three times-four times
l}ixmude has been the center of q
Dettle But now the large heap ot
ruins - In our possession, and with i,
We have gained point directly 81
the User canal, which passes close t.
the last house of the town on the
west. l
But we intended to get into the
tfenches the firing line.
he road to tlds lay through 8
trench approach whose wild ant
ploody history is not likely to find
an equal even in this war. on we q
tirough shell wrecked houses. ,tun,
4els, cellars, stables, upstairs through
lows OF rooms, then down again;
across g narrow street exposed to thu
tire OF the enemy; through NOR.
honses and rooms and across yards
and finally into a long slbterranear
passage from whose ceiling the watel
fan In streams.
I'm the distance we finally saw 1
light very much as one does In com.
ms TO the end of railroad tunnel
We were in the trench closest to tn.
enemy
Cautioned Not to Speak.
We are cautioned not to speak
Bit 2 scant 300 feet away from us /,
the trench of the French. You could
see everything very plainly withou
the add Of field glasses among tn,
CHER objects a number Of careless
E're1tSf sold VINO moved about A,