The Hartford herald. [volume] (Hartford, Ky.) 1875-1926, 1915-03-03
VAST CEMETERY
MARKS THE FIELD
Where the Terrific Ypres
Battle Ragged.
THE GROUND IS FLOWED UP
With Shells and Furr0wed BY
Old Trenches Bodies
Lie On Field.
THE WAR FEELING Is CHANGED

ground near thefront line is plow-
ed up with shells and furrowed with
the remains of old trenches and
graves. The whole place is a vast
cemetery, in which our trenches and
those of the enemy wind in every
direction
This statement is made by the
British official eyewitness" at the
front in a description given out here
of the, recent battles southeast of
Ypres and of the country in which
the armies are fighting.
'In a sheltered spot" he contin-
ues, there is little graveyard
where some of our own dead have
been buried. Their graves have
been carefully marked and rough
square of bricks has been placed
around them. In front of the
trenches German bodies still lie
thick.
AT one point of the brick fields
recently some 80 men, tried to rush
our line. At their head was a
young German officer, who came on
calamity, waving his sword. He al
most reached the barbed wire and
then fell dead, and he lies there
yet, with his sword in his hand and
all his 80 men about him.
1T is the same all along the
front in this quarter. Everywhere
still, gray figures an be seen lying,
sometimes several rows together
and sometimes singly or in twos or
threes.
This description might serve
with few minor alterations for
many of the localities along our
front, where the lighting has cen
tered around some wood, village
or line of trenches. 1t is as If each
had been swept by whitening blast
before which every object, whether
work of nature or of man, has
crumbled into ruins or become
twisted and deformed, and even the
very ground itself looks as If it had
been shaken by violent CONFUSION
of nature.
1.-THE severe fighting southeast of
Ypres. which had been in progress
almost continuously for four days,
ended on the night of February IT.
IS. On the 18th the French scored
brilliant success north of Arras,
capturing two lines ee German
trenches and causing great losses to
the enemy. -
Extensive captures of German
bombs and hand grenades have
been made during the course of the
fighting near Cuinchy and have
proved most useful. During the
night the enemys missiles are turn
ed against himself with great eff
feet.
February 10. the French lines
east of Ypres were attacked in great
strength during the evening. A sue
cessful affair occurred at Givenchy,
where a heavy artillery fire was di-
Tected against the German trenches
northeast of the town. after which
our men rushed forward and filled
them in and then returned to our
lines after having suffered but few
casualties.
EARLY in the morning of Febru-
airy 21 a series of mines were ex-
ploded In one OF the trenches. Far
Their north the Germans were able
TO occupy few yards OF our
trenches. but the attack they at
tempted simultaneously on the
neighboring trenches was repulsed.
''In the recent fighting southeast
of Ypres our howitzers did especial
ly good work. In the trenches cap
tured by the Germans at one point
observers saw one Lyddite shell af-
ter another bursting and hurting
the defenders high in the air.
There is no doubt Judging from
private correspondence found on the
bodies that the feeling in Germany
toward the war is changing. Prob
ably they are as determined as ever
to fight TO the last, but the early OPP
timism ana confidence is vanishing
II appears that the drain on the en-
emv's manhood II having . danress-