Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1915-10-19

DUNKIRK, France, Oct. 19.-On the
map of Europe the portion of Belgium
that remains to the Allies is not large
but now it is such a busy part of the
world that one who whirls through il
for several days in a military motor
car, as an Associated Press CORES
pendent is now woing, is likely to
think that it is very large part OF
Europe, the villages are so full of
| French, Belgian and British soldiers,
| there are so many camps, hospitals
! and bases of one sort and another
here an aviation camp, there an am
bulance station and so on-that to
visit the country is to realize them in
any other way, For one man in the
| trenches there seem to be fifty carry
| ing supplies and ammunition, building
roads, repairing zridges, stringing tel
ephone wires and constructing barbed-
wire entanglements.
This trip comprises almost two
hundred miles of travel in what may
be roughly described as triangle
with Newport, Dunkirk and Ypres at
the three corners.
81 don't suppose we can get into
1pres?' asked the correspondent.
"You would be fool to try and you
would be dead man if you got there"
was the chauffeur's answer.
BetweenI Dunkirk and Ypres one can
find all grades of demolition. What
happened to Dunkirk by the action of
Krupp gun over twenty miles away
almost everybody in the world knows
now. But what happened to that gun
it would be of greater interest to know
and neither the French nor the Ger
mans are saying anything about it.
But the people of Dunkirk know that
it has not been in action for two
months.
AS one travels inland from Dunkirk
towards the southeast through Ber-
CUES he can readily appreciate why
France, Holland and England are full
q refugees wearing their hearts out
with thoughts of their demolished
homes, for there are to be seen little
villages with not a building inhabited,
hardly one unmarked one unmarked
by shell fire. Handsome sixteenth CEN
tury facades, modest brick structures,
artistic little churches have all gone
into wars melting pot. The streets
are as devastated as the sections of
San Francisco or Baltimore after their
CONGREGATIONS.
The French are holding the dunes
along the coast, then come the Belg-
ians. then more French, then the Eng
fish, then still more French, then the
English again, and finally the long line
if French reaching to Switzerland. 1t
is not often pointed out that the
French are sandwiched in between
their Allies in this fashion.
Stopping before 105mm. gun, clev-
erly concealed in a grove, gun which
had been silent but few moments and
was doing its bit" in an artillery ac-
ton spreading over one hundred miles,
A correspondent asked the Lieutenant
in CHdTSe WuSu uS thtcauQCu " III Z
again.
whenever they telephone u.s.
was the reply. 1--WE have fired only
twice this morning. When the line
of action is as long as the route from
New York to Philadelphia, each gun
has an easy time of it and there is
plenty of opportunity for conversation
Indeed, when the correspondent ap-
preached the group they were laugh
ing at a story of the Lieutenant. He
was telling them of devoted orderly
The Lieutenant had been sent to the
hospital as a result of poison gas. 81
should have left the hospital after
three days" said the Lieutenant, "but
my orderly would not let me-"
Have any shells burst around here
yet?"
mot very near, this big gun is pref