The St. Mary banner. (Franklin, Parish of St. Mary, La.) 1889-1931, 1915-07-24

tue Ntiu VI operations, ana WIN WHOM
| looked on the devastation and desc
lation which rule in the shell-torn and
firescathed villages of the Marine and
Mouse. This French officer is Capt.
Gerard de Ganay. Before this. have
written something of my military COM
panion. His mother was an Amer
lean He stands six feet three in his
campaign socks. He is dressed today
color melts into the sky screen, and
as my eyes seek the captain out when
he Is at distance, | feel that no am
bilious artillery man can make an ade-
quate mark of him, loomingly big
though he is
There are so many shell-made cav
tiles in this plain that | wonder 1t
was necessary for either French or
German to pause here to use the
spade for grave-making for their dead.
The fallen here are in great numbers.
Many of the burials have been made
within a few days. The survivors OF
the battle lay their comrades away
tenderly. At the head of one long.
mounded trench there is an inscrip-
ton which says that within rest 81
soldiers of France. On a cross at the
head of the trench, roughly written by
some kindly hand which in the battle
time must make haste with its task,
are the word, "Honneur aux Heros."
Supplies Constantly Arriving.
From bases which l must not name
and lying well to our rear. supplies
constantly are being brought up in
gray motors and in heavy army wag-
ons for the French armies battling
along this line from ST Mihiel to the
Argonne forest. l know that the last
French official report has reported
gains in the region of the Argonne
forest, which lies only few miles to
my left and from which every few
minutes / can hear the believing of
heavy guns 1t seems from what
hear that the high hope Of every
trooper in the forces of Generals Lam
gle de Carry and Sarrail is that the
effort and the success along this line
will be in keeping with the marked adj
vances, which, rumor at least has it, the
French and the British armies are
making in the far northwest, where
flank on flank as we hear it here, they
are we'll into the first stage of the
long-heralded spring drive.
There are no motor buses left in
Paris. Today / know why. They
have been pressed into the service for
supply transport purposes all along
this part of the rear of the French
lines. One of these buses, whose
ordinary work is the carrying of few
native Parisians and of great mum.
Der of American sight-seers along the
boulevards of the big city, has just
passed me on the way to the front
In big letters on its side appear the
words place de la Bourse." Today
1t is not going to the fighting line OF
the financiers, but to the camp kitch
ems of the embattled troops OF
France. 1t is loaded with fresh beef
An army must still fight on its stom
ach, and so this rackety Paris bus is
carrying a cargo more serviceable
than shells for the "seventy-fives,'
and more useful. in way, than the ex
plosives for the sapper and the miner
Industry Of French Peasants.
Ever since l came into this field O.
operation have been struck by tn.
fine souled way in which the ole
French peasants, aged men who can
not go to the fighting line, and tn,
women and the children, have followed
the army and have fitted the blade o
! the plow into the track of the ad