The Keota news., 1915-06-25
CLARK VISITS SCENE OF ONE Of
MOST DESPERATE BATTLES OF WAR
CORRESPONDENT Describes Plain Of vanMare the Last Spot Con-
tested by The German Crown Prince His Retreat After the
First Advance on as-Shea Tom and Fires Scathed VII
laQes on Every Side-Spirit Of French Is Undaunted

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lation which rule in the sheIl-torn and
hre-scathed villages OF the Name and
Mense- This French omcer 10 Capt
Gerard de Ganay. Before this. have
written something OF my military COM
panion- His mother vas an Amer
campaign socks. He IL dressed today
as always. In his horizon blue" This
color nelis into the sky screen. and
as my eyes seek the captain out when
he IL At 4 distance. I feel that no am
bilious artillery man can make IN ade-
quAte mark Of him. loomingly big
though he IL.
There are SO many shell-made cav
tiles In this plain that I wonder 1t
vas 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 . few days The survivors Of
the battle lay their comrades away
tenderly. At the head Of one long.
m>1nded trench there II an inscrip-
ton which says that within rest 81
soldiers Of France. On . 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. "Eonneur aux Heros-"
Supplies Constantly Arriving.
From bases which must not name
and lying well to our rear. supplies
constantly are being brought up. in
gray motors and In heavy army was.
ons for the French armies battling
along this line from St Mihiel to the
Argonne forest I know that the last
French onicial report has reported
gains in the region Of the Arsonne
forest. which lies only few miles to
my left and from which every few
minutes ! can hear the believing Of
heavy guns. It seems from what l
hear that the high hope Of every
trooper in the forces Of Generals Ian.
gle de Garry and sarrail 10 that the
effort and the success along this line
will be in keeping with the marked ad.
vances. which. rumor at least has 1t, 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 alons
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
ooulevards 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 10 not going to the fighting line Of
the fnanciers. but to the camp kitch.
ems Of the embattled troops of
France. 1t is loaded with fresh beef
An army must still night on its stom.
aeh. and 80 this rackety Paris bus IA
carrying a cargo more serviceable
than shells for the "seventy.ave," /"
and more useful. in way. than the ar.
plosives for the sapper and the miner
Industry Of French Peasanta.
Ever since I came into this feid =,
operation ! have been struck by the
hne'souled way In which the old
French peasants. aged men who o.n.
not go to the fighting line. and the
women and the children. have followed
the army and have fitted the blade Of
the plow into the track Of the ad.