The Keota news., 1915-07-09
WHERE FRENCHMEN ARE FIGHTING TO
REGAIN LOST PROVINCE OF LORRAINE
Edward Clark Describes Visit to the French Trenches Near
Nancy-Mose Of the Batteries Is Tefrc-Msn Live Under.
ground Day IN and Day Out, Yet Keep Their Spirits
Above Ground-Sses War and Peace Side by Side

place where the shells are fired you
get to the place whore the shells drop.
It could not have been more than four
miles out Of town before the pound.
Ing Of the guns hit my cars and hit
them in . most unplsasant way. When
the tenderfoot goes forth to war the
tenderness of his feet 10 likely to ind
companionship with the tenderness of
his heart,
Noise 10 Terrific.
The trouble with tho internal she'll
ing ~ far ~ It Affects the man who
10 going forth to see 1t. 10 that you
never know where one of the things II
going to drop. The noise IL terrific.
and while all the batteries along the
front may be firing at something
miles away. the hsarer and the onlook-
er does not know this necessarily, but
II he suspects It and thinks that dan
GER 10 remote he has full realization
that . variation of an inch or two
to the right or to the left Of the mug
sls Of one Of the big guns viii change
the direction Of the IRE 20 that the
next pro5ectile may land In his lap.
We reached the firing line. Now. II
people have any idea that ON the mod
ern battlefield. except on the occasions
Of charges and counterchargss. there
are Thousands upon thousands ( men
in view. the idea may - well b fore.
gone. There are two big armies IN
the neld hers, and yet you don't sec
them. 20 to speak. individually. The
soldiers Of France anc Germany here
.: either covered by the dense woods
or else they are underground Ike 20
many Thousands Of r: bbits In their
burrows.
The cannonading 70 terrific and yet
It II dimcule unless you happen to
be ct the exact point where the
shells fall. to tell what all the row Il
about. In this section of the coun-
try the French biplanes and the Ger.
man taubes make their high and lofty
sxcursions for the purpose Of detect
ing some point In the snemy's line
which It 10 considered the part Of
war wisdom to bombard. It may bs .
blockhouse hidden in the woods but
commanding some pathway through
the trees. which has boen discovered.
BY the sky pilot When such 10 the
case the artillery will open - accu.
rately ~ possible upon the spot dss-
fsnated BY the flying machine scout,
and then after the shells have rained
for . while there will bs an advance
OF infantry to capture the position.
Labyr'nths Of earbsd Wirs,
II did not seem possible to me that
there was 20 much barbed wire In this
big world Of ours a. 10 strung along
through the woods and fields Of thia
part Of France. It IL . deadly wire.
for It has moro prickles than any burr
that grows In the fields. and these
prickles are Of steel. The wire n
strung into labyrinths through which
1t 10 impossible to thread ones way
except unde: guidance. Back Of these
masses Of barbed wire are the trenches.
and in these trenches are the soldiers
Of France. although you do not know
It until you drop down into their
midst,
Keep Up rhsIr spirits.
! do not understand how men can
live underground day in md day ont
and Keep their spirits abovexround.
The French are doing It, however. and
! suppose BY the same token that the
Germans are doing 1t ,lso. Once in
while they get surceas- from sta..
nation by an orde: to charge. II Il
An event. the effect Of which IN bnov.
snce OF spirits lasts for weeks. waen
one side Of the other takes q sinele