Bisbee daily review., 1915-01-15
WARS HIGHWAY HAS CONTINUOUS ROUND
 OF TRAGIC EVENTS


 Along the road from Calais to Nieuport. almost as straight as the crow flies, the commerce of peace has been bauished SO completely that from end to end it is truly highway of war.
 While the Associated Press cor respondent making a round trip over this road. was picking his way through the church going crowds of ! Calais in a Belgian military car a ! German biplane wheeled over the city. In the bright winter sunshine the aeroplane looked to be SO close that the observers paid little atten- ] tion to it believing it to be one of | the Allies craft It seemed to poise | for moment over the great light house which throws it's beams across the Straits of Dover, and panic tseized the crowd when a sinister oblong object was seen dropping ! from the machine, This bomb missed | it's target. and exploded with deafen- ing noise in Che inner harbor within [ few yards of four French submar- ines at anchor there
 The machine then headed for the English shofe, while the military automobile swung out through the barricaded gate of Calais and past the barbed wire entanglements pre- pared to welcome the Germans when their coming was believed to be a certainty
 / Notwithstanding that he and other newspaper men in the party had a personal pass from the Belgian king and authorizations from the British War Onice and French authorities they were stopped frequently for Identification They swung past the earth covered arsenal on the famous battlefield of Gravelines, which two months ago was considered archaic. but whose soft earthen walls are now believed to offer better resist ance to tho big German siege guns than do concrete and stone.
 The car bowled along over a well paved highway as straight as an arrow lined on either side by the tall poplsrs which grow to a great height in the Low countries The road was marked by a continuous ! procession Of motor cars going in both directions Officers, in what rad been luxurious hmousines. flew by followed by small squadrons of arm0red motorcars, from the slip pery paved surface into the deep mud at each side Of the road. from which they were eXtricated only aft CT much profanity in many Ian guages. A car filled with British naval officers bound for the naval base at Dunkirk passed at express speed.
 Just before Dunkirk was reached shells could be seen bursting in the bright sunsHine above the seacoast and when the smoke noated away lazily. a German Taube was in sight evidently attempting to reach Dun kirk At .he same moment a French biplane rose from the Allies aviation ground at Dunkirk The Taube did not accept the challenge but turned and threw out smoke balls to cover its flight Soon the Taube was a speck in the sky towards the west ern horizon, and the French machine gave uD the pursuit
 A few moments before, the Belgian aviator Des Champs in showing au aviation bomb to some friends, had dropped it with terrible results, the aviator and fourteen bystanders be ing killed
 Dunkirk is a French military base British naval base and an aerial base for the Allies Beyond Dmkirb ' the road followed a large canal which bore enormous barges carry ing supplies to the front The field, to the left were criss-crossed wiu | trenches built 10 be defended from either direction in case the German. broke through on either flank. Mile. Of barb wire entanglements wer, strung mp with the same object ir I view
 A long train of artillery horse. bringing back caissons without tho runs, lined the road for mile, while fcot soldiers began to appear mak ing their way back to the bases. The froatier was passed withou the usual customs inspection auC the party came within sight of req warfare All along the horizon towards Newport, shells were burst ing. Within sight Of Furnes squads Of weary soldiers dragging mud-en crusted boots. struggled back from their thirty-siN hour watch in the trenches. Just al dark the cal swung into the historic square of Fumes. where the Allied rulers met in conference several weeks ago The square was packed with motor cars and transport wagons of al descriptions while winding througl a passage kept open for it tho French African army with its medi ocval looking transport of carts eacl | drawn bV three degerf ntulp.