The evening herald. [volume] (Albuquerque, New Mexico) 1914-1922, 1915-07-06

Germans had another try for the
channel ports the sensation Of their
attack with ~ssphyNiatinE gas over
Swallowed what they did with their
guns. Heretofore their practice on
Npres had beer comparatively teasing
playfulness. This time they went at
the job of destruction systematically
jumping from D space on the
chcckerboard to another they smash
ed Ypros section by section.
As they meant To take the town
this seemed poor policy ass they would
find no roofs Tor shelter when they
moved "a. But their object was cOE-
fusion for British rcinfprccments hur-
rying up along roads crowded with
refugees Wholesale death for men iu
billcts in the town and destruction
and delay for supplies and munitions
coming through the streets. This was
excellent theory which ala not work
out boo practice. The British were
not bhletng troops To- any extent IA
/ Npres and you could count the NUM-
bor OF army wagons hit on the fin
gers Of one hand Onc shell in the
BRUSH trenches accomplished more
than ten into Ypres. The main re-
suit was that the homes and offices
and cafes OF 5000 people were de-
stroyed.
The f2-centimctor G1-inch mutar)
had lis part Boa the work. When "a
t5-iuch shell struck "a house the re-
mains OF the building not distributed
on the pavement were IN an enlarged
cellar. Debris in the streets stili re-
mains where IL tell There IL no pur-
pose In cleaning 1t up In an uninhab-
i'ed town. Paving stones are scat
tered about from the explosion OF a
l5-iuCh shell which struck IN the
center of the Grando Place and made
"a crater about fifteen feet across and
ten feet deep. This 1000 pounds ct
steel and powder did not KIN anybody
So far as could bee learned. II would
not take "a paving gang long TO make
repairs. Another which could have
brought down u cathedral tower dug
"a stIll larger crater in the soft earth
Of the cathedral grounds. Big shells
or little shells. they do not cuuat un-
less they hit. CA the principle that
lightning never strikes twice ia the
came place probably the safest cover
you could lind IN case ct another
hu-muItdmcut of Ypres would be to
sit tu the bottom of one of those
p c%ratcrs Another bomuardment would
seem 1s bootless as failing last years
straw or kicking a dead dog. How
ever the Germans Keep ON throwius
! shells into the wrocklgc at intervals
as u they could never bee satisfied
that they had properly finished the
=. Job cot chaos. Every standing wall
was clipped with shr1pu,l. II there
was 20 house which looked from the
outside as II IL were unhit, It would
] De found that II had been eyisceratcd
by q shell through the roof.
Yet only one OF the figures or that
golden cluDkiacc had been e. ano
three out of the our turrets hul,
their place untouched In relict against
q "a genial afternoon sun oil June aboN,
tho dcsolation of that dead city.
wen what do YOU tl.ink of Ypre'
as q ul e. of residence? asked 40
officer who rode by.
pretty rotten the visiting CORE
spoudout replied.
81 know one hat Is %rottener,' M
replied with "a suggestive uOd hucl
toward the trench line beyond Ypres
Were the turrets still holding out
Tho visitors could report that the.
were. To the German gunners the.
must Dee like the high apple ON IN
tree that viii not come down for al
the small boys stone throwing. ]
must nave cost about 100000 81
shells to destroy Nprcs hy mauuilc
turod picccmc1l earthquake and
viii cost several millions Co restore b
occasionally q father of a famil
who had to leave the town during Ga
bomhardmeut is able 20 se,urc q cat
ANA permission To return 10 the salN
age OF the remains of his house. II
finds that nothing "a been disturhc
except hy shell urc. Npres is forbid
den bad lands where no n may %
except ON military business. lu
sense is is poii.od too boo IA, Sam
way as % ra~ttlcsuaHc's nest The rti
lien VINO goes to- CLEAN q mattress.
bureau and the family Bible from ih
debris of his roof takes time to 80
10 the turrots and the clock face "
the old cloth Hall are eth hoidin
Il nftf