Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1915-02-07
CALAIS ROAD NOW
HIGHWAY OF WAR
Commerce of Peace Is
Banished Com
pletelN.
AN EVENTFUL TRIP
Both German and Allies
Aeroplanes Hover Over
LoWlands.
AN EVENTFUL TRIP

lCnrespondence OF the Associated Press
FTrRNES, West Flanders, Feb. b.
Along the road from Calais TO
Nieuport. almost as straight as the
crow flies, the commerce OF peace
has been banished so completely ihat
from end to end it is truly hlgh-
way of war.
While the Associated Press cores
pondent making a round trip over
this road, was picking his way
through the churchgoing crowds OF
Calais i'm a Belgian military car
German biplane wheeled over the
city. In the bright winter sunshine
the aeroplane looked to be SO close
that the observers paid little atteh-
ton to il, believing it to be one or
the Allies craft. II seemed to polse
for a moment over the great llBht-
house which throws its beams
across the Straits of Dover ana
panic seized the crowd when SIN
lister oblong object was seen drop
ping from the machine. This bomD
missed the target, and exploded WIN
deafening noise in the inner harpor
within fcw yards of four French
submarines at anchor there.
The machine then headed for tho
English shore. 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.
\ Modern Fort.
Notwithstanding that he and other
newspaper men i'm the party had "A
personaI pass from the Belgian king
and authorizations from the British
war office and French authorities
they were stopped frequently for
Identification They swung past the
enrth-covered arsenal on the famous
battlefield Of Gravelines which two
monthg ago was considered archaic.
but whose soft earthen walls are now
believed to offer better resistance
to the big German Siege guns than
do concrete and stone. -.
The car bowled along over a we'll
payed highway, as straight as an
arrow lined on either side by the
talt poplars which grow to a great
height in the Low Countries The
road was marked by continuous
procession Of motor cars going In
both directions Officers, In what
had been luxurious limouslnes.
wliirled by, followed by small squad e
rons Of armOred motor cars. while
heavy transport trucks snorted along,
skidding now and then from the
slippery paved surface intot the deep
mud at each side of the road, from
which they were eNtrlcated only
after much profanity in many Lam
gllages. A car filled with British
naval officers bound for the naval
base at Dunkirk passed at express
speed.
Refuses a Battle.
Just before Dunkirk was reached,
shells could be seen. bursting An the
bright sunshine above the sehcoast
! and when the smoke floated away
lazlly a German Taube was in sight,
evidently attempting TO reach Dun
kirk. At the same moment a French
blplane rose from the Allies avia-
ton ground at Dunklrk. The Taube
/ did not accept the challenge, but
turned and threw out smoke balls 10
cover its flight. Soon the Taube
was speck I'm the sky towards the
western horizon and the French
machine gave up the pursuit.
A few moments before the Belgian
aviator Des Champe, I'm showing an
aviation bomb to some friends, had
dropped It with terrible results. the
aviator and IA bystanders being
| killed
Dunkirk is French military