The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1915-10-19
ALLIES PART OF
 BELGIUM IS BUSY
 SECTION OF GLOB E
Side Pursuit of War Taking More Men Than There
 Are in Trenches.

? now 1t is such a busy part of the world that one who whirls through it for several days in a military motor car is likely to think that it is 8 very large part of Europe the villages are so full of French, Belgian and Brit ish soldiers, there are so many camps. hospitals and bases of one sort ana another-here aviation camp, there an ambulance station and so on that to visit the country is to real 1 ize the many-sided activities of war ] them in any other way. For one man in the trenches there seem to be 50 carrying supplies and ammunition, building roads,, repairing bridges. stringing telephone wires and con structfng barbed wire entanglements.
 This trip comprised almost 2Oo miles of travel in what may be roughly described as a triangle with Newport, Dunkirk and Ypres at the three corners. f
 ''I don't suppose we can go into Ypres?" asked the passenger.
 You would be a fool to try and you would be a dead man if you got there,''s was the chauffeur's answer Between Dunkirk and Ypres one can find it grades of deQolition. What happened to Dunkirk by the action of a Kruppe gun over 20 miles away al- most everybody in the world knows now. But what happened to that gun it would be of greater interest to know and neither the French nor the Germans are saying anything about it. But the people of Dunkirk know that it has not been in action for two months.
 AS one travels inland from Dun kirk towards the southeast through Bergnes he can readily appreciate why France, Holland and England are full of refugees wearing thelr hearts out with thoughts Of the1r demolished homes, for there are to be seen little villages with not a marked by shell fire. Handsome six teenth century facades, modest brick structures artistic little churches have all gone into wars melting pot. The streets are as devastated as the sections of San Francisco or Balt1- more after their conf1agrations.
 The French are holding the dunes along the coast, then come the Bel eiar1s, then more French, then the English, then still more French then the English again, and finally the line of French reaching to .Sw1tzer- land It is not often pointed out that the French are sandwiched in be- tween their Allies in this fashion. Stepping before a 105 smmI gun, cleverIy concealed in a grove, gun which had been silent but few mo ments and was doing. it's bit' in an, artillery action spreading over loo miles, a correspondent asked the lieutenant in charge when he intend- ed to fire again
 seWheneyer they telephone us" was the reply 'tWe have fired only twice this morning. When the line Of ac- ton is as long as the route from New York to Philadelphia, each gun has
 of nd of opportunity for conversation. In deed when the correspondent ap-. preached the group they were Iaugh- ing at a story of the lieutenant He was telling them of a devoted oroerly- The lieutenant had been sent to the hosDitaI as a result of poison gas. .'I should have left the hospital after three days," said the lieutenant, 'but my orderly would not let me-
 Have any shells burst around here yet?''
 ..r4ot very near. This big gun is emy's aviators see fr we can easily move it.'' here, can you? %
 "I have been been at the front Ii months said the lieutenant II have seen many dead Germans ana many German prisoners but l have never seen a German in action: except the
 man in the Taube."
 A half dozen privates gathered round and the conversation, became general, being interrupted occasional | ly by visits to the observatories in the l trees where the correspondent was shown the German lines and could see the shrapnel bursting over both sides It all seemed too remote. The correspondent observed; Tt does not seem very close to us"
 l >"Perhaps not just this minute but I in the road there not over fifty feet away they blew up one of our cais- sons a few days ago and you can go ont and pick up some souvenirs if ! you wish to-
 These observatories would be fasci-- mating additions to Ad1rondack camps. being successive flights of stairs with strong landings, winding Iround the highest trees, painted the color of trees and covered overhead with foliage There is no military se- cret about this for it is. we'll known that both sides have the same kind of 1ookouts.
 you men all seem very happy | said the correspondent. ''We certain lv are, we know what we are fighting for, we are we'll treated and we know that we shall win It is men that
 will win this war pour la Patrle
 When a French soldier says, pour la | Patrie" he says IL WIlh d IAAOoShlI LII l earnestness that gives one "a firm
 faith in democracy.
 The firing was evidently within
 short motoring distance to the south
 east and the correspondent got up to leave. Sorry we could not entertain
 you with our 1o5 mm.' said the lieu tenant, but we never know when we shall get the telephone call.'
 1 In an artillery action of such mag nitude gunners wait for orders like policemen or firemen, by telephone. II and like policemen and firemen they are very glad to- see callers in the intervals of their activity
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