The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1916-05-26
.XyERDUN IN HEART
OF AN INFERNO

NeIuuu u NJ tnb pTeB0nys nOhouS
the center Of the universe. The eyes
of all nationes are turned toward this
ancient little town. whose streets we
have just passed through, ruined,
smoking, deserted streets and toward
the hills which meyer seemed %, soil
tary ~ since two million men, sbprrow.
ing In their Q hloodstained burrows,
have been striving e tear each other
to pieces.
hThere are no more civilians in Yer,
dun and every, one knows that the
soldiers are busy elsex here, i have
walked around In the, solitude, In
streets bordered by. semi-ruins, yet
carefully swept Of the rubbish that
shell explosions, had heaped upon
them, 4 have felt the tragic effect
of seeing houses collapsing in wreck
age and lettering into the Mouse,
Quarters OF Town Eemain
Hare and there quarters of the town
survive, with doors open and shutters
nappinR. I have gone to the city hall
and the cathedral and have climbed
up TO the bishops palace and trav-
| eTsed its halls and little cloister. II
would serve no purpose to let the bar.
barians know how well OF i'll their
aim WINS carried. What can be said
is that the bishops of old and Vauban
alone built to defy any test, for their
double Notifications remains intact.
tAlong MazeI street tthe leading
street Of the city, bombs and fires.
have laid bare ancient ramparts which
preceded Vaubans undoubtedly dat:
| ing from the time Of the bishops
which were the. foundation of the
houses which have recently fallen In
wrecks and Of which had never sus.
pected the existence. 81
ga little eight-year-old girl bad
asked me, if I went to Verdun, to 60
| to see if her toys were broken. i
found the little orphans house. The
door was open, the, windows closed,
the household furniture intact, as IL
the house were awaiting the return of
those who viii never come back again.
| Find Dolls In Cupboard fai
I opened the cupboard, where the
dolls slept quietly. How long will this
home, almost the only one in the midst
of ruins. remain UPRIGHT Perhaps
while T. write the incendiary bomb is
rushing on 1t through the great blue
sky. =. ."> ga
"The boches have many useless
thing Z, do in FerdUnl "a, +
what advantage is it to them to
force thousands Of good, unoffending
people to abandon their homes and
leave everything to the defensef A
Danish journalist after visiting Yer
dun wrote: 1.-THE sole advantage
gained by the Germans through their
advance is that the city ii now Under
range Of their cannon. The unfor-
tunate city receives 800 to 400 shells
day Il believe this figure is greatly
cxaggerated), of which q large number
7 are ineendiary. Having lost all hope
| # taking the city, the Germans evi-
debtly intend to destroy il as far as
| possible, Yerdun produces the effect
Of dead city, but as soldiers say
what does alithat matter, provided they
d" not enter It'll And that. will never
come to pass. 49,, 4.4i',N
Defenses In ,Sohd Rock
LAS we passed through the long.
never ending galleries of the fortress
OF Verdun, cut right into the solii
rock, placed over one another, connect
ed by staircases, mt by electricity.
which are more Ike the tunnels of the
rams subway tnan anything else, we
1oIowed Tails on Lwnisn ran mule wag'
ons Transporting supplies OF all KINDS
ana taen we visited sleeping galleries.
ana once gaiieries, where omcers could
telephohe ana teiegrapn, at mst, nav,
ing visited a tne im nm. ~ Sp 81
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are = snbiect ~ M, ncss;bie doubt
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