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Continued from pas. Eight,
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-05-07
A City Dying Hourly.

All this was but preliminary, however
O'her automobiles arrived; the general en-
Tered one. followed in the next and we
Bet out 10 visit Verdun, TO visit the ruins,
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-05-07

storm Of shells had come, you could al
most feel that the storm was but sus-
pended, not over, that at any moment it
might begin again.
Yet even in the midst of destruction
there were enclaves of mistaken struct-
ures. On the Rue Mazel, "Main Street, "
the chief clothing store rose immune
amid ashes on all sides. It's huge plate
glass window was not even cracked. And
behind the window a little mannikin, one
of the familiar images that wear clothes
to tempt the purchase, stood erect. A
French soldier had crept in and raised
the stiff arm of the mannikin to the salute,
pushed back the hat to a rakish angle
The mannikin seemed alive and more than
alive. the embodiment of the spirit of the
place. Facing northward toward the Ger
man guns it seemed to respond to them
with "morituri salmdmus.' "The last
civilian in Verdun," the soldiers called him,
but his manner was rather that of the
Poilu.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-05-07
A Factory That Was.

We crossed the river and the canal AMI
stopped by the ruin of what had once been
a big factory or warehouse. We crawled
through an open shell-made breach in the
brick wall and stood in the interior. The
ashes were still hot, and in corners there
were smoking fires. Two days ago, at
lust this time, your guides told you, men
had been working here; making bread, !
think. At the same time we had come TO
the ruins-the same time Of day, that is
the Germans had dropped a half dozen
incendiary shells into the building and 1t
had burned in ten minutes. Most of the
men who had been there then were still
there. under the smoking mass of wreck
age: the smell Of burned human flesh was
in the air.
A few steps away there was little
house standing intact. On the floor there
were stretched four rolls of white cloth.
The general and those with him took of
their hats as they entered. He opened one
of the packages and you saw only
charred black mass, something that looked
like a half burned log taken from the fire
place. But two days ago it had been a
man. and the metal disk of Identification
had already been found and had served
to disclose the victims name. These were
the first bodies that had been removed
from the ruins.
Taking our cars again we drove back
and stopped before the Marie, and pass
ing under the arch entered the courtyard
The building had Jared better than most,
but there were many shell marks. In the
courtyard were four guns. Forty-six
years before another German army had
come down from the North, another whirl-
wind Of artillery had struck the town and
laid it in ashes, but even under the ashes
the town had held out for three weeks.
Afterward the Republic Of France had
given these guns to the people of Verdun
in recognition of their heroism.
The Fireman Of Verdun.
in the courtyard / was presented to a
man wearing the uniform and helmet Of
a fireman. lie was the chief of the Yer
dun fire department. His mission, his
perilous duty, it was to help extinguish
the fires that famed up after every shell.
In all my life | have never seen man
at once so crushed and so patiently cour-
ageous. He was not young, but his blue
Lorraine eyes were still clear. Yet he
looked at you, he looked out upon the
world, with undisguised amazement. For
a generation his business had been to
fight fires. He had protected his little
town from confagrations that might some
times, perhaps once, possibly twice, have
risen to the dignity of three alarm"
For the rest he had dealt with blazes.
Now out of the skies and the darkness
and out Of the daylight, too, fire had de-
scended upon his town. Under an ava
lanche of incendiary shells, under land
slide of fire, his city was melting visibly
tito ashes. lie had lived fire and dreamed
fire for half a century, but now the world
had turned to fre-his world-and he
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-05-07
The Vauban Citadel, in the Shelter OF
Which Falling Shells Cannot Find
Warehouses and Blocks That Are
Vanishing Hourly-"But Will
lam Will Not Come"
Rv FRANK H. SIMONDS,
Author of The Great War.

or. rather, TO see not a city that was dead,
but a city that was visibly, hourly dying
a city that was vanishing by blocks and
by souares-but was not yet fallen to the
estate of Ypres OF Arras; a city that in
corners. where there were gardens behind
the walls. still smiled; a city where some
few brave old buildings still stood four
square and solid, but only waiting what
was TO come.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-05-07
The War Invisible.

The War Invisible.
Somewhere in the background French
battery of heavy guns was firing, and the
sound was clear; but it did not suggest
war, rather blasting operation. The Ger
man guns were still again. There was a
faint billowing roll Of gunfre across the
river toward Douaumont, but very faint.
AS for trenches, soldiers, evidences Of bat
tie, they did not exist. I thought Of Ralph
Pulitzer's vivid story Of riding to the
Rheims front in military aeroplane and
seeing, of war, just nothing.
The geography of the Verdun country un,
rolled before US with absolute clarity; the
whole relation Of hills and river and rail.
roads was unmistakable. But despite the
faint sound of musketry, the occasional
roar of French gun, might have been in
the Berkshires looking down on the Housa-
tonic. Six miles to the north around LIE
Mort Homme that battle which has not
stopped for two months was still going on
Around Douaumont the overture was just
starting, the overture to stiff fight in the
afternoon, but of all the circumstances OF
battle that one has read of, that one still
vaguely expects to see, there was not
sign. If it suited their fancy the Germans
could turn the hill on which / stood into
crater of ruin, as they did with Fort Lon
Gin at Liege. We were well within range
easy range; we lived because they had M
object to serve by such shooting, but W.
were without even hint OF their wnere
abouts.
have already described the military
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-05-07
Fort de Ia Chaume.

Fort de la Chaume is one of the many
Notifications built since the Franco-Prus-
sian War and intended to defend the city
Like all the rest, it ceased TO have value
when the German artillery had shown at
Liege and at Namur that it was the master
of the fort. Then the French left their
forts and went out to trenches beyond and
took with them the heavy guns that the
fort once boosted. To-day Fort de la
Chaume is just an empty shell, as empty
as the old Vauban citadel in the valley be-
low. And what is true of This fort is true
of all the other forts of that famous for
tress of Verdun, which is no longer a for
tress. but a sector in the trench line that
runs from the North Sea to Switzerland.
From the walls of the fort staff officers
showed me the surrounding country. l
looked down on the city of Verdun, hiding
under the shadow of its cathedral. |
looked across the level Meuse Valley, with
its little river; studied the wall Of hills
beyond. Somewhere in the tangle on the
horizon was Douaumont, which the Ger
mans held. Down the valley of the river IN
the haze was the town of Bras, which was
French; beyond it the village of Vachereau-
Vile. which was German. Beyond the hills
in the centre Of the picture, but hidden by
them, were lie Mort Homme and Hill 3Os.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-05-07

Before visited Verdun I had seen
many cities and towns which had been
wholly or partially destroyed, either by
shell fire or by the German soldiers in their
great invasion before the Marine. One
shered town is much like another, and
there is no thrill quite like that you ex-
perience when you see the first. But these
towns had died nearly two years ago; in
deed. in most the resurrection had begun:
little red roofs were beginning to shine
through the brown trees and stark ruins.
Children played again in the squares. It
was like the sense you have when you see
an old peasant ploughing among the cross
marked graves of a hard fought battle
corner-the sense of beginning as well as
of death and destruction.
But at Verdun it was utterly different.
OF life, or people, of activity beginning
again or surviving there was nothing.
Some time in the recent past all the little
people who lived in these houses had put
upon wagons what could be quickly moved
and had slipped out of their home, that was
already under sentence of death. They
were gone into the distance, and they had
left behind them no stragglers. The city
was empty save for a few soldiers who
passed rapidly along the streets, as one
marches in heavy snowstorm.
Vagaries of Shell-Fire.
Yet Verdun was not wholly dead. Shell
fire is the most inexplicable of all things
that carry destruction. As you passed
down one street the mark of destruction
varied with each house. Here the blast
had come and cut the building squarely;
it had carried with it into ruin behind in
the courtyard all that The house contained,
but against the wall the telephone rested
Undistmbed; pictures-possibly even a
looking glass hung as the inhabitants had
left it, hung as perhaps it had hung when
the last woman had taken her ultimate
hurried glance at her hat before she de-
parted into the outer darkness.
But the next house had lost only the
front walls; it stood before you as if it
had been opened for your inspection by
the removal of the facade. Chairs, beds
all the domestic economy of the house
sagged visibly outward toward the street,
or stood still firm, but open to the four
winds. 1t was as if the scene were pre-
pared for a stage and you sat before the
footights looking into the interior. Again,
the next house and that beyond were ut'
terly gone-side walls front walls, every
thing swallowed up and vanished-the iron
work twisted into heaps, the stone work
crumbed to dust; the whole mass of ruin
still smoked, for il was a shell of yester-
day that had done this work.
Down on the Riviera, where the mistral
blows-all the pine trees lean away from
the invarable track Of this storm wind
YOU have the sense, even in the summer
months. Of a whole countryside bent by
the gales. In the same fashion you felt
in Verdun. felt rather than saw, whole
town not bent. but crumpled, crushed-and
the line of fall was always apparent; you
could tell the direction from which each
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-05-07

geography of Verdun. shall not attempt
to repeat it here, but it is the invisibility Of
warfare. whether examined from the earth
or the air, which impresses the civilian. II
you go to the trenches you creep through
tunnels and cavities until you are permitted
to peer though a peephole, and you see yell
low dirt some yards away. You may hear
bullets over your head, you may hear shells
passing. but what you see is hillside with
some slashings That is the enemy. If
YOU go to an observation post back OF the
trenches, then you will see whole range OF
country. but not even the trenches of your
OWL side.
From the Grand Mont east of Nancy |
watched some French batteries shell the
German line. didn't see the French guns,
| didn't see the German trenches, | didn't
see the French line. | did see some black
smoke rising little above the underbrush,
and was told that the shells were striking
behind the German lines and that the gun
ners were searching for German battery.
But I might as we'll have been observing a
gang of Italians at blasting operations in
the Montclair mountains. And the officer
with me said: "Our children are just
amusing themselves"
A Luncheon Underground.
From Fort de la Chaume we rode back
to the citadel; and there was the guest Of
the general and the officers Of the town
garrison; their guest because | was an
American who came to see their town.
shall always remember that luncheon down
in the very depths of this rock in a dimly
lighted room. | sat at the generals right,
and all around me were the men whose
days work it was to keep the roads open,
the machinery running in the shell-cursed
city. Every time they went out into day
light they knew that they might not return.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-05-07

town. exploring and estimating the erect
of heavy gunfre, for the Germans are too
far from the city TO use anything but heavy
guns effectively. The impressions OF such
a visit are too numerous to recall. shall
mention but one more Behind the cathe-
dral are cloisters that the guide books men
ton; they inclose courtyard that was
once decorated with statues Of saints. BY
some accident or miracle-there are always
miracles in shelled towns-one of these i'm
AGES. perhaps that of the Madonna, has
been lifted from its pedestal and thrown
into the branches of tree, which seems
almost to hold it with outstretched arms.
At length we left the town, going out by
the Porte de France, which cuts the old
Vauban ramparts, now as deserted as
those of Paris, ramparts that had been
covered with trees and were now strewn
with the debris of the trees that had fallen
under the shell fire. In all this time not a
shell had fallen in Verdun; it was the first
completely tranquil morning in weeks; but
there was always the sense of impending
destruction, there was always the sense OF
the approaching shell. There was an odd
subconscious curiosity, and something more
than curiosity, about the mental processes
Of some men, not far away, who were be-
side guns pointed toward you, guns which
yesterday or the day before had sent their
destruction to the very spot where you
stood
Fear in the Open.
Yet, oddly enough, in the town there was
a wholly absurd sense of security, derived
from the fact that there were still build
ngs between you and those guns. You saw
that the buildings went to dust and ashes
whenever the guns were fired; you saw that
each explosion might turn city block into
ashes, and yet you were glad of the build
ings and there was reinsurance in their
shadows. Now we travelled in the open
country; we began to climb across the face
of bare hill, and it was the face that
fronted the Germans.
Presently the generals car stuck in the
mud and we halted, for minute perhaps
then we went on; we passed dead horse
lying in the road; then, of sudden
came that same terrible grinding, metallic
crash. ! have never seen any description
of heavy shell explosion that fitted 1t.
Behind US we could see the black smoke
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-05-07
War That Is Invisible Luncheon Tn.
dersround with Toast to America
The Last Courtesy from General
and Host-Nothing That
Was Not Beautiful.
Copyrieht IoI6-The Tribune Assn.

Verdun is like lump of sugar III finger
bowl and was standing on the rim. 1t
seemed utterly impossible that any one
should even think Of this town as for
tress or count its ashes as Of meaning in
the conflict.
La prensa. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1913-1962, 1916-07-06
NOTICIAS DELACTUDAD.. ECOS De IA MODA 80

ha de rIl0 los rarI0naS QUa dibil"
para las 'taiIrtfrs" de! "Marliri0 dc
San Sebastian TGdas elias rrnian
Ir0r punio dr nrig"n una cruz, Ia
cruz dc san AndriS. camera, pOr 81
.r0ntrarlO. bISra SuS m0iri0S en- IL
Sonria clrganria lie IN Inca "rl"-a y
IN vr2 de- fotmar al ru"rpo d. Ia
muier varim2io da t0IOcari6n in Gin
lnra, prorlra que ., tail" Iurd' en-
III -lIio. huy.nin dc rsaS m"ta' no
rrihlo> llr son yrr,lai"r", 'arriI"-
@i0>.
Los fi@urinrs qun Zam0ra dibnj"
para III rHprirhn ,ir la ,iama> son
nri-iuali>im"S. f. ~arliSIa rli=id una
par una a rs liniaS S,.@unil- tipl"S
del lralro Esava. ' rrt'I taIa "!"I-
lrltr para ala ma H. rlla>....F.S"
.rupn de- murirarIIaS honitaS aparr-
ril rnvucIlu IN NUDES IT,. rnrair>, ir
sr,la~ y hr mIr>....p Dos H. elias. i'll
cen ell "trcvido modclO de In moda n"
VI en- pucrtas, sin0 que cast M en-
trado: i.Os traj"s con p]oliZon. OiTaS
evocan Ia moda actual, con Il raj
das de crirolina... Ell figurin de IN
vicrno era un capricho de arlista..
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Ell DESCANSC DEL BUEY

Con ia cabeza uncida al yugo'n
posiciGn inc0mOda rcspecto q Ia dsu
c]ompanero, e. hocico en- eli poi y
las patas dObladas en- actitud di"l-
potencia, d~eScansa ell noble brurren-
dido por eli peso abrumador de car
ga sin medida.
Su lacrosa pie empolvadarevcla
que ia trabajado largaS hor desde
n media noche, 4 Ia said dta luna,
caminando grandes distance por Ia
,nterminable ruta ]polvorie.a, has'a
venir d caer ~jadeante SOP. las Die
dras de IA Gale en- plena esta.
Como sera ell cansanci cuando no
ha podido continuar en- r Z pesar de
su bondad Y de su rnsedumbre.
Paciente y sumiso cj'uta SIN con-
c~iencia 81 diaria labo,impuesta por
eI hombre,, sin cspranza de re-
denci6n. sin un desplo de liDertad.
Por el contrario. asi paSivamente
ira dia tras dia a fnde le espera el
eolpe final de SUI .margo viaciucis.
Y ahora duerm sobre las piedras
dc Ia Gale con e'hocico hundIdo en
ell polvo, retorcie ell cuello. entire
abiertos los ojosexpresivos revelado-
res del dolor, &c noble animal, dig
no de ~veneraGn mas que muchos
humanos, hast que el duro aguii5n
del carretero z anuncia que e bora
de reanudar q Marcia -. iAnda,
pobre ~esc!av, 20 te ~yenero!
danuel MASFERRER.
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No. p
ULTIMO Ola DE TN REQ
DE- MUERTE
0 VICTOR HUGO

Sentia mas remordimienIos snteS de
or leer Ia s~ent4neja fatal: desie en-
JonceS ne creo que no tengo capa-
ciGad en- mi cabeza para otroS pen
samientos que los de muerte. Quiz
sierra, sin embargo. que fuese mas
profuDdo mi arrepentimiento.
Cpardo Tie detcrgo IN momento
peusando ~ nj vida paSada. y vUe!vo
dc nGeyo q ~coutenplar e patibulo,
que ahora Va q terminarla, me extre-
Rezco como Il esa noticia me cogie-
Sc de improviso. Nj bella ~infancis
Y mi hermoSa juventud fueron dora
do teiido de seda cuya extremidad
sera eSpantoSa. Entire entonces Y
shora Sc intsrpone uR rio de sangre
del ouro, cue 20 Gerrame, y Ia mia
propia-
81 IN dia Sc publicara mi historic
de inocencA y de felicidsd, no Sc
creeria de ella en- el ultimo a1o exc
cradle, que empieza por IN crfmen Y
scsba peg IN eadslSo, RoCaus esta
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POBLADOS D~ESTRUiDOS.

ALGECiPAS, Julio 5.-ViaieroS
ilcgados DE- Ccuta c0nfirman In no.
ticia de haber ocurrido un tcrrihl:
~encuentro entire las tropas espaHolas
Y los moros.
Copcr6 4 IN operation Ia escua-
dra cspanoia, que bombarded IA ros-
Ia de .Anghcra.
FL objeto de IA operation. segin
diccn los yiajerOs. I ocupar varia>
im~portanlcs posiciOnes.
AlgunoS de .oS viajeros lle%adoS a.
firman que los cspanoleS tuvieron
400 muertos; pcro aun no IN s!d1
comprohaho ci nUmero de- bajas Su-
fridas.
La artilleria espanola quem6 cua-
. pohlados. mientraS las tropas de
infante,ia ocupaban Ia costa de In
zora International. con 10 que los
argherinoS Quedaron encerrados en-
un circulo de hero.
Los cabilenos enemigOs fueror du
.amente castjgadoS Y sufrieron enor,
mes pGrdidaS.
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LA ANSIEDAD

Tai como en- las horas de los rar
portcs de amor quisitramos tere?
mas lahios para besar, mas ojos para
yer, mas alma para amar, asi espar-
ciGnGonos por n NaturaleZa en- Gno
como mccimiento llenO de delirios Y
de- goceS. SentiamOs aquei dia que
nueStros ojos no pudicSen penetra"
hasia e! interior de las rocaS. haSta 81
fOnd0 de los mares. haSta el fin del
cicio. para yer como crecen las pie
dras. Sc hacen las olas y sc encienden
laS cStrcllas.... ;.Ah. que nueStros
oidos no pudicsen Dir gravitar en- Ii
terra Ia fermentation de los grari-
tos, subir IL savia de las plantaS. ro-
dar los c~aracoicS en- IL inmenSidad de-,
octano. y en- "a simpatia de es:a
contemplating Illusion hubicramOs que
rido que nueStra alma. irradianGO por
todaS partcS. sc fucSc 4 vivir con TO-
da cSta vida que nos rOdea. para re-
vcstir todas SuS formas. durar con
elias y variando con<tantemente. &es-
alrollar III metam6rios;s ante ell So!
de Ia eternidad. Mis- el hombre fu:
hecho para gaStar cada dia pocos ali
mentos, pocos c~ciorcs y pocoS sonidos,
scntimentoS e ideas...... TOdo 10
que S]cbrcpuja esa medida lie fatiga y
ie rmborracha: es' cl idiotismo del beo
do. a locura del mistico. iAh. cuan
pcCucno nueStro vase. Dios .ilio!
Guam gr&nde nuestra sed, Guam pc
Cueno nueStro cerebro, ;.Aire. aire!
Mas cSpacio! puesto que nuestras
apretadas aimaS Sc ahcgan Y fallc-
cen sobrc Ia repisa de IA ventana,
pueslo que nuestros eSpiritus prisio-
neroS .omo el oSo en- 81 jaula eiraa
sin cesar Y chocan contra SuS muros,
add a 10 menOS 4 nucstra nariZ el per
fume de todOs los vientos. dejad que
diriiamos los ojoS 4 todOS los hori-
ZOnteS.-....
Gustavo FLAUBERT.
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rebro que hace chocar el ccrcbeIo
con5ra las paroles icl cameo.
Tengo temb!orcs corvulsivo:. V DE
vez en- cuando Ia puma &c M cae de
Ia mano. impulSada por sacudida gal
vanica.
Los ojos me I!oran Y M escuecen
como 81 me l~aIlas" IN mciiu d. cspe-
sa humarcGa. Me duejen mucho los
codos.
Dentro de dos horas Y cuarenta Y
cinco minutOS.
XNXIE
Aseguran que este no eS.nada. cue
70 Sc padece. que este fin es suavc,
que Ia muerte esta de esta manera
muy Simplificada.
No es horrible su?rimiento esta
agonia de SeiS man V este ester
tor de TODD un dia? GQue son las an
gustias de este d;a irreparable, que
pasa con tanta lentitud Y a de pri-
50? :Que es esta escala de torturas
CUE concluye Ell el cadalso?
iQuizGs este no eS padecer? No
da las mismas convulsiones que Ia
sanere Sc vierta gotta Z gotta, 0 que
apague "a inteligencia, pensamien-
10 traS penSamiento?
lnsisten en- que no Sc p2dece; Ges-
tan saguroS de 10 que dicen? ;Se sabe
que Sc haya levantado alguna vez n
cabcZa cortada Y ~chorreando sangre
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til cubi4a de gloria, de grandezs.
de placges y de jubilo. Alrededor
suyo tdos respiran amor, venera-
ci6n jeSpeto. Las voces mas alti-
i Sc uelven humildes cuando lie ha-
blan. las :rentes mas erguidas Sc
inc!inn a su p~resencia. Donde vi.
We. $40 miriam los ojos soda y ORC.
A esps horas quizas celebra. I'M con-
sejo ie ministries, en- ell que todos son
de 81 opinion, . piensa en- Ia; caceria
le nanana. o en- ell bale de eSta ro-
chq seeuro de que estara %preparada
la fiesta para la bora senalaGa, Y que
totaran otros cor placer ell. trabajo
que lie propocciona sus ~placeres.
Pies bien; csc hombre es de carne -,
como I'll. Para que en- un
nomento %derribasen tn patibulo; pa-
a que te d~evolviesen IA vida, Ia L.
Y IA familia, bastaria que es-
con esta misma puma las le-
,ras de su nombre en- un pedazo de
,apel. Y hasta seria c~onveniente que
u carroza encontrase por ~casualidas
IN Ell canine q tn ~carreta. \ Ell e.
IS bueno. y acaso no desee otra c~
que librarte Ia vida, y puede HI.
,erlo, y sin embargo, no 10 hara.
XII
va que no hay remedio, tengams
'alor para morir, cojamos esta iea
CONTINUALLY.