The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1917-06-16
IS SACRED
TO The 00Cnt
Ry i. W. pEGLER

|funifsd Press STAIR Correspondent
WITH THE BRITISH ARMIES III
1.-THE FIELD. May by Mail1
Whole erased by dynamite.
orchards shaafed off al the ground
and towering rows OF roadside tress
intellectually felled~tAese scenes Of
mercilass destruction illustrate Why
1.-The British soldier wants retrltYution
against the Boches.
Tommy goes ahead repairing the
roads and clearing the debris frona
village streets. admitting that II MAS
military good sense for the ersefay
to ohstrnct the lines Ut pursait.
But the Germans said they did
these things To prevent the conceal
ment OF troops. And the soldier Tsa-
sons 1t hts way The BoeSae air
planes never get over ans ID OBJ
serve where the troops are massins
So what difference could il make
whether they have concsalnens2 Al
30 the Roclle was careful "a ruin
orchards. but he LETT many acres oil
dense Init unprodarsive woods.
What's the ane8srs Strafa em.
qeronne cathedral refates the plea
EaF military necessity. Dynamite
blew out the east wall and iwo sides
and brought the dome crashing
amid the PROSTATE stone columns.
Today the interior Is . mountain of
hopeless wrecka lie. On its saagine
balcony the pipe organ sings the
ghest of q peaca-time anthem As the
Mag breeze gees s~eughing through
the vaixe TIE pipea iansls as
brick Ii dssloaged and tltasales tel
the flaof. Far away the gum bonaa.
The british never sheilea tie
church. The remaining vest wall
not Scared BIZ shell fragments
was left standing 70 hamper Britfell
observations
At the outskirts 81 the tosn lies
fUn d = Acre tae 3o.la@
ar III aE1og The dead enrpaa
we're thrown inte banfifes ant Il
vaults occupied ~ Gerraan s
is aueoats Two trench lfnss fua
straight through the eemete
Military neea naade TIE nesa
na h the door Of FrencE lam
to.lb whsre six dead had sIspf Ter
mary ears, The eoflins remained
exposed.
Two English guard regiments With
{ little seud Dc wsea the5a went tHse.
the cemetery On the heels 81 tie
goehe The arrivals found e
coffin bored by q machine eHH bal-
let frona the direction q their l
vanee. This message Vsa Ga fba
white ashed Wafl
The Boele mar havs had dag
outs here. but he slantt shoot Tie
hole In the far-off coffin
To vhieh the lateeauie3 ssfibbls /
this reply:
Neither did tt. Wfite ~ the
walls, you laekgna1ds.
ssrean with the fragments OF
head-stones aud battlefield junk ar.
countless bead-work wreaths. placed
By mourne5s in days Of peace. a
Natra ebere Graadaege,9 said tha
inscription On one Grandmere
grave mar be one Of those prled of,en
At tue edge OF tire cemetery was a
vat~. Yfs*sa a,sya 44~4a*H ba,m 7
iorget-me-nofs. The headst9ne saie
Maaeleipe was onts four years ola.
Tue Boehe had not touslted il. Near
By. 6 5ow Of wooden Iron Cross
each Inscribed. Under Kamerade.a
gaze proof that the German eaGayes
factory lost some faw material
through sentiment.
A Arras the Cathedral and the
.4otel de VILE are smashed beyond
disability Of restoration. only d
saaIi aofner 81 fhe hotel survives as
memory Of that grand specimen Of
sr nlsh architecture.
BapaVme tt a hideous she'll. al
though Toe Australians have cleared
'h4 streets. Here an Australian.
.reacefailg tending a cooking ste
told how the Boche hate goes mai
at times
"A German naval gun tries 10
saeii ua nov and again" he SAID
M the nnors must he crazy.
tbe KAY they shoot
TIE road toward Albert runs
through the cemetery where the Brit
artillery first discovered as
strength Ruin stretches for miles
top Of the Butte de W~arlencourt
Is q wooden monument by q British
regiment erected 70 Their comradys
~ho died storfaing tlHe country
There is not the siiehtest trace 81
the town. With q field glass aban