Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1917-03-27
PARIS, March 7.

PARIS, MarCn T.
AS left the British front for Paris last
night an English officer said to me:
stranger things could happen than that
the final blow against these barbarians
be delivered by the armed force OF the
great English speaking nations OF the
world, two nations with laws and customs
of approaching similarity.
had spent forty eight hours with his
| command. and take off my hat to the
Kings army. They are the real goods.
They have that which France had IN IVA
and now lacks-youth. And every man Is
i'm the game heart and soul not only ior
the honor of England and the cause OF
France and right but as sporting propo.
sitou full of enthusiasm, grit gayety and
the stuff that wins.
The marvel of it is that they are all
trained soldiers; there Is absolutely nothing
of the recruit about them While with
them | was permitted that rare thing
for a correspondent. to advance IN thelr
concuering company upon territory rein-
quished by Germany, I was deeply inn
pressed by their earncstness. their eager
ness and | could not but think of the dog
gere the slogan If you will;
We don't want to nght. but by lingo, II We do
We've got the men we've got the ships. we've
got the money too.
There were not any ships around, al
though boat would not have been by any
means an inappropriate thing in the sea
Of Somme mud and water, and did not
see any money but the men were there py
the hundreds and hundreds and hundreds
of thousands. each alert. bright-eycd. Wig
orous, imbued to the core with the spirit
that counts. | saw in it all sure ueatn
to Hun hopes for the Boche is always
Hun to the Englshman.
They have taken in the last seven Gays
almost 5000 prisoners and ninety orlcers
in addition. They have planted the nag
SO lnff Of
Of Ligny -Thlloy. Thilloy. lie Bardue war
lencouit Pys, Miramouut. Pett'M t'Miramouht'
ctrandcourt. Puitieux au Mont. Seire'
Gommecourt and some more They nave au-
vanCed upon front OF thirtN-seNeh Niio-
meters long and from five TO nine deep,
changing the German line from Il crooked
zig2ag that would measure thirty miles on
a straight line. TO the half OF an eccen.i u
elipse measuring less than twelVe. ihey
hold every road 90 Bapaumc tiapaulhe hdH
fallen since this was writtem ana the ran
road from Arras to Peronne is at the mercy
of their heavy guns. The road to cam
brai twenty klometers away. is an open
hook to them and the town with II. LOOK
at the map and see what this means
HUNS THE ONLY DEAD
was with their advance as it entered
two of these villages, a privilege as yet
given to no other correspondent III 'hIS
war These two villages are but mutilateu
ei1lgies of the peaceful hainlets OF carry
1914. But they are part of the great OBJ
iertiye of redeemed France. And the only
Boche, the only Hun, within and ABOUT
them is a dead one.
off in the distance. beyond the new Ter
man line | saw Bapaume thfoush my
glass; Bapaumc. the scene ol a ifuSN'"h
victory in 1871. and soon to De 'he scene
of AN English victory of 1911 lts churvh
spre reached up into the gray SKY Whiie
before and behind it shells tore the ar
I saw thousands of khaki-clad English
mon covering thousands OF square leet
of martyred ground with pick ana shoN',
They were like crowd OF anus e"'n
touching the other; or like "A great crowd
of feverish gold seekers as femeInoer
oaeipp unon the seashore at Nome. They
were mine seeking. indeed, but MINES oi
death For the Boche is a gentleman WHO
nlants pleasant little mines to XIII 'he
hated enemy after he has taken ground
comfortably installed himself and rs en-
loving his cup Of tea. / won't say now
many of these mines ] saw unearthed.
would take three figures alone in "A space
5000 meters long by seventy-fve deep
AS under escort l went forward past
them the familiar song OF the smell over
head, / noted from the sound II was -
and $50 Upon inquiry. | was told there
has been nothing heavier from the German
batteries about the Ancre for some weeks
which means something,
The ancient German lines that saw
underfoot had been strongly fortified posi-
tions. with subterranean shelters built of
hriII, aud stone instead of the usual wood.
| They were in extremely bad shape having
been shattered by heavy English artillery
some time before, the destruction being
| relatively old No attempt had been made
| to repair them save in the most temporary
manner 1t was evident the Boche had con-
templated shortening his line some months
ago. and also that he had not intended
| 10 shorten it quite as much as he has.
For the English have not been content
| merely to occupy territory evacuated. but
| upon the principle of the song, Every