The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1917-11-01


Thus we work of destruction in Franco
Somme Picture to yourself how live now-not like NOV Tue
beasts Far and wide there trenches only bo
stups of trees growing where Man. the chosen f
ploughed his fields and worked for wife and child Thai
retirement, and part in -not you will see
for these observations founded experiences If
experiences which never forget" 0"h
Il What shall call them? Germans? They are M !,
soldiers, but crmnas no longer men," but beasts eU
newspaper correspondent who the boosted "E.
of Death writes Their living victims more pitiful
dead 1t is terrible anything the battlefield 10 Coz
children who have been slowly starving for year wand
about amid the ruin of their home They are wan l
with blush faces and heavy lidded eyes, harn
MANY such children fra woman load barrow $50
what she could find in the ruin the Germans had rnad
home-the last article doll without headand s e
cargo away with four shy, weak little figures clinpno -
SKIRTS who made as painfully sad group have ever
ANA these people were starving because the IIso -,
the country OF livestock poultry and agricultural od
had stolen the American relief provisions burned the A
Relief sorehouse and turned the canal water in unon a.
What shall we call them? F Vic runs
But let them tell the story of their own nfamv wi.;
the Beriner Iageblatt of March George Quer savs
III looked like a house moving of humble folx-yn.ttr
ana char with an occasional sewing machine or hen COON @
en nne array OF dsmanted doors and windows and anpb
else that seemed worth carrying away from the bou
ie" houfS later were to smoke and flames Ad
sawed away the tree tunks-fne, sound solid wood
ana the DESERT pitful desert leagues wide bare of -
and undergrowth and houses! They sawed and hacked @
TEL ana bushes sank it days days before they had
the ground In this there was to be no cover no
enemy mouth must stay dry his eyes turn in vain ~ A.
wes-they are buried in rubbe No four walls for b;r - @
ao"n nto all eveled and burnt out the villages turned info
OF rubbish churches and church towers laid out in rims
the roads Wv 40 iunS atnwart
onouderlng fires and smoke stencil rumble srro
village TO Vllage-the mine charges are still doing t E
WORK, which leaves nothing more to do ~ si
1T is not easy to scatter whole VILLAGE into hill,
are hundreds of villages out there which were nd s
weeks on end yet still showed or two and an
"eh our engineers get to work vlage-or ono;rooI
= goes INTO the air as mighty earthquake had cauht
o. anu breaks up and falls, and the last pfu houses
are knocked out by the de grace And what rub h
es spread-brics and clay stones and thinkers Ed @
Foor deVl OF seek your habitaon elsoory
iarins with massive walls vaulting and any amount ~
P'"erwtner walls are drilled scientifically and the
heo Then the whole farm crumpIes up inst DC os
intended to do-ha the road which il was s busin
Jury, ana the other half into the cracking cellars
Hubble nothing but rubble this ancient village Of bi
% all these future prospects of peasant life The fine
!ard SINKS away with the cottage the cottage burns quietly
% ashes the remains Of its walls WELD To fine first ees
oKe OF the batterng The great buildings put In
to fly into the air. down again and mnee
themselves with their neghbors misery in field of runs which
nee bore named and paid a rent
Let them see it there Let them see it over tbere
naked war should be reflected in all the shop
Inc bouevards we have put distance between and
nelnles 1t is a desert full of Indebtedness
Farewell comrades of the Sonnet The earth which drank
our pood is upheaved and torn asunder 1t is made unfit
is turned into desert and graves are made free from
ne dwellings, OF men, Those who tread it, your DESERT will be
reeted by Shells"
What shall them? "Bv tIeir ,uorLs va shou row
Are these the works by which some of our neipbors
oud have us know the of beloved Fatheand? Some
our boys are now within this Empire Death" it they
no will tread this desert they will be greeted with their
nells and until some word that outIns TJunn we
hall continue to call them Huns.
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