The Cordova daily times., 1917-11-01
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BEHIND THE BRITISH LINES IN FRANCE, Nov. l. = In quaint old place miles behind the battle line are housed many interesting souvenirs Of the great war, curious relics from world famous battle fields and illustra- tions of phases of daily life in the trenches. German trophies for the most part. Many of these exhibits are destined in due course to form part of the National War Museum. The old First Corps flag carried by ,the heroic and ill-fated Cough at ,Ypres, is one of the notable relics.
 Here also one may see the carved oak table from shelled Arras used by Field Marshal Sir Douglas Haig at his headquarters throughout the battle of the Somme. There is the First Corps headquarters flag, which he carried in the Mons retreat, his first flag as commander of the first army. There are several other flags of great in- terest - of which one must not for get to mention the first Tanks flag the first Portuguese flag in the trenches, the first American flag to | fly in France after the American de- claration of war.
 There are German flags, too, as for instance, large one unearthed in the Hotel de Vile Peronne, another from Beaumont Hamel.
 After flags, which are symbols of our army, come captured guns. But there is only room here for the smaller engines of war, such as trench nor. tars, minenwerfers and grenade throw. CTS, with a few machine guns dam. aged in battle. There is a great un- gainly minenwerfer captured at Vimy by the Canadians.
 There are shown two German para, chutes, souvenirs of brilliant battle in the air and dozens of enemy rifles inscribed with the names of villages in the Somme or Arras region whers hand to hand conflicts were waged German material is here in profusion shells of every calibre, shell cases and basket carriers, flammenwerfers bombs, axes, knives, pistols, wire cut ters and a unique collection of trench clubs, including one with a flexible handle and a heavy steel head, posi- lively devilish in it's ingenuity
 Scatteres throIzs. Z shis museum are iife-size mannequins attired in enemy saiment. One affords striking rep resentation of a medieval warrior steel armor and casque of A. D. 1917 Over his shoulders he carriers a cross bow, which discharged grenades il the winter of 1914-15, while behind him is British catapult which saw service at Neuve Chapelle.
 There are the German proclamations on the walls, German prints depictin, our soldiers, enemy maps captured or the battlefields and sometimes stained with blood, German officers note books and sketch books. Nor can tn, realistic models of the battlefields- now no longer of direct military util ity-fail to enchain attention from on, of Neuve Chapelle to the latest minia ture.
 The collection is only a recen undertaking-when it comes to find resting place in London. it will brini home, as thousands of pages of his tory books could not, the ferocity ant the kindliness, the brutality and tn poetry, the hunior and tragedy and al those thousand little unremembere, acts which made up for. millions O Britons the daily life in the trenche land hillets of Erapna and Elondars