The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1918-03-30
CHASTITY JOKE
OF GERMANS
From IS Queen Anne's Gate
London.
Relayed by X. c. Office.
By GEORGE T. BYE.

are burning French villages before
moving out OF them. There was
nothing the Germans left that was
worth destroying in all this great
area after their retreat of 1917.
| have just returned from tour
of the whole country between ArraS .
and Peronne, including the British
Hindenburg line at Croisiles, the .
British battle positions close TO st.
Quentin, and the prepared positions .
in the rear, and the only infiam-
mable structures l saw in all this .
grisly country were some tempo
rary huts occupied by American en-
gineerS.
1t is one OF the ghaStly jokes OF
the Germans to refer to these
French villages as ii it were pos
sible for the British to level them
any lower into the dust than Ger
man clock-mines and torches had
long ago reduced them with char
acteristic thoroughness. This IS 4
corpse country; villages are moth
ing more than a continuation OF the
havoc that meets your eyes Tor
miles. There are no walls standing.
Those points that are named on mil
itary maps are nothing more than
former locations and you would not
know you were passing village OF
the past but for a sign post that
helps to give direction to military
travellers. | should have included
these sign posts among the i'll
Aammable material, also the thou
sands and thousands of crosses that
mark the graves, white for British
and black ior the Germans it IS
terrible resurrection that has come
over this awful region, a raging new
battle on the field OF the old, not
vet old enough to have affected its
skeletons. The Germans laid away
their dead under black crosses
bearing REST in Peace now their
shells are ripping up these battle
graves, busting the faces OF the
freshly killed with the pulyerized de-
cay OF the SacrlnceS OF last year
Peronne Not worm burhihg'
Peronne is not burnable, at least
the few fragments of wood in its
tumbIed wreckage are not worth
burning. 1t IS a splendid example
OF German 1rlghtiuIhesS' once
beautiful Gerohhe IS no" only lie
shell OF a town y coilpact sondly
built place OF about ou'UOo inilapl-
ants before the war l louno II pro-
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