Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1918-12-08
BLOOD SACR|F|CE 4
PROVES monument
Desolation in Ypres Region Now
Occupies Attention of
Authorities.
BONDS OF FINE SENTIMENT
french Have Already Enshrined
Pock- Marked Plains of
Champagne.
BONDS OF FINE SENTIMENT
Iy nOHl.I.,r wEI.LEs nIrruI1.

/ IL III, i npb:Nr wnll,Es n!Tc,lit:.
q ,ember when world peace now
/ stGaiiy In sight with e,hc signing Of
,nr arinistice. finally comes to the
war. weary nations. amid ALI the trc-
4 .h,naous problems Of rebuilding des-
L mes and rchahilitating. peoples, sew
& "wait settlement, One Of these. al.
U L"ahy under discussion among Bel
iIans and beginning 70 attract The at
+ - be done with the Yser battle
~. particularly that portion of 1t
Naich embraces iprcsy
var has become subjected 10 bonds OF
,Sn,iimGnt n,,achins TO this Or 'ha'
Asss"d tremendous heroismB and dear
~ won victories.
The French aiready have enshrineG
The pock marked pians OF the Cham
laEne in the national Pantheon or
alteration; the italians look TO their
exist their songs and stories viii BE-
oi The gran. retreat N the terrible win
ter ~ 1915; the American soldier over
here, especially The vaiion,, marine.
ccGuta chatcau-Tnierry and Bellcau
Wood hhllowcd ground. with the Bel
x; Si.ans and The English the the shastly strin
I'll" North Sea eastward 20 Ypres
through The seet9rs thsir troops sluns
ears. Y sanctinea beyond the power
- time TO change
u was here the ,ntrcatinS English
ard Belgians arsi checked The con
Snncring German :; e." months after
Mat war started. lisre tn. n~st ana
second battles Of Ipres were fought.
ihc fury Of attack and .cpuntcra:tacE
swept over paSscilcndaele Ridge aud
: TopcriAshc and KENNEL I'M: here the.
TO take Yprcs wns checked last sum
.s,n'cr. Il was behind this bloody line
Tho, The Eel ,Js army. reduced from
iul months OF gallant resistance. was
rehabilitatcd. and. increased In SIZE.
Launched las, Septembe- on a ,rum;,
country. \ terrible altar Of sacrifice.
this hftymile strip az tortured terri.
was nobicst in the character OF BEL
itians. Canadians. AUSTRALIANS. Scotia
f0en, lrisnmci! and English
!. wfTH THE BVl"rLE FIELDS:
Recently / put tic question. VIVA;
is TO he done with the User battle
neids?" TO Dr. Modesto Ierwnsn one
in the Belgian Chamber OF Representa-
Dives. lie answered without hcs!;a-
lie, the more terribly SCARED re-
NAN forever az they are, untouched.
a monument TO war
have asked several EnGii3hhe.
I've met. civilians and m!ltury, men.
alike what they believed would NJ
q lie ultimate disposition OF this nlooav
! PROVINCE Each in his own manner "S-
,-esscd In. hope some way might BE-
\ FsnnJ Ia 20, sccrate "A norton, 1t least.
f the User territory 70 inc puEpoSs,1
Z ~ a permanent memorial TO the Sot-
+ aicrs Of The allies who there gave M
I ,Le,s lives fer the worlds freedom.
Naturally Yp;Tcs IND me , %e"hi RI,,a ms
1ho;ce tor the site OF such a memorial.
Tor every soldier wearing d iacs Mshs
I Harey tho high water mark OF British
: courage and tenacity. ,,r,a.
But here nrae'icafs B isisTs o' most
,rnsnerous cities. and Of course the
laqaes' OF Of it's sites; though impaired
hy the razing oi ne o Tu.a''n ihevi,ab!y
WIRES viii rise from its dust oil az.
y struction. though ! have We h hcaief ,bat
,hn ruins OF the ancicntsCfoth itaii-
.nnrc one OF the handSomest eNhthptcn
OF medieval Flemish areh non;nat;n ,o
Invei plain where the city stood
should be preserved for monument
10 1, 81 for the remainder OF the User
territory. rising 10 the Passcnennae,,e
Ridge TO the east and earrs'hS he
-enabilitation as. farm land ana the
.ue, OF cities and villages whose one
|, time existence has TO De ma iparin ~
+ ,,ion. Htrc is the crucicst. blcakcst
desert the war has wrought anywhere.
,Ha auto P Maiowins 'o over roads par
rally restored for military purposes
l. fau rcaG descriptions Of TINS IAN
6ers dead meas land and thought the
writer's hau exaggerated. Now know
,Lnv merely Ill dertook a task beyond
their powers
LARGE: SECTION IN BELGIUM
FI.OODED-NOW \ SWAMI
T., the north where the Eelgians
ncoded q vast acreage TO chsek ths
nslancholy swamp whose only crcp
~ the dreadful Vineyards Of harhed
Ire : mile, upon miles OF these
doub. % rcdouht im"doubla and triple
Zines on either side of~the,t gray canal.
Where the swamp ends an oven more
lied and married terrain begins. Moth
i rsus G". f,rrowe. ii,tle Teaver dams
which are dugou;s spotted everywhere:
ter ter filled shell holes like dull steel
mirrors set down everywhere between
hummocks IS far as the eye carries.
Here and there half buried British
II they were monsters painfully lift
rs themselves up from primeval oozc.
!he whole land is sown not only
9Th tho dead but with pottneiai
y not conceal below the surface some
mncxpioded shell ready to tear to pieces
= the wicldcr of pick or mattock. In
. some places splintiered steel Hes thick
J. doncd farm. Barbed wire is the weed
growth of this hclrs pasture.
I For the patient. ioling Flemish peas
+ ant 10 clear this war wrecked land
mems bones and the trash Of killing
arc now the only fruitage appears a
task beyond hope. Euts having seen
this peasant working his farm almost
for tho task.
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