Arizona republican., 1918-08-30
"The Martial Adventures of
 Henry And Me"

when hopes begin to sag, when the | forces of disorder and darkness that lie subdued and dormant in every na ton, and in every human heart are bidden by evil times to rise-they rise. Leadership fails in it's battle against them. For year after the moran or the French began to come back strong, the French newspapers and French government were busy expos ing and punishing the creatures who shamed France in the spring of 1917. German money has been traced to per sens high in authority.
 Intrigue in France
 A network of German spies was un- covered. working with the mistresses of men high in government-the kaiser IS not above using the thief and the harlot for his aims; money literally by the carload was poured into certain departments to hinder the work of the army, and the tragic disaster of the Champagne drive was the result partly If intrigue in Paris in the government. partly of poverty. partly the result Of three winters of terrible suffering in the nation, and partly the weakening under the strain of all these things of this too too solid flesh and blood During the winter of 1916-17 soldiers
  telling of starvation and freezing and sickness in their families. And trench conditions in the long hard winter were all but unbearable. When a soldier finally got a leave of absence and started home, he found the railroad system breaking down and he had long waits at Junction points with no sleep ing quarters, no food. no shelter French soldiers going home on leave would lie all night and all day out in the open. drenched by the rain ana stained by the mud. and would reach home bringing to their families trench Yermin and trench fever and trench misery untold, to add to the woe that the winter had brought to the home while the soldier was away. Then when he went back to fight he found | that a bureaucratic clash had left the soldiers without supplies. or food or ammunition in sufficient quantities to supply the battle needs.
 | In the bureaucratic clash some one lest his head in the army and ordered the men into their own barrage. Hun dieds were slaughtered. Thousands were verginE on mutiny. A regiment refused to fight. and another threaten | ed to disobey. The American ambul- | ance boys told us that the most hor- | rible task they did was when they hauled eighty poor French boys out to be shot for mutiny. Spies in Paris, working through the mistresses of the 1 department heads, the sad strain of war upon the French economic re- sources, and the whitening hand of winter upon the heart of France had achieved all but victory for the forces | of evil in this earth.
 And there we were that summer day when time and events had chang cd the face of fate, looking out across the blighted field of Champagne at what might have been the wreck of France
 A Different France
 All is changed now. At every rail road junction the American Red Cross has built cantonments. where beds and food and baths and disinfecting ovens for trench clothes are installed for the homeward bound soldiers of of France. The American Red Cross las the name of every French soldier family that is in need, and that fam ily's need are being supplied by the American Red Cross. And the sure hope of victory has given the leader ship of France a mastery of the forces Of evil in the lower levels of the na L. tions political consciousness that will make it impossible for the kaiser $ friends, the courtesans. to accomplish anything next winter.
 We gazed across the field that af- ternoon and seeing the blotched acres weed blasted shellpocked, blistered with white trenches and scared with long jagged barbed-wire rents for miles and miles, and we thought how perfectly does the spirit of man mark the picture of his souls agony upon his daily work.
 Stricken Rheims
 It was late ih the afternoon when we left that sector of the line We passed a bombed hospital where two doctors and three nurses had been killed a night or two before. It was disquieting night, and the big Rec Cross on the top of the hospital showed that the German airmen who dropped the bombs were careful ir ] their alm Gradually as we left the Champagne front the booming guns grew fainter and fainter and finally we could not hear them, and we came into wide. beautiful plain and ther , turned into the city of Rheims. Il was bombed to death--but not to ruins Rheims is what Verdun must have been during the first year of the war a phantom city. desolate, all but un- j inhabited broken and battered anC abandoned Here and there, living IT caves and cellars. a few citizens stil stick to their homes. A few stores remain open and an occasional tricklt of commerce flows down the streets } We went to the cathedral and found
 it's outlines there--a veritable Miss
 Havisham of a ruin, the pale spectre of it's former beauty, but proud anC if stone and iron can be conscious vain of its glory. gash probably ten feet square has been gouged il : the pavement by a German shell, anC the hole uncovers hidden passage tt the Cathedral of which no one in thi! generation knew. In the hoverns l twilight we walked about, gazing il ] sadness that the broken splendor o the place cast upon us. at the details ot the devastation The roof. of course is but a film of wood and iron ren with big holes The walls are intact
 hut cracked and broken and totterinG } The Gothic spires and gargoyles ant ornaments are shattered beyond re , storation and the windows are bu staring blind eyes where once tho sou Of the church GaZed forth. Men conn and gather the broken bits of glass a art treasures.
 Continued Tomorrow
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