The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-11-20

| aged airplanes at the airdrome in Tellan- l court is regarded as a case where in diyidual aviators determined to put thelr ma chimes out of commission, rather than | have them fall into the hands or an enemy, much as a cavalryman would shoot favorite horse to save him from | a like fate.
 Enormous stores of ammunition and many guns left at Longuyon were little 1 impaired and the machine shops there had not been damaged. The electrical machinery in the shops was fully wired and the tools were of the best.
 STORES UNDAMAGED | The railway yards at Montmedy ana 1 other places along the line that served the Germans as one or thelr man ar l teries of communication during their last stand against the allied advance were l filled with locomotives and cars ready ] for use while great quantities or gen eral stores not mentioned in the terms of the armistice had been abandoned | to the allies.
 ITndamaged stores left behind on every road over which the Americans advancea hear evidence of the great retreat. | At Virton was found a great salvage dunp. where tons of clothing. gas masks and helmets had been thrown by the German troops, who had no further use for them. A road near St. Leger over when the correspondent drove just behind tba eyacuating armies was so thickiy covered with big iron German helmets that at times they interfered with op- eration of his automobile
 i However it was not the litter or a battlefield that one saw, or even tna of a disorderly retreat under fire IL was merely the evidence of the pass ling of a tired disheartened foe, wno was going home.
 The country generally presented a strong contrast to that fought over foi | so many years. The Americans camPto today in towns, most of which beai no trace of warfare. Here and there was one which showed evidences ol the fighting at the time the Frencf attempted to check the German ma chine through Belgium. In most or tht towns every house was intact. AmoiIl the exceptions are Longuyon ane Montmedy, where a few torn bu1ldinss tell of French and American air raids and aerial photographs of whose scar have long been on file at American headquarters.
 The roads over which the American | travelled are in excellent condition, du'
 to their distance back of the formo o German lines and the limited use mau' o by the enemy of motor trucks. Thi
 
 upon roads by the Germans, kept then in condition almost equal to thos of France before the war. The re treating army left on the roads doz
 ems of steam rollers, which had peer
 working almost to the day of depar
 ture.
 Although early victims of the wal
 Belgian inhabitants in this quarter a2
 pear better off today than the Frene ! civilians a few miles back. When tn American army entered. Virton, restau rants were being operated and demand
 for coffee brought not only this com
 modity. but also sugar and crea into g
 with it. Meat was scarce. One mea dealer told how the Germans entero his shop on the night they left an ! | threw part of his stock into the stree :. But he had some left. including smoke n hams, when the Americans entered.
 SHOPS WELL STOCKED The shops are better stocked tha
 those in French towns the same dis
 tance back of the line Women's cloth
 ing, ranging from the lacy and ba frilled to smartly tailored garment
 is prominently displayed in the wir dows, while tobacconists have the show cases filled with various brand ee of cigarettes and cigars. The wir ay shops have not such varied stocks g