The Idaho recorder. [volume] (Salmon City, Idaho) 1886-1927, 1918-11-22
CHATEAU THIERRY TAKES UP TASK
I Of RISING FROM "CITY OF ASHES"
Refugees Returning to the Little Left by Heaess HunAeady
Small Storekeepers Are Operating at Full BIast-Gemans
Chased Out Too Fast to Take Their Loot With Them
Where Marines Wrote Themselves Into Fame.

pariS.-'Chateau-Ih merry, Tepeateu
a marine officer and smiled Mt me pity
ingly. Yes. that was interesting
month ago. A Boche potted me there
and I'm just going back to join my
men. But you won't find 1t interesting
now. All the Germans are gone"
But he was wrong. There are Ger
mans marching through the streets OF
Chateau-Thierry every day--German
prisoners armed with shovels and
picks who are cleaning out the wreck
age and desolation they left In their
path when they evacuated the city on
July %; proud Prussians who are
welding scythes to harvest the crops
In the fields that they called "Unser-
And" a month ago; miid-faced boys
from the south Of Germany who seem
to prefer jobs AZ chore-women with
mops and scrub brushes to carrying
guns for the kaiser.
And as for the interest Of Chateau
Thierry. the curious have visited the
field Of Napoleons Waterloo for sew
erai centuries. They will visit the Wa
terloo of the Boche march on Paris In
1918 for several more centuries and
thrill with every century at the story
Of the battle on the outskirts OF that
city where American marines, artillery
and lnfantrymen started the Huns on
| their run for Berlin--and gave them
such good start that the goal Is get
ting hotter each day.
War Activity Everywhere.
1t takes Just an hour and half by
rail- from Paris to reach the outpOsts
Of the battlefelds OF yesterday; an
hour and half that runs by like the
| fast reels Of cinema with hurried
glimpses Of passing trains loaded with
horses. with cattle. with big guns and
men; of camlons crowded with sol
diers wearing dust.colored uniforms
Of hospital trains marked with red
crosses and groups of civilians hurry
Ing back to see what Is left Of their
homes In the reconquered districts. AT
one OF the stations the marine officer
swung Off to Join knot of men whose
backs were loaded with marching
equipment, showing that they Were
going "up the line" War was written
| In LARGE letters over every human &c
tivity. but of 10 my right was the
Marnc. sleepy and peaceful. flowing
quietly through valley fields. hiding
behind gentle slopes covered with
whent and splashed With vivid peoples
and emerging again from clump OF
thick trees and heavy underbrush.
/ At La Ferte there Is II great cash
In the station where a Boche plane
swooping down within few hundred
yards of the mark. dropped hall
dozen bombs just few nights ago
And from there an auto road, peck
marked by shell holes. runs through
fertile country aud pink.roofed vii
lagos. lifeless and deserted. to Lucy
le.Bocage and Belleau woods. wher,
the American marines showed IN,
world Just what lighting stun tn,
United States army Is made of.
.1ucy" keeps open house for al
Corners, There are few doors ief
In the village. but they sag heavily oil
rustcd hinges. Windows are opei
spaces through which the wipds an,
rains drive ut will. leaving facetiou
pud,llcs about the little heaps O
broken glass that sirew the ground
The few roofs left look apologize Il
the midst of the ruin about them.
The village huddles about n littl
church that has been pitilessly bat
tered 10 ruin. Only bits OF the wall
are left but In the midst Of IN
wrecknge rises tall erucitix IN
scratched. The altar Of the SINAI
chapel on the right side had bee
cleared Off and the old able. tollin
alone. was searching among the d.
hris for precious relies. A praye
book md few pathetic little orns
ments of glass were all that he ha
found To restore In his temple.
Guarded by the Dead.
From Lucy.le-B ocage to Bellea
wood the road literally is guarded h
the dead, whose bodies were covere
where they fell aud marked by simpl
wooden crosses on many of which III
soldiers trench helmet has been hum
II was the way Of the cross for III
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