Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1918-12-01


our speeding car threw sl.my mirN
an over them. FOR camp they
uso1 the long LIMOS Of German pill
bUE forts At ono place We saw about
% ot 'h"s" squat chambers. with
walls three feet thick and made 0i
concrete reinforced with steel pipes
Dlr"nt shell hts apparently bounced
r1rmlrssly or these forts The 20
p.Il hah"s Ia sight were Ia Il straight
row. and behind them were htli
do1cu larger ones to protect the
rear.
"I'lll Boxes" Plentiful.
when We had passed the desola'o
whEt" Of water, mud and swamp
reeds and got into other lUwlauds
that had been drained and tiled W.
saw marc pill boxes ia q reserve lin"
A Bnisihn peasant VAS using ono ~
chicken nous" md the low aper-
tures for mnchln" guns lent them.
solvca t"udily a. entrances and eXiii
Tor the fUwI4 sndInla Of these
chickens should be In the old family
hDm" FOR a thousand years hence,
or say million years. Fill boxes arc
something that vii. stand almost
everlasting age
Ine scores ~ drninREs slulces
across m" roads had pil been COW
cred with temporary bridges by tho
E"IRIHn engineers fUIiOwiug up the
German drslrU}"rs These bridges
uui CulycrtA are not ag neat and
w"Tkmanlike as ih" ones tn" British
ana Americans bulId, bat they hold
Oh" traffic. ANA that Ia me important
th,ng Just now Through the au-
huruH Uf Dsirud "" passed cheering
B'igiins dressed for church. Tho
people wrra so prayerfully grateful
10 the RutBh that they did not seem
~ mind the mud We spattered all
over them Many Of thom ran Off
th" road behind trees and from their
mud screen shouted greetings 10 tho
English As the extraordinary Flan-
dcrs mud would even squirt up TO
first floors ~ houses, many Of the
people, learning from experience,
had taken iO second stories. from
Ehich thcy clappcd their hands and
waved flags The only damage We
nav IN Ostcnd was the wreckage "
the marine and railway stations, ana
the shattered glass In buildings on
the sea front. due TO the air cOncuS-
slOns from British monitors pound
ing the rotreatlnE enemy
Ostend Damage Not Great.
The piers leading out into the sea
from the harbOr basin showed ef-
feGts OF British shells ana bOmbs
ana near tho end OF the pier was the
gallanl old Vindictiyc. after It's mag
nlfiCant part In the Zeebrugge bot
Ting up exploit. where she served aB
a boarding ship and carried tho
great superstructure to permit Brit
ish marines TO climb up on the zee
hrugEe mole, had been filled with
concrete and sent In to block Ostend
az U.boat and destroyer base. The
NindiCtiye made II impossible for
slzablc ships to get into Ostend and
the Germans, Just before the re-
treat, tried to complete the work Ivy
sinking mail ship alongside the
Yindictice. However. there is still
room nt high tide for small relief
ships and barges. In fact, We saw
n converted trawlcr. OF the Ameri-
can Red cross already in the har-
Dor, as we'll as many similar British
ships.
The shopkeepers Of Ostend had
already tied up their German money
In Dngs to hold until after the war
or until German credit Ia restored.
Shopping Is done with difficulty as
French and Belgian coins are very
scarce We wanted TO get some Ger
man money. and at the shop where
We applied one cashier had to dig to-
the bottom ~ his strong box to get II.
We saw many bakeries displaying
4 variety OF doughnuts In their win
iows. and found that they tasted II ke
hut were without the
hole. There also were heavy stocks
OF German cigars and tobacco in the
city.
The town fluttered with allied
Tags. including some queer square
American ones that had evidently
been made In n hurry. Every win
dow carried a placard TO this effect
'Ilurrah for Belgium, Hurrah for
the Gallant Allies! Honor to the