Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1919-03-14

business reasons should men and wo-
men go to France for many months to
come.
The battlef1elds are already being
'mopped up'-their surfaces are being
cleaned and everything-actually every
thing-in the way of metal, wood, rub
Der, leather, &C.. is being retrieved.
Americans are helping in this impor-
tant work, the SD Regiment "Pio-
neers," Col. R. L. Foster of New York
city commanding, being among them.
Huge piles of all kinds of material
gathered from the waste and wreck of
, the war line the roads that skirt or
run through the battlefields. For a
century to come the cultivation and
upturning of the soil will yield steady
harvest in the relic" line, but long
before the organized armies of tourists
are turned loose everything in the way
, of visible relics will have disappeared.
This is not to say, however, that the
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There will be thriving trade for long
time-the demand will be supplied!
While Wilson, Lloyd George and
Clemenceau are the present outstand-
ing figures at the conference, there are
others that have either made an i'm
preston or are to be reckoned with. !
Venizelos of Greece Is distinctly of
mentality not to be confined within |
the boundaries of his country. Sazon- |
off, from Russia, is probably the wise |
est man from eastern Europe; Son |
nino Of Italy, a determined man from |
whom little has been heard thus far, |
will undoubtedly make as strong a |
fight for Italys claim as any man could
make. Jonescu Of Roumania, is anoth-
er interesting figure. On his recent |
arrival in Paris he submitted for con-
Sideration a proposition calling for |
the amalgamation into one ma
ton of all the Balkan states, his ar
gument being that if such nation |
could be established and supported |
it would form a solid bloc to Offset in |
southeastern Europe possible en-
croachments generation hence by the
Teutonic bloc of central Europe. |
Hughes of Australia is an outspoken |
man who has not hesitated to give his |
opinions. There is little of the diplo-
mat about Hughes. He seems to be
strongly in favor Of. open covenants |
openly arrived at"
of it's army of occupation in the Rhine |
provinces is approximately $1,000,000 |
a day for pay and subsistence. The |
item Of pay is said to be about $685. |
900 a day on the average, and the cost |
of subsistence around 100000. These |
figures are based on force of $50, 900 |
officers and men. They do not take in
he cost of subsisting animals, main
tanning motor cars, motor trucks, and
other necessary equipment. The total
cost is around s1.500,000 day, on an
average. The figures are being kept
in France. to the last detail, and when /,
a. responsible government shall have |
arisen in Germany and the army with |
drawn, the United States bill for it |
I'll will be included in the final reck- |
oning.
Coblenz, a city of about $4,000, is |
nearly as lively and as busy as it was !
in pre-war days. If one is in hurry |
it is necessary, often, to leave the side |
walks and take to the streets because |
the evening crowds are often of New |
York density. It was rather surpris- |
ing to find cafes open until midnight |
and to hear the productions of Sousa |
and Cohan on the Rhine's banks. |
There are very few food restrictions |
and prices are reasonable. There is |
no butter, but there is sugar in plenty. |
Linen has long since disappeared from
the hotels, enormous counterpanes
serving the chambers as sheets for the
beds and counterpanes also serve as
towels for the bath rooms.
Germany has been conquered but
not the German. He is in no way
penitent His chin is still up. AS a
rule the average German is not look
ing ahead He is doing what he can
with each day as it comes in his GUS
tomary methodice' way, and thinking
rs little as possible about what next
week or next month may bring. And
he is taking his regular pleasures as
he goes along.
American officers will tell you, and
not in a boastful way, that there is
not bronze enough in France to pro-
| ide war decorations for the dough-
boys who really merit them. That is
the one thing you hear from the At
lantic to the Rhine-the story of our
doughboys and their platoon leaders.
the first and second lieutenants. There
were many mistakes made higher
| rp," naturally, in the confusion of our
| lnripe effort, but the army proper, the
fighting men, was "all there" as the
boys say. A major general said 10
me: Mistakes were made. l made
mistakes. This was because of the way
we had to rush things. But with the
way in which we were coming along.
] I really believe we could have gone
right across Europe in 1919
1t is candidly acknowledged that
';reat Britain, meaning in this in
stance England, led all other nations
by wide margin in the air during the
war. In machines and men EnGlan
"as first. Through policy all her
own England kept the deeds of her air
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