The Dayton forum. [volume] (Dayton, Ohio) 1913-1949, 1919-04-11
he ways, and yonder In hollow the

the ways, and yonder In hollow the |
Germans had built for years--con-
crete bungalows with electric lights,
bathroom for Prince, and trenches
and tunnels. Wide ways with Ger
man names ran in straight avenues
Through the trees and everywhere gi-
ant engines oil death had sown the
earth and cut the trees with iron.
Down again we went by riveA vii
lagos to the hungry towns behind the
iiRes and up again to Verdunthe an
.cient fortress, with its ancient hills,
where fort on fort had thundered four
dream-dead years and on the plains
betweea villages had sunk into the 81
lent earth. The walls and noat hung
grayely black and stills the city rose
in clustered, drunken ruin here and
in yellow ashea thare, and In the mar |
row streets say my coiored boys
working FOR France.
On, on out Of the destruction and
the tears, down by bewildered Com-
mercy and old Tonl, where great
truck hurrying food to the starving
nearly put our auto into ditch. and
up to Pont-a- Mousson where Joan Of
Arr on her great hill overlooks the
hills OF Mighty Metz; then to Nancy
and by the dark and winding Moselle
TO the snow-covered Vosges. Between
them roll wood and freed battle
|ground Of that last dark day. In yon-
der forest day on day the Negro
troops were held In leash. Then slowly
lthen advanced, swinging vast circle
down valley and up again with the
|singing Of shells. ! stood by their
trenches, wattled and boarded, and
|saw where they rushed lover the top"
to the crest, and looked on the field
'before Metz. innocent it looked, but
the barbed wire, thick and tough, belt
led Ii like heavy bushes and huddled IN
lhollows lay the machine guns, nested
lin concrete walls, three feet thick,
|squatting low on the underbrush and
scattering sputtering death up that ai-
lent hillside. Such wirel Such wallis
How long the great, eradling sweep Of
land down the valley and over the Ger
man treaches TO the village beyond,
beside the silent, dark MoseIlel
On by the river we went to the
snow-covered Vcages, where beneath
the shoulder ct mountain the Nine
Ity =second Division held sector, with
quiet death running down at intervals.
IThe trenches circled the hills, and dug
Iputs nestled beneath by the battered
Villages
We flew back by the hungry zone
II the back wash of warby Epinal
|hnd Domremy Bourbonne- les -baina
arid Chaumont and sor-.home to Paris.
MARCOS OPEN SEASON
WITH THE RED sox
The Dayton Marcos will open the
park Sunday afternoon with the Red
lSox as their opponents. These two
teams are old rivals and warm ar
gument for the opening game is an
Iticipated.
Manager Matthews, of the Marcos,
ANNOUNCED Wednesday that his team
| has been strengthened by the addi-
| tion of several players from the In
dianapolis Al. B. C. team. He has
booked several road games for his
club this season and expects q good
record aStringbean" Williams, for
mer pitcher for the Indianapolis club,
| has been named as captain of the
team. Williams will likely do most
lof the hurting for the team.
| The Red Sox claim to have one of
the best teams in the city. Manager
Thompson has three good hurlers in
lSloane, Vaubel and Goehner and has
two catchers, Williams and Hubbard.
Sundays contest will start at .
o'clock.