The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1920-08-02
'OD BATTLE LINES ARE
.DEGIKN|NG TO GROW GREEN
Shell Holes and Battered Tanks
Are Everywhere In Evidence
on the Scenes Of
Slaughter 7a

Leaving ZeebFUgge The frsi DAYS
sourney hy motor TAKES the Nisi"t
something more than s hundred m.ls's
with ypres as the Turning psinl Aasa
eSery variety of w4r~siricse1 lAiias
snd recovering ceuntgyssae GA rhe was
there and hack. IL was a point moot
ed with weArisome Frequency IA TIE
real days Of the place macn 4 ~As
''gnnc.onine, as one wonld have sA3a
and among erout-line troops ia ihe
sAl .nf. whether they would ever care
10 sNrne hack and see thar tenl place
suaer peaceful aspect Agreed
fhoie we've lbose ak hegae whe ~ ehi
lgr taken, not with0u; profit 10 ihezA-
selves and the world ia general over
ihe lvw ground under keTnnel, q
where Passrlenaaele aeoikea dew-n Oa
tie sra1nps. and ahere we're uE
few c1 the armchair gentry whose
instant presence woulG have aeen wei
coined. But for himself II was the
caaaTn.-a verdict ot The man in Tie
mnahale that rnce out ot IT, Nlpers
ana he could re the best 81 flaentis--
Il 8 Distance SAYS writer IN The
Manchester Guardian
Rialnc antc the place from which
rises TIE battered tower ot the Cioih
isnl, in the high dag ard unaer
burning sum coming tpn unscafhea
and nafear9ul from W1lAt was unmis-
fxsalar tie direction of No Nan 5
Land one had to question SUCH
verdict ana finally, undtr The sanln-
iailau u q hundred oElcEenins meioe-
sses. an0w Tire appeal fT the llr
fAresr 81 yprTss ard 0f asl ihe groaAa
In front of II would not be oeniea.
Ihe plare was Ike iisfl1--aR degree
lYara 1a credit. AND y only sfdae
mimic had been there 10 Reproduce
-he Sham trescendo q En apTraacii-
snr shem one w0nld undoubtedly have
fafep cover. Going aut hy the wAg
AZ The Menln cane aua turning NJ ani9
the .5ah raaa te pool1ag'elle, with il'sl
Hoare ana then s. guAer~ with Fas-
nea,enaaele rolling 40 10 the skSl4Iis a.
3 background. aS SO TAss INTO ths ileta
~ Hn endless hattle frsan which npih-
irY hss been tleared bat The dead;
sns though elsewhere something has
already been dane 81 THAT ''c0ncentrh-
.jun" q graves which is 10 gfve ON
aaa8 az orderly ana lssrng memorial,
,a,er sun ne here, sur the most part
n the sca1terea resting plaees 70
a15ch the buried hands of thei- corr
rades consigned them
The shen h0les begin "a grow green
hsut & Is only q beginning, and 4 lie
trenches are almost unseen rs one
raes snvn TIE rnaa. were they ever
very clearly defined herey It Is hong
time before q Tlsce is reached from
which no battered tanks can he seen,
and NOW and again they stand three
az four deep GA the very edge of the
roaa-aitchea in their FIRST attempt
sx ths -rud. To look hack on war 81
is worst with almost al its evidences
but present slaughter. one c9ula
scarcely better tie viewpoint q Tins
read. few miles farther. and the
murdered forest u HoutAuist- with
its acres of stricken trees and not 8
live one, gives 3 neU edge to terror.
There Is something Sound n 1he
noiion thar one can see the hz+tle
fields IN 8 DAY: tire repetition wonle
give no new tone, but antrlnsieally ihe
sarne impression. AS 8 lesson Api'es
an6 its province could uoi he sur
passea. Coming ont ai IiUuD6e, be
A4nd What was IN almost Terlnapenf
hathe line. fhe car returning 70 Dee
1r-ugse comes again into q country
Nhich Is alive For fhe hinterAaDd ut
Belgium has returned quickly to H.
self. The army hurs which serve IL
the broken areas as shelter Tor those
VINO hrve returned to the shattered
! villages give place here 10 cottRgas
a1res aF Substantially repaired, ana
\ the frugal cultivation Of the s0ll goes
forward with I'D energy and resource
fitness tEyacll 0t nc class Ia tals world
SO much as the BelgiHn on French
pessnnrIy.