Mrs. Grundy. (Tracy City, Tenn.) 1903-1930, 1920-07-29
old BATTLE lines
Evidences Of War Thick In Vicinity
of Ypres.
Shell Holes Beginning to Grow Green'
but Battered Tanks Are Every
where In Evidence on the
= Scenes OF Slaughter.


Leaving Zeebrugge the first days
Journey by motor takes the V'sisof
something more than hundred mlies,
with Ypres as the turning point anu
every variety of war-stricken iahuS
and recovering countryside on the way
there and back. 1t was point moot
ed with wearisome frequency IN the
real DAYS Of the place-when II was
''functioning," as one would nave sai1
land among front-line troops In the
salient, whether they would ever caio
1 to come back and see that foui p'aeo
under peaceful aspect Agreeu'
there were those at home who might
be taken. not without profit to them
selves and the world in general, over
the low ground under kemmel, or
where Passchendaele looked DOWN VI
the swamps, and there were NOT
few Of the armchair gentry whose
instant presence would have been wei
coined. But, for himself, 1t was inc
common verdict Of the man IN tne
mudhole that, once out OF It, Wipers
and he could be the best OF friehds-
at a distance, says writer In the
Manchester Guardian.
Riding into the place from wnlcn
rises the battered tower OF the Oioth
hall, In the high day and under .
burning sun; coming, too, unscatheu
and unfearful from what was unmis-
takably the direction Of mo MANS
Land" one had to question such y
verdict, and finally. under the stimu'
lation of hundred quickening memo
ries. allow the appeal. For the IN.
terest of Ypres and of all the GROUND
In front of 1t would not be denied
The place was like itself--in degree
hard to credit. And II only some
mimic had been there to reproduce
the shrill crescendo Of an approach
ing shell one would undoubtedly nave
taken cover. Going out by the wa!
Of the Menin gate and turning up int
the high road to Poelcapelle, Win mrs
Hooge and then st. Julien. with Pas
schendaele rolling up to the skyline a
background, Is to pass into the neil
of an endless battle from which notl
ing has been cleared but the DEAD
and though elsewhere something ma
already been done Of that "concentrs
ton" Of graves which Ii to give GU
dead an orderly and lasting mem0fia
they still lie here, for the most pal
= IN the scattered resting places
! which the hurried hands of their con
8 rades consigned them.
:, The shell holes begin to grow gree
y but It is only beginning. and II IN
II trenches are almost unseen as on
= goes down the road, were they eve
!. very clearly defined here? 1t Is Ion
- time before place is reached fro
which no battered tanks can be see
and now and again they stand thrt
is or four deep on the very edge OF Il
road--ditched In their first atteml
d. at the mud.
10 There Is something sound In u
IL notion that one can see the batt
fields in a day; the repetition won
give no new tone, but intrinsically Il
same IMPRESSION. AS teSsoh = u
and its province could not be 81
IA passed. Coming out at Dixmude,
,ss hind what was an almost permane
by boche line, the car returning to N
M brugge comes again into count
iy, which Is alive. For the hinterland
Belgium has returned quickly to
To- self. The army huts which serve
be, the broken areas as shelter for the
MS, who have returned to the shatter
villages, give place here to cottae
already substantially repaired, a
the frugal cultivation of the soil &c
'ho forward with an energy and resour
for fitness typical of no class In the wol
a SO much as the peasantry.
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