The Morning Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Okla.) 1919-1927, 1921-07-03
Doughboy Would Be Sur
Z prised That Marks
He Knows Remain
TOWNS CLEANED UP
But People Work Only With
the Hope That Indemnity
VIII Bring Relief

the Hope lldt lllutllllIllS
VIII Bring Relief
.,...r.4 Mackenzie, author and con-.
,t.... 20 magazines, died recently whNo
. way from Liverpool fu New irtt.
gh ,sr weeks PRIOR 10 leaving England
a., .f.a.ngIs had made close study ~
orsf Ha, ba called the American hattie
tI. -f France. The following article.
... n. wrote. provides q vivid picture
. battle nelds today. n was
...... .n the Scw York Herald
- rrr American doughhov wcro
e., .ro,u.9 30 France today he would
-a7pd TO discover how li''lo
<rlr.. there has been In the villages
-H towns into which he fought
Aare Tho Narne, IN the St Mihirl
e.t.r .n the Argonnc, one finds
.1. ..rglation simply waiting fur
,t. moment whom actual rocoustruc-
,.r atI poo possible That moment
.r. ..,h,r in the hands Of Ger
man. and ono and all Of these
ne-nIa siN living In their shattered
,...... think little less, talk little
'..e chan tho great indemnity that
% .- hoped the French government
v.u UU lh,o 20 exact from the Ger
mans
raro Just returned from tour
e., the entire American battle area
and the impression which ono most
strongly brings back Is how tho
Frsr.h people love their homes and
continue despite all the devastation,
10 cling 20 them. Everywhere one
nurl In the still desolate sections
Gniuos either making tho most OF
tfeIr ruins or living In wooden
sb4cks adjacent to that which had
Tt tV,t Q no
G1v when il will bo possible for them
20 resurrect their home.
NcauX Has Tidicd Up.
Nv first venture was Neaux.
which. u course. lives -eminently
ro' IN the doughboys mind. but with
those men who served as tho news
rlDsr correspondents. NeauN. how
ever provided billots first and last
90 q GOOD many thousand American
fighting men. To these 10 will he in
tefcguug TO know how clean and
tidv the little city. once so cluttered
with wrockage from Ions range guns
\and air bombs has become. one
Mound IN MeauX pleasant gardens and
green spaces which no douChboY
ever knew and Il was NOT until We
had pushed on to I.e Ferto. the little
town that is memorable as the first
that y was possible to detect the
first signs ~ what tho war had
meant 20 France. lie Fcrto though.
was wholesome and orderly in com
parison 70 Naux. which We reached
an hour or two later.
NauN stands today almost exactly
ne II stood after American artillery
had made its first Independent et-
fort It is still the same tumble of
masonry that II was on the June
morning two and a half years
aro when the lads Of the 26th
division pushed into 1t after
the work OF devastation had
teon done found the famous cul-
rc~' out If which an advance guard
NJ Americans hauled some thirty
five Germans still in the condition
T. was on the morning after the
attack AZ far as one could discover
there we're only a handful of people
who hnd returned 70 Naux and these
were living in wooden shaCks erected
an the edge OF the ruins Not few
<he women Of the village had been
/sen off hy the Germans and after
N" war repatriated.
Lying close 10 Nauv Of course. is
thr famous Bolleau Wood. made i'm
mortal by our marines. ANY dough
hov who knew Rclleau Wood when
u vas on our sector would marvel A.
'ho present transformation. In his
d." dead horses, dead Germans.
French and Americans. with litter
Y clothing. gas masks. helmets and
u general accoutrement Of war
covered the terrain. There were
'Nos" also who saw Belleau Wood n
'Iflo later. the dead had been
buried in most cases where thov
had fallen. often a grave would
''e beside a hastily dug rabbit hole, 81
a mute testimony, easy for any
doIehhov to read But today on
the heights of Belleau Wood lies tho
well ordered American cemetery,
tho most important Of our burial
grounds. The bodies from the graves
scattered through the woods and
along the roadside Of that battle
ground have been placed i'm sym
motriral rows each marked with a
whit" wooden cross and covered
with well tended sod Later. afterr
s'.E7g many graves in most cases
90 Grated with bead wreaths and
'tl'd flowers, the aug'ere dignity
n. N" simple American grave, the
mat IT conveyed Of dignity and
n'eraoy, was most impressive.
hatcau Thicrry MourpfuI city,
Na'01u ThierrY, kov position N
'H" turning point Of the war, came
\G'N The blue Marno. through
HThioh The boys ~ tho 18th regiment
IsNam m the heels Of 4 fleeing army
was 7H blue and colorful as ever
long since tho worst Of the ravagCs
'' me war have been removed, No
I"7'oon boats limo the banks tho
'.4fes across tho river have been
''"l.' and are quite snlcndid IN
NOR neWness But Chateau Thierrv
.' '''II . triste city. Houses have been
aired in many cases bur every,
".'r" one is confronted with
Innoe of what was accomplished
French and American artillery
'.''" is conspicuous cleanliness
about tho towp tpdap urbirb 10 Is