Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1923-01-14

II OLRhAINC DUN DA1NDLD bC.N-
WEIGHT MILES AWAY.
mobile at Leugenboom, a little vii
lage near Moore, and motions to Us
to get out. We do so and follow hic1
to a turnstile where by r.5!rg d,
franc, we enter woods ard fo.-
low q trail 10 the Long Max OF
Moere." a little brother of tho big
Bertha" that sent shells seventy-fiyc
miles into Paris. This German gun
was used to fire upon Dunkirk on the
English channel twenty eight miles
away. 1t is fourteen inches in d.
ameter and its barrel is so large that
when I offered a boy of twelve a
franc to crawl in that I might photo
graph him looking out. he had no
trouble in doing SO The barrel IS
forty-two riches IN circumference.
and its long shell was, I venture.
much taller than the boy. The gun
is mounted on a great concrete foun-
dalton with a sunkca pit. walled with
iron, beneath IT, 1t can be raised o.
lowered and swung around as though
on a pivot. Close by was a dummy
gun which was used with a smoke
and fash apparatus 10 draw the Brit
ish fire.
In a dugout, which was probably
used for storing ammunition, / found
a Belgian peddiing lace. He had
beautiful tabIecloths at low price
and lace collars OF fine work which
cost only two OF three dollars He
brought out the pillow on which b.
himself had Inads much of his wares.
telling US that the faest cf his stock
had required Ueehs OF work.
Leaving Moore, we pass great stack
of barbed wire taken out Of the field
and lying in sight of the new con
structiou. We see huge tank after
tank upturned, broken, and rusting
away by the roadside. There are
three in that field over there. We
go by windnlills tail white towers OF
brick or wood. throwing their red
arms about. hey make me think %
Don Quixote and his fight with the
windmill. He Succe eded almost as
we'll as the Germans. The windmilis
here are used 10 grind corn. and are
operated from the farmsteads nearbs-.
:: = :: ::
GEE that stack Of stumps and logs
~ near those houses of bright vel
low bricks. They come from trees
along the roadside cut off by the
shells. We ride on between rows Of
young trees newly planted. Farther
on we go by a dead thicket that looks
like parts o. Gatun lake In Panama
49,
tropical woods. That thicket was
once a beautiful forest which was de-
stroyed by the shells. During their
occupation of Belgium the Germans
cut down timber worth several hun
dred millions of dollars. They often
cut old and young, and in soma places
even the orchards were ruined. III
Hainaut Liege and Namur, largo
wooded areas were destroyed.
Riding on to the northeast, we go
through the ancient city of Bruges.
1t once We'd with Ypres. having 100
900 inhabitants, although now il is
not more than one-third OF that size.
1t Is city Of canals. It is nearly
surrounded by them and the water
ways run through the town. A new
it with zeebrugge was opened in
1907, and you will remember that the
latter port on the North sea was a
German submarine base during the
war. It was badly damaged by the
bombardment of the allied airmen,
and the Germans sank large cranes
in the docks, as we'll as twelve ships
and other small craft in the basins.
In order to clear the harbor the canal
has been blocked and the water
pumped out. Bruges itself was not
damaged to any extent. and steamers
now come into the harbor.
Another great canal city is Client.
through which we pass on our ride
back to Brussels. 1t is cut by water
ways which divide it into thirteen
Islands connected by hfty-eight
bridges. This is a quaint old Elem
ish town whose medieval buildings,
great cathedral and belfry, and many
museums are the delight of the tour
list. About the time of Columbus &c
was the most important city in Elan
ders. and it again has on its seven
| league boots and is rapidly growing.
with its suburbs, it's population Is
now more than 100000 and II is more
than sixteen miles in circumference.
| A wide ship canal deep enough for
all ocean-going merchant vessels con-
nects the town with the Scheldt In
1913 more than twelve hundred ships.
| with n tonnage of over one million
| tons, came into Client. and although
the German troops when they re-
treated destroyed a great part of the
canal and INSTRUCTED it's navigation
I by sinking five torpedo boats and all
the canal boats and dredges, 1t Is
again practically open and in 1920 IL
was entered by more than Ave hun
dred vessels Of almost four hundred
thousand tons.
! Client stands next TO Antwerp as
the chief port OF Belgium. It is
noted for It's imports of cotton which
como from the United States by the
tens of thousands Of tons. and II has
great cotton aud linen mills which
have more than fifteen hundred thou
sand spindlers and about fifty thousand
looms.
| t"Carpenter's World Travels, copyright ie3
by Frank @. Carpcnter.")