Imperial Valley press., 1924-11-11
Here's HOW the
Old Battle Line
Appears TODAY
By WEBB MILLER
Omitted Press Staff Corresuondentl


Omitted Staff Correspondent
ON THE OLD AMERICAN BATTLEFRONT Nov 1-11 M y
rms story for the half million Yans who Agonn
and the front lines along the Meue at II O'Clock today
the million who the lines of
communication.
Probably time today your thoughts will turn backward to that
day six with strings the budd
left behind under the little white undoubtedly
strange nmrehensbe that feeling
And probably you IL wonder how oil places look today
Well the anhere is that cold cIammv foo
the Meuse Valley usual arzea all mornng-tha per
tent chilling forget ahead are lust about
as muddy as ever You'A recognize all
But it's safe bet recognize of the smash
cd deserted villages marched through days. chasing
the oche back peasants baot
are today busy spreading fertilizer spring
Many villages wiped rebuilt They only
memories or names on the old time map.
There is great strip of deoae miles through
ragne and across the Argonne like vivdy
enough today the of six grey wilderness
ovsrown by dead weeds twisted strands of arbd
DEso1ATE SCENE
The gassgown bu and there rusty
broken file bneperced trench helmet
sharp grim picture of what happened here The
OF the nde"bg line the Ag0nne are pretty much them
lasta of doaon Hundreds stumrs
from which shells blasted places where
the fighting the fiercest the
with water rim to RIM just as they were six years
Those of who in years ago
forget how the Germans they received
they turned scores guns the town vent their last
the became bursting
ess killed few minutes before the fatef
the lanks retored in kind especially old Punke lh
mounted flat behind the which every
blasted great hole in the fog
1t takes bit of imagination today
the houses Verdu rebuilt quiet provincial
pacdy did for hundreds of before
will show years though many years
to come but the transformation November H. surprising
REMEMBER IT ALL?
Outside Vedun great of nearly
slaughtered rolling by
human life lost here The of Damomt calky
ruins The half dozen VILLAGES that once were in tb vo o no mora
Nobody to know what became of the former inhabitants
Engineers the heap stone
which repair
he eth Engineers when they their
20 minutes in repairing the bridge Boueuie weedy
,atch. l.
lst Division will where Cheppy waas just
h Same odaya heap of stones, IL
the soth will remember long building at Bayonvle
which hoed like kitchen coaner They repaired
stenay living the
haeau edge prince hs
oadqua and played with his dogs in the garden while the battle
erdun raging thousands being
its The prince hunting trip Bavaria Wonder
e is thinking about toaayi
EVERYTHING QUIET
The long you marching wary
ighway from Bar lie Vermhe saered way they
all guns booming the fog morning
on forget a
automobile tearing down the line about
oon with a correspondent yclng lc
''Its all boysl' TO-
How the lines halted and a cheer ups ~
Wel that quiet lane country yard
18th seldom rumblng peasants cart ereakng behind h
to places occurred Of
deeds which will be celebrated Amriean history through coming
enerations lin
Difficult that is until YOU endless rows of white wooden
the hillside and under the wooded brow of the h