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HAVOC OF WAR IN SOUTHERN
CHAMPAGNE.
In the Crown Prince's Footsteps
burned down, only a few braketi walls Still standing. The word lies in the triangle between this village. Viny-le- Francois, and Bar-le-Due, said especially between the last two. Proceeding, from Bar Vitry, we had already passed- through several villages of which only piles of bricks and plaster romained, through fields marked by hugs holes Me 6. IL Pent has made a tour of where shells had caphael, and by way, the Feuch dues at the invitation of the 9th gravwa bearing thin wooden erossen, French dievernment and in the following with the soldier's op or a few faded article in the Daily Chronicle describe flowers hanging on them. Perhaps these the series in the vitat craintry through | places were victims of " Pozitionate ” war- which the Crown Prince mull his dash | fare; at any rate, our guiles passed from the Mruse Valley towards Paris- them by. um brek again.
The aux Vene mely a jailty hum2. Daring the battle of the Marne, at the let, sheltered behind trees on the south- bog'aning of September. I described the ern edge of one of the rölling plateaux eleven verenght among the thriving litt of the region is a spectacle no man coola
communities on the lirie platras ami lehrty, pass by. Its name is now tragi- " Team there to Subsins. Since then I cally appropriate. — If-b-destroyal-front have seen much of what General Sher end to end. Out of about á handred “Tian called “ thọ hell of wur," but no, houses--rurently bu, by the appearance ,thing quito like the ravaged region in the bricks-only one remains partially wouthern Champagne. It is difficult to habitable. Within a few crazy, charred ཨསཾས"hleuntextuufp+#manliew+l+«v=ar+as that 3al been when free to face with wrong of this wallet, I climbed about the pile of character and extent, Our live courts broken stone and bylek; camninei pro- are comlurted upon the supposition, pro inuing picces of twisted iron, bedsteads. bably justified, that very few men make, tools, kitchen things, and shattered frag, goal witnesses. If it be so in corsi ments of poltury. The woodwork had times, how much more en umid this disappeared save a low black bones of great unlooming of passions, this agony of fees, tables, and cluirs. The beautiful stgerings innvasurable.
church has better borze the tarluxo by The observer coming iron a distantiale,fe. The spire is broken, the timbers of which has not known for centuries what the roof have gone, the two big bella lão invasion insana, may easily discern that upon a heap of debris, and a hole in one there are here all kinds and degrees of of the walls shows where a shell. broka wickedness,,, und —still believing, as we through during the battle outside the all did a few months ago, that thera is, villag Ruch thing as a rition of criminal-
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Ferny sok for those in-tinous of gree A dozen human beings are still ving alty a pity which. Dowever exerpin this wilderness, most of thezain yalve. tional, would allow him to maintain hia ing holes which were sure the cellars of odles of the tangle of good and ill in their homes. Just outside the hamlet human nature. Then must be German they show the deen, covered trench- sabliers and olives who are ashamed of from which the Crown Prince is supposed what has been done in Belgium and to have wathed the battle. Alter Villers France, as Frenchman and British and. We visited Brabant-le-Kei, a rather larger Belgian would be ashamed it any such" place. It has suffered lesa, but we beurd devil's work were to be wrought in Ger. Grievous tales of old fulk taken hostage rong. But it is useless bacurch for (including a woman of 66, now supposed evidenco of such teruples amid the ruins to be kept prisoner at Sedant, and of a-bylosed hernes; and it is asking too the heartless theft of the peasants' few, much of human nature, when it has lost pieces of silver plats and jewellery. A all that made life tolerable, if not happy, woran and her three children are said to rik- to the height of impartiality which to have been killed at the nearby hantes is the ideal of the Courts of Justice, of Sommeilles, as it is suppoved because The peusuals, way of whom we have they did not give pleasing answers to examined and cross-examined, speak with some of the soldiers' questions.. manifest sincerity.
market town of Revigny, on the other hand, seems to have been esientifically destroyed. One wonders how so many But what they have heard has become lid store houses could be broken up; a part of what they have wen: and how but it is clearly avilent here, as at Villers (for instance) is a simple civilina to dis al other places, that it is the result not Hinguish what report calla incendiary of bombardment, but of systematic in pake-from the little squares of cendiarism. The central street pressats, mordern gura power packet of which lies an extraordinary scene of devastation." before me, picked up the trenches on Nothing remains except part of the lower the Ourcq? No cordate il test walls, and, within; deep uses of stone, murthy account of these things can be brick and mortar broken tall, with minda at present: I doubt if it will ever verups of iron and charged wood. The be possible to thnks one. But one town hall, a graceful building in class general facts are beyond doubt; and they French style, has about a half of i are suficient to justify us in saying that outor fabric standing. The church. which the formal cruelty of war has, in con- is of historical inurist, is coofles and siderable portions of "the present car much injured witbis. paige, been so far exceeded us to doubly The Germans entered the town "on danın. the "original Gerinsa aggression, September 6, and remained for six days. and culise all the previous evil of Prus The low inhabitants who remain of the sian militarism. There is nothing, so far. original 2,000 say that they used two in French experience to equal the fire kinds of incendiary stuff, cue being ex- and sick of Louvain, the sacres of plosive. The town was first pilinged, Acrschot; Tamines, and Dinant, and the then fired: At once the streets becazio retail butchery in many Belgian village a faming fumaec. Some German officers. But there have been foul deeds the me mory of which will live, to the shame of gives had set it on fire. The mayer, angrily declared that the people them. the German army, for generations to M. Gatotte, on the other hand, says that cureFromm Chalet in Bar to Due, it is motores brought up tins of petrol and the Crown Frino; and his men who must packets of inflammable substance. that bear this burden. Chalepa itsalt came of the German soldier placed this stuff vory lightlykt, patent along the houses, and, at a águal, throw The Germans were then just a work in hand grenades: The cellars," ho In September 4. The city was not had already been emptied, and Azhardiel. A Fantom of 120,000 was piares and valuable furniture had been demanded and paid; and the oficera and siled on motor wagons to the token to men freely looted princs, quens, jewel Germany. A boy at he was shot on lery, and clothing, especially from cloned boue The mayor, M. Servantifles that there
alega no acts of violengo to women. A Le miles eastward we came in I. Epina, the two selling tower tits chureh rising prominently on the road. Tiers, one side of the main streut whe
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Taimpision of having communiented infor-
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would be interesting ta kunin, whas sien- - (ural von Eithel femmanding the ani | Brigule of favalry), had to say about these jroceedings. The Crown Prince enterst the town, but was no content with the Penis pparel, and went to a migh- haring my house.
Ther
*WER TOK Musgrero ngsel. Fe sibly the exploit of a French avias why dropped onih on Rejige on the second day of the Geroan uncupatione killing oven woldiers and 33 heses.) may have had something to da with this barbarity. Tudly one finds traces of a general policy, and two particular pro- - texts, in the ravages villages. pliey is that of terrorism which heuls of the Prusian State have more than one openly enter the pretexts an- that Ju- habitants has find upon the German- Trumps or have given information to the French. But I suspect another justtial explanation of the peculiar fericity of the town Prince's army. It had ad- jvanced with goat rapidity from the north- eastern frontar, along the line -Verdon- Ste. Menehould.Chalons, and, no Sepi comb, but reached far south to u Front nearly forty miles long between. Sezanne and Bar-le-Due. So far, the Freuch haul stadily fallen back. Th Crown Prines began to see himself a irresistible cuqueror entering Puris at the head at an inviscible aray.
The waiting from this dream was so" sharp and sulten that it may well have produced a tis of untaderona temper. On that Sunday of the beginning of the grut recoil, the French gins werkel a slaughter the exact extent of which will. perhaps, never be known.
Some parts
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