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THE CHINA MAIL,

THE FIELDS OF FRANCE AND FLANDERS

Ón a summer's day in 1929 we sat on the low parapet that sur rounds the open apace to front of Amiens Cathedral and drank in the full beauty of the West Front. The stone seemed to glow gelden and grow almost luminous In the last rays of the setting sun-and overy figure in that marvellous work of the stone-artist stood out like a liv. ing creature.

and gold sen lavender from his mother and sister and our thoughts flew to them seven thousand miles away. We were glad that he rest- ad among the peaceful fields. Tho headless figures, fragments of aun was shining there and the capitals. The blue sky showed shadow of the haystacks near by through the gaping portions of roof lengthened across the field. Birds that remained and the sun gleamed sang, and the poppies nodded along on the remains of golden mosaic the hedgerow. The driver of the exposed to the light of day. car stood bare-headed beside us. think the wreck of this great "He was a relation?" he said. Basilica caught more poignantly at We told him, "No, but he had) one's heart than many other things. come many thousands of miles to It was beautiful in its utter ruin, fight for freedom," dignified, mutely appealing to the The tears. came into the man'a Away on our right was the passer-by to witness to the wicked- eyes. hideous wreck of a house torn openness and folly of war.

That was good, that was cour- showing sordid rooms still more Wooden Crames Beyond Bapaume ageous. May he rest peacefully." The wooden crosses in the resting Ke, turned away and hid his face sordid in their nakedness of half

place we sought beyond Bapaume in his hands, had not yet been replaced by stone. It was a spot so full of peace and beauty and glowing flowers that it! dropped some balm into that un- ending ache of loss.

stripped walls and protruding beams. One was devoutly grateful to the Providence that watched over the Cathedral and saved it from destruction, even the one shell that pierced the roof did no hart, but was strangled by protecting sand- baga.

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O, strong soul, by what shore Tarriest thou now? For that force Surely has not been left vain! Somewhere surely afar

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The years pass and although outwardly much is the same, the scars of the war remain. Men and women have had to take up, the daily round but the heartache on- dures, And moreover, those who gave their health and youth and

Amiens--and the world at large- could ill afford to spare the Cathe In the sounding labour-house vast strength for us are in many cases! dral, that sits like an exquisite gem Of being fa practised that poor and unemployed and home- enshrined in the poorest of settings.

strength

less. The shouting and the tumultį die and the "hero" is left to fend Zealous, beneficent, arm, Next day we set out in the early

Beyond the plot so lovingly tend-jfor himself-his occupation gone, morning, with a backward glanceed by English hands, separated only the future chaotic. There are From Hong Kong.

the Cathedral, standing up by barbed wire, lay further rows widows and orphans left to strug- a wretched pittance, the ..Sails on/or about 13th November against the town like some creation of crosses, But how poignant the glo on .Salls on/or about 11th December, of a dream, blue and intangible in contrast. On the one side the soft light of their lives extinguished.

the pale sunlight...

green turf, the masses of lies, For these Earl Haig's Fund stands .Sails on/or about 8th January,

A few miles out of Amiens we pinks. snapdragons, nasturtiums, as a protest against the forgetting were in a world of harvesting. The pansies, mignonette and all the of a debt we owe to those who broad fields and rolling uplands dear homely English flowers-au fought and suffered for us. were golden with sheaves-not ar the other, the German graves which Eyery Poppy Sold Helps a Man ranged in neat rows as in England, at that time had received but little Every poppy that is

sold on Armistice Day goes to help a dis- but all irregular-higgledy-piggledy care. -giving no sense of order and We wandered into the mournful abled man or his dependants. It peace, but rather of terrific pro-spot and read the names where they needs little imagination to rouse fusion and haste and fierce produc. were decipherable and once again every man, woman and child to pay tiveness. The sheaves were fashion- the horror, the Futility, the stup! this tribute to the 'dead and tol ed in such fantastic forms that dity of war rose up in all its the living, to realise that the secur

hideousness.

lity in which they dwell, the peaco Bometimes they seemed a procession

On the one side John Smith lay and sunshine and prosperity were of hooded monks, at others a crowd

beneath the flowers, and on the of crouching chimpanzees, or again other Johann Schmidt lay beneath ice that prompts

won for them by the spirit of sacri-| of village gossips.the long grass. collection

a man to lay They had no down his life for his country. There was something uncanny quarrel with each other. Among almost horrifying in these grotesque all the young, and gallant and France-Flanders — Gallipoli —

dead! ahapes seen close at hand, and one's happy whom the rows of crosses Mesopotamia-the gallant eyes sought the distance where they now stand for, there was not one who lie in these foreign lands live were blurred and melted into the who sought the quarrel. One does in our hearts and have reposed a horizon, and the gold and green and not dare to think of the sum total sacred trust in us--the blue brought a sense of peace. of sorrow represented by those their comrades who won through- "The Shadow of the Gallant Dead" wooden crosses, a mere fraction of and of their wives and children.

It semed almost incredible that the result of that five years' a year ago these teeming fields were holocaust of youth. They left home hideous wastes covered with wreck and high hopes and happiness, age of war, pitted with shell-holes, wives, parents, sisters and children horrible in their desolation. And yet it was perhaps the ghosts of the Past that robbed this harvest of that sense of perfect harmony and beauty that rests on fields which have..not been drenched in blood. The shadows of the gallant dead stood betwen us and the sunshine and one felt a certain fear of Na ture, an anger and a dislike that she can so quickly repair the evil that men do and cause thom forget.

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but perhaps in the years to comeimy-names that stand for grim Malay. States, particularly Muar the aftermath of the war will have battles by sea and by land.. Here and Sungel Ulong. given place to peace, more flowers the fron of the war seemed to have cially mentioned in dispatches for will spring up and children picking eaten into the very soul of the land. his zeal and energy displayed dur poppies there will be told that the Unattractive in peace were these ing the operations against the little towns and the tide of battle Malays in 1875-6, and was awarded flowers rise from those who gave that swept over them left hideous the Perak Medal. After other ap- their lives for England and for shells that once were dwellings or pointments, he was given command France. It seemed to me that it where the buildings were complete- of the sloop "Racer," attached to would have been well for the peacely razed, stark red cottages and the "Britannia" at Dartmouth,, for of the Future If some portion of houses now stared out of the tree-the Instruction of naval cadets in the land could have been enclosed less windswept landscape.

navigation. He retired with the and preserved just as it was when the tide of battle ebbed-a warning and a lesson to the younger and the next generations.

A Belgian War Veteran rank of Captain in August, 1902, The coast of Flanders was a and since July, 1918, had been in nightmare and so were the inland receipt of a special naval pension roads, torn by shells, with the for good service. waste flelds as yet uncultivated ly- ing on either side.

through the war, after his second Our Belgian driver had been all wound he was unable to raturn to the fighting line, but drove a car for a general.

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I began to think that all traces of the war had been covered up when suddenly a board bearing the word "Pozieres" cane into view. Instead of the village of Northern France one knew, In other days there was a heterogenous collection of wooden shanties and Nissen huts. In these the inhabitants of Pozleres were living. And so on through other villages, where men were still clear Ing away, masses of rubble and stones. Barbed wire lay in heaps along the roadside and the shady allés of former days was represent led by a few blackened stumps.

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If to protect the town for many day. Round Peperinghe, there are many months. Just before the Armistice they foll, fulfilling an old still avenues of rustling trees and prophecy that the fall of the figures fields of grain. We sought the would herald peace. Plous hands grave of a young Ceylonese soldier. had raised a new temporary Church It was hard to find but at last wo and new golden Agures, but it is the discovered the little cemetery, old ones that will live in our me the high road. There were only mories. The Church was a shell, about twenty wooden cro The mosaic pavement was torn up the little plot was well-ta

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