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LAND OF DESOLATION.

IMPRESSIONS OF A TOUR IN

FRANCE

HEARTRENDING TALES.

The Princesse di Poggio-Suasa writing in The World says

We are now in the land of desolation. Many villages wore damaged by the bat tle, some wilfully mutilated by the 16 treating Germans. Others that had not been in the hands of the enemy, nor in the battle line, are still shelled by the airplanes, for enemy aviators seen to de light in destroying homes. This form of destruction is most trying to the people's nerves, as the bombardment sometimes lasts several hours and far into the

The bouses the families scattered,

the helds neglected, this is the same sad Bight we see on all sides. In the Meuse

as in the Somme, where I was recently, are desolation and destruction of every. kind have always loved the country, and do not know a more heartrending sight than fields once so cultivated now overgrown with thistles.

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woman told us her cow was ill because the hay she gathered had gone bad.

At headquarters we were received by General Guillaumat, and it was arranged that we are to go on to Verdun. As we still had a few hours of daylight, be advised us to see Clermont-en-Argonne This is situated in perhaps one of the prettiest

ly destroyes of the Meuse; it is partial.

Its lovely church, situated

on a hill, classed as a national monument Owing to the beauty of its Gothie sculp. tures, is a lovely ruin. Colonel Lejesute who showed us this, advised us to calf on Sister Gabrielle Rosnet, the heroine of Clermont, and hear her experience with the Germans during their occupation of Clermont

We went to see the sister at her hospital in Frosdos, where she is nursing con tagious cases. Very small and simple she 13. under her white cornette. On her breast rest the Croix de Guerre and the emblems of the Legion d'Honneur Wo ero at once under the spell of her honest, kind, straightforward eyes.

My experience with the Germans," she said, "was not a pleasant one," She told how they arrived preceded by a ro putation for brutality that made all fly before them. For it was the army of the too notorious Kronprinz

She would also have left had she not had charge of 40 old and infrm souls and some poor refugees with sick child ren, who could not be moved. She rẻ: ceived the officers in her polite and digni. fied manner a

The barrel of a pistol was put at her throat, she says, surely over 400 times during their courteous way of proceeding each time they gave an order. Why sho was not killed she does not understand, for she witnessed more than one execution in the courtyard of her hospital for much less provocation than she had given I suppose they needed her and the two run who remained with her to tend their wounded, for that is what they did dur ing those ghastly 17 days

She told me of many atrocities she had learned from the victims. These I will omit out of decency, but you and the world must know what happened to twenty-five wounded soldiers in the vil lage of Clermont-en-Argonne Among the wounded Germans one had a con science. He told the sister he knew of twenty-five wounded French soldiers who were locked up in a house in the village and were to be shot the next day. She naked the reason,

Because they were

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so gangrened that an result, was the reply.

In a moment Sister Gabrielle Was De fore the German colonel, and charged bim with what she had learned. The in terview must have been tragic. The re volver at her neck, yet she was deter mined, and gained her point. Finally the key was given to her, and she rushed to the rescue of those poor children of France

For ten days twenty-five wounded men bad not had a drop of water pass their parched tips, had not had their wounds Tooked at, nor received attendance of sort. They all died.

Sister Gabrielle pointed to ho

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desk, where slips of paper were spread, and cin ench a flower. I have been to day to visit those graves. Pauvres petits! I at sending these to their mothers Muy they never know what way their children died

We left Mussoy and our kind hostesses early in the morning.

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The roads are splendid, the order fect, and we are gaining a feeling of security, although we can hear the fring of our guns, a

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and complicated pass It would be useless and pretentious for me to try to describe what we now saw. Other have written of that region. I feel as if I had been suddenly trans ported into a Dantesque dream, where every movement of the atmosphere mur mured words of woes untold.

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ground which has absorbed French manhood more noble en have given their lives here in defence of their country than ever before in the history of this world sacrified themselver For an ideal, and ny heart is very heavy. We turn down towards Verdun, for the hours have gone Verdun standing

vision meets our

A wonderful

in the evening mist, with the towers of its Cathedral still proudly looking up The German shalls are now faling on the martyr city, and the crimson setting sun, behind the town, seems to cry out that so much has been sacrificed there, that nature is surfeited with the sacrifica

Yet Verdun stands, every building. struck, all its inmates gone, like the proud sentry of our civilisation glorious ly calling out to the foe: On ne passe

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