Terrifying Experiences Are Still Encountered In Flanders Fields

3! RODNEY ANGOVE

VERDUN, France 1 AP l—One

still get a fright in the

till ﬁelds of Flanders, where some

of the First World War's bloodi-

est battles were fought.

Not long ago a lone tourist

was quietly s u rvey i n g the trenches.

g wood. Terriﬁed, the tourist d into a trench and

splashed through water toward a

I‘Jelter. A rusty British helmet crumbled under his foot.

He found himself in a tunnel about four feet deep with drip- ping walls. He sloshed along in the stream—20 yards. 50 yards before daylight showed.

e shooting was louder. but the tourist was re- assured—what had sounded like a ghostly battle turned out to be a Flemish hunting party near one of the ragged scars of the

ar.

It was in August. 1914. the first mont’l of the war. that a tightly - locked mass of more than 1.000.000 men moved in a giant arc from the Belgian bor- der toward Paris. The German army was pushing back the French. Belgians and the first units of the British Expedi- tionary Force.

ATTACK MAIN TACTIC

The French command be- lieved that the only way to make war was to attack. attack and then attack again. It 'iad no tactics against the terrible new weapon. the machine-gun. nicknamed the "reaper" be- cause of the way it could cut down whole field of riflemen.

The French lacked barbed wire and their own machine- guns to throw up a defensive line, Besides, the generals be-

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'Iieved Frenchmen didn't fight

well in trenches.

The Germans pla nned to weep just east of Paris and double back toward Verdun. en- Velooing the French army. But he French foot soldiers. mostly farm boys. clung stubbornly to their weapons and would not rea

The Germans were 17 miles from Paris when French head- quarters noticed their right wing was beginnin: to veer away from the capital. The Germans thought they had won the game and could turn to mop up the encircling French, This was a major mistake. The time was ripe for a counter-aan on the expmed German flank. TROOPS ROOF. TAXIS

It was ordered by Gen. Josen - Simon Gallienl com-

manding t'le tronps in Paris. This was the battle in which he

rushed 6.000 reserves to the rr‘"t in Paris taxicabs. The Allies pushed the foe

across the soft. drassy Marne valley and might have won a decisive victory except for the prepared German defences alon'! the Aisne River. 30 miles north of the farthest advance.

Frustrated. the Germans at- tacked anes. liral'zirlm. tryin! to cut through Flanders to the channel nnri Where British rein- forcements were coming in. The Belgians opened the sea gates and drowned men and mules by the hundreds north of Ypres. It was In the 'pres area that Canadians made a great stand.

The Germans dug into the halfmoon of low hills south and east of Ypres and shelled tile prosperous. picturesque town of 17.000 into a pile of rubble 500.000 DIED

Uncounted monuments and 170 military cemeteries today testify to the horror of the trenches around Ypres. Local historians say nearl . .000 men of both sides died in the Ypres salient. "Blown to bits" say the reco s.

Commanders could think of no gay to break the stalemate of

e

day prevented epidemics from wiping out both sides.

On bitterly-dist Pasachen- daele ridge in Flanders. the Germans released gas for the ﬁrst time. The French suffered 30,000 casualties.

CANADIAN STRONGIIOLD

Bill. 62. a Canadian strong- hold.

trenches, underground shel- ters and shell holes preserved a tourbt sight. A frightening

reflects the story in zig- reta

collection of photographs of the epoch can be seen in the nearby private museum.

On Hill 60. neither the rich grass nor the poppies of Fland- ers can tilde the craters engineers, tunnelling as far as a mile at a depth of 100 feet,

t .

Suddenly shouts and blew up whole hill Emfire echoed from a neighbor-

On the long French front. com- manders adopted reckless tac- tics to break the trench dead- lock ot 1915. 1916 and 1917. The tanks. which Leonardo Ds Vinci envisaged centuries ago. could have cut through and put the war back into motion, but un- imaginative military men-the . same who pooh-poohed airplanes l—resisted such new-tangled de. vices. I T'le only assault weapon re- , mained masse running men. I But they couldn’t punch through. and tens of and fel with I out changing the outcome of the :war 'n any way.

FEW YARDS APART l At Vimy ridge in northern iFrance. the Canadians held l trenches only a few yards from the Germans. Small spring- powered catapults were enough to rain explosives on each other, The trenches are still there. res- tored to toy soldier perfection— o mud. no blood. no tangled rusty debris.

Bu e worst was Verdun. possibly history's greatest kill- ing ground. where the Germans tried to wear down the French nation by systematically annhli- lating its men. They suffered equivalent c a s u a 1 ti e s from deeply drawn reserves.

B n and 500,000 men died on the principal 1?.- mile front. The flesh and bones of 100.000 to 200.000 men were churned up with the clay by thousands of cannons. some- rmes

rage. A million men‘died in an area around the Verdun salient. from Saint Mi‘liel through the Argonne forest. It took several Iyears to clean it up for visitors. IBetween the wars they came in tearful pilgrimages. more than I5.000 a dav in the summer. STILL VISIT AREA

Visitors by the thousands still iview the area from the ZOO-foot American monument at Mont- faucon or the high Douaumont Ossuaire (literally “bone yard”) where human fragments were gathered in a central pile.

ere the solemn saying.

t‘ firing a week-s prod“. sale prices to hotel, motel, re- tion of shells in a single bar- sort operators-

turn the tide in 1917 and 1918. But bled white and cried dry.} rance became physically and

morally stagnant for decades. r “Nobody won the war." went:

the costly French nuclear force} results partly from the Great'. The government says it‘

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will their pride and. along with it.l their will to resist any attack.

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