SHIFTING VIEW
WAR TO PEACE
REMARKABLE
BEHIND THE LINES IN FRANCE.
(Associated Tress Correspondence) —
This land of recent battles is a queer
land now. Over the shell-torn villages
and blasted woods, the pitted fields
and the ruin of all that once was, is
a strange quiet. The winter sky is
lacking in airplanes and great flocks
of crows have taken their place.
A few villagers have crept back to
see what remains of their homes and
holdings, but they are few and prob
ably the winter will have passed be
fore reclaimation and reconstruction
are undertaken on a large scale.
Mong the roads repaired and re
bridged for the allies' advance into
Herman territory, long camion trains
move slowly and always southward.
They travel leisurely now, for the
need of hurry is gone. They bring
back the salvage of battlefields, all
the things that go to make war.
abandoned or captured.
Truck load after truck load ot
titles and shells, of water bottles and
haversacks, cartridges, machine guns,
bayonets and trench knives and pis
tols, mess kits, overcoats, caps, an
endless catalog of paraphernalia are
brought in. The battle zone is still full
of it all, in heaps and racks, waiting
salvage.
Now and then come trains oi an
plane camions, burdened with disman
lied (lying machines of every type
and every nation, engine and fusiiage
and running gear on the truck and
i In * great wings on its specially design
ed trailer. Some of them are unharm
ed, hut many show bullet holes
through the frail fabric or the ruins of
a crash. A fair proportion of them
bear the Maltese cross that marks
them Boche.
There are trains of captured enemy
artillery, particularly of motor hat
tpries, driven and manned by French
men. and these are happy outfits.
Often the guns are decorated with
evergreens and always the 1- reach
soldiers laugh and wave a greeting.
As they creep through the villages
the populace (locks out to view the
cannon that for four years sent death
and devastation to their land, and
the children clamber on the carriages
and out on the grim barrels.
But it is the troops on the way back
that are most Interesting, returning
to rest areas or to their ports of em
barkation for home. French or Ameri
can their behavior is the same. Al
ways they are laughing or singing, al
ways they greet every one cheerily
or boisterously, and always the
French officers’ salute with a smile
when they meet an American car,
while the men wave and shout "Eu
gurre est finie” or a similar greeting.
Even the children cry "(Inis, finis.”
to the passing car.
Strangest of all are the lights at
night, in the hamlets or villages or
shining friendly from the Isolated
farm house, in the regions further
hack For no longer France seemed
a deserted land io the traveler by
nlnht Ilnur riftnr finiir The Vfisn
(iairil Press correspondent has trav
eled at night without a glimmer to
be seen in the countryside, anil now
from every hill and vale the cheery
windows shine and the villages are
ablaze. The papers devote columns
to the illumination of Paris, but it is
here in the remote part of France
where war has been, that lights at
night seem most wonderful, even it
they are but candle or little lamp.
Where onee camions or staff cars
loomed lightless In the roads to the
Imminent threat of collision, and often
Its accomplishment, the brilliant
headlights stab the night.
There is no village now but where
the traveler can obtain food, not in
variety perhaps, but enough and very
hospitably. The deprecatory polite
a ml necessary refusal to requests foi
refreshments that usually were re
ceived in the little hamlets or single
farms has given way to a /cheerful of
fering of what there Is, filr the farm
ers know now that the specter of t
winter of short rations has disap
peared. The rationing of certain food
stuffs is still in effect. Bread tickets
arc necesary in public eating places
no matter how unpretentious, buttes
and milk are seldom to be had ant
cheese is senree, but of plain vege
tables and certain meats, there
plenty, and the carefully hoardei
stores of the light red and whlti
wines of the country are forthcomlni
when asked for.
At this season there Is game in thi
small town markets, hares and rab
bits, venison, red-legged partrldgei
and the large French quail and wilt
hoar. It is high, but not so high as
It always la at home.
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Three Hundred and Forty-aeventh |
Field Artillery
Colonel K. S. Grunger, commander, |
came from a long line of American [
lighters who have taken part in every r
war this country has fought. His f
father was Major General Granger of \
Civil war fame. Colonel Granger |
came from West Point in time to light t
in Cuba. He hud served in many ar
tillery posts. He came to Camp Lewis i
in August, 1917. This regiment was ?
largely composed of Californians.
Three Hundred and Forty-eighth
Artillery
Colonel Samuel K. Bottoms com
manded the 318th field artillery when '
it left Camp Lewis. Because it con
tained so many Montanans and men .
from Utah, he said, "Owen Wister t
I could have found a 'Virginian' in any
battery ot mine.” Colonel Bottoms :
lias been an artillery officer almost the
entire period since he graduated from
West Point, in 1897. He served
through the Spanish-Amerlcan war
and remained in the Philippines nearly
three years. He had charge of the
selection id' candidates for the second
officers' training camp at the Pre
sidio, Han Francisco. He was born
in Virginia, where his family hus been
established sim. long before the Revo
lution.
Three Hundred ana Sixteenth En
i
gineers
Colonel Henry C. Jewett, com
mander. is a New Yorker, and grad
uated from West Point in 1901. In
Hie Philippines In- served against the
Moros, and for live years, from 1907.
was instructor tit West Point in ehem
, istry and electricity. He was a major
before being ordered to organize the
regiment of engineers for the Ninety
first division. From 191f> to 1917 he
completed the jetty at the mouth of
the Columbia river, considered one id
the great engineering feats of the
West.
Three Hundred and Sixteenth Trains
and Military Police
Colonel M. K. Sayville, who com
manded the divisional trains and mili
tary police, will be remembered for
this work at Camp Lewis and near-by
places, and for the work of his men j
in fighting 1. W. W disloyalists and
ridding near by places of vice resorts. ,
Colonel Sayville has had thirty years'
army service, and graduated from j
j West Point in 1893. He served at San- 1
tiago, Cuba, and wears a wound chev- j"
ron for that action. Ilis service has
been principally in the West, four
times in Culm, and once in Alaska
He came from Alaska to Camp Lewis
as one of its first officers, and the
men in his organizations were "hand
picked" from the first arrivals in the j
draft.
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