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BARNWELL SENTINEL. BARNWELL. SOUTH CAROLIN > CLOQUET, MINN., DESTROYED BY GREAT FOREST FIRES VERSAILLES, WHERE THE INTERALLIED CONFERENCE MEETS * L' * ■ , • iuVi'iVuWuSSS ■■ '.w ■ .jjacr A.W. W <T v’ / . All thuLuns left of the town ot Cloquet after it had been swept by the forest tion of northeastern Minnesota, killing 1,000 pet^onfejitid d >hig $100,(MK1,000 damage, which we overlooked the river ami Malicious Destruction lowering cathedral steeple had a gtiuner’N mark which find ■ii overlooked. The spire of the le Ville also had heeh sliot and ither -k Lung.-nt half-mast, In time about the *c|TV liall tire tins is a view ol the beautiful palm.- of_Vorsstitie.s. the si sit" of toe irtte.ralHcd w mai-v's doom. In the loiogioutid is seen part of the orangery. : The palace is one of in the world. It is said Louis XIV spvtit s|dpo<Mi,iKK» on it and the surrounding park. Refugees Retominq to the Little Left by Heartless Hun—Already ’ Small Storekeepers Are Operating at Fufi Blast—Germans Chased Out Too Fast to Take Their Loot With Them— ' ^ -• ' • Where Marines Wrote Themselves Into Fame. iiniikos 1 'liad "tiocti ’shell.'it to Tlbit." A SEARCHING PRISONERS AFTER.A BATTLE IN FRANCE radiator' stood ^Out in -mids'iir from one of them. On the second story wall of another hung a large portrait of a girl. Ih.mbs and shells.had torn their way ^pn rough rooXs and afterward when I walked through the city streets +re:ifizi'TT that tile worg v7T"('U'sTrn7 T rtr»ri had been completed hy malicious Jlands. furniture had been smashed and thrown Into yards and streets* pic tures had been ripped from frames, and even kitchen uU-iodls—had—luuui thrown out to rust. A InrgCj part of the Joot of the city was recovered when tin* Hermans were hurriedly forced out, and a nurse in an American lied Cross hospital which followed the allied troops ( Into I’hateiin-Thierry told me of seeing great sticks tilled with gold and silver cups, candlesticks, tableware and or naments of every description which tinrt been stored there In the hospital and left in. the retreat. The hospital, originally for French civilian**, has .changed hands five times and was in such a stale of unspeakable filth when the Americans took It -over /mm the Poelies that tt took ten days to clean a.marine oilirer am) smiled at me pity ingly. ‘Wex] that was interesting a month ag<». A Poehe potted me there, and I’m just going back to Join, my mi'll. Itnt you won't timl it interesting now. All tin* Hermans are gone." Fut In; was wrong? There tire (Jer mans marching through the streets ot Cliati au-Thicrry Aery day Herman prisoners armed with shovels and picks who are (denning out the wreck age arid desolation, they left in tlufir path when‘they evaluated tile city on Julv “‘J ; proud Prussians who are wielding scythes to harvest the crops in tin fields that tlicy called “Unscr- Innd" :» moiith ago; mild faced hoys s who journeyed-tt- thr»se> Irrthe f?i er of murderous machine gun lire to smoke the Forties out of the stronghold that assured their footing in T’hutAnu-Thlerrjv 1 elimhed f over graves and shell holes, through underbrush and past isolated hits of barbed wire entan- gleu/euts into, the heart of tin' woods, where the. Poetics had their (logouts. And at every, step of the way, dlfli- eult t<» traverse even now when ! !t In.* been trampled. over and cleared out. since 1 lie tint tic, I wondered at the -courage of the-"buys—who—bad- fa-eed hidden machine guns and unknown horrors lurking in the shadows. A human jawbone Iny pt the doorway of a bunting lodge which, hud heen des perately cohTvstcd for and from the underbrush nearby protruded the hoots Trf "Tnv'-TTTTtmrtett- tfurr.— y •••-* A group of diigouts off to the riglit was >■ ell concealed 1 *y rocks and un derbrush and I peered down Into' <a*-, - i d of t hem.. The openings were just big enough to permit a mail to wriggle through on his stomach and Inside was a little straw and perhaps a battered helmet or rotting gas Pronin Is of i ho ancient clui t«yui for which the city was named. They once belonged to tin* ’duko*ot Thierri; who was one of the famous seigneurs of the early eighth century. I’ climbed through subterranean passages there which were bltUt-by his vassals that 1+e might escape to the otherv side of the ‘Marne wji.enever his enemies pressed him tiAi—elosely. hut which the Hermans is minimized by -Mr ed to a close scrutiny nu.TH’hot i MAKING INSIGNIA FOR U protection during stir raids from French planes. The openings are par tially filled up now so that they no longer ufToflt passage under the river, but they offer ad pinte protection against b(UuL)*r Thrre are deep bnrtt wine cellars with thousands of bottles which the Hermans carried up there and emptied. And there are old stone mortars' that the inhabitants claim date back to the battle of CVeey, with saw empty cartridges from Poetic guns ly- ing beside them. A city of desolation is Chateau- Thierry, but a city whose wounds al-' ready are beginning to beat. It es caped—total destruction because since the Herman troops were on one side of the riv.er and the allied ^roops on the other the artillery on both sides was prevented from'direct’ operation ; arid so civilians are coming brick. Tin* uio iroume ot burying those men. Many of the shell holes had a sickly greenish line, the mark of gas which poisons even the'-earth, and around others were mounds of empty Car tridges showing they’"had booh used as semiprotoetion for machine gunners. Wrote Themselves Into Fame. r Winn the Hermans entered L’hnteau- Thierry in .June, tjicy reached the apex oi :ri r;angle', the other ('lids ( ff _w hich were : t Soissons and Uefni'C They held the city’for r*U days ami were *so strongly, intrenched that ’'the French j nri'enti trpop.-XJftJia retook the) it by. oiuilanking movements of a direct <frive which would ! many 'times as myiny lives, ai'rnes of - Ibe American dlvl- !ii ( < 11 turned tin s<vilr "I the '* "le th»'l|i>olvC.s Into fiimi,' ig Pell can ■.woods. The other j >f tlitr division^ e gi*r for a ehune.i of dixfinguished serv- I <- ‘'allowed <1 to tjike Vans, dl- ! j_ftI* Tr Tv'esr iff I'harenu Tliierry, J eeriiie tlie pix (»t point Tor the ' that >-.|.u.co/,o(i-the Huns from! \niuieim iivtillerv batten'd 1 Jjaying found Hint only one side of his bouse had been torn tiff, Is inhabiting the. oUn-jy side and preparing to tipvu out nevys for* those who are returning. Every scrap of cloth and-linen in his house was etrfrieil (.iff a.nd> lnneli of the furniture Vlestroved, hi.it he found the —j i 1— : sllvi'r which lii' buried in Ids hack yard before he fled with his wife, and his wife has found a job cooking for American military police wild are sta tioned there. A millinery shop has opened up and there is another little store of “no- tions,” where perfumes and nail polish are fcn sale. _Fxult stand.s and cheese dipps, - hntclK'r stores and postcard venders are operating at full blast on jdyoot -cornei.s. or itmtlrafty rooms that and emerging agatu troara Tliiuip ol ib'ek trees and lie '.vv undei brush. »> At La 'Ferle Hcm ■ i- .i great gast in h st.'dioii win re : I mm lie plane sweoi'ing down wilhiti i ferv himdrei Xlirds ,»j the iniuk, dropped :u hall doyen iiombs just it few nl’ghis' ago And j roie ill ere a.i au!" road, iwick nuti' d by stTeTT boby ith< thmugl fertile country ai.d prrrk roofeij ' yil lerc- lifeless iiid deserted, to Lucy ielliii.. ge. mid Pelh-au woods, .where I the • American niarines. show ed -.the'; • worn just vvtuit tirkting stuff the , r *‘‘* T’niied States art’uy'is made <dV=»— — j ' ; <uo>i *■ .-■si»’riiii 11^4 the Lanai du NoTfl Tliev diseoveiid %• , w , -Thai tfrnrks-rf—-the cHi^al -were studded wit 11 Herman machine gun ■“nriiAts." That was enough for tiie "T'nnadiiuis. and they treated them all like tlie. juie -iiown in the photograph. A’na chi Me which'Utrits-our over loO P.O.'s, naval insignia at one time. It takes t wo hours to eotiiplHe.tljem.’ • This business is an inrportmit (<ne, as the navy personnel is now well oveK oOOjluO men. sipn light GENERAL PERSHING AWARDS HONOR CROSS Care of Interned Germans. It costs the United ‘ States jiist ol cents a day to keep each Herman In- ’terned in^fhe big colony-nt I1»i Springs, N. C„ or $176.15 apieeeTi year, of ilmt dl cents 30 ccnts~n day is the cost ot food, or. abotrt 10 cents-a me;U.—■ ffre entire cost of maintaining the ‘J.boo Hoi-maiTs- rinriiig the lust'yerir lui> been oyys/jyx- m mm ils- and ih.cn. thcTTiffm In avt'ly tin bapetf on The strt'ets, guilties^. of *pro- 1 teetiotv iff glass—pr., even windows or floors n many ease's. Tin* more Imld- fnble .houses have liecn eh'.’tmii out and are being % used as hi'Qilipiarters for tlie military, ofliOials. ! ivimus ibour T ttKftnio, $11!d,0t)0 to build. Probably tin' whole hill will In* submitted to Hif many .when the war is over, as u<> dou'ht tin* tPr- TTnrrr ignverntiu-n.p. 1 'tvi i i keep iff Au.ecjc.iu pi;i,snnT lie t'liiti I State-.- is e rlan, .OlJtL brisojrrrs-iri all earti VETER^S' GRANDSONS GO TO FRANCE TOGETHER Ids otuint.ry tit laekeMt fte Failed to‘-Srilute rundtfOJi' of nieo’vyi gb'ss were no tti it, pc jyaa found toiri sturTin Td'4qsemri'n'':“‘“*^*.^' ,-tL- Guarded by the Dead. t’l'iu l.uey-!e-ljoeage to Pelican wood the road literally’ Is guarded.hy tK d. S’fl -whose i (ii'es were covered where they fell and |inarked by simple wi - ib ii crosses on many of vv filch the •oldteFs trench.helmet hn’ri been bung.- Jt whs the way of. fhe cross for the Thornton FContz !dm and .t'dd tjtriHp Li/CeTiff’ the tie and wear a regula't.joiT lie.' The next day he notjegtl. the, rookie had on a bow tieruiul onco again tald him to wear Tlio fe^ulatiorH-blHek string tiA. The following day he^«otjt lym again and the rookie failed^to|psjt|ute. My hrother stdrlpi'd, him and said: “Why lieutenant coioneb attached to . don’t you salute an offleer?” to which Ion was for conspicuous gal- ■ tho-rooklo replied; - “I thi^ght you ■,/j Jack 'Thoriiton and W. A. < a- 1 way Jr., gnpidson of W. A. Fal- f la way, !«*ft together for the world war. I Friends of the N’lS hoys" • feel sure they, will be in the pa- I cMle—jiown “Uuter den Lin V den " V ,yiwv>. l wore mad at me.”—Chicane Tribune, -» «, ■» * ■ * f , , -. , ' V" 1 . j 1 ’ ' • L A m & — 4 a Ka. 1 • -y *— ; -a 1 v 4 ■ 9 - ■ >