Daily British Whig (1850), 12 Sep 1924, p. 12

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Phone 987 Eres Sires wa weno Ba floors Sloan. - Phone 316 -Godkin's Livery For Bus and Taxi Service Buggies and Saddle Horses BUS FOR CATARAQUI CEMETERY Daily except Monday and Saturday at 1.45 p.m. SMITH'S ~~ "Spend Less and Get More" New Clover Honey--08 pound ' each = The following article on his impres- sions gathered during his visit to France and Germany, this summer was written in Berlin for the Whig by Ed- ward J. Williamson, M.A., Ph.D., of Hobart College, Geneva, N.Y.: With the exception of a week spent in "the Loire country, viewing many castles, my stay in France was limited largely to Paris where I settled down for about one month, making, however, many interesting day-trips to points of interest in the vicinity, Of these, I shal mention only Senlis, a town whose origin goes back to Gallo-Roman times and which figured rather prominently in the early days of the Great War. Senlis has preserved very well its me- dieval character, in fact some traces of Gallo-Roman walls may still be seen in the ruins of its castle, which served as a royal residence from the time of Clovis down to the reign of Henry 1V (4th to 16th century). The ruins are eloquently in they changes record most of fashion ies. made without destroying the Roman arch may be seen with a Goth. straight lines of a later Renaissance fashion. Since the days of the war, which the Germans reached in their first great rysh in 1914. The town about half an hour, was occupied by the Germans for several days in Aug- Impressions Gathered During Summer's ~ Visit Made To France And Germany Some French Battleflelds--@Germans' Style of Living Is Very Much What it Was Before the Great War. By Edward J. Williamson, M.A., Ph.D. THE DAILY BRITISH WHIG 2 things which I probably would not have learned had I been with the lar- ger crowd with its official interpreter. We started out along the line of Fort Brimont and Hill 108, passing over country which is producing its first crop in ten years. Some of the fields indeed have not yet been cultivated sufficiently for sowing. We stopped to examine Hill 108 where the Germans had stored most of the ammunition us. ed in this whole section. The French and German lines were here within a few hundred yards of each other with the Aisne canal sepprating them. It took the French a year and a half to get across the canal and entrench them selves in the low-lying land on the oth- er side. Their trenches here were much lower than the canal level, the result interesting, not only on account of!a considerable their historic traditions, but because were drowned. the finally compelled to evacuate Hill 108, architecture but before they retired they blew up during a period covering many centur. ! all their munitions Each royal resident seemed to seven hundred Frenchmen who were make changes to suit the taste of his advancing up the time, but these changes were often! formed by the explosions must be at older least sixty feet deep and one hundred forms: Thus a door with an original | yards in circumference. ic arch built in right under it and this | filled in later on to conform to the] lin the Aisne valley (the old village had Senlis has acquired a new interest. It been completely destroyed). A little | was one of the places nearest to Paris | further on we stopped to view one of | the German underground | being that when the German bombard- ment broke through the canal wall, the French trenches were flooded and number of soldiers The Germans were and in.identally Rill. The craters Village Built Anew. From Hill 108 we proceeded to Berry-au-Bac, an entirely new village | emplace. ments for large guns along the famous which can be reached from Paris is| Hindenburg line. These emplacements were connected up With living quarters | and supply stations by subterranean | ust, 1914, and still bears some of the passages and one could not help ad-| marks of their advance. The railroad | miring the ingenuity of the Germans in | that time, has been replaced by a very | au-Bac we went on to Craonne at the | attractive looking ; modern structure, eastern extremity of the Chemin des| and the tall, graceful spire of the ca- | Dames, a line of hills extending west- | thedral still shows some effects of ward to Soissons, Craonne was situat- | shell fire. However the damage done | ed about half way up the hillside and was not great as fighting in this dis-] was, therefore, between the German trict was of very short duration. One and French lines. Of the village hardly | thing which reminded me of recent a: vestige remains, and our guide in-| practice in America was the sight of | formed us that the hill in this vicinity two dismantled churches which are be- | had been so undermined in military ing used for secular purposes--one as|operations that it was decided not to a market and the other as a carpenter's | rebuild the village on its old site. At station, which was burned down at! all these arrangements. From Berry- |B BLOOMERS quality Crepe, white and light shades. SPECIAL Ne 69c With Furr Collars or Season's greatest value In Fur-Trimmed Coats, full lined with * Satin De Lux Lining and interlined; all shades. EXHIBITION PLEATED SKIRTS Perfect Fitting Styles has its counterpart in Europe. The Germans and Rheims. The only other place in France visited by me, which shows the direct cities which were constantly exposed to bombardment during the whole per. iod of the war. The Germans occupied the city for ten days in 1914 (Sept. 3rd to Sept. 13th). After they were driven out, they entrenched themselves along what came to be known as the Hin denburg Line, including Fort Brimont, Hill 108 and the Chemin des Dames. From these positions they dominated + | the city, which disappeared almost en- «| tirely under their bombardment. Matches "Special" Matches 's Matches, reg. 15¢. size. Satu arches. tex. Yet uppiy. Creamery Butter Call 1817. We deliver.' i "TIS BETTER to be sure than sorry. Be glad that you can fol- low the Whig's Classi- | fled Ads. to make sure you are gelling your ~ money's worth. Read them: to-day ! Copright, 1834, by Last L Smith! thing you know it won't be long before Christmas again. pols seldom live long emough we ' The cathedral which had witnessed the cor- onation of so many French kings and which was in many respects the most beautiful of Gothic structures also suf- fered considerably. At the same time when one considers that out of the fourteen thousand houses which com- posed the city twelve thousand were entirely destroyed and only sixteen remained uninjured, one is rather sur- prised that the cathedral escaped as well as it did. Certainly the Germans could not have deliberately tried to des troy it. Had they done sd they could easily have reduced it to the state of the Cloth Hall at Ypres, of which only an unsightly mass of stone and mortar remains. However, the damage done is bad enough. Part of the roof has been demolished, but the facade, ohe of the most ornate in Europe, is fortunately intact for the most part, although some of the statues and fine carvings have been injured by the shock of shell fire. The archbishop's palace on the right of the cathedral was destroy- ed by fire in September, 1914. Although the work of restoration is being pushed as rapidly as possible, large sections of Rheims still lie in ruins. Work on the cathedral is pro- sept is being used for worship at pre- sent and it will probably take several years before the whole edifice can be restored to anything like its former state. Battlefields Around Rheims. While in Rheims I took the appor- tunity of seeing the battlefields in the immediate vicinity. The regular sight- seeing car happened to be filled, so that two persons and myself made the tour in a taxi. I was very glad that such an arrangement was necessary because I had a seat beside the chauffeur, a Frenchman who had fought in this dis- trict during many months of the war. '| Through him I learned a number of effects of the war was Rheims. Rheims | is all that remains to mark the place was one of those unfortunate French |where the village once stood. gressing slowly. Only the north tran-| shop. The "garage-church" evidently [all events the present Craonne is situ- ated about three quarters of a mile away down in the valley. Another place which we passed and, of which only the name survives was Chevreux --the large boiler of a canning factory All through this district the orchards and forests had been so torn to pieces by shell fire that they will practically have to be replanted. Heaps of rusted barbed wire and other rubbish still litter some of the fields, and numerous cemeteries recall the dark years of 1914-18, Work of Restoration. Comparing the battlefields which I saw near Rheims with those which I saw two years ago one can see that considerable work of restoration had been going on. The gaping shell holes have been filled up, the fields to a large extent cleared and ploughed. The first work is done by government agents who remove unexploded shells and put the fields in order for refertiliza- tion and planting. In many cases the farmer must find his work exceedingly difficult for generally a new surface soil has to be created before crops can be grown. Besides being a cathedral city, Rhe- ELABORATE, SIMPLY CUT. Fg, ! § 5 Hi Box Pleated, Knife Pleated and Com- bination Pleated. Shades: Light and Dark Sand, two shades of Grey, Navy and Black; small and extra large sizes. 32.95 LIMITED TEST RAIL o i ims is well known commercially as the' possible, and also in order that the centre of the trade in, Champagne work of education should not be neg- wines. Before the war Rheims ex- lected, the Inspector of Schools had ported about 35 million bottles of these the happy idea of organizing schools in wines. This was reduced to about 16 some of the wine cellars. Thus the millions after the war, largely in con- Joffre School was established in the sequence of the introduction of prohi- | Mumm cellars, the Manvury and the bition into the United States. In 1923 Albert I Schools in the cellars of Pom. the amount exported rose to 22 mil- mery and Krug, Just imagine being lion bottles, new markets having been graduated from Pommery's ot found and the consumption in France' Mumm's--the class secretary should itself having increased. | have a fairly easy time in getting all -- the members back for class reunions, Schools in Champagne During the occupation of Rheims in September, 1914, the wine cellars were td 3 Ey ar pk pillaged by the Germans. However! After visiting Rheims and its vicinity these were not the only soldiers who I decided to proceed to Germany, via liked to help themselves to champagne. | Strasbourg. Before the war the lan- I have this on the authority of the; guage generally heard in Strasbourg headwaiter at the hotel where I stayed | Was German, but the people were to a while in Rheims. He was himself a| large extent bi-lingual. This condition "croix de guerre" man, but one who! still prevails, for although French is condemned in no uncertain terms the | now the official language, I heard militaristic tendencies of his own and | bout as much German spoken as other lands, After the Germans were! French during the tinie I spent in the driven out of the city, the wine cellars ' City. To enter Germany from Stras- proved to be of considerable value us| bourg I had to cross the Rhine in a places of shelter during bombardments, | t8Xi, my. passports being examined by A considerable number of families. in-| 3 German official atthe French end of cluding several thousand children re- the bridge and the examination for fused to leave th= city in spite of the customs taking place at the German dangers to which they were constantly | end. From Kel, the town on the Ger- exposed. In order that the chitdre:! man side of the river, I caught a train might be kept under cover as much as | for Frankfurt and from there proceed- Rs ed to Leipzig. Later on I visited Dres. den and then Berlin. 1 found Germany a very diticrent country from what it was when I visit. ed it two years ago. At that time it was crowded from one end to the other by tourists from every land which had favorable exchange. This year tourists will be found in greatest numbers in France, Italy and Belgium where ex- | change is still very favorable for those "+ who are spending dollars or pounds. ermany, on other hand, since Visit to 3853 iis £ © JACKSON-METTVIER 114 PRINCESS STREET RII JUITS a 95 Collars and Cuffs Sizes from 34 to 46. SPECIAL SLEEVELESS WOOL SWEATERS Mah - Jong Sleeveless Sweaters. Sand and Grey shades "$1.89 of th SEL a a good seat at the opera about $3; beer costs two and a half times what it did in 1914 and other articles of gen- eral use, as far as my observations went, showed a similar increase. People Seem Prosperous. The Germans, however, do not seem to be suffering under high prices any more than the rest of us. Theatres and operas are crowded as usual, the res- taurants and cafes are well patronized; the people are well-dressed, well-fed-- in short as far as the ordinary visitor can observe their style of living is very much what it was before the war. 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