THE TRAIL OF WAR.
RE-STOCKING FRENCH FARMS. AID FROM ENGLAND. ' . LONDON, August 9. Some of the British members of the i Allies' Committee of Agricultural, Relief who have returned from a visit to the ruined districts of "France, state that it was impossible to exaggerate tne I extent of tho destruction in the region of the Marne and the Meuse. ! The. Germans shelled and fired places in wholesale fashion, and many villages I are without a sign of life, the few people remaining now living underground. 'Cultivation is still carried on by French women, who are loading the carts, driving the reapers, and cultivating the land within a few kilometres of the i trenches. They are working uncomi plainingly amidst desolation and ruin, and the whole valley of the Marne is under cultivation. ' The people of England are generously responding to the committee's apIpeal for stud stock. The King headed the list with five rams from tho ■-famous | Sandringham flock.
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume XXXV, Issue 8214, 11 August 1915, Page 6
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