PARLIAMENT AND THE HUPMOBILE.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XLIV, Issue 14285, 30 April 1917, Page 8

PARLIAMENT AND THE HUPMOBILE.

'fififilxi tho .recent Parliamentary tour of tlie Northern districts, Hupmobiles dis-'J-ijjJ-itished themselves for reliability and comfort. They took every obstacle, 'Sfid-on. the whole tour hot one stoppage was' reoorded through Hupp failure. -Between 'Herekino. and Broa'dwood -was ft very bad piece of road, a-nd here a Hupp was tho only one of the 23 carp to get through, the mud on its own .paujei'.. All the other makes liad to bo foSS&ted by twenty to thirty members of the party with the aid of ropes. This is further proof of the superiority of Che Hupp engine — .known as the "lugging 4ype." As a Hupp Handbook Bays, it is """designed for hard and heavy road wbik— mud and saiid-pullmg. Built foj> touring use." See a Hupmobile, £430, complete at main ports. Local Agents: J. R. Redstone and Sons, Ltd. A. Hatrick* and' Co., Ltd., Wanganui and Wellington, • distributors for the . North Island. 50

wooden bridges to Peronne and, out of this town to the open country, hurrying . through the night to escape from British i pursuit. , I ACROSS THE! MARSHES* > v I went into Biaohes, a wild chaos of trenches and dugouts and ruin)' and pass-' j ed through the front held, by British, troops until about 6.30 yesterday morn-' ing, and went vrith .difficulty through the German barbed wire, still uncut, so that we-' became tangled and caught m it. ? Tlien I passed into the eld German lines arid went.?&cj'^ss .the wooded cause-. iWAy built J^^ltl^^yoTrer the marshes down to th%]baiii%c^r'' tIVe ,'. Somme. ,oto the other side of "the 'river loop I saw, for the.first time, Perohtie-, taken by the Germans iii the .autumn '^df ; 1914 .and .fought far furiously by the ?p!i*ench, who regained it for a Avhile and lost it again. It was dead qiliet.oyer tliere'. No shell' bu'fst over it, but & little smoke rolled above its houses. - Fkpm „that distance the/broad river's width,, it. does -not -look much destroyed. Tt Was otily afterward that I. saw how much. . Several wooden bridges; spanned- the Somme, and T tried two of 'th§se.to get ; across,; but ther© Atyere great gaps which I could nbt ' juibp:" ?.Befpre.leaving, the Germaiis/had broken' 'them and Hried^to hide the damiage from the view of the British airmen hy . ; putting up straw screens. . ' All the. trees m?? the' marshes had been lashed by the British shellfire . Empty barrels floated ih the Avater with broken boats,, and' one old boat, • called Notre Dame' d'Amiens, - was blown m half. Snipers' posts h£d been built out facing the British, lines,, aaid German ammunition aiid beihbsah'd'coiled wire and a great litter of timber lay kbout. - • ; INTO-PEHONNE. I managed to get ..to Pei*piine %, ; a wide curv© through" the Faubourg de Paris, . over piled stQnes pi. a.'., broken bridge, with planks across the. gaps, put there by British soldiers .so that, the Germans could be foflow^cV ih '" pursuit. They had been careful to check the-Bri-tish as long as' possible, 'although 'it was not very long, for^ah ..hour* after their going men of ?a . Mjfdlancl batlalion and scone Londoners marched into the Grande Place. .; '•*■■ fifi. -fi- :: ' '-''fifi'-fi In the Faubourg de Paris all 'the Jrees had been cut down t . They .had crashed •across the street,' making a great Ibaiw cade. Also ' firebrands had 'been at Avork, setting alight all house? ■ hot already smashed by shell fire. Although many houses are. standing enough to see that they axe houses, there is hardly one that escaped the wrath of war. fist is pitiful to see here and ther*e* old 'signs showing the life of the toivn m peace, such as the "Edbrairie Nouvelle," and "Teintm*erie Pairisieiine" .(Parisian dyeAvorks), belonging to Mme. Poitevincan. The notary's house Was full . of legal books and papers scattered oh the charred floor. Beneath the. gaping room was a shop for artWtes de'.ch&s&ykept by one M. Bourdon. . '' " "'■'■ ' A DEAD TOWN. 1 ' y Ait *"the entrance to the dugout below the ToAVn. Hall is a notice "Verwuttdete Und Kranke" (woundedl and ill), and staring us m the -face as we eritered the Grande Place was a -big board hung up on a house, Avith the large gigh "Nicht Argern, nur Wtutdern" yDo not be annwed, only be astonished*. ) That was the greeting ftL the departed Germans. . ..,<,- '! " ■■ •'>- The only inhabitants of fitfhe •Gi'ande, Place were a big black cat- i looking sick; and sorry foa* itself., and one dummy figure dressed as %a- French • < Zouavd, spraAvling beloAv the pedestal of the statue to Catherine de . Voii, heroine of the siege otf 1870, the statue 'being taken away, like that of Faidherbeyiii *the square of Bapaume. On^-.top-.of the pedestal had been Jaid. a j dummy figure m a French; uniform, but the British soldiers had removed ! it. . . ■ •; Peronne was- a dead i£bwn,\ ' like all these villages an tlie wake of the -German retreat. t ';..,-