OLD BATTLEFIELDS.

Taranaki Herald, Volume LXVII, Issue 16546, 22 September 1919, Page 3

OLD BATTLEFIELDS.

THE WORK GP RESTORATION. ' J. I By Aissto.—Copyright,

(Reodived Sept. 23, 1,80 p.ta.) ' ■ LONDOIf,, Sept. 20, A special oorreejmndtmp tfisrting the old battlefields at the Australians ■ in Prance and l BeJgjjuii says that the peasants afi-e striving; agajn to raise com amid the, ahellholsS and sipashed redoubts! Weeds Ain tljigh high amid! the rdins-imtt tUittlwed. earth. Tire W4r' Office has 200,000 Germans and SfijftX) Chines.e, under" British officers, clearing up the fields, collecting rusty iron, hatted) wire, oldrehellß, and rails. They dynamith the German redoubts fob the steel girterA- pld villagers dig"among ruins for hiddbb treasures. L The cllink of the demefifshers’ tools resounds across the wide Valleys where ■ formerly battles raged. Souvenirs can still be found! in the woods and fields in. the shape of tattered uniforms and scattered, crosses marking graves. As a general rule along the whole front, where the ground has not been heavily shelled, agriculture is beginning again, but elsewhere there is no sign, indeed no hope, of re-settlement. Every yard of the shell-tortured earth will have to he laboriously treated.—Aua.. N.Z. Cable Assn.