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it'I landed in Amiens this morning. Before the war, Amiens was a beauti-ful, thriving industrial city of nearly 100,000. Today I doubt if there are 300 civilians in the city limits. A few lunch rooms and cafes are open and a very few shops. Only recently train service with Paris was resumed and the people who.feft in July are beginning to return. *i “Amiens, as you know, was the objective of the* German drive in July and was. the object of the Hun bom-r*% lt;. ' ' . r * . ♦bardment with guns of about twelve miles’ range. You see one block scarcely harmed and then you see a block almost totally ruined, with* only a few walls standing to show that this was once a prosperous business section. Occasionally, you see the outer wall, next to the street,, entirely tom away, with the remaining alls yet standing, making the building look - like a child’s toy house, beds standing, chairs as j* * * i ' . ’ • ^ • * . • . rthey were left and pictures^ hanging undisturbed on the wallSi -i r.“You see the remnant of a hardware store, now a ruined-mass of iron, a junk heap, of twisted iron piping; molten cutlery etc., in a si ipelesi mass.; The .beautiful cathedral, .one of the .qost famous and most beautiful in all fiance, has been,; • V V- ?*■' ' - -',** V’ ; '*•*■■ -f • * • 'enough, almost entirely Save for a few trivial scratches: fro:flying shrapnel'hits,, and, one windowwhich .was caved in, it stands' intact* • r . . / . r . • I. ^ I- * . * . • . ‘ ^ I . . r* «while not a. block, away,, entire build-: ings were razed by shell fire. I col-
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Danville Republican
Danville, Indiana, US
Thu, Nov 21, 1918
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