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Stark Tree* of the Forest Dead to theOre.

(George F.. Paul In New York Even- ~ ing Post.)

St. Mlhlel, France,—It takes more ktan spring rains and sunny days to bring life back to the and the Valley of the Meuse. A few yellow flowers -try feebly to make a showing, but they don’t deceive any one, for over the entire region hovers the dead calm that follows the tor­nado.

Whoever travels 200 mtles through

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this region, as I have just done, visit­ing village after vttlgge " in Tulns. naturally comes to the conclusion that this district is inhabited by Germans and American* As for the French­men, they are hardly to be found even in their own country. There are plenty of Germans, but in many cases they are under American guards, who see to It that the prisoners are kept busy at their work of rolling up the barbed wire, filling in the trenches and getting rid of the chuck holes' in the roadbeds.

And the Americans—one meets them at every turn of the road. Hundreds of them are doing roadwork in all .of this region, for the huge trucks that still rumble heavily along these high­ways are highly destructive, especial­ly at this time of the year when it rains nearly every day. Many negro troops are being used for this work and they are doing a good job of it, even if they are thousands of miles from home and from the warmth of the Sunny South. Some of the stretch­es of road that they are repairing are windswept, barren, lorbiooen, great tangles of barbed wire on either side and a jagged skyline wherever a battered town tries to rear its walls.

The real fighting of the war may be over and tens of thousands of Amej^ leans may be started on their way for the States, but to judge from the thousands of Americans that can be seen in a tour of this district one gets the impression that America is still on the job and so busy that it will

say, being dead, they know better than to try to show any signs of JBfe or to put ont the least tiny bud with the coming of spring. The barbed wire is a mass of rust—a dead and useless contrivance that ought to take wings and fly away. Even the pill­boxes that stand at commanding po­sitions at the cross roads are now as arm

them.The hillside hamlets are remarkable

for what they do not have. No bark­ing dogs take delight in chasing a strange motor car full length of Main Street. No curling smoke from the chimney tops |ells that supper is on the way. - whiff -of frosh broadcomes from the wide swung bake- shop door at the corner. No children cluck along the street in their wooden shoes and smock frocks. No proud chanticleer, mounted high on the red tilted roof of the barn, tells again and again to all the valley round that this is the renowned village of Evize-la-Grande, and everyone should be well aware of that fact. Right now it Is not the village of Ervize-la- Grande, or any one of its hundred cousin villages, that stands in the old familiar spot, but only phantom ham­lets pierced to death in the clash *of arms.

COUNTY GETS TRUCKSFROM U. 8. GOVERNMENT

Is Allotted Throe Big Trucks From Those Left From Demobilisation of the Army.Columbia, May 24.—The State High­

way 'Commission has been notified by Federal Bureau of Roads

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be turned over to the Commission are ready for shipment. The State High­way Commission has instructed the .,6®k refuge collapsed.Bureau of Public Roads to have three 2-ton Nash Quadruple Drive trucks

from Indianopolls to Laurens.The trucks will be turned over to the

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as coast between Orange and'Hous­ton.

According to these reports a man named Banks was killed In a ship yard at Orange. It also was said the ship yard there was considerably damaged. Several houses at Port Arthur were damaged, passengers stated.

Mrs_ W. F. Harveson and grand-

reported injured at Lake Charles when the roof of a shed In trb^.h. they

Several derricks in the Edgerly oil fields, near Beaumont, were blown

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FRENCH AVIATORABANDONS FLIGHT

Lieutenant Roget Gives Up Trans-At-. iantic Trip. Lands in Morocco.

tCasa Blanca, Morocco, May 25.—

Lieutenant Roget, a French aviator who left Paris early yesterday morn-

wlfh [Tns^h~mcflT?t—tejr-of ^-projected trans-Atiantic flight by way of Dakar to Brazil, landed at 6 o’clock last night at Kenitra, 30 kilometres from Rabat. His machine was damaged in landing and the trans-Atlantic trip will have to be abandoned. Roget came down on very difficult ground. The machine had left Villacoublay, France, at 5:10 o’clock Saturday morning, carrying as a passenger Captain Coli, who previ­ously had crossed the Mediterranean

use in maintaining or constructing roads built in whole or in part with Federal ai$.

Counties which have made no pro­vision to use Federal aid in construct­ing roads or bridges cannot under the Federal law share in the distribution of trucks from the Federal Bureau of Public Roads. These trucks are part of the surplus war equipment built by Uncle Sam for use in whipping the Hun. An act of the last congress in structed the Secretary of War to turn over to the Secretary of Agriculture for distibution to the State Highway Commissions, through the Federal Bu reau of Public Roads, all surplus war equipment. Including trucks. It is ex­pected that South Carolina will get a good deal more road building equip­ment and supplies besides the 296 trucks which have been given to it.

Jennings and LaFayette also felt the effggt T>T the slurm but mi reports orf

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serious damage at those places had been received here today. Telegraph and railroad companies reported crip­pled wire conditions in the storm area.

During a thunderstorm in New Or­leans late today a negro was killed by lightning.

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SEVERE STORM REPORTEDFROM TEXAS BELT

hardly know Maa’a Hill and on the Coli was slightly bruised when tbf sides of Hill 304 wouldn’t even tempt machine came down. The entire tripa stray cat to stop and drink from them after a thrilling hunt for rats through the trenches. The trees that once lined the roa^jde are dead to the very core, and thus, strange to

was covered without a stop. The avia­tors arrived last night at Rabat by automobile where they were the guests of General Lautey, the French mili­tary commander. As their machine

Considerable Damage is Reported From the Hurricane Which Swept Country. ,New Orleans, May 24.—Passenger!

arriving here tonight from points in Texas and Southwest Louisiana brought reports of a severe storm which passed Inland today on the Tex-

can not be repaired here the aviators will return to France by steamer.

Lieutenant Roget seems to have beaten the record of the American navy seaplane NC-4, which in its re­cent flight to the Azores covered 1,950 kilometres (1,211 thiles), while Roget flew 2,170 kilometres, about 1,348 miles).

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