Vanished halls and cathedrals of France . ^ -^lif .? J^:? **^ l«t< ,. <^_ plou rt-sliii</l|/( y <^- © NOYON difference to pain in the face of duty, imparts to me some-thing of their courage which inspires me. A country defended by such an army has no right todoubt final victory. (Signed) Leonie Godfroy. One revolts at these terrible pictures and accounts ofthe ravages of war in this former peaceful town, now soravaged by the German army. Its picturesque town hallwith the emblazoned coat of arms below the turret,where those flocks of white pigeons paraded the coping,cooing in the su
Vanished halls and cathedrals of France . ^ -^lif .? J^:? **^ l«t< ,. <^_ plou rt-sliii</l|/( y <^- © NOYON difference to pain in the face of duty, imparts to me some-thing of their courage which inspires me. A country defended by such an army has no right todoubt final victory. (Signed) Leonie Godfroy. One revolts at these terrible pictures and accounts ofthe ravages of war in this former peaceful town, now soravaged by the German army. Its picturesque town hallwith the emblazoned coat of arms below the turret,where those flocks of white pigeons paraded the coping,cooing in the sunshine — now a mass of blackened ruin,behind a vast hole in the ground in what was once thetown square, marking where one of the great shells felland burst; and the shattered towers of the gray old Cathe-dral, the roof of which is gone, leaving the debris filledinterior open to the rainy gray cloudy sky. Where noware the throngs of happy, apparently care-free peasantswho thronged the place before the flag-hung old TownHall that morning we last saw it in September,1
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