. In the track of the storm; a report of a visit to France and Belgium, with observations regarding the needs and possibilities of religious reconstruction in the regions devastated by the world war . A Common SightMany Forests Were Completely Destroyed. GLIMPSES OF AMERICAN BATTLE-FIELDS that were piled on large motor-trucks. It was asolemn scene, but ten minutes later the scene wasstill more solemn. Coming to what had been the town of Thiaucourt,we discovered that thousands of new graves werebeing made, and the colored troops were comingfrom the fields with those plain wooden boxes,which wer
. In the track of the storm; a report of a visit to France and Belgium, with observations regarding the needs and possibilities of religious reconstruction in the regions devastated by the world war . A Common SightMany Forests Were Completely Destroyed. GLIMPSES OF AMERICAN BATTLE-FIELDS that were piled on large motor-trucks. It was asolemn scene, but ten minutes later the scene wasstill more solemn. Coming to what had been the town of Thiaucourt,we discovered that thousands of new graves werebeing made, and the colored troops were comingfrom the fields with those plain wooden boxes,which were opened again, when each body wasidentified. The sight was gruesome beyond all de-scription, and it is not proper to try to relate hereall the details. White officers, wearing rubbergloves, sought first to establish the identity of eachbody by looking for the tag worn about the the tag was not there the pockets were searchedfor something to identify the soldier, or perhapsthe tag itself would be found somewhere else on theperson. Then trinkets would be found to be sentback to the families in America, after being prop-erly sterilized. While we were there they found onthe body of one soldier a locket, suspended to achain, and containing a
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