The farmer and mechanic. [volume], July 20, 1915, Page 2, Image 2

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Fierceness of Conflict Shown
By The Experience of Town
of Carency
THE STRUGGLE IS BITTER
Insignificant Hamlet of 475 In
habitants Before The War,
Village Will Have The Hon
ors' of History; Town Now
Changed Beyond Recognition
Edison Greets Daniels at Llewellyn Park,
Abbeville, France. July 17. The
character of the town to town, house
to house struggle that has been going
on north of Arras is shown in nearly
all its details by the experience of
(!arencv. An insignificant hamlet of
about 475 inhabitants before the war,
this village will have the honors of
historv. It first came into the zone of
operations when the German move
ment toward the sea was. finally
checked there.
The Bavarians, leaving Beaumont
October 1st, secured a footing on the
hills of Vimy and Lievin. the 4th they
were at Carency, Givency-en-Gohelle.
Notre Dame de I-orette, Souchez and
Ablain-Kaint-Nazaire, all of which
have since had the honors of frequent
mention in the official communique
The French cavalry with the Moroc
can Mounted Rifilemen met them
there and opposed further prolonga
tion of the enemy's front by the val
leys of the Authie and . the ' Canche,
forcing them to fortify themselves on
the Hills of Artois and in the coal
fields around Lens, thus saving Bou
logne, Calais and Dunkirk.
The French took about half of the
village of Carency on the night of
October 5, but were stopped at the
most considerable building of the
town, the Carency brewery, where the
Germans made their final stand and
where they maintained themselves all
winter. Its fall was the prelude to
the eonqdest of the surrounding hills.
In the 'meantime the physiognomy,
not only of the hamlet itself, but of
the surrounding country had been so
changed that it is almost impossible
for those who knew it before the war
to recognize 1t now.
The owner of the brewery, an officer
In the French artillery, was already at
the front. His wife and children,
driven from their residence by the ap
proaching German fire, took refuge
there, but had scarcely established
themselves when the place became the
center of a violent conflict. While
hand to hand fighting was going on in
the gardens all round, at one o'clock
in the morning, French soldiers
hitched horses to a conveyance, sent
the family back of the lines and then
bayonets returned to the
the brewery. They were
carry it, but succeeded in
the position with loop
holes through the walls so as to hold
the enemy in check.
French Dig Down.
From that day the brewery and the
other buildings on the French lines
became the target for the German 3
inch and f.-inch guns. As fast, how
!ver, as the shells reduced a build
ing, the French dug down and main
tained themselves. Until the end of
November the French remained in the
garret of the brewery, then were
obliged to climb down to the second
floor. In. December the roof and gar
ret fell into the cellar and New Year's
Day saw nothing but two jagged walls
remaining erect, from behind which
the French continued their fire. At
Faster there remained but a fragment
about two feet above ground and the
French fortress was now entirely dug
into the earth. The part of the vil
lage held by the Germans had under
gone the same transformation, and
when the day came for the final as
sault, scarcely anything remained on
either side of the lines but heaps of
Ptone and plaster.
Partly mowed down, partly dug up
fit the roots, the hawthorne hedges
around the houses and fields had lost
their original lines. The shade trees,
stripped, splintered and cut down by
the constant fire are nothing but
stumps resembling battered and nib
bled hitching posts. . From October
to May a soldier's cap or a sapper's
shovel appearing above the surface
of the earth or around the corner of
a ruin became instantly a target for
a volley of musketry or for machine
gun fire.
Welcome Chance To Attack.
' The soldiers who had endured the
tension of this situation for seven
months are said to have danced for
pleasure on May 9 when the word
went round that the moment for the
attack had arrived; they were going
to meet the Germans face to face,
with no earthen fortresses or ruined
hrtwrtn them and flgnt it out
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Then
Come Mexici
John Bull
Cornish. X. IL, July u
views on the German situati..
tative shape, President Y , ; -night
began preparing for h
ture for Washington to tak.
Secretary Lansing and oth.-r :
of his cabinet the next si- ;
American policy toward .- 1
warfare.
There were indicating j..
the -President does not exp :
long in notifying German v . :
sition of the United States.
of his cabinet are uiuK is;,,. ,
unanimously back of him in .,
mination to assert the rictus .,
icans to the "freedom of t) .
The German situation will
T
cusseu in a general way at T
cabinet meeting, and a tinal
expecved to be reached at
cabinet meeting on Friday.
The President will leave h
pared to take up several
quthuuns soon aner reaeni!i
ington. He will select a sw.
Mr. Lansing as Counsellor
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Thursday night Secretary of the
Navy Josephus Daniels and Thomas
A. Edison conferred fcr more than
.two hours in the home of Mr. Edison
in Llewellyn Fark, N. J., on the per
sonnel of the proposed advisory naval
board of civilian engineers and in
ventors. Mr. Edison is to head this
board which is to work in conjunction
with existing official bureaus for the
improvement of the United States
navy. The picture shown above was
used in the New York Times Friday
morning and loaned by the Times to
the News and Observer.
with fixed
assault of
unable to
organizing
in the open. - Men whose ears had
been hardened to the thunder of ar
tillery months before stopped them
with their fingers when the prepara
tory artillery fire opened, for no less
than six lines of batteries in the rear
played upon the German trenches.
The attack has been officially de
scribed, but . many details of individ
ual heroism and many anecdotes of
the siege and the assault remain to
be told.
Neutral Zone Rstablishexf,
When the French and Germans
held each about half of Carency,
two houses in the center formed p. sort
of neutral one because neither side
could occupy them. One of them a
big farm house had the best wine
cellar of the region. Several nights
running the Bavarians crept out of
their lines into the cellar and regaled
themselves. The French learned this
and also visited the place neither
side fired until the Bavarians went so
far as to come one night with a wheel
barrow. This was too much for the
French and the rifles went off almost
automatically. The wheel-barrow re
mained there and a six inch shell soon
after caved the walls in and the bal
ance of the wine soaked into the
earth."
Another story is told of a subaltern
officer who in the early days of the
siege got lost in the mase of trenches
approaching the lines and ran into
the Germans. He told the Bavarians
he had come on behalf or six com
rades who wanted to surrender, just
to learn the way and find out if they
would be well treated. The Bava
rians told him to go back and fetch
his six comrades who would be treated
well. Of course the officer went back
and forgot to return to the German
lines.
Vast Summer Vacation Scheme
Shaping Up in The Mountains
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the picture man and ask him some
questions. He tells me that Chimney
Rock is a favored spot for,the location
of the photoplays that are becoming
popular. Around Asheville, and from
there down the river, and over this
way into the mountains, the location
affords a good background for the
photoplays that like mountain set
tings. It is hard to beat North Caro
lina mountains when you want them
for scenic effects in picture work
They are real mountains. They have
real forests on them, and rugged fea
tures, and real mountain trails, and
real cataracts, and mountain cabins
and little farms, and all the romantic
features that give interest to a picture
yi-' me picture men are coming
into North Carolina mountains and
sending out pictures everywhere. The
movie man who was with the news
paper folks on ML Mitchell made pic
tures of the inauguration of Presi
dent Graham at Chapel Hill, and sent
them to the picture shows that are
supplied by his concern. He made pic
tures of the good roads work down in
the Hendersonville country, and he
goes from here to make a series of
pictures of the mountain scenery of
the Southern railway. He will be set
on the front platform of a car that
will be pushed up the mountain, and
as the train goes ahead the camera
will take down the. picture that steadi
ly unfolds in front of him until he
has covered miles of the road to be
shown in pictures all over the coun
try. Introducing North Carolina.
If you are a patron of the picture
shows you can remember wTith con
siderable satisfaction when you see
the scenario of the Southern Railway
some of these days that the same
thing is on exhibition at hundreds of
other places all over the United
States, and North Carolina is being
introduced to people everywhere in a
most effective style. As the picture
man has only commenced his work in
the State the certainty of a vas
amount oi puDiicity rrom tnis source
is apparent.
Up on the top of Mt. Mitchell I
fell in with a man from Pennsvlvania.
We stood looking out over the end
less sweep of mountain peaks, and
he fell to SDeCUlatine- on the future
Of the COUntrv. I remember nn in
Pennsylvania how it was just like
this?" he said. "Finest timber ever
grown, and we whirled in and took
off that fine white pine, and then folks
asked themselves what's troimr to be
come of this country with the pine
gone? And we jumped in and took
off the hemlock, and it brought more
money than the pine. And then come
along the railroads and they began to
take out coal, and the coal brought
more money than the pine and the
hemlock both. And then the gas
wells come along, and be blasted if
ou can tell wThat's going to come next
up there. And I'm a telling you it's
a going to be that way down here.
All this here timber
'em a while to git
they'll all think the
smack to the dogs
Department, go fully into the y,
problem, and take up will
sing the proposed protest
terference by Great Britain
merce between the United
other neutrals.
During his three week's .;
Mr. Wilson's health has i!npn
he has gained several j-oai,
weight.
five to twenty thousand peopi
Counties that contained If. to IT. u
sand .people then now count .".. t. ! :
thousand souls. Then as thr in, a
said, "You can't pile up a- mu-h .: ,ft
as there is in the mountains f N ith
Carolina without having in th- p
something of value." In a va !.
value of much of the mountain ( ...n -try
is known. But generally sp-a;.-ing
it is an unexplored region, 're
forests are enormous in xt t t. :.v,l
wide in their rangs of ood. 7! "
rocks are as limitless in their an-a a- 1
in their variety. But what is within
them is only conjecture yet. it
something, and that something is h.-!!
here in reserve until men want ;
use it, and come and hunt it out. if
is'not necessary that we turn In ::
use up everything on earth ; . - t
away in this generation. The yew Li
sters who are following will
wants, and they will have the s.
to satisfy them as long as these hi;
remain unmolested. I can't tell y
how. I couldn't tell you how t-' .t
lize the natural gas that wa p"
into the air by the billions of
feet years ago in the oil count ?'Y
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fore men learned what to d
nor what to do with gasoline v.
was a waste product at ih'-
fineries forty years ago ai d fr
anybody who wanted to carry
p. few gallons. Neither can I
what to do with the stacks
here in the mountains. H'-t
body will arrive one day v
turn things over and find o
Vast Scheme Shaping.
Meanwhile the big thin.u'
look for up this way is the va
mer vacation scheme that
shaping up. All the intlu
workinsr in that direction
a square mu" o
is worth moro
beauty and its
and its rejuvenat
outdoor charm ti
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likely that
mountains
picturesque
possibilities
mate and
take
then
is going to
it off, and
country is goin'
and some feller
will come along with something else
and you will be supprised to see
what's on these corking old hills. You
can't fool me. You couldn't git as
much stuff piled up as they is here
in these mountains and not have any
thing in it that isn't worth something.
You watch what I tell vou."
No End To The Resources.
The old chap has two lines of sense
in his argument. I remembered very
well the conditions he ' recalled in
Pennsylvania,' where every time one
crop was taken the people predicted
the end of the world, and each suc
ceeding crop proved more profitable.
Towns that held a thousand people
when the white pine went away have
anything else that could h-- -Suppose
we could let the sro.t!
pie of the household get out i:
country in the fall when tie-
nuts are ripe. Ever chase ov
mountains as a boy when ch
were ripe? If you did not it nr
wTorth while to begin yet. '
there may be some place wher
nuts are more abundant than up
but if there is a place that has
chestnut trees and more J '
blossoms to the square mile
never seen it. Up and down the
leys for miles and miles the tr
alive with blossom, and unless
have some Way of making a n
small crop from an enormous
blossoms I would say in a rough
that in Western North Carol in
tains are making right nov
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comes of them is a msystery. i
people to gather all of them rt
in a hundred miles of the mou
I would rather be turned 1
North Carolina mountains in
nut season if the crop turns
it rrnmi:s now than to see
tiest mine that was ever open'
mi
ha
out
th
Vance Wants Croppy Weather.
Henderson Gold Ieaf.
Crop reports in Vance have
the present time been not alto-'
favorable. ' Drought and cool m
Vioi-o rctrj t-i oi rrrfwxrtYi and dev
ment in most all crops. But a
or two of present temperatures
continued good raiis would be
cient to work wonders.
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