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Yes, it was the graveyard not alone of their homes but of their prosperity and their hopes and their ambitions and their aspirations the graveyard of everything human beings count worth having. This was worse than Hervé or Battice or Visé, or any of the leveled towns we had seen. Taken on the basis of comparative size, it was worse even than Louvain, as we discovered later.
So, generally, the walls stood, even in Battice; but always the roofs were gone, and the window openings were smudged cavities, through which you looked and saw square patches of the sky if your eyes inclined upward, or else blackened masses of ruination if you gazed straight in at the interiors. Once in a while one had been thrown flat. Probably big guns operated here.
Then came stretches of drenched fields, vacant except for big black ravens and nimble piebald magpies, which bickered among themselves in the neglected and matted grain; and then we swung round a curve in the rutted roadway and were in the town of Battice. No; we were not in the town of Battice. We were where the town of Battice had been where it stood six weeks ago.
John Battice having been sworn, corroborates the evidence of Samuel Lowdy. No. William Potter, having been duly sworn, deposed That while passing between No. 5 and 6 prisons, the soldiers commenced firing from the walls in three divisions, at a few of us; at that time there were only four prisoners in sight. After advancing a few steps, I found a man badly wounded.
Or else there would be a hunchback crooked spines being almost as common in parts of Belgium as goiters are in parts of Switzerland. But Battice had become an empty tomb, and was as lonely and as silent as a tomb. Its people those who survived had fled from it as from an abomination. Beyond Battice stood another village, called Herve; and Herve was Battice all over again, with variations.
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