A correspondent of the London _Daily News_ cables his paper:
“From all I hear of the progress of the German advance the Germans were
in Amiens on Sunday. The city was evacuated and the railway tunnel
blown up. I judged it would be useful to visit the little town of
Beauvais, twenty miles almost due south of Amiens on the road from
Dieppe to Gournay.
“Crossing the bridge by the railway station, a French dragoon laughed
when he saw our startled look at what rested below against the bridge
supports. They are waiting for the Germans.
“The streets were strewn with broken glass bottles and barbed wire
entanglements were coiled everywhere. The little place is in a hollow.
One wanted but slight imagination to the flaming hell it could become at
any moment.
“It was growing dusk, and I suppose I have never before felt such an
urgent desire to leave a town.”