Ypres and the Battles of Ypres

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VIEW OF ARMENTIÈRES (before the War)
THE RIVER LYS AND ST. WAAST CHURCH (Cliché LL.)

Belfry, churches, schools and houses are all in ruins.

In everything connected with the spinning and weaving of linen Armentières, like Lille, Roubaix, Tourcoing, and the whole of Northern France in general, was considerably in advance of Germany. Consequently, the Germans destroyed all the mills, factories and metallurgical works, and what machinery could not be taken to pieces and sent to Germany they ruthlessly smashed.

ARMENTIÈRES. ST. WAAST CHURCH AS THE GERMANS LEFT IT
(Compare with photo, p. 50.)

ARMENTIÈRES AND THE RIVER LYS