_Return to the car and continue towards the village of Belleau._ On the left side of the road are shelters for sharpshooters and machine-guns. _At the cross-roads, near the entrance to Belleau, a road branching off the G. C. 9, to the right, leads into the village._ At this crossing there is an American cemetery. On the left, a road which skirts Belleau Wood, leads to =Bouresches=. About a mile from the crossing, along this road, there is another American cemetery. On the right of the graves, an uphill road leads to the wood, in which traces of the hard fighting are still visible--trenches, shelters, barbed wire entanglements, branchless trees, shell holes, etc. A little further on, in the direction of Bouresches, is another American cemetery. After visiting that part of the wood which overlooks Belleau, _return to the cross-roads and enter that village._ [Illustration: GERMAN CORPSES IN BELLEAU WOOD (April, 1919).] [Illustration: BELLEAU CHURCH.] _Descend as far as the_ Castle, which was badly damaged. Behind is the Church, also in ruins. _In front of the Castle turn to the left, take the first road on the right towards_ =Torcy=, _skirting the park_, the walls and trees of which have been badly damaged. Torcy, entirely in ruins, is reached shortly after. _Continue as far as what was the_ 13th century church, now a heap of ruins. The cemetery is a picture of desolation, the Germans having blown up the underground vaults, which dated from the Middle-Ages. [Illustration: RUINS IN BELLEAU VILLAGE.] [Illustration: RUINS OF TORCY CHURCH.] From the cemetery there is a pretty view of the valley. The photograph below was taken from beyond the cemetery, in the old square now in ruins. _Retracing his steps, the tourist should take the uphill road visible on the left of the photograph above, which he crossed before arriving at the church, and return to G. C. 9. At the intersection of these two roads is a_ large shed, the iron framework of which was torn and twisted by shell fire. _Turn to the right and follow G. C._ 9 _towards_ Bussiares. Before coming to Bussiares, the Tuilerie Farm, situated on a tiny hill to the left, comes into view. At the foot of this hill are German graves. The trenches and shelters on its sides were heavily shelled. =Bussiares= was less severely damaged than Torcy. _After crossing the village take the first road on the right towards_ Hautevesnes. There are some French graves at the side of the road near the fork. _Cross the railway (level crossing) and the bridge over the small river Clignon_, which run side by side. Before coming to Hautevesnes the road passes through shell-torn woods. [Illustration: AFTER THE CAPTURE OF TORCY BY THE AMERICANS. THE VILLAGE SQUARE, A HEAP OF RUINS.] [Illustration: AT THE TOP OF A HILLOCK, THE RUINS OF THE CHURCH AT ST. GENGOULPH STAND OUT TRAGICALLY AGAINST THE SKY.] =Hautevesnes= was entirely destroyed.