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BATTLE SHAFT
 IS DEDICATED
On Field of Battle of Ma tions" Where Century Ago Napoleon Was De feated by Allies Hand some Monument Rises
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ASSOCIATED PRESS DISPATCH LEIPSIC, Germany, Oct. 19.-On the field of the Battle of Nations." where just one hundred years ago the defeat of Napoleon by the allies virtually resulted in the liberation of Germany there was dedicated Sat urday one of the most imposing bat tie monuments in the world The | ceremonies were notable even in this year of historic anniversaries in 1 Germany.
 1 The sovereigns of Austria, Russia and Sweden. the nations that fought with Prussia to break the power of ] Napoleon in Germanic Europe, sent their personal representatives, and all the, federated princes and may ors of the German empire were present Their host is King Ere derrick August III of SaXony, sixth in line of direct descent from that King Frederick I, who fought with Napoleon against the allies; whose 1 troops deserted to the allies on the l decisive day, and who himself, vain l ly apealing for terms, was taken to Berlin and kept a virtual prisoner ] for three years.
 | The structure dedicated today is i by far the largest and highest in 1 Europe. It stands just south of i Leipsic, near Probstheida, the village out of which the allies drove Napo- | leon on October IS, 1913, the decis- i've day of the Battle of Nations" | The fight had then ragged for six ! days between the Austrians, Prus- sians, Russians and Swedes on the one side. and the French, aided by the SaXons and Wurttembergers on | the other, when the deciding day l came. On the following day Napo- 1 leon abandoned the contest, leaving 1 behind 78,000 of his army of 1SO- 900 men, 15,00O of them dead. The 1 allies, at a loss of 51,OOO from a ! total strength of about 30O,OO0 had made Germany free from foreign domination to the banks of the Rhine.
 1 The idea of a monument on the l battlefield was broached in the fol- i lowing year by Ernst Moritz Arndt l and found support from a number of prominent Germans and from a Russian diplomat. An organization was formed at Leipsic to keep alive the memory of the battle, but a king in captivity furnished ground for monument idea came up from time to time in the succeeding years, and in 1863 on the fiftieth anniver- sary of the battle, the foundation i stone of a monument was laid
 Then came the wars of 1864, 1866 and 1870-71, and it remained for the German Patriots association. form i ed in Leipsic in 1894 to take the matter up and carry it to a success ful conclusion. Four years later the necessary money had been raised, a design by Professor Bruno Schmitz had been accepted, and the first sod was turned for the work on October
 IS, 1898
 The monument stands on a hill
 about 100 feet above the level of the surrounding country. It is ap- preached by a flight of no steps
 hewn in granite. On the base of the monument at the head of the stairs is an imposing relief, 180 feet | long and 60 feet wide, the work of 1 Christian Behrens. In the center i of the relief is a heroic figure of Saint Michael. On each side of him Furies with torches hover over l a battlefield streWn with dead. Above, in letters six feet high, is the motto of the anti-Napoleon war riors: "Gott Nit Uns" God with us).
 The monument rises to height
 of nearly 300 feet It is of reinforced concrete, faced with porphry. on the ground level is a crypt, sur
 rounded by eight gigantic stone masks, representing fate. Tn front
 of each mask stands two warriors, twice life size, holding the death 1 watch. Above this crypt is a TO- | tunda, enclosing the hall of fame. About the walls sit four figures,
 two male and two female, seven Courage, Sacrifice, Exaltation and Belief. The figures are the work of
 Professor Franz Metzner.
 Around the outside of the doomed l cupoIa which surmounts the monu- ment stands twelve gigantic warrior figures. The interiors of three of 1 them are occupied by a winding
 stairs and an elevator giving ac- | cess to a balcony near the top of the monument.
 One striking thing is noted in con
 nection with all the statues; not 1 reign. The uprising against Napo- Icon in 1913 was an uprising of the | people, not of their rulers, and the | new monument is a monument of the people. There is not a personal note about it.
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