The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-09-06

national boundary, and the miserable fragment of the grand army broke Into atoms as it dispersed in the sheltering woods of East Prussia. A spectral ta..d of 400 of the Ola Guard stalked into Koen- igsberg behind Murat, who. remembering that he as well as Napoleon had a throne to save, dropped the command and has tened away to Naples. The. ever faith full Prince Eugene then picked up such pieces. as he could, and welding them together in the warmth of his own loy- atty to the empire, backed across Ger many until he stood on the shore of the Elbe.
 The Grand Army of the Dead The Russian campaign was at an end, and again the Czar was dancing at Wilma. The cost of the expedition in u man life was so enormous that there is no agreement on the total. By one cal culation, 63O.0O0 men entered Russia and 6d,0Oo returned. For although only 60oO escaped over the Nienen with their arms there were small supporting col umns, not engaged in the deadly ad- vance and retreat, which suffered much less. The Russians boasted that they took 2o0.000 prisoners but how many Of these died in captivity or remained after the war to disappear into the Russian nation no one knows.
 Nor is the aggregate of the Russian losses known. But the armies of the Czar suffered only less than Napoleon's. They lost 50,00O between Moscow and Krasnoi. and the estimated total for the entire campaign of six months runs as high as 150,000
 Another computation of Napoleons losses gives 125,000 as the number slain in battle, 132,0 900 as dying of privation. and leaves to doubt the fate of the cap tured, while 10,Co0 is given as the total of the French who escaped with their lives. Napoleon himself admitted loss of 300,000 men.
 The crew went down ont the officers were saved, not marshal, not man above the rank of general of division having been sacrificed. And of the more than 1900 guns Napoleon hurled into the frightful abyss. at least full 1000 were lost, together with countless standards and eagles
 The Fleeing Emperor
 The Emperor, fleeing over the snow night and day from the scene of the tragedy, surprised his ambassador at Warsaw bya his sudden and unheralded appearance in the Polish capital. The inn at which he stayed under an as- stunned name Is now the Hotel English, and Napoleonic pictures hang on the very walls which echoed his memorable exclamation as he compared the pomp of June with the plight of December. It is but step from the sublime to the ridiculous
 A knock at the door of the French embassy at Dresden was the first an- nouncement of his return to the Saxon capital which had last seen him with the msnarchs of Europe at his feet Now he came in the night, without trumpeters or even servants, and bor- rowed $500 and six shirts for the rest of his homeward flight
 At Weimar. the sleighing grew poor and he changed to . carriage. This time, however. he did noy venture into the castle, as after the battle of Jena. but excused himself to the Duchess of Weimar on the ground that he was not presentable.
 For three weeks Paris heard not . word from the Emperor of the army until the appearance one morning in December of the last bulletin penned at smorgoni. The next night at 20 after Marie Louise had gone to bed, Napoleon. disguised in furs beyond her ready rec- ognition, burst in upon the Empress and kissed her. In the morning Paris awoke to the startling report that in- stead of being in Russia, battling with snowdrifts, Napoleon was safe in his palace and would hold levee at g. In her surprise. the excited city all but forgot to ask him what had become of the grand army. and France promptly rose at his call to face allied Europe Gcopyrighs, 1sls-lsis by James Morgan,
 Next Sunday; MT. Morgan wlll-lead his readers over the famous fields Of Dres- den and Leipsic-The Battle of the na- tions'--where Napoleon fought for the mastery of Germany. only to lose the prize and be driven back over the Hhines How he placed soo.0oo armed men if the field few weeks after his disastrous retreat from Moscow. His remarkable prophecy of the coming struggle W1th