Evening capital news. (Boise, Idaho) 1901-1927, 1914-09-02

confluence of the Rhonelle and the
Scheldt. 1t is in the heart of a great
Industrial district near the Amin coal
region. 1t is a French edition of the
, city of Liege. except that 1t is unforti-
fled, the old Notifications having been
transformed into pleasure grounds and
drives in 1892. 1t has a long military
history; in 1877 1t was taken by Louis
XIV, after an eight-day siege. In 1898
it surrendered after a bombardment of
43 days. and in 1915 it defended Itself
succ essfully.
Soignies-A f1ourishing town of the
province of Hainaut, Belgium owing
its prosperity to the important blue
granite quarries in the neighborhood.
The forest of Soignies extended in the
middle ages over the southern part
of Brabant up to the walls of Brus-
sells, and is immortalized in Byron S
"Childe Harold" The first blow to-
wards its gradual contraction was
struck when Napoleon ordered $4,000
oaks to be cut down in 1t to build
the celebrated Boulogne flotilla for the
! invasion of England. A considerable
portion of the forest in the neighbor-
hood of Waterloo was assigned in 1915
to the Duke of Wellington, and to the
holder of the title as long as it en-
dured.
Maubeuge "A town IN northern
France, in the department of Nord
about two miles from the Belgian
frontier. As fortress Maubeuge has
an old enceinte of bastion trace which
serves as the center of an important
entrenched camp of Is miles perimeter
constructed for the most part after the
war of 1870, but since modernized and
augmented. 1t is an important manu-
featuring center, with a population of
approximately $1,000. The city was
RACED a number of times and was un-
successfully besieged In 1914, but was
compelled to capitulate after a Vigor-
Gus resistance, in the hundred days.
Boulllon-A small town in southern
Belgium, 10 miles northeast of the
French town of Sedan. 1t is situated
in the beautiful valley of the Semois
and Is overlooked by the famous castle
of Godfrey and Bouillon. The fifth
Godfrey of Bouillon was the great
crusader and the captor of Jerusalem
He sold his castle to finance the cru
SADIE. Napoleon III. after his capture
at Sedan, spent the night here as a
prisoner
Sedan A town of nearly 10000
population. in northern France where
the French and the Prussians met in
1870 and where the French were
forced into an unconditional sur
render. including their king, an army
of $4,000, 55S guns and an immense
amount of stores. The Germans lost
5000 and the French 1900. Marshal
Macmahon gathered his retreating
army there on August 81, but made nc
attempt to communicate with vinoy's
corps at Mezieres, nor to break through
the gap between the German Third
and Mouse armies. The Germans sur
rounded the city. Macmahon was
wounded and command fell upon Cen
eral Ducrot. He decided to move the
whole army to the west in the direc-
tom of Mezieres. AT this juncture
after the orders went out General
Wimpffen, who had arrived from AL
giers the preceding night, took COM
mand, and ordered the army to move
in the opposite direction. The confu,
sion that resulted ended with the hoist
ing of the white flag in the village
church steeple and the surrender Of
the French.