The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-08-30

outfought, and outgeneraled, and surely enough on the last of March Paris saw the triuphant entry of the hordes of Aus tria, Russia and Prussia.
 It was then realized that Napoleons S day was done, and truly his glory had departed.
 It was with mixed feelings that France beheld the downfall of their leader. Much as she had adored him she real ized that to him and his inordinate ambition she owed her own fall He had brought her glory. but 100000 of her best sons were buried on his battlefields, and she herself, broken nation, was now the prey of the enemies he had ruth lessly made. All his conquests had now fallen away, and France itself was par alyzed industrially and financially. Murat, Marmont and other, of the Emperor's s marshals were. now with the allies. Thou sans of his men had deserted.
 On April Il Napoleon abdicated, and nine days later he was on board British warship bound for Elba, and the Bour- bons entered Paris. There he was al lowed comparative liberty. He was ab- solute ruler of this miniature Kingdom He set about governing it as thought he had not once conquered nearly all Flu rope He made laws, built roads, organ ized a small army, constructed forts and encouraged Grade He set up theatre and imported actors.
 And all this time he kept in touch with what went on in the mainland. He saw the beginning of Bourbon misrule in France, and observed with cynical amuse- ment the disappointment of his country men at their new King. He saw the greedy allies fly at each others throats in the division of the spells. Then on February 26 1915, in. the absence of his jailers, he escaped to the mainland with a small following, and while the allies were quarreling at the Congress of Vien- na they were appalled, at the news that the lion had landed in France. At first they could not believe it. They thought it hoax, but frantic messages from, the Bourbons assured them of it's truth. The landing of the Emperor went through France like an electric shock. The roy alist cause found itself stranded, and Louis XVIII took to his heels. followed by his court. The marshals who had be- trayed Napoleon, together with thousands of his soldiers who had gone over to the enemy, rushed to welcome him. At Marseilles man: drew dagger to kill him. Napoleon drew open his coat and told him to strike The emotional would be assassin dropped down., embraced the Emperor's knees. and begged his forgive ness. A revulsion of feeling in Napo- Icons favor swept the land. Officials eSAS cAi eic : SS eiAHt SoAois s&AA~> S.%S- VI their services to theih old commander. The excitable nation sobbed win emotion
 An army was quickly organized, and after giving the country modified con stitution he set out for Belgium, whence the army had proceeded He now had to face in addition to the old allies Great Britain. On his whole eastern frontier he had stationed along the line six corps under fairly competent commanders. be- sides Grouchys cavalry at Guise Nor tier and the imperial guard remained in Paris Besides these 36.00o men were seat tered between Basel and Mise, at Lyons, or watching the royalists at La Vendee.
 The English. Prussian and Dutch troops were in Belgium. Schwarzenberg with 210,- 000 Austrians was on the Rhine frontier, while a smaller force was somewhere near Nice. The Russian army, estimated at 15O.OOo. had not yet arrived It was