The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1914-09-07
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Refms eRhefms1- IA city of north
eastern France. eighty-five miles east
q northeast of Paris, situated in
plain on the right bank of YesIe. and
on the canal which connects the
Aisne with the Marine. It Is one OF
the six cities, each of them with nu-
Imerous forts, constituting the second
line Of defence to thefnorth and east
of Paris In 1874 the construction OF
a chain of detached forts was begun
In the vicinity of Retms. Thirteen
fortresses have been built in par1-
meter not quite twenty-five miles IN
length and at mean distance of six
miles from the center of the city.
The hills on the Paris side are open
and unguarded The city is the CHIEF
wool market In France. The manu-
facture of champagne. machinery
chemicals, safes, capsules, botues.
casks, candles. soap and paper is car
ried on extensively. In the foreign
invasion of 1914 Reims was captured
and recaptured. In 1870-71 it was
made by the Germans the seat OF a
governor general and Impoverished
by heavy requisitions.
CompigneA French town forty
three miles from the heart of Paris,
on the northern railway between
Paris and ST. Quentin, with popu-
lation exceeding $4,000. Until 1870
it was the occasional residence OF
the French kings Boat-buildlng'I
rope-making, steam-sawing, disttll1ngl
and the manufacture of chocolate and
machinery are among its industries
At the siege of Compiegne in 1870
Joan OF Arc was taken prisoner by
the English. In 1911 the town Of
fered stubborn resistance to the
Prussian troops. From 1870 to 1871
it was one of the headquarters OF the
Germany army.
Noyon--A city OF northern France,
sixty-seven miles north OF northeast
of Paris by the railway to Brussels
and fifty-five miles on direct line To
the French capital. It is built at the
foot and on the slopes of a hill.
Noyon, with population of about II
900, has trade In grain and i've
stock; its industries are chemical
works, tanneries, iron-foundr1es, saw
mills and sugar factories. The town
was christianized by st. Quentin at
the close of the third century. Thel
English and the Burgundians raw
aged the town during the Hundred
Years war. In 1916 truce was
signed there by Francis and Charles
". The city was captured by the
Spaniards in 1852 and afterwards by
the Leaguers. who were expelled IN
1894 by Henry ". John Calvin was
born at Noyon in 1909.
Roye-A town of northern France.
twenty-five miles south of east OF
Amiens, twenty-four miles southeast
of st. Quentin and ffty-6ye miles east
of north of Paris. 1t is the apex OF
la triangle pointing northward. with
Montdidier and Noyon at the other
two angles. The town has about 81
900 inhabitants, and carries on an
extensive trade In the grain raised on
the Santerre, the fertile plateau IN
which the town is located. The
church of ST. Pierre in Roye was be-
gun in the eleventh century and com
pleted in the sixteenth century
Montdidier-A town of northern
France, twenty-three miles suoNaHlst
of Amiens and fifty miles north OF
Paris, with population OF about o.
600. situated on the right bank OF
the Don. The towns industries IN
clude tanning and the manufacture
of zinc-white. A brave and sucessful
resistance to the Spanish troops was
offered here in 1886.
Bar-Le-Duc--A town of about 16,-
600 population in northeastern
France, forty-six miles west of Nancy
and sixty. miles southeast Of Reims.
The industries OF the town lnciuuo
the manufacture of jam, machinery,
corsets, hosiery, flannel goods ana
wall paper. The town is traverseo
throu ghout it's length by the river
Ornain. At the northeast is the ca
nal from the Marine to the Rhine and
to the southeast the Canal des Ust-
mes. Though probably of ancient
origin the town was unimportant till
the tenth century, when 1t became
the residence of the counts and dukes
of Bar.
Cracow-A town In Galicia. Au-
stria. the intellectual center OF the
Polish nation, five miles from the
Russian-Poland border and 212 miles
west of north of Lemburg. In 1910
Its population was Isl, 1856. 1t occu-
pies a position of great strategicai
Importance. In Cracow is the Stan
islaus cathedral, where the kings OF
Poland were crowned and the rulers
and great men lie buried. Although
Cracow manufactures machinery, ag-
ricultural Implements. chemicals.
soap, tobacco, etc. it is more I'M
portant as trading center. It's posi-
ton on the vistula at the Junction OF
several railways makes It the natur-
al market for the products OF Silesta,
Hungary and Russian and Austrian
Poland. On the third partition OF
Poland in 1895, Austria took Cra-
COW; in 1909 Napoleon incorporated
lit with the ,duchy OF Warsaw. In 1915
the Powers or Europe made Cracow
a free state. Following an insurrec-
|tion in 1916, Russia, Austria ana
Prussia gave 1t to Austria.
Przemysl-A town of Galicia, Au-
stria. fifty-seven miles west Of Lem