Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1915-12-19
FRENCH LORRAINE VAST
RESTING PLACE OF DEAD
Graves, Marked by Lines of Crude
Wooden Crosses, Lie Every
where.
NUMBER CONTINUALLY GROWS
Evidence Of Those Who Have Visited
Battle Fields Tends 10 Belief That
Estimate OF Three Germans to One
Frenchman Is Not ENaggeration.

PONT-A-MOUSSoN. FRANCE. De-
cemoc: 1S.-French Lorraine is the
creates cemetery in the world. Col
ontes CT dead marked by lines of
crude wooden crosses, lie everywhere
under newly formed sod at the edges
or woods and thicl;ets and in ravincs
-Gcrmans and French. The shifting
Of battle scenes may be traced by fol-
lowing them. The: are thickcst there
where was fought the great battle for
Nancy that began with the retreat OF
the french from aiorhange and reach
ed its climax during the Battle of the
. Marn%. The number has been contin-
ually swelled STAGE in the fourteen
months struggle in the Woevre and
the Vosges.
Saint fenevieve. Essey, tho Amanccs
the leigh of Cu.ttes, Vclainc, Ger
bevilicrs Of the Grand Couronne de
Nance, Etain, the Eparges the Eo;s
| fruic. the Bois Aprcmont. the Eois
saint Hansuy AMI the Bois lie pretre.
In the Wo"vre. are so many cemc-
teriea. early all OF them with crosses
bearing names already illustrious.
Lionel RicuN. the poet. lies a, Esscy:
Paul Vial, who received a bullet i'm his
heart. in the Saint Mansuv woods
Among the FrenCi, buried at Gcrbcyil-
lcrs IS Jean Martin. one Of the mos,
promising pupils q. the French Art
School ut Rome; ne fell with the he
roic handful of cnasSeurs that held
the .1ortaene there against 1000 Ger
mans during the eleven hours Mar
cell Drouet is among those who lie
at the summit of the SamoEneux hill
The dead lie thicl;cst perhaps at the
1t.
captured Nomcny ana Pont-a-Mous-
son. they sent Il regiment to force this
passage between two heights. held hv
a single company OF French infantry
That gap became the tomb Of the en-
tire regiment. The cemetery of St
Genevicve is not SO dense bu, far more
The Germans. forced hy the resistance
Of the company OF infantry at I.oisy
to try to Il flank movement around the
heights Of Saint Gcnevieve, obtained
a success before :he heights of Cuittes
where French crosses predominate II
was then, thinking he saw the route
opening up for his troops. the Emper-
or OF Germany issued his famous or
der Of the day: To- morrow in Nam
cy." Saint Gcnevieve was still he
tween His Majesty's troops and the
Lorraine capital; il is to-day the Gem
ctcry OF most OF them. The French
too. fell in such numbers there rs TO
dispnict the officers, who called the
attention of Commlndant NJ to the
losses
REatikES ORDER FROM GENERAL
TO INDUCE \ CHANGE
NO natter replied the command
ant. we won't give an inch" II re-
quire1 an order from the general to
Induce him to take UP n stronger posi-
ton Il little in tn. rear
During the attacks upon the Plateau
of Amance, captured on the 18th and re-
taken by General Dubail on the sth.
Emperor William is said to have OH
served the action from the edge Of the
Morel WOODS. behind which were CON
cealed the 10000 horscmcn Of the Prus-
sian Guard--his escort into Nancy
Nelaine fell and Uhlano and Bavarian
infantry surged into the passage be-
tween the two heights OF Amance. "If
we can hold out the day, it will be n
miracle" said the French general in
command. The three inchers increased
their fire TO the maximum speed lust
then and moved those Uhlans and Ra-
varians down before they could debouch
from the dehlc: they lie there to-day
in scrried ranks, over which a wecdy
sod has formed. The 10000 cavalry Of
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