Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1915-12-12
CALLED ON DEAD
MEN To KEEP ON
FIGHTING ENEMY
f rench Hero Appeals to Spirits
Of Those Fallen in Battle to
Rise and Aid in RepuIse Of
Germans,

Paris. Nov 30-No incident of the
war has taken so strong q hold on the
French Imagination as thar of the sol
dier. who, IN the press OF the fighting,
when most Of his comrades lay dead
around him, called upon them as the
Germans repeated their attack, up
with you. We dead mem" and with the
help OF their spirits, assisted by "a few
wounded, routed the foe
Tho story is told I'm the Echo de-
Paris 1.-THE Germans had sWarmed
into a French trench and broken down
the resistance OF the defenders, whose
bodies covered the ground. suddenly
% man rose, and, Selling q sack of
gronades shouted Debout les Morts,'
Al this summons the wounded IN the
trench staggered 90 their feet and
drove the enemy out
The hero of the episode was Lieu
tenant pcricard man of 80, whose
hair Is already white lie started the
campaign ass a sergeant. but was
quickly promoted 20 the commissioned
ranks. pcrlcard Is a man of intense
religious feeling This Is his own story
as repeated By the Eeho's interviewer.
The trench was full of corpses,
with blood everywhere. At first /
walked dolicately, uneasy | alone,
with all these dead Then, little by
litt.o | grew bolder ana ventured TO
look az them 1hey seemed TO be
watching me- From our trench bee
hind my men were watching me with
terror iu their eyes, thinking, Hes
sure to be Killed 1t is true that the
Bochee were redouhlng their efforts.
Their gronadcs were pouring down
and the stream Of them was rapidly
getting nearer Was their sacrifice to
Do useless
II was seized with a holy madness.
or what aid, of exactly what
said. ! mo- longer remember know
only thu cried out pebout les
morris"
was it madness? No, because the
dead answered me They said, We
are following
"And as I cried 10 them their souls
joined my soul and made a glowing
mass of H. stream of fused metal
Nothing could astonish or stop me.
| had the faith that moves mountains,
the cXultution of the worker Of mira
eles. who by his will causes the mira
Gle. NY voice. which was hoarse and
worn out with shouting orders for two
days and nights, came back to me
clear and strong ! feared nothing. 1
felt was master Of destiny
one OF the men OF my section
wounded In the arm, Kept on throw
ms greuades that were stained with
his blood. As for me. | have the i'm
preston of having had an increased
bodily size | was "A giant with SUI
pcrahuudaut, limltless euergY an eX
traordlnaS ease of thought which let
me have my eyes In ten places at once, ,
to give to one, 20 dictate and order
to another, to shoot with a rifle, and
az the same time 10 avoid "a threaten
ing grenade 1t was prodigiously /
intense life. with extraordinary cir ,
Twice we ran out of 4
greuades. and twice we found at our
feet sackfulls of them mixed with |
mndbags An day We had gone over
them without seeing them. But il was /
The dead who had placed them there /
AN that night kept the religious /
that had seized me when 1 /
called on the dead felt something I
comparable with what is felt after q /
fcrVeut communion"