New Britain herald., 1915-12-17
GREATEST CEMETERY
 THROUGHOUT WORLD
Colonies Of Dead Lie Everywhere
 in French Lorraine

1 (Correspondence of the Asso. Press.) l Pont-A- -Mousson, France, Dec. 12- 1 French Lorraine is the greatest cem- 1 etery in the world. Colonies of dead, marked by lines of crude wooden ] crosses, lie everywhere under newly l formed sod at the edges of Woods ana ] thickets and in ravines-German ahd 1 French. The shifting of battle scenes l may be traced by following them. 1 They are thckest there where was 1 fought the great battle of Nancy that l began with the retreat of the frehch 1 from Morhange and reached US cA- max during the battle of the Marnc' 1 The number has been contlnuahy swelled since in the fourteen months l struggle in the WoerVre ana the ! Vosges.
 Saint Genevieve, Essey, the Aman- l ces, the Heights of Cuittes, Velalne, 1 GerbervilIers of the Grand Couronne 1 de Nancy, Etain, the Eparges, the 1 Bois Brule, the Bois ApremOnt, the l Bois Saint Mansuy, and the Bois Le l Pretre in the Woevre are so many 1 cemeteries, nearly all of them with crosses bearing names already il- l lustrious. Lionel RieuX, the poet, lies 1 at Essey; Paul Vial, who received a l suy Woods Among the French bur 1 jed at Gerbeviller is Jean Martin, one 1 of the most promising pupils of the French Art school at Rome;; he fell 1 with the heroic handful of chasseurs l that held the Mortagne there against 4,00O Germans during the eleven l hours. Marcell Drouet is among those 1 who lie at the summit of the Sam l ogneux hill.
 Many Dead at Loisy.
 The dead lie thickest perhaps at Loisy Gap. After the Germans had captured Nomeny and Pont-A- Nous son, they sent a regimen to force this passage between two heig;lts,' held by single company of French in- fantry. That gap became the tomb of the entire regiment. The cemetery of St. Genevieve is not so dense but far more extended than that of the 1 Loisy Gap. The Germans forced by 1 the resistance of the company of in- fantry at Loisy to try to a flank l movement around the heights Of ] Sainte Genevieve, obtained success | before the heights of Cuittes, where French crosses predominate. It was then. thinking he saw the route open ing up for his troops, the Emperor
 
 of the day: Tomorrow in Nancy" | Sainte Genevieve was still between i His Majesty's troops and the I.orraira | capital; it is today the cemetery of l most of them. The French too, fell 1 in such numbers there as to disQuict ! the officers, who called the attention of Commandant M. to the losses.
 "No natter replied the comman- dant. i've won't give an inch.'' It re- 1 quired an order from the general to induce him to take up a stronger po- sition a little in the rear.
 Kaiser Observed Action.
 During the attacks upon the pla- teau of Amance, captured on the seventh and retaken by General Du- bail on the eighth, Emperor William is said to have observed the action from \ the edge of the Morel Woods, be- l hind which. were concealed the 1O,- ! 900 horsemen of the Prussian Guard II his escort into Nancy. Velalrc fel ! and Uhlane and Bavarian infantry | Surged into the passage between thu | two heights of Amance. 'If we cal | hold out the day it will be miracle, ! said the French General in command | The 3-mchers increased their fire t. ! the maximum speed just then an | moved those Uhans and Bayarian ! down before they could debouch frol the defie; they lie there today in SCI
 ried ranks over which a weedy so
 has formed The 10000 cavalrv , - the guard galloped off toward Met
 and a parlamentarian with a whit
 flag asked "In the name of His Ma - esty' for an armistice of A hours
 bury the dead.
 - "In twenty-four hours" replied tl
 French General, 'when the Empert
 shall have given sepulchre to h
 thousands of dead, we shall be read
 for him again."
 Heavy Death Rate.
 An estimated proportion of lhrt
 Germans to one Frenchman buried
 the battlefelds of the Grand Go,
 rome de Nancy, extending in a sem
 circle from Gerbevillers to Pont-;
 Mousson on the east bank of the NJ,
 selle, naturally takes no account
 moved at night by rail toward Met
 after the battle of Sainte Geneviev
 which decided the issue Of the stru
 gle for Nancy; nor does it compri
 the heavy death roll of the Frenc
 in annexed Lorraine, just over ti
 frontier ir the disaster of MOrhans
 The evidence of those who hay
 visited all the battlefields of Lcrrair
 and those who helped pick up Il
 dead after the battle of Nancy ten,
 to the belief that taking the Frene