El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1915-12-18
COVER
BiTTLEFIELI5
Of LORRAINE
The Worlds Greatest Gem
etery Still Being Plowed
by German Shells.
DEAD LIE THICK
OVER GREAT AREA

- ONT-A-MOUSSON France Dec. Is.
- French Lorraine is the greatest
cemetery in the world Colonies Of
dead, marked by lines Of crude wooden
crosses. lie everywhere under newly
formed sod at the edges of woods and
thickets and in rayines-Germans and
French. The shifting OF battle scenes
may be traced by following them. They
are thickest there where was fought
the great battle of Nancy that began
with the retreat of the French from
MOrhanSe and reached its climax dur
ing the battle of the Marine. The num-
Der has been continually swefled since
IN the fourteen months struggle in the
WOevre and the Nosges-
Many IIlustrfOus in Battle Graves
Saint Genevieve- Essey, the Amances,
the Heights of Cuittes Nelaine. Ger
Devilers of the Grand CourOnne de
Nancy. Etain- the Eparges, the Bots
Brule, the Bots Apremont, the Bots
Saint M2nsuy. and the Bots lie Pretre
IN the " oeNre are so many cemeteries,
nearly all of them with crosses bearing
names already illustrious. Lionel Tieux.
the poet, lies at Essey: Paul Vial who
received bullet in his heart. in the
SAINT ManSuy " GODS. Among the
French buried at fferbeviIler is Jean
Martin, one Of the most promising
pupils of the French Art School At
Rome; he fell with the heroic handful
OF chasseurs that held the MOrtagne
there against 20 600 Germans during
the eleven hours MARCEL Drouet is
among those who lies at the summit
OF the Samogneux hill
ThieI<est at LOisy Gap.
The dead lie thickest perhaps at the
Loisy Gap. After the Germans had
captured Nomeny and Pont-a-M oussOn,
they sent regiment to force this pass
age between two heights. held by a
single company of French infantry
q d Of he
regiment The cemetery of St Gen
evieve is not so dense but far more
extended than that Of the LOisy Gap.
Inc Germans. forced by the resistance
Of the company of infantry at LOisy
to try flank movement around the
heights OF Sainte Geneyieve. obtained
a success before the heights of Cuittes,
where French crosses predominant. 1t
was then, thinking he saw the route
opening Up for his troops, the emperor
of Germany issued his famous order OF
the day Tomorrow in Nancy" Sainte
Genevieve was still between his ma
3esty's troops and the Lorraine capital;
II IS today the cemetery Of most OF
them The French. too. fell in such
ficers.
Kaiser's Plans Fail.
During the attack upon the plateau /
Of Amance. captured on the eth and |
William is said to have OBJ
served the action from the edge of the )
Morel Woods, behind which were con-
cealed the 10000 horsemen of the Prus- /
sian Guard-his escort in Nancy We /
laine fell and Uhlan and Bavarian in !
fantry Surged into the passage between /
the two heights Of Amance-, IF we can /
hold out the day II viii be a miracle, /
said the French general in command I
The 3-inchers increased their fire to /
the maximum speed just then and I
moved those Uhlans and Bavarians /
down before they could debouch from
there TnnQT IN
ried ranks over which a weedy sod has Z
formed The 10000 cavalry of the 1
guard gallOped off toward Metz, and a 1
parliamentarian with a white flag 4
an armistice of "a hours to bury the !
dead
in "a hours replied the french /
general. when the emperor shall have
given sepulchre TO his thousands OF 4
dead, we shall be ready for him again"
An estimated proportion Of three
Germans to one Frenchman buried in I
the battlefieids Of the Grande COuronne
from GerbeTillers to Pont-a-Mousson
1n the east bank of the Moselle. ma
-Urally takes no account Of the thOus-
inds Of Bavarian dead removed at Z
light by rail toward Metz. after the 1
lattle OF Sainte Genevieve. which de-
,ided the issue OF the struggle for
Nancy, nor does il comprise the heavy 4
Heath roll Of the French in annexed
Lorraine. Just over the frontier, in the /
disaster of Morhange-
PiOus hands are caring for these
cemeteries, even so close to the battle
'rOnt that the German heavy artillery I
Dften rakes up the sod and sends the
.rosses flying in splinters. Flowers ]
ire planted on all the French graves !
md the tri-color floats over many Of
hem The graves of the Germans are
acredly protected. but not decorated
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