The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1915-12-16
GREATEST OF
GRAVEYARDS
Where the Dead Lie Thick on the
Hills and in the Valleys of
French Lorraine

Correspondence Of the Associated
Press. French Lorraine is the
greatest cemetery in the world. Col
onies of dead, marked by lines of
crude wooden crosses, lie everywhere
under newly formed sod at the edges
of wods and thickets and in ravines-
Germans and French. The shifting
of battle scenes may be traced by
following them. They are thickest
there where was fought the great
battle for Nancy that began with the
retreat of the French from Morhange
and reached its climax during the
battle of the Marine. The number has
been continually swelled since in the
fourteen months struggle in the
Woevre and the Vosges.
Saint Genevieve, Essey, the Aman-
ces, the Heights of Cuittes, Velaine,
Gerbevillers of the Grand Couronne
de Nancy, Etain, the Eparges, the
Bots Brule, the Bots Apremont, the
Bots Saint Mansuy, and the Bots LIE
Pretre in the Woevre are so many
cemeteries, nearly all of them with
crosses bearing names already Illus
trious. Lionel Rieux, the poet, lies
at Essey; Paul Vial, who received a
bullet in his heart, in the Saint Man
suy Woods. Among the French bur-
led at Gerberviller is Jean Martin, one
of the heroic handful of chasseurs
that held the Montague there against
1000 Germans during the eleven
hours. MARCEL Drouet is among
those who lie at the summit of the
Samogneux hill.
The dead lies thickest perhaps at
the Loisy Gap. After the Germans
had captured Nomeny and Pont-a-
Mousson, they sent regiment to
force this passage between two
heights, held by a single company of
Frenzy infantry. 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 Loisy Gap. The Germans, fore
ed by the resistance of the company
of infantry at Loisy to try to flank
movement around the heights OF
Sainte Genevieve, obtained success
before the heights of Cuittes, where
Grench crosses predominant. It was
then, thinking he saw the route open
ing up for his troops, the emperor OF
Germany issued his famous order Oh
the day: Tomorrow in Nancy" Sainte
Genevieve was still between His
majesty's troops and the Lorraine
capital; it is today the cemetery OF
most of them. The French, too, fell
in such numbers there as to disquiei
the officers, who called the attention
or Commandant M to the losses
"No matter" replied the command
ant, 1--WE won't give an inch" Tt re
quired an order from the general tx
induce him to take up stronger pc
sition little in the rear.
During the attacks upon the plateau
OF Amance, captured on the 7th ant
retaken by General Dubail on the 9th
Emperor William is said to have OBJ
served the action from the edge O
the Moral Woods, behind which wer
concealed the 10000 horsemen of tn
Prussian Guard-his escort into Nan
cy. Velaine fell and Uhlane and Ba
varian infantry surged into the pas
sage between the two heights Q
Amance. off we can hold out the da
it will be a miracle" said the Frenc
general in command. The 3-incher
increased their fire to the maximum
speed just then and moved those III
lans and Bavarians down before the
could debouch from the defile; they Il
there today in serried ranks owe
which weedy sod has formed. tt
10000 cavalry of the guard gallope
off toward Metz, and parliamenta
ian with white flag asked Gin tt
name of His Majesty" for an armi
tice of "a hours to bury the dead
"In "a hours" replied the Frenc
general, "when the emperor sha
have given sepulchure to his tho,
sands Of dead, we shall be ready fl
him again."
An estimated proportion of thrt
Germans to one Frenchman buried
the battlefelds of the Grand Courol
ne de Nancy, extending in sem
circle from Gerbervillers to Pont.
Mousson on the east bank of the M,
selle, naturally takes no account /
the thousands of Bavarians dead r.
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 French
annexed Lorraine, just over the fro
tier, in the disaster. of Morhange.
The evidence of those who have vi
tied all the battlefelds of Lorrail
and those who helped pick up t
dead af the battle of Nancy tends
the belief that taking the French de-