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DEATH" ordered our leaders. "The vic.
tory is to him who knows how to suffer
quarter of an hour longer than the
other"
Revivifed by some achievements, those
heroic remnants, officers at the head
threw themselves with desperate violence
on the village and forest of Champenoux
All the 9Th they fought. Our men were
worn out, haggard, sustained only by their
souls. They had no longer time to eat
And what was there to eat?
An officer told Emile Heuriot that
sometimes in the vast spaces ravaged by
that hurricane of three weeks one met
troops which marched at hazard, not know
ing whittier they were going and turning
their backs on the battle. One faced them
about and sent them at the enemy, and
they went without word, without MUIR
muir. with a sort Of drunken fury. What
mattered it to them? They no longer
hoped to survive. They exposed them
selves like immortals. And, nevertheless
on the 8th also, our heroes failed.
William II at Eply
The day Of the 9th was calm as death
The Germans also were taking breath
They didn't understand the miracle. They
waited, in accordance with all the proba-
bilities, for the French to retire. On the
heights of Eply William, field glasses in
hand, in manner borrowed from Napo'
leon, took observations. Nobody saw him
there. Yet all the world will see him there
hereafter. Legend will not doubt that at
that hour he believed in the retreat Of the
French and in his triumphal entry in cav
alcade into the Place Stanislas and the
Place Carriere Tin Nancy.
Oh, we'll! Let him look more closely
let him wipe tho lenses Of his field glasses
He will see the French, half dead with IA
tigue, digging In feverish haste trenches on
the positions to which they have been re-
pulsed.
The two armies lost all their blood.
Which Of the two would succumb first!
Castelnau had no longer any reserves.
He said, 81 shall hold on for two days. 1t
will be two days more for France"
One thinks Of the verso which follows
the "Qu'i mour0t" Of Corneille, Of which
our, school manuals say that 1t weakens
tho Wrought and was only written for the
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I done, for II were French prisoner IN q
German prison camp should try to do
exactly the same remarked the French
man, cycling his shivcring enemies. mo,
can't get very excited about your crime,
but all the same war is war and discipline
is discipline. You viii sleep IN Dungeon
tonight, and in the morning you viii b
sent-to Corsica"
Not hard fate, certainly since Corsica
is in winter time rather better address
than the mountains. But Corsica is also
an island, and from an island escape Is a
sitter job.
Next morning the three prisoners were
taken out of their cell, surrounded by
French soldiers, marching with fixed hayo-
nets. The entire prison camp turned out
the courtyard lined with French soldiers
The other prisoners, uniuforrrd as To the
sentence of the commandment upon their
three venturesome comrades, had no doubt
at all that they would be lined up and
shot. How did they greet them? In silent
commiseration?
Hardly. They reviIed them in their West
gutter language. To ingratiate themselves
with their camp commander, they cursed
their felow-countrymen as dirty pig -dogS
They seized the hand Of the French COM
mandant, kissed it and said that the three
who had tried to escape across the Spanish
line were not good German soldiers and
deserved their fate.
at turns my stomach" said the French
commandment to my friend, the college pro
fessor from America. 81 should rather he
on the firing Zine than have my hands
kissed by these whining, poor-spirited ami
mails"
It is not always so ugly a picture. Let
US turn the medal. The fact remains that
most German prisoners Officers excepted)
are so loath to attempt TO escape from
their very supportable exile that actual
abuses have sprung up and inadequate pre-
cautions taken. In the harvest season lady
Of Paris whom know, spending holiday
of German war prisoners returning TO
their camp from their days work in the
fields. They were accompanied by
French sentinel, a private Of some reserve
regiment. This private was, unfortu-
nately, very drunk. 1t took two German
prisoners, one on each side, to keep him on
his legs and moving in the right direction.
A third prisoner tenderly carried his
loaded rife, bayonet and all
An incident like this is not altogether
becoming. 1T is not illustrative Of proper
discipline on the part Of every soldier OF
the French army, but the French army has
given proof enough of devotion for US TO
forgive it the indiscretion of this private in
a reserve regiment Of infantry, far from
the front.
Besides, he knew his men. He knew
those German prisoners were very happy
where they were.
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the forest, repasses the Seille and installs
itself few hundred metres back in the
lines where saw it last week.
Nancy was delivered. That was on the
18th of September. Joffre saved Nancy.
But the Army of Lorraine, by its tenacity,
had rendered possible the long operations
of the Marine. These saviors of Jofre and
of France had fought without any other
preoccupation than to do each one his duty.
in absolute ignorance of what was going on
elsewhere.
81 can tell you nothing on the subject Of
the bombardment of Nancy" an officer Of
the goth Corps wrote me. ~ was some
kilometres from the German batteries, and
/ knew of the bombardment only several
days later. They kept US informed of
nothing but what was happening on our
right and on our left. And Of the success
of the Allied armies on the Marne We
hadn't the least idea until the evening Of
September H."
A Sanctuary Of Patriotism
complete my day by strolling socially
with ouf soldiers in the forest Of Cham
penoux, a little damaged by the war,
admit, but more beautiful than have ever
seen it before; for now it is one Of the
'sanctuaries Of patriotism. Why should
not we preserve forever those cabins, more
glorious than palaces, constructed by these
men, so simple, so ignorant of their own
greatness, half warriors, half peasants, so
terrible in battle, the first impression we
receive of whom is one of extraordinary
goodness and modesty?
Never complaint! Before their virtue
one remains stupid with admiration.
We skirt, while talking in little groups,
the border of the pond of Brin, in the mid
die Of the wood. I ask one of the soldiers.
'Do you fish sometmes?"
"The fish are worthless" he answers;
perhaps because of the corpses on which
it is said they feed themselves now. But |
believe that the corpses have been buried.
II they were in there we should see them.
In the water they rise"
The pond is peaceful; the vapors Of the
night arise. The Germans. on the other
side of the prairies, do not bulge. The
cycist arrives, bringing the newspapers.
May he bring the next time the homage of
our friendship and the gratitude Of all IS
our comrades Of Champenoux end Of the
Plateau Of Amancel
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undertakes in her own prison camps by not
merely starving and overworking the pris-
oners, but also disseminating false war
news. ENJOYS of the Swiss Red Cross
have been given full opportunities to visit
the French prison camps, both in France
and Morocco; Germany has denied the
Swiss Red Cross access to her prison
camps "for military reasons" In her
treatment of German prisoners, as in most
other respects, France is once more prov
ing herself civilized nation, and that will,
in the long rum be worth more to her than
tons of we'll paid German propaganda in
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side to even up the account Of starving or
abusing her prisoners as, alas, there re-
mains small dUy,t TAFT French prisoners
in Germany are starved and abused. There
is no such scourge of tuberculosis among
German prisoners in France as is ravaging
the unfortunate Frenchmen who are now
in the power of Wilhelm II. There has
been no attempt at reprisals, against indi-
viduals who, however unlovely they may
be, are not responsible for what their gov
eminent is doing at home. There is not
even the determined effort to break down
their spirit which Germany Systematically
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state universities in the West is my au-
thority for what follows. His word, if you
know the man, is as good as some one else's
sacred oath.
1t happened last winter, and it was some
hours before the escape of the three was
discovered at all. For two days parties
searched for them in the mountains; at
the end of the second day the fugitives
threw up their hands; cold, hungry, their
clothes in rags, their feet jelly. Trem-
bling at the fate they now faced, they were
led before the French commandant.
81 do not blame you for what you have
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portunity missed was hardly q great one.
Sullen curiosity was the expression which
their faces took on as passed them with
the chief contractor and the camp adju-
tant, and their resemblance to healthy but
sulky children, spoiled by good mother,
was almost humorous.
The hospital enterprise upon which these
men are working will provide some one
with work for about eight years. 1t was
undertaken soon after the outbreak of the
war primarily to occupy the workers tenn
porarily thrown out of employment by the
war-although the need of a larger mu-
nicipal hospital was real enough. There
are to be 1900 beds and something like
twenty-seven separate buildings, all con-
nected by underground passages. The I'M
foreground part of the construction has al
ready been pretty much completed, and
permits one to see the ground plan at least
of what will ultimately prove a model
among hospitals. It no doubt interests
some of the Germans working on the Lyons
hospital to know that it is to be named
after the nurse Edith Cavell. The great
size and ambitious construction of the
H6pital CaueH need surprise no visitor to
Lyons, for the University of Lyons has
since its origin been strongest in its de-
partment Of chemistry and in its school Of
medicine. Lyons has supplied some of
Frances greatest physicians, even as 1t
has given the world great painters and
architects. AS for the labor of the Ger
man prisoners, it has thus far been con-
fined to excavation and to masonry, in
both of which tasks they have the coopera-
ton of Catalan and Italian laborers, who
seem to work with the Teuton wholly with
out friction. Incidentally, Germans are no
novelty to Lyons. The industry Of the
town was honeycombed by Germans up to
the very commencement Of the war.
1t cannot be a JOY to be prisoner even
under the best of circumstances, but II l
were going to be a prisoner at all / think
l should prefer to be at Lyons, for there
at least one is assured of not too uncom-
Portable a bunk, cotton mattress, blan-
kets, plenty to eat, and an equipment of
shower baths in bathhouse so well pro-
vided that in cold weather the prisoners
can have the water as hot as they want it.
1t was just before the dinner hour that
visited this camp, and l was taken to the
kitchen, where, as the adjutant and ap-
peared on the threshold, two cooks in the
prison uniform clicked their heels to atten-
ton in that style instinct with efficient ser
Witty which somehow one never sees in the
French soldier. The dinner which those
cooks were providing smelled good, and
part of it at least, can affirm, tasted good,
too. The stew was not scamped in regard
to either meat or vegetables, the war bread
flor French soldiers and German prison
ers in France do not receive wheat bread)
was sweet Before going out in the morn
ing the German prisoner is given his coffee
and black bread, and almost always there
is added to this the big spoonful of jam or
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habitant Of Vic, an eye witness, declares
at was admirable! The troops marched
as if they were on maneuvre work."
One incident has been reported to me
which closes worthily the great, tragic
days of the 10Th, goth and 21st. At ii
o'clock at night the colonel of the 16Oth,
veteran hardened by thirty years OF
campaigning, approached the general OF
brigade. His regiment had stopped, for
a halt of an hour, along the road. The
two chiefs talked about the dispositions to
be taken. Then the general said: 1--WE are
going to move on"
The colonel shook his gray head.
Impossible! They are asleep"
Sleeping Heroes
II was true. Halted for some instants,
those brave men, who had without break
fought and marched all the night OF the
10Th, all the day Of the goth, all the night
Of the goth and all the day of the 2lst-
whom the enemy could not overcome
suddenly fall in a heap. They sleep the
sleep of heroes, which nothing can In
terrupt.
An attentive group watches them sleep
ing: officers, colonel and general Inc
general collects some non-commissloned
officers and thoughtfully arranges them
along the bitches by the road, so that
the artillery, which is going to pass, will
not crush those sublime sleepers. Then
in order, the cannons and the rest OF the
column continue their march, defiling be-
fore the sleeping 160th az if to render
them homage.
Nancy at the Mercy Of the Foo
The Germans, in tho midst of their sue
cess. were hardly less exhausted. IL we
are 70 believe what military men, wit
nesses of those days, have told me, from
August 20 at p. m. until the morning
Of the 21st Nancy was unprotected and
at the mercy of tho invaders But one
needs some repose even after = victory.
Tho Germans did not attack until the
Odd. Their attack was checked on the
oath. on the solid defences organized In
advance by our troops. On the 25th all
Castelnau and all Dubail-that Is TO say,
the Grand Couronne and the Vosges
daciously retook the offensive.
IL IL from Amance that one can follow
hog. not the lines but the undulation Of
that melee Of three weeks. Those bat
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talions which move forward and back
ward, now pursuing, now pursued; that
oscillation of victory which lasted three
weeks-from the 23d of August to the
18th of September-our men, under the
pressure of a superior enemy, clinging to
the woods, to the farms, TO the angle Of a
wall. to bush, to the ruts in the road, to
the little depressions in a field, attacking
and re-attacking, assured that they would
be conquered only when they no longer
wished to conquer.
The German Bombardment
On the 26th we throw ourselves on
Champenoux and are obliged to recoil. On
the 9th and 10Th we take the offensive
again, and once more on September l.
At that moment the enemy arrives in
force. Preparation is made for forml-
dable action. In the night Of the 4th to
the 9Th of September the German heavy
artillery, posted beyond our range on the
borders Of the Seille, opened fire with
force and prodigality which were terrify-
ing. Our artilerymen could not leave
their shelters. 1t was a rain Of death
Our batteries had to remain silent. On
the 4th, 9Th and 9Th Of September the
Germans threw 10000 to 10000 shells on
the plateau of Amance. On the evening OF
the 9th they marched to the assault. But
thew could not dslodge us from the wood
down there, which little prairie sepa-
rates from the ridge.
For the rest, we suffered checks at
numerous points in the vast plain. Cas-
telnau ordered that we repair those losses
at any cost, and especially that we retake
at any price, on the day Of the 18th, the
noints whose abandonment would COM
promise Nancy.
A regiment Of reinforcements, the 2O6th
arrived. while our artillery, to prepare the
wav. bombarded the forest Of Cham
penour.
The Fight for ChampsnouI
Let US now, readers, quit the plateau,
since Amance is out Of danger. Let US 90
into the forest Of Champenoux. have
seen there the trenches from which the
Germans repuIsed, on tho day of the 7th'
the assault OF our reinforcements. Our
movement of recoil uncovered other POSI-
lions, which our troops had to evacuate.
"Renew the fight; hang on, oven unto
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after its tragedy! have neither military
experience nor strategical competence; but
7 have nv souvenirs of this region. for
whose villages I have been Deputy and
where I have often come to search for
archaeological remains. These walls which
have passed through agonies, this soil
stepped with blood, this glory forever writ
ten in the sky above overwhelm me. ex-
cuse myself for expressing my feeling IN
terms 50 hasty. But friend, to whom 1t
il permitted to revisit, among the first,
these sites, now sacred, believes himself
privileged. even finds himself constrained,
IN nav them his immediate tribute.
Anance's Ancient Splendor
We enter the 1ower Gate" That is
only form of words. There Is no longer
gate. The walls Of the tiny city and its
castle. whose towers dominate the plain,
felt long ago the demolishing effect OF the
Law Of Richeheu. But the names remain. In
climbing the steep street Of the little city,
completely destroyed by the bombardment,
I note on a poor facade single seignorial
escutcheon, the survivor of AN ancient
splendor. nobly mutilated by a fresh
wound. That scar, thus redoubled and
revivjfed. is superb. We part by the
"UJpper Gate" Now we are in the cult
waited lands on the plateau OF the NIL.
BEFORE the war / had sought here the
Mace called "The Vineyard Of the Dukes
which perpetuates the memory OF inc
sovereigns Of Lorraine. But all OF those
archaeological curiosities, very proper and
attractive yesterday, seem to-day cheap
Ibric-a-brac. We have eyes only for inc
prodigious damage accomplished here by
the prussian bullets.
Back from tho Ssills
/ But first Jet US raise our eyes. Let us
look down there towards Dieuze and Barre
bourg. Our troops being there In mid.
August, IL Is not my object to-day to tell
" their SUCCESSES and their rsverses. III
became necessary for them 10 retire.
On August 20 at midnight the goth ~
vision. called the Steel Division, and which
forms with the 18th Division (the Iron Di-
vislon) the glorious goth Corps OF Lor-
raine. quit the line Of the Seille. History
will Tell with what calmness, under a
fnghtfm FIRE, IL conducted It's retreat.
have under my eyes notes In which an In
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G~~-0
e.
By MAURICE BARRES
Translated by William l.. McPherst

Translated by William l.. Mcpherson
Tho article rlieI foUO1rs iIlasninotes
NJ Of tho decisfpe phases Of the tDar on
%Western Front II celebrates the hero
IN and extraordinary tenacity Of the
Trench armies Of Lorrutre and the Vcsges
retA though defeated IN the early part Of
Asgvt, rallied With almost superhalman
srt and held of the German attack on
sazry.
ID. Aavioe Bavyes Is essentially a man
kftsrs, not ni1tary critic. Yet his
'~frsyl Of tho svi1t which saved the
'xerr border Of France and thus enabled
s'aeru! Jsfrs both TO ,Din tho Battle Of
" Aavrs and TO reap The f7its Of that
"1''y helps 10 make the operations about
'"ey eDen moro vndeTst1ndobb TO the
Wigs reader than any technical military
S'aosm povld
Vns moro On the heights Of the Grand
1'ors Of Nancy we are going to
,'A1. what tae mystic poet, the Spaniard
~ ds Ia Croix, calls, in his striking
.s' the air Of the battlenents."
iasfday from the hin Of Mousscn we
~ ~ NE battles Of tho Mcselle. Today the
- !" Arnanoe Ia the best point from
. "'Sn "s can view al the central field Of
operations which saved Nancy.
= A''sson, Arnance,-it Is the theatre Of
aocaent struggles between the Roman
S1s and the barbarians. The legions
~ro there for ceuturies. Attila in
e 2 n'uasef with his hordes at Mousson.
una moro than forty leagues in
gu ney say, were proected by walls
s"os' while the legions sheltered them
49,. 49, 70 ditches and behind earthworks
'Hsn hey threw up.
a bornbrs County
e..0m Nancy we take the ro1te %
4. SAILING, the route which leads 10
nv, s.aa'sy Of The Lorraine ponds. 70 the
~ " DsuI, N Fenestrange. Of
NJ sure which has always been charged
~, t''"efeness and Sadncss. Then al At
al me vast plain Of cultivated fields
ma ri We behold the long ridgc N
~ Hngs the poor village II Amance.
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