Judsonia weekly advance., 1916-11-01
IS AN OLD ORDER
TRAPPISTS ONE OF THE MOST
 ANCIENT ORGANIZATIONS
Incident Of the Present War Hae Called General Attention to Their Monastery at Hazebrouck-
 Have Spread Over World.

Many American tourists have stopped over night ill the Trappist monastery where, according to re- port recently published in Paris newspaper, the youthful Prince Maxi milien died of wounds in the third month of the European war. After nearly two years of mysterious silence concerning the fate of this member of the royal family of Germany, it is now said that Hazebrouck is the place of burial of the kaiser's nephew. This town is only a few miles south of the Belgian border, and about eighteen miles from Ypres, where the Germans in their first onward drive toward the sea were definitely checked by food ing of the lowlands.
 When peace is eventually declared | search will doubtless be made in the humble little cemetery of Hazebrouck to recover the body of the royal sub- lieutenant and carry it back to his mother, the youngest sister of the kaiser.
 The fighting to the east of Haze brouck was exceptionally severe dur ing the early months of the war, for | this French town of 112,000 inhabitants is place of extraordinary strategic value owing to the fact that it is the | junction point of railroads leading to the North sea port of Dunkirk, 20 miles to the north: to Arras, 70 miles to the south; to Calais, 3S miles to the northwest and to Lille, 29 miles to the southeast. The German advance never reached as far as HaZebrouck.
 The town of Godewaersvelde, where Prince Maximilien is supposed to have received his fatal wound, is the last village before crossing the French bor- der into Belgium on the Hazebrouck- Ypres line. Above the little town towers the Mont des Cats, on top of monastery where the wounded officer was nursed.
 The tourists who frequented the monastery in the days before the war were those who wished to take advan- tage of its hospitable walls for a | llSHl lodSillS to Ut dUlC u Scl dA early start for delightful walking ex- cursions over the wooded slopes of Mont NOir and Mont de Lille on the Belgian frontier.
 The Trappists are a f1ourishing or der of Cistercian monks who derive their name from the monastery of La Grande Trappe, at Soligny-la-Trappe, 100 miles southwest of Paris, where Armand Jean le B. de Rance insti- tuted sweeping reforms in the middle of the seventeenth century. The expul- sion of the order during the French revolution only seemed to stimulate it's growth in it's city of refuge-Val Sainte, Switzerland. A quarter of century after their flight the Trappists returned to their original home, and in the course of the century which has intervened between that day and this, the order has spread to many parts of the world, including congregation of 50 Chinese monks, others in Japan, Asia Minor, Canada and the United States.
 In Natal the missionary Trappists are particularly active in trying to 1 civilize and convert the Kaffirs, and among their activities in this part of the world is the printing of books in the Zulu language. There are also Trappist nunneries, the first being that of Les Clairet, at Chartres, which adopted de Rance's reforms during his | lifetime.