Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1918-04-18
LUNEVILLE DESTROYED
A Gorgeous Chateau Ali That Remains
of Former Industrial Center

faithful picture of typical French
| city which has felt the crushing hand
| of the Hun invader Is given IN COM
| municatior Of the National Geographic
Society from Mrs. Harrie. Chalmers
Adams. Il part Of the communication
| Is released as war geograph bulletin
as follows:
Luneville is gray, industrial town
or 10000 souls, in Frenh Lorraine.
prospecting before the war in its manu-
facture of railroad carriages and motor
cars chinaware and chemical salts.
A gorgeous chateau is all that remains
OF It's former glory. when the dukes OF
Lorraine made H. their playground. In
thelr day this palace was Eayer than
versailles. and its gardens were noted
throughout Europe, serving Watteaus
pupils as model when they painted
the gorgeous fetes of the Far East. The
chateau is now occupied by the mayor
M. Keller. who played an important
role during the German invasion of the
town.
Madame Mrman motored us out to
Luneville. Although she is the wife of
the prefect OF this whole department and
known by sight to every sentinel on the
road, the automobile was halted every
quarter of an hour for inspection of pass
ports and information as to where we
were bound
I'm the fields women were moving hay.
was reminded Of woman ] had seen
near Rheims. A shell struck nearby
haystack, but she kept on moving
we assembled a tortuous road to the
summit of the hill of Lemont, where a
decisive battle had been fought There
was most comprehensive view, back
over the plain of Nancy, north and east
over the French front In hollow, at
our feet. lay ruined village which is
now being restored through the gener-
osity of group of wealthy Californians
From this hill to the one opposite,
the battle had ragged. We picked up frag-
ments of French and German Shells and
the soldier-chauffeur explained (which
was which," one being bluer than the
other. There were many graves on this
hill. and above one 1 saw a soldiers
tattered cap hanging on the little white
cross. -,.
"I placed it there over two years ago.
Madame Mirman said. when / came out
with my husband. He buried the dead.
We did not know the boys names, but
we marked each cross with the number
of the regiment wherever we could
On the graves wild sowe-s were bloom
:.g-re6 peoples. blue corn-aowe-s, white
daisies. Even IN death nature IN France
2reets her soldiers with the tri-color
''Luneville shows the hoofmarks Of rhe
Hun, those terrible ~ days when the
enemy was master of the city. The town
hall and the prefecture were destroyed.
the industrial section burned, shops pill
LACED, homes looted, men and women
murdered. Cultured people, like the Kel-
lers. tell the story quietly; but their eyes
have a dangerous CLEAN. I would gladly
have given my life, the mayor said, If
l could have spared my fellow citizens
those horrible atrocities
"Unarmed men fired on; an old woman
run through with a bayonet; mother
driven insane at seeing her son stabbed
and her daughter carried off by drunken
soldiers-such stories are so common in
the foothill towns of the Vosges that
the very air is polluted. The birds in the
chateau garden have almost forgotten
how to sing since the Prussians passed
that way"