Bisbee daily review., 1918-12-18
Mt. KenlmeL

Alter fifty years have passed away ana the immortal part of the history ot the great war comes to be recorded in the book of all time, Mt. Kemmel will occupy as prominent place as any, in the archives ot every nation that fought in the world strug- gle. This modest peak, located a few miles south of Y pres and almost on the line between Belgium and France, has enough glory to go around The English fought over 1t and died for 1t and held 1t during the first three years of the war. Held it, and that was all. It was never beyond range of the German shells during all of that period.
 Then came the storm of the German ot- fensive last spring and, after a desperate resistance, the English were driven back, back to the very shadows of this graveyard hill. and the Germans still came on, closing the gaps in their ranks and walking on carpet of dead men, The fate of the chan nel ports hung in the balance. Foch rushed reinforcements up to the hard pressed Brit on troops. When the sun set that night it marked the darkest hour for England. When the dawn came French division, the very flower of Foch's forces, held Kem- mel hill. Every man of them was hero, proved at Verdun and in the Champagne And on their right and left were English regiments with five hundred years ot tra- dition behind them and three years ot un- matched glory won in this war that was their very own.
 Still the Germans came on. Backed by an artillery fire that was belch out of per dition, they rushed the hill. The English regiments and that French division tell to . a man. They held Kemmel as long as they lived. Only dead men lined the height when the remnants of the German storm troops scaled its summit.
 How many thousands died that day on Kemmel slopes? No one knows. Fer baps a hundred thousand. Certainly not less.
 Well. the allies lost Kemmel and the scales of the war turned on hair. But the line held while, still in sight of that crimson hill.
 Then came a pause in the infantry en- gagements, only the hail of shells still churning the heights of Kemmel Foch was waiting for the German to wear himself out. Finally came the counter attack down bv the Marne. American troops had been called from the camp and billet and tram inc oround to fill the shattered ranks These lean; eager young men from across the seas were hurried up to stop the gaps all the way from the Marne to Kemmel' And after the defeat of the crown prince on the Marne and the blow at RupPrecht struck before Amiens, the English began to edge forward again towards kemmel. The bulldog had been robbed of his bone: The graves of his countless dead were held bv the enemy still. Closer still, yard at a time. pushing on, fighting on, pounding on, every day The thunder ot the guns was continuous roar day and ngnt. Never a moment of rest did the Germans holding this hill get from the English guns Never a moment free from punishment:
 Rigbt up to the foot of the hill the Eng fish infantry came and fought hand to hand in the trenches, while their shell bursts hld the melee from the eyes of the German ounners above. Here was a barrage or flame as well as of smoke and steel And the Germans could not stand the strain They gave up Kennel Gave up with out last stand, the hill that had cost them seventy thousand men, The French and inc English had held the hill till they died but the Germans, brave enough to take It ali any cost were not brave enough to hold 1t at every cost.
 And with the English troops that march ed proudly up that blood-stained and haunt