Weekly journal-miner., 1918-09-04
ID HUNS AS YEARS
 AGO YESTERDAY
A. EMANUEL, PRESCOTT
 PAINTER, w AS WITH
 ILL-F A T E D NAPOLEON III WHEN GERMANS CAP TURED CITY OF SEDAN.
(From Tuesdays Daily.)

"It was AS years ago today that n.y. self and about S3,0O0 other French soldiers surrendered to Field Marshal von Moltke at Sedan" said A. Eman- uel. the well-known sign painter, yes terday morning at the conclusion of the Labor Day parade
 Mir Emanuel, who had been play ing cornet in the band which led the parade of yesterday morning, stopped in the shade of the treess on
 the plaza to cool off a bit, and was in reminiscent mood.
 "Yes, sir," he said, "it was a bright September morning in 1870 when we surrendered to the Germans at Sedan, and because of the size of the French army which capitulated that day, it meant the winding up of the Franco
 Prussian war I enlisted in the French army at the age of B, and was fight ing under the leadership of Napoleon III. However, the Germans greatly outnumbered us and finally they man aged to break through to Paris. The division with which I was connected was caught at Sedan, on the Belgian
 frontier The typographical condi-
 tions around Sedan were very much the same as prevail in the vicinity of Prescott. The city, which is about ! the size of this one, is surrounded on , all sides by low ranges of hills just like Prescott is The Germans under von Moltke. had planted their can non on nearly every hill top and they had started a bombardment of the city which we could not withstand. Late on the afternon of September lst the French commander hoisted the white flag and the rain of cannon balls ceas- ed. A peace conference was arrang- ed for, and during the night the French and German officers discuss cd the terms of the surrender.
 Bright and early on the morning
 of September 2nd-4S years ago this
 morning-the French forces surrend- erred, and the Germans entered the town and took possession of it. The
 French troopers, while theoretically prisoners. were not guarded very closely. and I decided to get out of that section at once. I made my way to the seaport of Nice There I found an American gunboat in the harbor, and having neither money nor job, enlisted on the vessel, obtaining a place in the ships band. I played a cornet in those days, too, and though spoke no English. I got along all right The boat left soon afterwards for New York City, and when my term of enlistment expired, I joined the United States army. because l still had no knowledge of English and it was hard to get along in New York in those days without being able to talk to the Americans.
 q was stationed at eastern army posts until 1874, when l was sent along with a detachment which was coming to Fort Whipple, Arizona. I got here after long trip across the continent, most of the way by wagon and mule team, and have been here ever since.
 And SO today, besides celebrating Labor Day by playing in the band, am also celebrating in my own way because of the fact that my ancien! enemies. the Germans, are being pushed back out of France by the Americans and the British and the French. The Allies are doing what Napoleon's little army could not do AS years ago. I am glad 1 have ly- ed to see it The Germans are again in possession of Sedan. It is behind their lines. but I hope to see within the next few months the complete freeing of French soil from the in vaders. and Sedan again in the hands of the French. When this happens, I feel that our humiliation of 1870 at the hands of the Huns will have been ,,-o,,,roJ