The daily star-mirror. (Moscow, Idaho) 1911-1939, 1923-07-28
HONOR HEROES
IN CHAMPAGNE
Monument to Be Placed in Middle
of Sector Where Many
Soldiers Fell.

PariS.-A war memorial in Wh1cf
Americans will be deeply interested
for many American soldiers fought in
the region on which it is to be placed
is the colossal monument to be erected
on the Champagne front. 1t is to be
built in the middle of the Champagne
sector, on what was known in the war
bulletins as the Navarin Farm, ten
kf1ometers north of Suippes and six
| kilOmeterS south of Somme-Py.
| The sculptor is Maxine Real del
| Sarte, a soldier who lost his left arm
on the battlefield. He has designed a
heroic three-fgure group-one light
| infantryman one a grenadier and one
a machine gunner (the last an Ameri-
can)-which will stand on a pyramid
and be visible fifteen miles around.
The three soldiers are in a posture OF
attack. The names of all the Cham
payne regiments will be inscribed on
the sides of the pyramid.
General Gouraud in Charge.
The enterprise is in charge of Cen
eral Gouraud, commander on this front
in 1918. The honorary committee is
composed of President Millerand, Pre-
mier POincare, Minister of War Magi-
not, Ambassador Herrick and all the
French marshals. On the main COM
mittee are all the generals who COM
manded in Champagne, the project of
the Marine, the archbishop of Chalons
and all the former chiefs of staffs Of
the armies of Champagne.
General Gouraud recently addressed
to the public moving appeal for sup
port of the memorial undertaking In
it he said
Among the customs which all CIV
ilized peoples, and even barbarous
ones, have observed none is more gen
eral and worth respect than that Of
honoring soldiers who died on the field
of battle.
France has not failed in this duty.
Already from one end of the fighting
line to the other monuments are being
erected. At Notre Dame de Lorette
and at rt-Bouchavesnes, for the
bloody battles of the User, and of |
Lorette and of the Somme; at the |
Haute- Chevauchee, for the hard battles |
Of the Argonne; at Dornans, for the |
two great battles which, in 1914 and |
1918, checked the tide of invasion; at |
Douaumont, for the heroic battle Of
Verdun; at Hartmannswiller kopf, for
all the combats in the Vosges
"But in this immense line the part
called the Champagne front in the
and which ran from
to the Bots de Gruerie,
S empty. 1t still awaits monument
worthy of the hundreds of thousands
If dead who watered it with their
blood.
Battles in Champagne.
mot only has the Champagne front
,een marked by continuous and often
violent combats; not only were the
,uns never silent there but the fatal
,as waves were constant in their flow.
But five Of the most important battles
# the war were fought there: The
rst battle of Champagne, of Febru-
ry-March, 1915, the first offensive in
he grand style after the Battle of the
1arne; the second battle of Cham
agne, the big offensive of September
5, 1915, leading us to hope so strongly
hat we could capture the hills of Mo
onvilliers, which was one of the most
rilliant successes of the offensive of
.pril, 1917; the third battle Of Cham
agne, in which the Forty-second
-llcIiCdu ulNlSlOu LOoh pdl L, anu WuICu
n July 10, 1913, stopped short the last
+erman drive and was the turning
ONT of the war; finally, the fourth
attic Champagne, carrying, on Sep
smber 26, 1918, the old fortified front
the enemy to a depth of IL kilo-
letters, and continuing it's successes,
which the Second and Thirty-sixth
merican divisions took part, and
hich, from September % to Novem-
er IL, 1918, carried our flags to the
euse, to Mezieres and to Sedan.
'sWas it possible to leave this glori-
IS Champagne front without a mon
nent worthy of the valor of those I
no fell there and Of their sacrifice? I
'Many officers and poilus who fought {
ere do not think So"