Show I WILL THIS BIG STATUE FALL i f C i m- m mI I. I I I mii V K 1 S1 T 1 f A f I Ji Ji- Ji 1 l' l r rN I j 4 r. r 0 een ov t. t i ii y f if t i t k j sj gj erM r WV T is V l i. J f. f i y m r J zt r 5 C Y f 1 1 I- I Sl a W f H ia X i v lI lM IrM j n j i J ti J j J U S 1 fl 1 eit 1 N lh f. f 1 1 f r. r U 0 i s x L d v J ll v iFt 1 t t. t 4 j tJ i i ra When the famous Madonna of Al Albert Albert Albert Al- Al bert falls from her strange position atop the Albert church tower the fall of Germany will have bave come That has been long the belief of every French and of every villager and peasant who has seen the curious freak of shellfire pictured above Has the Madonna fallen during the I present battle If not will wIIl she not be brought down during the counter o of offensive of- of It would be one of at the strangest coincidences coincidences coin coln- of the war if this historic bronze image of the virgin and child should fall at the precise turning point of the present battle and of the whole war In the early days of the war Hun shells aimed at their favorite mark the house of God toppled the great bronze statue over into its present precarious precarious precarious pre pre- carious pose Ever since it has clung there to the wonder of all France hanging by a t seeming miracle in defiance defiance de de- de- de fiance of natural laws The superstition superstition superstition tion rapidly sprang up through France that this image of the virgin holding her babe out over o the battered town would never fall until the doom of Germany Germany Germany Ger Ger- many was sealed until the tide of war definitely turned against the Hun and the dawn of peace appeared The lines of battle were forced further further fur fur- ther then to the east until Albert was nog no longer g under e s shellfire But now au the sea of s whirled b back into and beyond Albert once more The city is again under continual bombardment bombardment bombardment bombard bombard- ment by guns and This church is the storm center of the most critical battle of Armage Armageddon The world will wait walt with to know Whether as the conflict finally turns I here against the Hun the famous statue is really brought hurtling to the I ground |