| Show 1 rOES T THAT SLEW EACH CH OTHER ON FIELD OP OF BATTLE E JOINED 9 TOGETHER TETE ll l P DEATH EAI l. l EAD French and Germans are here bere seen lying together in a hastily constructed of or chapel DEAD on top a moun mou- mountain thin ain in France after a n. desperate battle batth Tho The countryside of France that has been traversed both b by her I own armies and th those se of the invaders is dotted with such crosses and chapels e 4 I dat C i iI I 4 7 I I t I I 4 L Ip s i c 5 I f S 4 t 4 1 r c S 7 t t y L j t l' l o I A EN CY TIEN Department of ot EN ACY EN ACY the Ol Olse Oise e. e France Aug 14 Since H.-Since Since the l-ih l of ot Jul July In man many o of the smiling fields of tho the Isle of or France fresh colored trl-colored flags flag havo hao thrust their standards proudly proud above the browning stalks of or ripe wheat On almost every ever sunny hillside in almost ever every valley between the Marne and the Aisne In inthe tho the growing barlev barley the alfalfa the clover at the tho in the clusters under fruit trees trees the red white and ana blue of France like a more vital fleurdelys fleur- fleur de dc pale the poppies and daisies am and flowers corn-flowers that sprinkle growing g g grain ra in For here here ton ten months gone tho the battle of ot the Marne was fought and here to tolay today today to- to day lay the tho fields are arc sown with graves raves each with its four tour posts thrust solidly in the ground round with wire stretched stretch between between between be be- tween to mark the spot where some som soldier lies No farmer plows above thorn them though his field be patch worked with hundreds s of ot the tragic mounds as many fields are More tor-e. h he cuts the weeds or the tho aggressive ressho grain from ever every ono one even cven those of ot the in invaders In- In and er e every one ono Is marked with its cross or its headboard I White and Black JUnck Crosses Not ot the French graves alone aro are marked The burial place of ot ever every German fallen In battle has hns its own fence about it It I Is kept free of concealing con con- coaling verdure and Is marked with its cross The Tho only distinction is 18 In the color of ot the crosses The French are white and the time Germans are aro black Amon Andon And Am Andon on each is printed a number the number num nurn- ber her of the regiment to which the dead belo bela belonged cd There Is seldom anything else elso Now and again whore where tho the name nama of ot the man was l known where here his be beIn being being be- be In ing an nn officer served to identify Identity hi his bod body the tho name Is on the tho cross and a wreath from his comrades or his family fam fam- II lly ily who have made a pilgrimage o to the spot where ho lies Otherwise ho hoIs hois 1 Is only onh a soldier of ot France and al all soldiers of ot Franco France are equal in in life lite a aIn as asIn asin In death On the of ot Jul July tho the coun coun- of or this part of oC the republic which since the days of ot the time Capet Capots has been known as ns the tho Isle o ot of France was scattered with living people peo peo- pie plc soldiers on leave from the front young willows widows in heavy black leading little children older people bowed with age t and sorrow come com a lon long wa way stumbling along the time sunny roads peerIng peerIng peer- peer Ing lag Into Inlo the fields all searching for tor their own On Holiday Most 1051 of or these searching groups g car clor- ned new flags to replace the wind wind- washed antI and sun bleached emblems that tha had marked the graves since the tho battIe battle battle bat bat- tle tIe of at the tho Marne Some of ot the tue comrade comrades com corn rades rade carried many one for the grave o of ot each man of or his regiment who died lied on the hilltop or who lies burled buried In inthe the tho valley i When hen he returns to his regiment down there in tho the trenches after acter his leave of or absence the tells those of the tho regiment who remain that each he could find 01 or of theirs has a brand v ne now flag lag on it am and that It was thus lie he spent the thc national holiday Next before tho the entrance to the cemetery cem cern eter of en Acy en c 1 Is a L tomb not unlike ninny many others others' in the hills and ami valleys s 's that lie He between the tIme Marno Marne and the tho Aisne It Jt la Is perhaps sixty or I seventy sev nev- enty feet so long so so long long- that there was not room for tor It within the thu cemetery walls Like the thc smaller graves it H. H too is surrounded surround l. l b by a n who wire fence tenc and amid new flags and con constantly recd renewed re- re cd decorate It At one end I Is a temporary cross of at iron upon which Is this legend Here Ucle repose seventy seventy- two soldiers of oC France fallen on th tho field fold of at honor In September 1914 1911 The They recaptured Acy C from tram the Germans they contributed to the victory of or the Marne larne which saved savell France HI Ills o t rn Here almost el day In there cornea comes to this peaceful village and to many like It throughout the Ini Islo o of France III slender Blender en del tI figures muffled l In hea heavy black Thc They kneel beside such 8 long bug common grayes and pray a while The approachIng approach- approach lug Ing visitor uncovers unCO The fhe The t kneeling figure at last looks 15 up Your h husband madam Perhaps she answers wistfully his and amid killed It was as regiment he lie was here here hereabouts at al least Still SUlI kneeling she runs her hands lightly ulong the wiro that separates her from the tIme mound as If It It wore ivere the body of ot lice her beloved belo covered perchance with the this glorious tricolor liar Her e eyes es as Os th the they look out over time thu radiant hills hillsand and unel beyond gleam un unshed hecl tears l For or France she ihu says very softly |
