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Show FRENCHMEN MAKE A DESPITE ST1D Refuse to Surrender When Surrounded, 250 Survi vors Win Victory (bpe al wa d spat hes of e Interna t onal News Ser ce and e London Times ) VSCT Beh nd the F enc Lines Sept. 9 In th s corner of France war corre spondents are still a most ent rely out of the f aht ng but t ere are other things besides t e central engagemen 3 Tor n es a ong the ch ef ghw ays betw een an y and he f o e cast and nort the battle as aged ba kward and for d E erjwhe e t ere are t enche co e ed and unco ered The German and P enc f gh ng has been so comp ca ed and t e os t ons c anged so often that t s practicalJy imposs be to te 1 with anj e actness by w iat troops they were occ pled n y the 0ene al poa t on is c ear only the gene al clestruct on rcn a ns Broken te egrapl po es hang ng v es hop gar dens scorched and s attered by sheets of fl e b ac ened corn s alks rotting where they s and p ows and farm carts tw sted and smashed feserng bodes dead horses n h deous y ungai ily attitudes capecoats sadd es haversacks socks shirts a 1 k nds of th ngs that men made and used. and. wore a manner of rub b sh hat once had form and beauty together make up a horrib e tragedy of de o at on decay of unutterab e no se and fury and suffering death and the dead the p t ab e t e heaps of clothes gray or red and blue that once were men that he ped make all th s deso at on Its vie ms nea ly a 1 of them ha e been buried 1 dden away in the shelter oftebo nod earth Taken b way of cont ast tl e storj of e splend d stand at Cerceu 1 by the Fren h c asseu s a pied makes sp end d read ng ght und ed of them were sur rounded by the Ge mans and cal ed upon to surrender W th one vo ce they re fused The order was g ven to f re upon them by o e s After each vo ey the survi o s s outed V va la France Fina y bj some unheard of effort. 250 of those w o were eft managed to get the upper hand of the enemy Tl ey re took the pos on leav ng more than 1000 dead Germans on t e f eld |