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Show RHEIMS FAMOUS IN HISTORY OF FRANCE Ithelms Is a city In the department of the Marne, situated eighty miles n a straight "fne and 107 miles hy railway to the northeast of Parts. It was a own of some note m J'K' days of the Roman empire, and wax then dlstln-'nls dlstln-'nls hod by ts literary character. In the twelfth century it became the place where the .mlnaroha of M,u;;,e wore crowned a ceremony vmil'.. uH'i .1 lw " " "tlons. ii.no.llne iho first y'"!"; was performed there until us aboht.on '"nheimB hns always had a great narnB In French history. It was besieged by F,dward III in 1359, but, though he remained re-mained before tho walls for seven month?, he failed to take the town. It was captured by the English, however In 14"1 and was recovered by Joan ot Arc "6n March 12. 1S14. it was seized bv a corps of Prussians, and retaken the very next day by Napoleon. In ceplemher, 1S70. It was taken by tho Germans without any resistance being offered. , The town Is a picturesque old place, with houses built in a series of projecting project-ing stories, supported at tho bottom by wooden columns and forming covered walks or galleries. Dim traditions of the distant Rowan days still cling to the place, nnd a splendid Roman arch, covered with baa reliefs, and adorned with wight fluted Corinthian columns, Is built into the circuit of the walks. Though not without extensive manufactures manu-factures and situated in the midst of the great wine producing district of Champagne, Cham-pagne, Klieim, like most cathedral towns, is a quiet, somnolent, stagnant place, with the shadows of antiquity lying ly-ing gray and ghostly among its gabled houses and across its winding ways. Rheims lies in a sheep grazing district, hence its important manufacture of woolens, wool-ens, especially merino and mixed silk and wool fabrics. It is strongly fortified. forti-fied. Unable to Take Rheims. ClLLONS-SUR-MARNF,. via Pari?, Sept. 21. 1:20 a. m. Tn spito of the bombardment bom-bardment end their repeated attacks upon up-on it, the Germans have been unable to take Rheims. which they evidently desire de-sire so as to obtain command of the railways leading to Chu rbvie, Verdun and Chalons. The allies have repulsed the G"vman attacks and made sevoral impetuous conntfr movcmpnis in woirh their Infantry .barged with mnc;nlfic-nt bravery regardless of the terrible storm of shrapnel. |