Show Buk PAUL ADAMS I 1 l Service Who Won Van th the War Well the Wine C Cellars of Rheims heims Helped I CHAPTER Who Vho won the war war Some said it was the some MPa-some some other said sale it was the boys who fought the battle of ot Paris Paris Paris- But credit But credit should go where it is due In is M r. Albert Floquet M 1 Floquet Is an assistant manager manager manager man man- ager of a large champagne He was was was in Rheims In 1914 when the Germans first came through You understand the Germans had little opposition in their first drive toward Paris Marshal adopted tactics Involving an elastic retreat Marshal Joffre knew about the w wine Ine caves of Rheims and and m many ny other cities Inthe in inthe inthe the Champagne sector now known to thousands of ot Americans who fought through them So the Germans came on They shelled Rheims and they shelled Capture was a simple m matter as the terrorized citizens fled Then for three or four days the offensive slackened This slackening gave time lime to the harassed harassed har bar assed French Trench and English troops who stabilized a line on the Marne And when the Germans took up their work of going on to Paris Well as M il Floquet t expressed It They went on with a wine vine bottle In one hand and a rifle rUle in the theother other Th The paves jit ay were looted of vintages up to 50 years of ot age So also were the caves around Rheims And according o o tacticIans tacticians tacticians tac tac- who know their drill regulations regulations regulations regu regu- lations champagne and offensives cannot be conducted together General Mangin did some heroic work at Verdun Th The Americans crashed through the Argonne for tor- est eat The English h were catapults at atthe atthe atthe the ScheIdt canal And no doubt everyone helped to win the the war var But the But the wine vine caves of Rh Rheims an and In which millions of botties botties bottles bot bot- ties are stored away delayed the German Geiman 1914 S c So So- So S Who Vho knows knows' Who Vho knows know l I Maybe Maybe- S Tomorrow The Tomorrow The Chemin des Dames X tei i 4 tt ttA A typical French wine cellar |