Salt Lake Telegram | 1914-09-21 | Page 4 | War Geography.

Var S eo VILLE LA A small town miles mills on the about thirty five Cast of ot Rheims It js is half way Wr up the tho ridge o of ot the tho Aronne Argonne THE This ARGONNE-This This district is is rugged cd and wooded Tho The Argonne ridge e runs in a northwesterly direction practically parallel to the frontier and about fort forty miles mUes within it It is about twelve miles west et of oC Verdun On the tho west flows th the Aisne on the cast the Aire Th The 3 two join at a point just north of the Argonne P A A noted battlefield of ot 1814 on a summit of the bi high b rid ridge e a afew afew few miles north of ot the Aisne river an and about ci eighteen n miles northeast of or Rheims V In following the campaign n in inthis inthis inthis this region it must be he remembered that tho the Aisne rises south of the Ar Argonne flows northward to a point in the lati Inti latitude tu tude e of Lon Longwy and Le La Havre Havro and then flows fios west till till it it joins the tho Oiso at Com Corn pio e. e For a distance of ot about thirty miles mites in its westward cour course e it flows through h a of very hilly region These hills alon along which are aro Vic Vie Crom and Vail v offered strong points of d defense for or tho ilia retreating Germans Craonne is at th their jr extreme eastern end