Show rn 0 ch amp CoIgn 03 ra monument ment to be placed in middle of sector where many soldiers fell llares A war memorial in which Ainer americans leans will be deeply interested for ninny American soldiers fought in tile the region on oil which it Is to be placed is ilia colossal monument to bo be erected on bit the 11 0 champagne front it la is to be built in the middle of tile champagne sector on what was known in the ilia war bulletins as the forin farm ten hilow eters north of suippes and six kilometers lillo meters bouth of comine py tho sculptor Is it on del salto a soldier who lost ills his left arm on oil the battlefield lie ile has designed it a cherole three figure group ong one a light infantryman one a grenadier and one it machine gunner ilia last tin an american which will stand on a pyramid and ile bo visible fifteen miles around I 1 the three soldiers tire aro in a posture of attack the of all the ilia champagne regiments will be inscribed on tile alio sides of tile tho pyramid general gouraud in charge the enterprise Is in chargo of general on rm tid commander on oil tills this front in 1018 the honorary committee Is nip of president lerand pro iro infer minister of war maginot ambassador herrick and all tho the french Irei ich marshals on the main com coin cittee are till all the generals who corn coin lun tided In Champagne the prefect of the marne maine the archbishop of chalons and nil all the former chiefs ot of staffs or of the ilia armies of champagne general gouraud recently addressed botho to abo public a moving appeal tor for support of ilia memorial dundei taking la in it ile ho said bald among tho the customs which ull all civilized people Sj and even cea barbarous bai barous w ones haie observed none la Is more gen 1 eral cral and worth respect than that of honoring soldiers who died on the held field of battle france has not failed in this duty doty ready from one end of the fighting lino line to the other monuments are being erected at notre dame do de loretto and at raucourt for the bloody battles of the and of loretto and of the somme at the ile flaute for the hard battles of tho the argonne Ar gonno at dornaus Dor nans nang for tho ill two groat great battles which in 1011 1914 1 nod 1018 checked the ilia tide of invasion at Dou Doun aumont tor for the heroic battle of verdun at haram annew III erkoff for nil fill tha ilia combats in the but in tills this immense flito the part called calica the champagne front I 1 in n the and which ran from tillers to the docx do gruelle Gru orle erle Is empty it still nialta a monument worthy of the hundreds of thousands of dead who watered it with their blood battles in champagne not only has ins the champagne front J been market marked by continuous and often violent combats not only were the guns never neer silent there but tho ilia fatal gas waves were mere constant in their low flow but lye flye of tile the most important battles 0 of f the war were nere fought there tho the first battle of champagne of febra nry ary march 1015 the first offensive in IT the hie grand style after the ho battle of tile tho marne tho the second battle of chain ilia big offensive of september 23 25 1010 1015 lead leading Inglis us to hope so strongly that we MC con could capture tho the hills of mo ron villiers which was one of the most brilliant successes of the offensive of april 1017 1917 the third b battle a tile of champagne chama in which tho ilia forty second american division took part and which on july 15 1018 stopped short the last german drive and was tho ilia turning point of the ilia war finally the fourth battle of champagne carrying on september 20 1018 tho the old fortified fro front n t of tile enemy to a depth of 17 kilometers and continuing its bucce successes ases in which the second and thirty sixth american divisions took part and which front ft oin september 20 to novena no ember 11 1018 1918 carried our flags to the mouse to cros and to sedan was it possible to lemo leave tills this florl ous champagne front without a monument worthy of tile tho valor alor of those who nho fell there and of their sacrifice Il many linny officers and who fought liere do not think so |