Show French Archeologists at Work Upon Alesia Battlefield Find Roman Coins Thirty-seven Thirty Roman coins also diverse objects which might have belonged to Julius Caesar all of them dating back to the Roman occupation of Gaul have been dug up by a group of at French archeologists archeologIsts archeologists at work upon the historic battlefield battlefield battlefield bat bat- of Alesia 40 miles from irom Dijon For three decades excavations at Alesia have been carried on but during the be past few months the harvest was so abundant that it has inspired the archeologists working under the direction of M M. E. E to continue their I digging with Increased vigor I Among the Roman objects found round were locks keys cramp irons needles needles needles nee nee- and fragments of pottery also an elaborately decorated table fn the form of an altar and a n striking lion in bronze almost intact A an underground furnace fur nace for heating baths was also dug up Every American school boy who has plodded through Caesars Caesar's Commentaries Commentaries Commentaries Com Is acquainted with Alesia Alesia Ale Ale- sia it is the place where intrepid chie chieftain lain of at the met his fate and was compelled compelled compelled com com- to surrender to Caesar Alesia Alesia Ale- Ale sia sia today bears the name of Alise- Alise Sainte Sainte-Reine and since the Middle ages has become a religious shrine much frequented by Saint Reine w was s one of the early Christian martyrs in Gaul and every September her fidelity to her faith is evoked in a picturesque sion sian Each year an average of visitors comes to Alesia some as religious pilgrims others olbers as tour tour- All AU of them w walk Jk about the battlefield where the the- independence of Gaul was lost 2000 years ago ngo they stand In awe we before the tho heroic statue of erected on the of at Mont |