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Show I ! Description of jl Battlefield is It I Most Graphic j Jv One In Champagne Was Studded ( I With Graves and the Works of h i German Military Science j ft Paris, Oct. 20. The correspond' II cnt in his first view of the Held of ' , the grent bnttlo in tlio Champagne looked ncrosp n rolling land whoso thin soil was studded with graves 1 and thickly sprinkled with dwarf pint's which stood out against the nlraost snow whtto system of chalf llko redoubt, trenches, traverses, ' comunlcatlon ditches and other do- ' '1 fensivo coiiRtructloiifi by which Ger- ; , I man military science had In vain I sought impregnability. Tho popula tion was nicagor in this camp of Challons. Only tiio village of Perthes, Per-thes, whoso slight cluster of houses have becomo typical ruins through 1 shell fire, was In sight from tho spot. j Walking over tho courso of tiic J j French ndvnnce, tho correspondent . t witnessed tho results of the most powerful defense against the most powerful attack of tho war. Tho fninnus hill, tho hutto of Tnhurc, tho occupation of which clinched tho French success, resembled a small wooded bill In an cistern American stato. Shells wero seen bursting at n distance over tho railroad nt Sora-me Sora-me Py. Thus this importnnt Gorman transport Hno has been cut or destroyed de-stroyed by French gun Are, rendering tho railroad useless. Two Million Engaged Considering tho Immensity of tho operation at least 1,000,000 men wcro engaged on both sides along tiio narrow front it was amazing how apparently small had been tho number of French casualties, Olliclal charge said that the German losbes j had been heavier titan tho first offl- j E clal estimate and must rave reachod j 1 I . 150,000. f ITwonty-flvo thousand German- prls J ',' oners, thoy said, wob a small propor- i " tion to tho number of Germans kll ed j by tho high explosive shells and In j ? liand to hand lighting In the trend- j cs. Tho barbed wiro front of tho first I s , lino trenchea had been cut to bits I r . and it was Impossible to live or to I mako resistance during tho prepara I f tory bombardment. Soldiers agreed I I that the rushing of the first line was l ' f I n walk In, thcro being neltaer rlflo t I nor machine gun flro to stop them, i. j- so excellent had been the work of I l " ' tho enormous concentration of the I " French artillery. Serious resistance I i developed at tho second line, whero I f tho trenches for tho entire 15 mile j ,, sector had not In nil places been j t x smnshed and the wlro not always i ; cut. Hy tho stato of tho ugly mess- i, es of wires, rusted from a year's gain j 5 ! tho correspondent was able to to 1 fl f whero the tide had adancod, baited, I I nnd flowed through tho opening mado B p I beforo rolling on. I Tho labor that had been cprnded j r in constructing tho German tronc.ics r nnd fortlflcntloiih was enormous It L j was ns If hundreds of thousands of t human beavers linil never ceased a J I tholr toll in preparing for their pro- J f tectlon. French oHlcors said tho 1 V Germans know that tho attack was , coming nnd thought their positions 1 worn linprcgnablo, but wero over-( over-( whelmed by tho number of French "' 1 guns and tho masses of the French ' ' troons. f I Tales of Heroism B . rj f An ofllcer pointed out tho spot i f ' near n clump of trees whoro General i "' Mnrchand .standing on a parapet of v, one of tho Gorman trenches, foil I wounded as ho was directing tho i charge toward tho next trench. Tales of heroism nnd qualities of leader- t chip and Initiative of liotn ofllccrB P t and privates were heard without end. ' A general of brlgado who liad seized a rillo and led tho chargo of a rcgl- r ment after Its colonel had been kill- cd, retrieving n critical situation has i now been promoted to bo a command- t er of n division. , h j On tho front Hno tho French and ,: ' Germans hnvo settled down for tho ? f, Ramo dtstanco apart as beforo tbo ' t I battle, this varying from CO to 300 - I yards, according to the ground. Oc- " j cnslonally there uro machine gun E ' duels of aeroplanes, or a shell will :' , hurst sprinkling the landscapo with ; I j. Its contents na botli sides continue t, V to organize their positions. |