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Show I FALLING STATUE I MARKED DEFEAT j OF ION FORCES l, ? LONDON. Nov. 14. People of Al- ( bert, France, are convinced that their j prophecy has been fulfilled thai when tho famous statue of the Madonna at f Albert foil the war would end In u I, victory for Franco and her allies. This quaint conceit grow out of the fact! i that the staluo was dislodged by Ger- j : man shell flro from its porch on the! tower of tho church at Albert during f the first mad rush of the Huns through j! Franco In 1914. Tho base of thd statue !! was so shattered that It hung over the main road from Amiens to Bapaumo I which passed tno walls of tho church. & Tho statue remained in that strange j poiso after the Huns had been rolled back by the battle of the Marne. An ; effort was mado to brace the statue in its recumbent position so that it could I not fall until ihe tower Itself gave way. I When the British lino was driven ; back Di March last thO'Hun again en- ; tered Albert and when the Germans jj retired at tho beginning of the allied offensive the tower with Its statue had i fallen. This, curiously, marked tho high tido of German Invasion. From that ' day on tho Hun hordes wore pressed back. The people of Albert believe luck of tho Germans deserted them when J the Virgin of Albert was fell, t oo |