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HE TRIED IT TOO-Napoleon Bonapartó, 129 years ago, led his Grand Army of 640,000 men into Russia on an Invasion that anded in retreat, disgrace and his eventual overthrow as dictator of Europe. The painting, "Retreat from Moscow," is by unknown artist, in museum at Versaillos, France.

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HONGKONG TELEGRAPH

August 16, 1941.

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NAPOLEON ALSO WANTED PEACE

-but on his own

own terms

sentery. Saint 'Cyr's Bavarian In, the city was dotted with losses were heavy in this engage- corps lost from 800 to 900 men fires. Móbs roamed the streets, ment, running as high-us 25,000. n day. Horses foraged on green drinking and pillaging. The killed and wounded, according crops and died of colle until the conflagration spread and before to some estimates. On the mounted force lost a third of its it died three-quarters of Mos- closing day of the battle a severe strength.

cow was consumed.

frost ushered in the Russian winter.

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Last Stand Before Moscow Napoleon had entered the

city on Sept. 14, two months The French army took up the Napoleon pressed on despite and 20 days after the Grand march again and the Russians started Its advance, continued their harrying tac- these reverses, lengthening his Army line of supply, and still the Rus. Meanwhile, the Russians had tics. Napoleon at this stage sians fell back. But on Sept. 3, begun a wide-scale guerilla war was pale, silent and grim us he the van of the French forces on the French line of communi- trod the rough ground best le -and this danger his troops. He wore a long halted on the right bank of the cations ERMANY'S War on Soviet When the French advanced Kalatscha river opposite Boro Prompted Napoleon to evacuate Polish fur cont and carried a He shared the Russia seemingly has from Kovno, Pilona and Grod dino. The Russians were to the city before the winter sea- stout staff.

On Oct. 19, at the head of hardships with his men, bl- placed the capstone on the no, the forces of Czar Alexan- make one last stand before Mos- son.

108,000 men, heavily laden with youncing in the snow and eat- analogies that have been drawn der were divided. One Russian cow.

loot and booty, he set out for ing the meagre rations of horse. between Adolf Hitler and army commanded by Burelay de The night before the battle Smolensk on what was to be the meat broth thickened with flour. Napolcon.

Tolly, numbered 127,000 and Napoleon issued a stirring ad- most famous retreat in history. Historians agree that Napo- was spread out thinly along the dress to his troops, summoning The chill of winter was ap leon did not want the Russian line Schavi-Vilna - Prushany. them to behave so future pronching although the cold was war. He desired peace, and The other force under Prince generations would say: "He was not intense yet. The Grand Hitler has repeated that wish Bagration, numbering 66,000, in the great battle under the Army, however, was in summer thinner and the men weaker, several times since his armies at Lutzk, was separated by the walls of Moscow."

uniforms and scarcely a soldier the Russians became more dar- invaded, Poland in the fall of upper Pripet marshes.

had sturdy boots. The long ing. Their strategy Was to 1939. But Napoleon wanted

Napoleon attacked Napoleon's strategy was to

lines of men marched down contact the main French force peace on his own terms, as Hitler move forward to Vilna and

o'clock on the morning of Sept. roads lined with charred ruins, so Napoleon headed his march 7. By ten o'clock the central does.

separate Tolly from Bagration. More than 100 years ago Lord Tolly fell back and the French redoubts had been taken by Ney and stretching far in every for Borisov but the enemy un- direction were devasted fields, der Tchitchagov beat him there. and Davout. The line bent but Wolseley, English fleld marshal, entered Vilna on the fourth day

As the army skirted the battle- It was then that the Russian did not break. termed Napoleon's war

Then Eugene field of Borodino the horrors of commander issued his famous on of the campaign. There Napo- Russia as "merely a very im. lean delayed until July 16 be- massed his division and charged that conflict still were evident. general order to his subordin portant episode in the life-and- cause his supply lines had and by three o'clock the Rus- The ground was covered with ates that all captives below death struggle with England.” broken down. In the meantime sians were vielded. Napoleon unburied corpses, French and medium stature be brought to Napoleon had a mighty force the two Russian armies formed opened up with his artillery and Russian alike, lying where they him. "He (Napoleon) is short,

the French held their gains. for the campaign that

to a junction at Smolensk. end so disastrously which some While the Russians declined. estimate as high as 680,000 and engagement in the early weeks others as low as 450,000. But of the war. Napoleon's armies military historians are agreed on suffered heavily. The summer the great cavalry strength, took its toll of both troops and which consisted of at least one- horses. Dust, heat and drouth fifth of the entire force. brought on an epidemic of dy-

Was

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The author of this article that access to our deposit box lives in occupied France, could be allowed only in the His disclosures of life there presence of a finance comptrol- under German rule are re- ler. Three weeks later we were vealed in letters written to advised to be at the vault the his American friend, Mrs next morning, with our keys. Dwight W. Morrow.

From my box the German removed everything which can WE-have-always-recognised be marketed in a foreign cur-

that the primary fortune rency; stock

certificates of

of France lies in her rich Royal Dutch Rund Mines, Crown Mines, General Motors,

ploughland.

At present. however, and in General Electric.

quite different sense, supple

A jeweller, who weighed and

mentary wealth is being added appraised the stones and the to that soil. All sorts of people, gold and platinum in my wife's panic-stricken or of deliberation, jewellery,

in their orchards, or along the examiner.

highways, are burying treasure.

#ccompanied the

It is a veritable mass move- The items were placed in the ment, with no means of placing custody of the bank manage- a figure upon the total amount ment until such date that is being secreted.

Family silver, jewellery, pre: cious stones, bars and coins of gold, stocks and bonds of for

eign countries are being tumbled

Reich requires, delivery.

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the boxes rifled, the examiner The seance finished, and all

made a speech.

to-day," said the representative "What is taking place here hurriedly into holes in the of the Reich, "is happening in ground, among the roots of

every banking and safe deposit apple trees, in the

corner of

institution in occupied France.

cellars, at the end of the seventh Iere is the reason for it,

row of grape vines.

AN American

"Germany at present is nd- ministering France upon the basis of an armistice. Eventu- widow, with ally the peace terms will be maid and chauffeur, arrived it is certain that there will be arranged. Among those terms at our farm, secking shelter for one requiring the vanquished to the night.

pay the victor a cash indemnity. After supper, through the "After the war of 1914-18 shutter, I overheard her ask there was delay and complaint, ing the advice of our 14-years- both in the fixing and in the old child, as to the safest place collecting of the to hide jewellery.

indemnity which the Allies solicited of No, not in the ground. The Germany, No plan was suc- Germans are wise to that.

cessful. Germany could not be

Under the tiles of the roof? made to pay.

But wouldn't that make the

roof suspiciously bumpy? In a

hollow tree? Yes, that AT the close of the actua!

worth considering.

war," continued the treat-

Many of my friends have sury man neidly, ""we do not been to their tailors, had the propose to be hampered by de- padding removed from

lay, excuse-making or conceal- ment of assets.

the

shoulders of their couts, and replaced by thousand-dollar notes wrapped in oiled silk.

"The contents of safety boxes and of the bank deposits in

A

I know a man who has his foreign currencies are being whole fortune inaide his type- added up. We shall have writer,

pretty clear notion of the liquid capital of this country.

"It will be safe in our hands

MY wife and I had raliway before we begin to discusa pence bonds, the coupons of which terms. That total sum will be were payable on Aug. 1. the initial cash payment on the On visiting the bank wo war Indemnity which we shall wore told, without warning, demand of France."

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Napoleon Walked With Men

atout, pale, has a short, thick neck and black hair," the des- cription said. But the prize prisoner was not to be taken.

By early December the mer- cury was as low as 25' degrees Napoleon no longer rode on below zero. The remnant of horseback. Sometimes he used the Grand Army was swathed more often be in clothes of dead comrades, carriage but walked with his men. He was rags, and even cast-off women's 14 it began to snow and the brooding and listless. On Nov. garments. Grand Army now really began leon handed over-command of On Dec. 8 at Smorgoni, Napo- to suffer from the cold.

the tattered remnant of his

The battle of Bordiono one of the fiercest and most sanguinary ever fought by Na- polcon, but it was an indecisive one. During the latter stages Napoleon seemed to suffer from lassitude and was not in con- tact with his marshals. The old Guard never went into ne- tion to deliver the coup de grace as it had in other battles, not biy Wagram, Prince Bagra- tion died of wounds received in action. Napoleon placed his The Russians were harrying army, which numbered scarcely

French losses at 20,000 and the Rug the

constantly with more than 5,000, to Murat. The sians at twice that figure.

raids on vulnerable flanks and emperor departed for France, the rear. At, Wiazinu -a-small- Of the Grand Army that All Moscow In Flames scale battle was fought in which crossed the Niemen in June, it

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