Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 270, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 November 1918 — Napoleon Still Points Way. [ARTICLE]

Napoleon Still Points Way.

In a tiny French village that is hardly a village any more, since shells almost removed-it from the earth, one building has a tower standing untouched. A platform tops this tower and a miniature figure of Napoleon stands there facing and pointing toward the positions held by the Getmans. Thousands of shells have whizzed and exploded by this tower, but none has touched the tower or the figure of Napoleon pointing northward. Thousands of Americans, thousands of trucks, quantities of guns and ammunition and supplies have rolled over the main street by this figure pointing the way to the boche during the past few weeks. Everyone has marveled that the tower with the miniature Napoleon withstood all bombardment, and many an American passing the statue among the ruins has remarked how appropriate is this defiant figure pointing l the way.