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Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXVII, Issue 36, 13 October 1913, Page 5

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THE OATTLE OF LEIPZIG. INTERESTING CELEBRATIONS. [By Electric Telegraph—Copyright] [United Press Association.] (Received 9.-10 a.m.) Berlin, October 12. The Kaiser and German Royalties will on the IStli attend the ceremonies of the dedication of the gigantic granite memorial of the battle of Leipzig. The monument is pyramidal in form and is three hundred feet high. It cost £300,000. A total of 37,755 German athletes will participate in relay races over all parts of Germany, also America and Brazil, conveying messages of congratulation to the Kaiser at Leipzig. The American'message will lie carried from Washington to New York, thence by steamer to Bremen, whence relay races will run to Leipzig. i 1 Leipzig is a city of Saxony, on the ; White Ulster, G 5 miles north-west, of Dresden. Tt was formerly fortified, hut has long been dismantled. The great battle which the monument lias been erected to commemorate occurred , after Napoleon’s return from the Ensjsian expedition. In that campaign the hulk of an army of half a million I men had been destroyed; but on his precipitate return to France Napoleon 1 quicklV had an army of 350,000 men jiu the field, composed chiefly, however, jof very raw recruits. With these ,he i set out to meet the forces of Russia, Prussia, Austria and Sweden. The campaign was opened with victories at Lhtzen, Bautzen and Dresden; but in the three-days’ battle before Leipzig, in which the French lost fifty thousand men, the Emperor’s power received a death-blow, fulminating in .his abdication shortly afterwards. Tt I is worthy of mention that Mr Henry | Wilson, during his recent tour in j Germany, inspected the monument.