divided about headquarters, being the only seizure made in the city,

I believe, for though Rheims, the centre of the champagne district,

had its cellars well stocked, yet most of them being owned by German

firms, they received every protection.

The land about Rheims is of a white, chalky character, and very poor,

but having been terraced and enriched with fertilizers, it produces

the champagne grape in such abundance that the region, once

considered valueless, and named by the peasantry the "land of the