NANCY 



lion fr.im 1'itnt a MOII-X.II along 

 tin- (iiand ( 'minnine liei-htH to a 

 point near l.miev ill.-, and tin-nee 

 ihr Menrthe an 



1 . strongly cntn-ii' him:. 

 On this front tin- second phase of 



till- kittle \\;is fi.ll-llt. Sept. I I'.'. 



tinn-tl by tin- (icrinaii staff 



neide with the attriiipt. i>f 



Kluck ti> turn tin- French left near 



i ml roll up and envelop the 

 French Ml tin- available 



Ceiman heavy artillery was 



1 up to attack the Grand 

 Couronne. 



Tin re \\.is seven- lighting near 

 I.iuii'-villc and towards the (Jap of 

 Charmes on Sept. 4. and next day 

 a determined attack opened on the 



Crand ('omoime at Ste. Genevieve 

 and Mont d'Ainance. The French 

 had to abandon the summit of 

 Mont d'Amance. Late on Sept. 6 a 

 series of furious assaults on Ste, 

 Kenevieve began and continued 

 durini: the night. The French re- 

 .-istancc was most stubborn, but 

 i- 1 nans pushed up the valley 

 of the Moselle and approached 

 Du-ulouard, taking the French 

 front in reverse and threatening to 

 penetrate between Nancy and 

 Tout. Early on Sept. 7 Ste. Gene- 

 was evacuated- 



The French front was now turned 

 on one flank and the centre in grave 

 danger. Castclnau prepared an order 

 to retreat, but, pressed by Dubail, 

 he waited and, learning that the 

 Germans also showed extreme ex- 

 haustion and had not seized Ste. 

 (ienevieve, decided to continue, 

 orders being at once given to the 

 Fivn< h troops to reoccupy tin- 

 evacuated positions. All through 

 Sept. S there was terrific fighting in 

 this quarter, and neither side could 

 make progress. On Sept. 9 the 

 battle continued, but in the evening 

 the Germans obtained a truce to 

 bury their dead. 



To the S. of the Grand Cou- 

 ronne, on Sept. 6, the Germans 

 took Gorheviller. which they had 

 occupied previously in Aug., but it 

 was retaken the same afternoon. 

 Dubail with his 1st army had been 

 weakened by the withdrawal of 

 two corps for the W. end of the 

 front, yet he was generally able 

 to maintain his ground and hold 

 the Germans. On Sept. 10 Joffre 

 issued orders congratulating both 

 armies. That day the battle was 

 ri-Minit-d with little change of front. 

 On Sept. 11 the French made 

 steady gains E. of Nancy, clearing 

 Pont-k-Mousson and Ste. Gene- 

 vieve. On the 12th a general Ger- 

 man retreat began, and the 16th 

 French corps entered Luneville. 



The victorious French had lost 

 heavily, but the Germans were 

 also terribly punished, and 



5023 



Nancy. Map o! the ground over which the battle of 

 Aug. -Sept., 1914, was fought, showing territory re- 

 gained by French 



Prince Rupert was much criticised 

 for his tactics. After the battle 

 nearly all of Castelnau's army was 

 withdrawn to the W., and Dubail 

 held the line from Toul to the 

 Vosges. In the second phase the 

 French probably had about 

 200,000 men against 250,000 Ger- 

 mans, though according to German 

 authorities, the German strength 

 was inferior to the French. See 

 La Grande Guerre sur le front 

 Occidental, B.E. Palat, vol. iv., 

 1919 ; Michelin Guide, Nancy et 

 le Grand Couronne, 1919. 



Nancy. Character in Charles 

 Dickens's novel, Oliver Twist. One 

 of the Jew Fagin's girl-thieves, she 

 turns informer, and is murdered 

 by Bill Sikes. 



NandaDevi. Peak of the Hima- 

 laya Mts., India. It rises to 25.645 

 ft. above the plains of Kumaun in 

 the N. of the United Provinces. 



Nander. Town of Hyderabad, 

 India. It is situated on the left 

 bank of the Godavari, 126 m. S.W. 

 of Amraoti, with which it is con- 

 nected by road, on the Bombay- 

 Hyderabad Ely. Pop. 14,000. 



Nandgaon. Native state of the 

 Central Provinces, India. It is 

 situated on the watershed between 

 the Wainganga and Mahanadi 

 valleys. Rice, wheat, and cotton 

 are grown. The capital is Raj nand- 

 gaon, on the rly. between Nagpur 

 and Raipur. Area, 871 sq. m. 

 Pop. 167,000. 



Nandi. Nilotic negro people in 

 Nyanza prov., Kenya. Migrant 

 from Lake Rudolf, they colonised 

 the Nandi plateau, 8,000 ft. high, 

 and other forested uplands to N. 

 and S. They have imparted their 

 language and culture to the Dorobo 



NANKING 

 hunter* of M&ftai- 



l.ncl. The main 

 type, short, Htiiall- 

 faced, progna- 

 thouH negroid*. 

 arc mingled with 

 a caucasoid, big- 

 nosed, straight- 

 jawed type be- 

 t r a y i n g Galla 

 contact. In con- 

 sequence of their 

 depredations on 

 the railways and 

 telegraphs they 

 were removed in 

 1906 to reserves. 

 See Negro. 



NangaParbat. 

 Peak of the Him- 

 alaya Mts., India. 

 It rises to 26,620 

 ft. in the Zanskar 

 Range in the S. W. 

 of Baltistan. Here 

 the Indus flowing 

 N.W. through 

 Baltistan makes 



its great bend round the mighty 

 peak, to flow W. and then S.W. 

 through the Punjab. 



Nankeen. Yellowish cotton 

 fabric said to have been first made 

 at Nanking, China. Originally it 

 was made from Gossypium reliyio- 

 aum, a brownish-yellow native 

 cotton, and was undyed. Nankeen 

 is now made in Europe and other 

 countries from ordinary cotton, 

 dyed yellow, and is exported to 

 China. In central Asia it seems to 

 be known as nanka. 



Nanking. Capital of Kiang-su 

 prov., China. It is situated on the 

 Yang-tse, though the walled city 

 lies away from the river, nearly 

 200 m. from the mouth. Its port is 

 accessible to ocean-going steamers 

 all the year round. The circuit 

 of the walls is over 20 m. Only a 

 portion of the land enclosed is 

 inhabited, but the area has been 

 opened up of recent years by 

 roads. Nanking is the adminis- 

 trative centre of the two provs. of 

 Kiang-su and Anhwei, and the 

 residence of the viceroy or tutuh. 

 Near by are the Ming tombs, 

 including that of the founder of the 

 dynasty, Hung Wo. 



The town gave its name to 

 Nankeen cloth. Among its other 

 manufactures are satin crepe and 

 Indian ink. Government establish- 

 ments include an arsenal, powder 

 works, and a mint. There are a 

 university, a naval college, and an 

 agricultural experimental station, 

 with school of forestry. The town 

 is connected by rly. with Shanghai, 

 and Pukow, the port on the 

 opposite bank of the Yang-tse, is 

 the terminus of the Tientsin- 

 Pukow Rly. An agreement has 



