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THE RELIEF. The scene is an old trench of the French first line. It is midday. It is raining. It goes on raining. It has always rained. The sector is fairly quiet, and has been for an hour or so. Tom…
THE PREPARATION OF THE CANADIANS. We spent the first two days among the Canadians. Let me recall a few of their performances. They sustained, in front of Ypres, the first great gas attack launched by…
ARRAS, THE WOUNDED TOWN. While I was in the British lines I visited Arras. Everyone knows that since February of this year this ancient town has been included in that part of the front which is held …
THE GROUND OF HEROIC DEEDS. Last year the ground that we are treading, this cold and rainy December day, saw played out one of the most terrible acts of this terrible war. It shook for weeks together…
A DINNER OF GENERALS. This evening on our return from the lines we found the following invitation: "Dear Sir,—The General in Command will be very happy if you can dine with him at eight o'c…
WAR IN THE BLACK COUNTRY. Trains follow each other every quarter of an hour—endless trains, 60 truck-loads and more, all bearing the mark of five big French companies. Some of these convoys seemed to…
THE ART OF SAVING. Our hosts were very anxious to show us their Base at Calais, and, the visit being over, we fully realise their reasons. The fact is they have achieved miracles of hard work and org…
"BROTHERS IN ARMS." The Times , through the medium of its distinguished representative with the British Army, Mr. Robinson, has recently published a very laudatory and somewhat flattering a…
AS IN A PICTURE OF EPINAL. Yesterday I met the Prince of Wales in the lines. The Prince of Wales! What does that name not say to a Frenchman! It was about four o'clock in the afternoon. A small,…
A HERO AFTER THE MANNER OF ROLAND. December. General Vaughan Campbell, Brigadier of the —th Infantry Brigade, having done us the honour to pay us a visit, invited us, for this Thursday, to share his …
