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MIDNIGHT IN THE FRONT LINE. 7th November. "So you knew those people that have just gone by in the carriage, Lovel." "How should I know them?" "Then why did you let them past …
THROUGH THE MINE AREA. In Picardy, November. A nobleman, with blue eyes and the haughty carriage that tells of ancient blood, presented us to that diabolical young creature who is making such a stir …
THE MENACE OF THE GOLDEN VIRGIN. I have now to tell of the reconquered ground, and I own that the description, which I cannot claim to have invented, more nearly than any other suggests the reality. …
"RONNY." This is not a Christmas story. His real name was P——, but his name must not be mentioned on account of the family who mourns for him in a corner of the County of Surrey. We will si…
PIPING OUT THE DAY. 14th November. It is just before sunset—the most impressive moment of the day in these British lines. Now, wherever the British soldiers meet their bands, the following picture ma…
Y GULLY. Between Beaumont-Hamel and Beaucourt, near the bend which the Ancre makes where it turns to meet the Somme, there is a deep gully, about three hundred yards across, which the Tommies have ch…
CHRISTMAS NIGHT IN "NO MAN'S LAND." The setting is not a Biblical one. If, indeed, this cursed spot can possibly recall the Book of Books, we must search the chapter of immortal horror…
