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THE IMPROMPTU VICTORY. The Ancre Front, 13th November. You read the reports. The names of the places that have been taken, the calculations of the gains, the numbers of the prisoners, leave you cold.…
IN FRONT OF THE MUNICH TRENCH. Beaumont-Hamel, 15th November. That two-hour tramp through a few kilometres of trenches was a heart-breaking business. We floundered through holes, we were swallowed up…
THE REAL SUPERMEN. " We are consolidating our positions. " (English Communiqué, 16th November.) Here is a story. Some time ago, on the North bank of the Ancre, in the Beaumont-Hamel Sector,…
SURPRISES OF A MOONLIT FROSTY NIGHT. A true Walpurgis Night of heroes and warriors. It is not on the summit of the Brocken that I have witnessed it, but, looking out over the plain of the Ancre, from…
THE BATTLE REOPENS. 18th November. The Battle of the Ancre, which for a moment had died down, began again this morning, at dawn, with a new violence. The English had only paused just long enough to o…
ON THE EDGE OF THE FRAY. 19th November. Yesterday was a good day for the English. Our friends were successful on nearly the whole front which they attacked. The only difficulty which they encountered…
THE WELDING OF FRENCH AND BRITISH. Not all things can be welded together. There are metals which are wholly unsympathetic, and even for those which are not we require the services of the plumber and …
HOW THE AUSTRALIAN CONTINGENT VOTED IN FRANCE IN FACE OF THE ENEMY. 8th December, 1916. What Frenchman has not met, at least once, in Paris or some other of our large towns, one of these stout lads w…
BOELCKE'S LAND OF PROMISE. On the 28th of October, six Halberstadters and Aviatiks attacked two English aviators in the neighbourhood of Pozières. During the fight six fresh enemy machines came …
THE SQUARE JAW. [A] [A] Of the two articles which follow, the first ("The Square Jaw") was written on the 9th of December, during the crisis caused by the successive resignations of Mr. Ll…
