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guy has broken thigh. Ils has got their billets in the lee side of broken waila or in boles, duke deep by the enemy and phone. It seemed a silly poke at such an reported safe for tae,
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my friend was very wide awake, sad what, great shett' craters.
happened afterwards was very rapid. I passed a row of
The Australing Guanostiqueraf 'gara these pour beasts as thigh all had fallen orders to stop up the gaps in the Herinun down and digit together in a last commade-wire areng which the enemy had come." battle between Leus and St. Quentin.
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They were chmed By shall fire. with its stora zentre at Arrás, whers men
De Germans, or bits of dead Gertinis to destroy the field guns, tried to The attacking column having failed in are fighting in mase, killing in sms. He it old trenches, and a free, but found their retten oud off. aving sometimes in mass, as when Ger- days ago watched the bombardment of Three thousand of the suffered appalling 511012 counter-attacksa
Lees chose to the bones at a little French-casualties, and I saw some of their dead! ars broken and desi̇ngend at Cartelle, Monchy, (zenippethe ld army when he fought down the though most have now been buried.
an who had worn the red trousers of bodies lying on the ground three days ago. and lagniener2..
slopes of Notre Dame de Toroth to the | Five Australian soldiers were out of in: outskirts of Soutcára. He seemed like a the same way hy wire after the räid, but of ancient history, and that red scrap suedert in hiding themselves inside the thing beinagel to an epoch lung fieman halt. Here they stayed for fre days without food, or water, gradually Farther forward the earth is green again working their way down to the gap, from in strips. The bombardment has not yet which they finally escaped...** to it and petred it, and the shell craters,
u anctier part of the line held by the are spared and their sloping sides are English troops a quiser bird was captured! "It is the greatest baile picture inrarer, and it freshness is warning sign form of a German officer wearing a gay Due get to know the date of the other day it was blue bird is the | modern history, at in the mass of
uniform with a big cloak and spars, hundreds of thisants of men, obedient
brought down by one of our situen. to the high command, which uses them art of the great war machine, in the ridus!' with his own separate experi- Face and initiative with his no of januver and his witluring, and his couragi) wash is fear."
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this: the houty and the glitas, the aging of it, the colour and the smell. aud the movement of it, with intimate arol passionate remembrance.
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I watched our shelling of the Hirulen-of his air piron or tambrai went on TONGKONG & SHANGHAI burg lie at Qurant from the grind by leave, and his others and other friendsBANKING CORPORATION. Lagnicourt, where the Ansaraliaus wofed themselves by drinkipe gred red (slaughteréd - the enemy in the recent wine. En the morning, after late counter-track.
night they decided to go out on reconnais White levey clouds in the sky was the stroke of our shrapnel bursts, and cloak agreed that he also would muka a age and the officer in the sky due there was the lining and flashing light, and perform his duty to the shells above the whony's trench, which Fatherland rising ground above the village of Queant, making reconnaissance, he tell fast wound like a tape on the slope of the A pilot took him up: but, instead of and through the fringe of trees below.
Astorm of shells broke over Pullecourt plane swooping in him him a high asleep and saw nothing of a British aero to the left, and the enemy was auswering cloud. A fules in the petrol tank drove back with 5.9's searching the valley which town thy German machine, and the officer me down from Nurenit as watched in the sky be cloak stepped ont. saluted, it while it was under fire..
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The ease of battle as Whanged during Ohese lash - how days because spring has gene er last and warm seshine. It has nair a tremendous difference to the look of things, and to the sense of things work ago our 'men were marching through raig and sheet; through wild queanire of old battlefehls which stretaiz away belund Cont newffront hues, throught miles of shell craters and dewi wants and destroyed vilings. They fought but wod fought fendi, and their craving was for hot drink.
Young seymur's neo ör 13. - Yesterday, after adfew days of warhursting high with back vify clouds, "One
four, aeroplanes had fallen, and the An air prisoner" is always more notice-
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con troops on the batch were powdered enemy's gainers in the indenture lineable than the batches of infantry who white with dust, and they fought hot and I tried to destroy it by range sniping ente back to quc lius after one of our fought thirdy, and the woanded ́éried for Cher own gans were Bring, stendily, attacks but there was nowthing unusual water to good ther burning throats. Men that the sky was Alled with javisible in the sight of 73 Germanos led by a yoirág
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To some of these hiding-places they Presently Tank crawled up, and a voice and great stores of German heers, and spoken from it: That's a hot spot of was a good find for men thirsty and yours. You had better compe inside for s glad B winke. this mopping up bit! Battalion, as it is called, mopped up the shell. bear, which was very light and refreshialantry officer.
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curiously for any sign of birth, but there is sign, and their porr, matilated During the fighting hereabouts 200 irabs, their broken and tattered trunks, German soldiers came across under the "stand naked and stack under the blue white flag as a sign of surrender, but they sky. Everything is dead with a white.who shot them dowa without mercy.
were seen by their own machine-pronners," ghastly look in the brilliant unshice except where here and there in the lifter in-hand here, and, indeed, the whole ale So one gets comedy and tragedy hand. of timbur and brickwork which marks the of this fighting on the way to Queant is a
At of's French village, a little bash ix mixture of gruesome horror and fantastic in bad, or flowers bloom in a scrap when telling the tale of it.
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