Friends of France; . n stand round it, stamping theirfeet. In the hospital yard, the stretcher-bearers un-load the body of an officer who has died in the ambu-lance. The dead mans face is very calm and peace-ful, though the bandages indicate terrible cannon flashes still jab the snowy sky. VII The back of the attack is broken, and we are be-ginning to get a little rest. During the first week ourcars averaged runs of two hundred miles a day. Andthis over roads chewed to pieces, and through themost difficult traffic. In one of the places, there was aformidable shell gantlet to run. Th
Friends of France; . n stand round it, stamping theirfeet. In the hospital yard, the stretcher-bearers un-load the body of an officer who has died in the ambu-lance. The dead mans face is very calm and peace-ful, though the bandages indicate terrible cannon flashes still jab the snowy sky. VII The back of the attack is broken, and we are be-ginning to get a little rest. During the first week ourcars averaged runs of two hundred miles a day. Andthis over roads chewed to pieces, and through themost difficult traffic. In one of the places, there was aformidable shell gantlet to run. This morning I drove to B. with a poilu. He 115 FRIENDS OF FRANCE asked me what I did en civil. I told him. I am apdtissier he replied. When this business is over,we shall have some cakes together in my good warmshop, and my wife shall make us some gave me his address. A regiment of young menmarched singing down the moorland road to thebattle-line. Ah, les braves enfants! said the pastrycook. Henry Sheahan. VIII THE SECTION IN FLANDERS The Section which is here designated as the Sec-tion in Flanders has at least two distinguishingcharacteristics. This was the first Section of substan-tial proportions to be geographically separated fromthe American Ambulance at Neuilly and turnedover to the French army. Until it left for the frontour automobiles had worked either to and from theNeuilly hospital, as an evacuating base, or, if temp-orarily detached for service elsewhere, they had goneout in very small units. Secondarily, it has the distinction of having beenmoved about more frequently and of having been at-tached to more diverse army units than any other ofour Sections. During the first year of its history, itwas located successively in almost every part of Flan-ders still subject to the Allies: first at Dunkirk andMalo, then at Poperinghe and Elverdinghe, then atCoxyde and Nieuport, then at Crombeke and Woes-ten. Then after a full year in Flanders it was movedto Beauva
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