. Memories of the "411th" Telegraph Battalion in the World War here and "over there" .... g messenger for outsidecable distributing plant at Souilly. Relniilt one mile of a 2-arm Repp 8-circuit pole line justAvest of Bethlainville so as to provide proper clearance foraeroplanes on ncAv air field under construction. Began construction of lance pole omnibus line for use ofroad engineers from Varrenes to Romagne: nltimate St. Georges. Line completed as far as crossi-oads en-tering- Gesnes, where work had to he suspended aci-(»unt enemyshell fire. Continuation of 2-ann IJepp lead
. Memories of the "411th" Telegraph Battalion in the World War here and "over there" .... g messenger for outsidecable distributing plant at Souilly. Relniilt one mile of a 2-arm Repp 8-circuit pole line justAvest of Bethlainville so as to provide proper clearance foraeroplanes on ncAv air field under construction. Began construction of lance pole omnibus line for use ofroad engineers from Varrenes to Romagne: nltimate St. Georges. Line completed as far as crossi-oads en-tering- Gesnes, where work had to he suspended aci-(»unt enemyshell fire. Continuation of 2-ann IJepp lead siuveyed froiii poinlAvhere lateral lead, mentioiuMl in Par. G, ends at Ei)in()nville ingeinual northAvest direction of (iesnes and J^andres St. lead constructed about half Avay between Epinonville andTbenuiin Char])enfry-Romagne ronte wliere it Joins lioctie poleline. Work susi)ended at this point for present. The foregoing compi-ises the pi-ineipal const Ilict ion workc()iii|tleted during the nu^ntli. but in a(ldili<ni there has been a 154 ^rE:\roT7iKs of the 4nTii. total of ai)|)ioxiinately 16 small jobs in tlie natino of striiiuiiii!-twisted pair to serve aiiminnitioii dumps, etc., and to ])rovidetile lines for eonneetino with existinu French lines of eommnn-ication. Survey made of standard 10-pin, two erossarm 8-meterpole lead from Souilly to Very, a distance of 106,903 feet, or miles. vSurvey follows as near as possible astraight line from Souilly to point just north of Julvecourtwhere it crosses the highway to the plateau about one-third ofa kilometer west of said hijihway; thence in a strai<iht north-westerly direction to a crossiuu* of the Verdnn-Auhreville high-way just east Aubreville; thence across the western edge ofthe Forest de Hesse; thence in practically a straight northerlydirection to Very. Complete field notes made up, together withIoute map. line staked and ready foi constiuction crews to staitwork as soon as orde
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