. Vive la France! . French trenches in the sand-dunes of the Belgian littoral. Here begins that four-hundred-mllc-lonK line of trenches which stretches acrossEurope like a munstruus and deadly IN THE FIELD 5 ever straight, for every few yards they wouldturn aside to avoid a turf-covered mound sur-mounted by a rude cross and a scarlet half a hundred miles this portion of Franceis one vast cemetery, for it was here that vonKluck made his desperate attempt to breakthrough to Paris, and it was here that JofFre,in the greatest battle of all time, drove theGerman legions back across
. Vive la France! . French trenches in the sand-dunes of the Belgian littoral. Here begins that four-hundred-mllc-lonK line of trenches which stretches acrossEurope like a munstruus and deadly IN THE FIELD 5 ever straight, for every few yards they wouldturn aside to avoid a turf-covered mound sur-mounted by a rude cross and a scarlet half a hundred miles this portion of Franceis one vast cemetery, for it was here that vonKluck made his desperate attempt to breakthrough to Paris, and it was here that JofFre,in the greatest battle of all time, drove theGerman legions back across the Marne andended their dream of entering the Frenchcapital. We whirled through villages whosemain streets are lined with the broken, black-ened shells of what had once been shops anddweUings. At once I felt at home, for withthis sort of thing I had grown only too famiHarin Belgium during the earlier days of the here the Germans were either careless orin a hurry, for they had left many buildingsstanding. In Belgium they made a morefinished job of it. Nothing better illustratesthe implicit confidence which the Frenchpeople have in their army, and in its ultimatesuccess, than the fact
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