From Mons to Loos, being the diary of a supply officer . to my left examined the magnificentview before me. The flat level valley of the Aisne betweenSoissons and Vailly was spread at my the foreground on the left, nestling roundits church spire, was the little village ofAugy; on the right were the outskirts ofBraine, while beyond them, above the woods,rose the hill of Brenelle, where our gunswere subsequently placed. At the foot ofBrenelle among the trees lay the village ofChassemy, which was being shelled, and asI looked a high-explosive shell set fire tosome of the houses and a grea
From Mons to Loos, being the diary of a supply officer . to my left examined the magnificentview before me. The flat level valley of the Aisne betweenSoissons and Vailly was spread at my the foreground on the left, nestling roundits church spire, was the little village ofAugy; on the right were the outskirts ofBraine, while beyond them, above the woods,rose the hill of Brenelle, where our gunswere subsequently placed. At the foot ofBrenelle among the trees lay the village ofChassemy, which was being shelled, and asI looked a high-explosive shell set fire tosome of the houses and a great column ofwhite smoke blew away to the right overBrenelle. On the horizon straight ahead, stretchingto right and left, were the heights above theriver, the Aisne itself being hidden by theintervening ground. Continuing on my way I entered Braine,where heavy street fighting had taken placeearlier in the day. Just outside the townthe adventurous Bertrand Stewart had beenkilled, but not until his rifle had sentseveral Germans to their last account. Poor. « THE PURSUIT TO THE AISNE. 99 Bertrand Stewart, how he must have sufferedat the Prussian hands during his imprison-ment as a spy, for his hatred of the race wasintense. He w^as a brave man and died thedeath he sought, seeking vengeance on hisenemies. My brigade spent the night of the 12that Brenelle, and early on the 13th theattack on the enemy was resumed all alongthe line. On our left was the 5th Division,on our right the 1st, 2nd, and 4th Divisions;beyond them on each side the French pro-longed the line. By the evening the enemy had beenthrown across the river with the loss ofseveral of his big guns, and our own peoplehad a footing on the northern bank, al-though all the bridges across the river hadbeen destroyed. The whole stretch of road between Braineand the Aisne through Chassemy had beenunder the enemys heavy shell fire all Divisional Headquarters had shelteredjust off the road behind a haystack. The Generals ki
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