. The Varsity war supplement 1917. hostile country. The German gunscontinually search it, but they waste mostof their ammunition, for they are blind. Theirobservation balloons are destroyed as fast asthey put them up—-their aeroplanes are keptfive miles behind their own lines—and we nowlook down on them from the top of a ridge. We stopped close by Pozieres, and had ourdinner in a disused trench. Here I learned thatthe Canadian Second Division which took Cource-lette, had done so very well that General Bynghad decided to push a little further to the left,and we were scheduled to take one line o
. The Varsity war supplement 1917. hostile country. The German gunscontinually search it, but they waste mostof their ammunition, for they are blind. Theirobservation balloons are destroyed as fast asthey put them up—-their aeroplanes are keptfive miles behind their own lines—and we nowlook down on them from the top of a ridge. We stopped close by Pozieres, and had ourdinner in a disused trench. Here I learned thatthe Canadian Second Division which took Cource-lette, had done so very well that General Bynghad decided to push a little further to the left,and we were scheduled to take one line of Germantrenches at and a second at were all tickled. Thirteen months and morehad some of us sat in trenches taking what theGermans chose to give us in the shape of shellsand snipers bullets. And we had June to avenge,—those three days in June that cost us, in ourbattalion, most of our comrades. Now weshould get our own back. The Pats at last wereto have a chance to take a trench at the point of German Officers, taken Prisoners by the Canadians 126 THE VARSITY MAGAZINE SUPPLEMENT I think it was about four in the afternoon when we movedon, up the busy road beyond Pozieres. We passed endlessambulances and wounded men walking down. We made room
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