. Vive la France! . r I may not mention,and I held an Old Home Week celebration ofour own in the French trenches in all I know there may have been some otherresidents of central New York over in theGerman trenches. If so, they made no at-tempt to join our Httle reunion. Had theydone so they would have received a very warmreception. There were several reasons why I welcomedthe opportunity offered me by the French Gen-eral Staff to see the fighting in Alsace. In thefirst place a veil of secrecy had been thrownover the operations in that region, and themysterious is always alluring. Se
. Vive la France! . r I may not mention,and I held an Old Home Week celebration ofour own in the French trenches in all I know there may have been some otherresidents of central New York over in theGerman trenches. If so, they made no at-tempt to join our Httle reunion. Had theydone so they would have received a very warmreception. There were several reasons why I welcomedthe opportunity offered me by the French Gen-eral Staff to see the fighting in Alsace. In thefirst place a veil of secrecy had been thrownover the operations in that region, and themysterious is always alluring. Secondly, mostof the fighting that I have seen has been eitherin flat or only moderately hilly countries, andI was curious to see how warfare is conductedin a region as mountainous and as heavily for-ested as the Adirondacks or Oregon. Again,the Alsace sector is at the extreme southernend of that great battle-line, more than fourhundred miles long, which stretches its unlovelylength across Europe from the North Sea to. In the French ircnclics un llic \ scr. To put onc» head a fraction of an inch above the parapet is to become a corpse,lo a watch i> kept on the enemy throuKh periscopes.
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