Ambulance no10 : personal letters from the front . free peoples, too strong to be dispossessed,But blessed are those among nations who dare to be strong for the rest. A. P. A. September 6,1915. Lord, Thy most pointed pleasure takeAnd stab my spirit broad awake. Stevenson AMBULANCE NO. 10 PERSONAL LETTERS FROM THE FRONT American Ambulance, June came here — Pont-a-Mousson — lastnight after a seven hours journey toNancy from Paris. On the way I foundmuch to interest me, as (if you will lookon your map) you will see that the railwayruns beside the River Marne, then theMeuse, and lastly the
Ambulance no10 : personal letters from the front . free peoples, too strong to be dispossessed,But blessed are those among nations who dare to be strong for the rest. A. P. A. September 6,1915. Lord, Thy most pointed pleasure takeAnd stab my spirit broad awake. Stevenson AMBULANCE NO. 10 PERSONAL LETTERS FROM THE FRONT American Ambulance, June came here — Pont-a-Mousson — lastnight after a seven hours journey toNancy from Paris. On the way I foundmuch to interest me, as (if you will lookon your map) you will see that the railwayruns beside the River Marne, then theMeuse, and lastly the Moselle. An officerpointed out to me all the interesting placeswhere the Germans advanced and then re-treated in a hurry, — or practically arout, — leaving everything behind evento their flags, which I believe are now inLondon. After passing these and nearingNancy I saw what looked like a fleet ofaeroplanes, and the officer explained to me 2 AMERICAN AMBULANCE that it was a flying Taube being shot at bythe French. It looked like this: —. I am told that they rarely hit one. On arriving at Nancy I was met by Salis-bury, our Section leader, and after a verygood meal in the most beautiful little townyou could hope to see (and where the Kai-ser and ten thousand troops in dress pa-rade were waiting on a hill close by to en-ter in state last October), we started bymotor for Pont-a-Mousson. Some fifteenkilometres farther on, our lights were putout and we then entered the region under FIELD SERVICE 3 shell fire. It was a funny feeling listeningto my conductor talking about how thisshell and that shell hit here and there; andall along the route we passed torn-uptrees, houses, and roads. At last we cameto Pont-a-Mousson, a dear little villagewith about eight thousand inhabitants,and felt our way, so to speak, in the dark-ness and silence to the barracks which arenow the Headquarters of the found that there were about twenty carsand twenty-two men here, the latter all
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