. The warfare of to-day. THE GREAT SQUARE AT YPRES IN APRIL, I915 Chevaux-de-frise carried by British soldiers. In the foreground, the mechanism ofthe great clock in the tower of Ypres, which has fallen into the square. ARRIVAL OF THE SERGEANT IN CHARGE OF THE POST OFFICE, AT THECOMMAND POST OF MAJOR AZAN AT GRAVENSTAFEL IN APRIL, I915 Distribution of letters to the agents de liaison of the companies THE TRENCHES are true benefactresses. The latter write lettersin which pretty fancies flutter among the lines,with the hope of a meeting during the next fur-lough ; if one of them sends a sweater
. The warfare of to-day. THE GREAT SQUARE AT YPRES IN APRIL, I915 Chevaux-de-frise carried by British soldiers. In the foreground, the mechanism ofthe great clock in the tower of Ypres, which has fallen into the square. ARRIVAL OF THE SERGEANT IN CHARGE OF THE POST OFFICE, AT THECOMMAND POST OF MAJOR AZAN AT GRAVENSTAFEL IN APRIL, I915 Distribution of letters to the agents de liaison of the companies THE TRENCHES are true benefactresses. The latter write lettersin which pretty fancies flutter among the lines,with the hope of a meeting during the next fur-lough ; if one of them sends a sweater it is becauseit will be worn, in preference to any other, byhim who, amid shells and rifle-balls, often sendsforth his loyal thoughts in her direction. They,too, are benefactresses; for the Frenchman isalways in need of a little blue flower to embel-lish the garden of his heart. He who has neitherwife nor fiancee finds himself very lonely in thetrenches. While his comrades receive letterswhich they read with ardor and emotion, he isconscious of no sentimental agitation on readinghis serious epistles. So his godmother gives hima share in the happiness which he lacked. Evenwhen the imagination plays the chief part
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