. The romance of the red triangle; the story of the coming of the red triangle and the service rendered by the Y. M. C. A. to the sailors and soldiers of the British empire. t up, had to stand absolutelystill until it fell to earth, and its light wasextinguished. Weird things those starshells ! They shoot up to a good height 144 CAMEOS FROM FRANCE like rockets, burst into brilliant light,poise in mid-air and gradually shimmerdown and out. A few minutes brought usto the shelter of a ruined brasserie, andfrom its further side we entered thecommunication trenches, and thus passedto the Bois Carre
. The romance of the red triangle; the story of the coming of the red triangle and the service rendered by the Y. M. C. A. to the sailors and soldiers of the British empire. t up, had to stand absolutelystill until it fell to earth, and its light wasextinguished. Weird things those starshells ! They shoot up to a good height 144 CAMEOS FROM FRANCE like rockets, burst into brilliant light,poise in mid-air and gradually shimmerdown and out. A few minutes brought usto the shelter of a ruined brasserie, andfrom its further side we entered thecommunication trenches, and thus passedto the Bois Carre. Standing back tovisualise the scene, the orderly caught myarm and pulled me into the shelter of thedug-out—a second later came the patterof machine bullets on the sand-bags wherewe had stood not ten seconds was something fascinating aboutthat little dug-out , with itscaterers boiler, urns and stores, and it issad to think that since then it has beendestroyed by shell-fire, even though otherdug-outs have been opened to take itsplace. A year later we revisited that oldbrasserie. There was little of it central hall remained, and the Red. A GREAT BOON TO BRITISH TOMMY—A UNDER SHELL-FIRE
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