Friends of France; . s many mules to pull it out. Now that thesnow has come, I think our service to Mittlach willhave to be abandoned. L. C. D. At Tomansplatz the other day an officer and I started for , one of our postes. We took a short cut over a high hill from which one could look easily down on , where all the fighting had been going on. There is a path over this hill which is hidden bytrees, and on the top is a long boyau to pass throughso as to keep out of sight of the Germans in clearweather. When we reached the top, we stepped outof the path to get a view of the valley, and it waswond
Friends of France; . s many mules to pull it out. Now that thesnow has come, I think our service to Mittlach willhave to be abandoned. L. C. D. At Tomansplatz the other day an officer and I started for , one of our postes. We took a short cut over a high hill from which one could look easily down on , where all the fighting had been going on. There is a path over this hill which is hidden bytrees, and on the top is a long boyau to pass throughso as to keep out of sight of the Germans in clearweather. When we reached the top, we stepped outof the path to get a view of the valley, and it waswonderful looking down on the French and Germantrenches, and to see the hill all shot to pieces and thetrees broken to stubs — living scars of the fightingthat had gone on. We did not get by unseen, for theGermans are always on the job. They have observa-tion posts in the trees, hard to be seen, but easy to seefrom. There was a lot of firing going on, and we couldsee the French shells landing in the German lines. I 214. MULE CONVOY IN ALSACE
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