. War scences I shall never forget. ained for a week as hisguest. The hospital is a wonder of excel-lence in every way. Charming ladies effi-ciently shoulder the burdens of the trained 16 War Scenes I Shall Never Forget nurse, and they and doctors work hours onend when the wounded come in crowds fromthe nearby trenches. At sunset descended an English aeroplaneon the beach. In a few minutes it was sur-rounded by a couple of hundred men inkhaki, just as if they had sprung out of theground. Then off it went, gracefully dip-ping in a low sweeping curve in front of thepalace, then soaring high as i
. War scences I shall never forget. ained for a week as hisguest. The hospital is a wonder of excel-lence in every way. Charming ladies effi-ciently shoulder the burdens of the trained 16 War Scenes I Shall Never Forget nurse, and they and doctors work hours onend when the wounded come in crowds fromthe nearby trenches. At sunset descended an English aeroplaneon the beach. In a few minutes it was sur-rounded by a couple of hundred men inkhaki, just as if they had sprung out of theground. Then off it went, gracefully dip-ping in a low sweeping curve in front of thepalace, then soaring high as it struck outto sea. Then the beach guard changed, andsuddenly over the front only a few milesaway appeared a Belgian plane with Ger-man shrapnel bursting in little black puffsaround it. I went with Dr. Depage to seethe wounded arriving in the ambulances, andI took a thirty second peep at a leg opera-tion in the doing. At dinner—a very frugalbut good one—we talked of everything ex-cept war. And this was my first day at Belgian Cavalry on the Sands at La Panne II Trenches La Panne, May, oclock in the morning and I hadjust returned from the trenches, fairly well-behaved trenches, but real ones nevertheless,for several German bullets had sought usas a target in the early morning mist. Itwas all unreal, for I saw nothing. Yet Ihad to believe it, for I heard. • Thanks to the courtesy of a gallant staffcaptain and a charming gray-haired general,I made this unique expedition. The captainand I started before daylight in the cold ofa gray morning and rode to the trenches ina comfortable limousine. The fields aboutwere desolate, even the trees and there a heap of stones, the remainsof a thrifty farm, sheltered a small company 17 18 War Scenes I Shall Never Forget of soldiers. The roads were unspeakable,so deep the holes and ruts. We passed through P . There were still a few walls standing, and there we picked up a piece ofmarble to make me a pape
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