Friends of France; . eception is by no meansconfined to our base. Everywhere we meet with acourtesy and with a gratitude which bring with thema very satisfactory sense of doing something worthwhile and having it appreciated. Imagine, for instance, a small town surroundedby mountains that, sloping gently up from its mainstreet and railway station, are checkered for somedistance with houses, green fields, and straggly stonewalls, while hidden in their tree-covered summitsare trenches and batteries of 75s, and here and therehotels where before the war tourists stopped and towhich now the wounded
Friends of France; . eception is by no meansconfined to our base. Everywhere we meet with acourtesy and with a gratitude which bring with thema very satisfactory sense of doing something worthwhile and having it appreciated. Imagine, for instance, a small town surroundedby mountains that, sloping gently up from its mainstreet and railway station, are checkered for somedistance with houses, green fields, and straggly stonewalls, while hidden in their tree-covered summitsare trenches and batteries of 75s, and here and therehotels where before the war tourists stopped and towhich now the wounded are carried. But on thisday a thick gray mist hangs over the town like ahalf-lowered curtain. The guns rest because the gun-ners cannot see. The mist hides entirely the tops ofthe mountains, gives the generally visible housesand stone walls a dim, unshaped appearance, andmakes hardly noticeable a procession of gray motorambulances coming out from the tree-line and mak-ing their way down into the town. V/ \J{ V cd, *#. SUPPLIES FOR THE SOLDIERS BEING CARRIED ON MULES OVER THE VOSGES MTS.
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