. At the front in a flivver. to take him and hisorderly to Villers-Bretonneux. On theway they passed some quail, so the offi-cer ordered the car stopped and they gotout with army rifles (! !) to shoot at they had hit one there would have beenno bird left. Incidentally it was Sundayand out of season as well; thus they werebreaking about a dozen laws and Ambu-lance rules. Meantime some Englishmotor-lorreys came along and all stoppedto watch the shooting. In fact, the warceased to exist for about an hour! Wool-verton thought the story too good to keepand told it at dinner, and got severel
. At the front in a flivver. to take him and hisorderly to Villers-Bretonneux. On theway they passed some quail, so the offi-cer ordered the car stopped and they gotout with army rifles (! !) to shoot at they had hit one there would have beenno bird left. Incidentally it was Sundayand out of season as well; thus they werebreaking about a dozen laws and Ambu-lance rules. Meantime some Englishmotor-lorreys came along and all stoppedto watch the shooting. In fact, the warceased to exist for about an hour! Wool-verton thought the story too good to keepand told it at dinner, and got severelycalled down, of course, by the now call him the Big Game Hunter. A German aeroplane was brought downby the English to-day amid cheers fromthe onlookers. New French aeroplanesheds have been erected between here andVillers-Bretonneux. A lot of big Englishguns turned up to-day and are now alongthe line back of Chuignes to big army of Russians also is said to behere, as well as Serbians and AT THE FRONT AT LAST 49 Two Germ prisoners were capturedat Cappy. The way they catch them isto creep out at night with an automaticpistol and hold up the observation poilu who pulls the stunt getsten days holiday and the Croix. Oneman has fifty days leave coming to himalready. The first-line trenches are prac-tically deserted except for sentinels. The French have succeeded in placing,in addition to the machine guns, a num-ber of 75s right in the first line! —only two hundred yards from the Germs in spots. The General Staff has movedto Villers-Bretonneux. Huge amounts ofsupplies are coming in and numbers oflarge ambulances (French army). TheFourth English Army across the canal isalso being heavily munitioned, and theSecond French Army has come up to backup the Junction of the Fourth Englishand our Sixth. It looks as if somethingwere in the wind. The new French canal-boat ironclads are about finished, are right back of our quarters herea
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