Friends of France; . THE INSPECTORS LETTER BOX ran past the quaint towns and villages, we could hearthe great cannon on the front booming like distantthunder. It is hard to realize that for five hundredand more miles these cannon are booming day afterday all day long, and often throughout the night. A. P. First Impressions After a few more short delays (inseparable fromtimes and states of war), the Section at last founditself within a mile of one of the most stubbornly con-tested points of the line. In a little town not far fromthe front they came in swift progression into hardwork, bombar
Friends of France; . THE INSPECTORS LETTER BOX ran past the quaint towns and villages, we could hearthe great cannon on the front booming like distantthunder. It is hard to realize that for five hundredand more miles these cannon are booming day afterday all day long, and often throughout the night. A. P. First Impressions After a few more short delays (inseparable fromtimes and states of war), the Section at last founditself within a mile of one of the most stubbornly con-tested points of the line. In a little town not far fromthe front they came in swift progression into hardwork, bombardment, and appreciation by the army. Pont-a-Mousson is in a district in which low hills,many of them covered with thick woods, lie along thevalley of the Moselle. Down towards the river, on 153 FRIENDS OF FRANCE both banks and at right angles to it, stretch the inter-minable lines of trenches, east and west; batteries ofguns crown the adjacent hills for two or three milesback from the trenches, alike in the enemys countryand that of the French; and intermittently, day andnight, these batteries defy and seek to destroy eachother, the valleys echoing with the roar of their gunsand the sharp scream of shells high overhead. Backof the trenches for several miles every village is fullof soldiers resting or
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