This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1918 edition. Excerpt: ... CHAPTER XXV SOLDIERS--TWO N May 5 the Patricias were removed back a mile to reserve trenches. There they re mained in the trenches and dugouts that night and all day the 6th. Though they were now back of the front line there were many casualties, due to the enemy's constant fire. On the evening of the ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1918 edition. Excerpt: ... CHAPTER XXV SOLDIERS--TWO N May 5 the Patricias were removed back a mile to reserve trenches. There they re mained in the trenches and dugouts that night and all day the 6th. Though they were now back of the front line there were many casualties, due to the enemy's constant fire. On the evening of the 7th, a thickening mist in the atmosphere brought a premonition of mighty events, a climax of the affairs that had been shaping since the fatal gas attack upon the Turcos on April a I. Right here a word should be said of how, in that emergency, were refuted the frequent criticisms of the alleged slowness and red tape at British headquarters. Such criticism, for instance, as once found expression in the words of Lloyd George himself: "Always behind." At this juncture it was proved that, when an essential need existed for action to insure the success of British arms, John Bull was decidedly "Johnnyon-the-spot." The French, Turcos and Canadians were gassed on April 21. Immediately the gas was analyzed and the masks devised for the protection of the men. On April 27, six days after this foul attack, gas masks, by the thousands, made in England, arrived on the Western Front! Which workmanlike haste certainly indicated to the sneering Hun that the old lion's claws were still uncut! So, when in the Second Battle of Ypres, on May 8, the Hindenburg harbingers of hell again released their waves of gas, adding their " tear shells" as a tidbit, the British were ready for them. Of course, this was before Von Hindenburg was in charge of the Western Front for the Huns, but the spirit employed was the same. My Pats, to say nothing of the thousands of other troops waiting in the trenches over the entire front for the smashing climax to the German attack that...
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