Norwich bulletin. [volume] (Norwich, Conn.) 1895-2011, 1915-12-25

names. One is "Boche Chaser, the |
other is Death Splitter
Along the road hundreds Of itinerant
vendors of everything portable set up
improvised stands in the fields. Neck
ties, hot cheStnuts, suspendors. writ
ing paper, raw shrimps. socks. sweet
meats. fortunes told. photographs TAX
en-and bang goes Tommy's pay
Enterprising semitic merchants have
even installed barrels of beer in the
fields as stations of refuge for the
thirsty soldier too long on the way.
Beggars, of course,-crippies, little
girls in tattered, hollow-cheeked mis-
cry, the old of every race and kind.
Finally the tent city appears, SEEM
ing to cover unending acres of hill
tops. The road and a stream sepa-
rate the French from the British
Along the stream the British Tom
mics kneel. washing their clothes
against the rocks as any French wash
woman might Where the stream
trickles over a five-foot rock making
a meagre waterfall, a number Of men,
stark in the chill air, are bathing.
Halfway up a sloap, squad Of signal
men are doing drill. The Tapping OF
| their flags in the sharp wind can be
| heard in the valley like a volley OF
| PARKWAY rife shots Below them,
| company is lined up for inspection,
each mans roll spread out on the
grass while the sergeant goes through
| the equipment TO see that all is there.
! For the Greeks say that thirsty
/ Tommy sometimes parts with his
water bottle or his extra pair of shoes
/ in return for refreshments
| Against the sky on the hilltop a
squad Of men are going through the
| exercises-''to keep the beggars mt"
| the officer says Down valley be-
| tween two knobs swings company
/ returning from route march. They
/ sr.-v aHUF
/ to pass a hollow where half dozen
men are cursing earnestly over the
/ vagaries of four sheet-iron boxes
/ cunningly put together in a compact
| square TO form a very successful
I stove whence comes the smell of
roasting mutton. Near at hand. be-
fore the butchers tent, line of new
killed hogs hung up by the heels, are
dripping stil.
| From time to time smart officers,
| with red tabs on their collars TO in
dictate that they belong to the STAN
| cliff towards the camp stables, where
| the horses are picketed in the open,
| As they ride of towards the outlying
hills they pass through a cloud OF
acrid smoke coming from a sort OF
cairn in which the camp refuse is
burning
! Atop OF one hill is a flag pole with
the flag of the Red Cross-the camI
hospital, presided over by a gray med
ical colonel OF gentle manners and ar
air OF wonder and bewilderment al
finding himself so far away from Eng.
land in so strange a land. His ball
iwick Is marked out by line o.
stones in rows on the hillside, a.
| children playing at housekeeping
| mark the walls of the rooms. Within
these bounds, are medical tents, hos,
pital tents, dispensary, operating
tents-all the paraphernalia Of caring
for the sick and wounded.
On the opposite hill are the stat
tents. with a stamp on the canvai
that shows them to be from India /
t there are not enough benches for Of
fcers and guest. someone sits on on
upturned box The food Is largel,
! tinned-the Greeks have scarcel
enough to supply their own soldiers
Every day more transports arriv
= pouring out their soldiers Greek
French, British. Horses, kicking
. helplessiy are lifted bodily from IN
! non, ammunition cases, stores-al
4 clutter the Quais- Silently the Frencl
e ship up the railway line to the FROM
scarcely before one can realize tina
r they have arrived. This camp doe
e not grow much But the British cam
. | for all the departures in the directio
] of Dorian and the Bulgarian frontie
e is still populous. the men still train
g ing-"keeping the beggars ft-" Fo
S companies. regiments, and division
= have to be reformed, brought up {
= strength by the injection OF new blooC
Between the French and the BIRTHS
s there is the compietest working CO
n operation The French have the pre-
dominant force and they have take
= the major burden a. the Expedition
4 General Serial is beyond question I'll
s ablest officer in the Balkan field o
= the side OF the Entente at least Will
n the British and French armies al
: wholly independent one Of the othe
y the practical method of procedure
IT for General Serial to suggest to Ger
h eral Sir Bryan Mahan a certal
J. movement in cooperation with his ov
d promptly taken In the best Of pan
N and both armies move together IL
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