Norwich bulletin., 1916-08-16
King George at
 Front in France
VIEWED ALL PARTS OF THE
 ARMY AT WORK IN FIELD
WENT INTO TRENCHES
Majority of the Troops Not Aware of the Visit Until After His Maiesty's Departure-Dressed in Khaki with Buttons of a Field Marshal

With the British Army in France, via London, Aug. 15, D. m.-King George has been at the front a week He left today for England and his departure was the first information that the majority of the troops had of his presence.
 The king went about seeing all parts of the army at work and the fields it had won. The futter of a bit of bunting bearing the royal coat of arms as a motor car sped along the road in clouds of dust and motor truck drivers and passing battalions started and looked around, exclaim- ing: The King.
 The prince of Wales was with his majesty. The monarch was dressed in khaki with the buttons of a field mar shal on his shoulder and the prince wore the uniform of lieutenant in the grand grenadier guards.
 Went Into First Line Trenches.
 At one point on the line the king met Sir Henry Rawlinson, conman- der of the Fourth army, which deIiv- cred the main attack, and Major Gen. Montauban and Mametz. AIighting from his automobile near Fricourt, the king went into the first fine British trenches from which the British made their charge.
 Saw Effects of Shell Fire.
 Now I will breast the parapet as my men did, he said, mounting it. He walked across the Old Mans land and saw the effects of the British shell fire on the maze of Notifications and trenches which the British have wrested from the Germans. Standing on the edge of big shell crater, the king looked with a sailors telescope across the foreground, toward Po- zieres, the Bazentins, LonguevaI and Delville wood. He watched the curls of black smoke which signified that the German guns were busy, while near by him battery of British guns was sending screaming answers. You seem to have missed that" he said to General Rawlinson, indicating g silver of wall still standing in Ma metz. "But there is nothing that Is not done in La BOiselle as you will see, your majesty said General Raw Itnson.
 When the king wished to descend, General R&wlins- n warned him that they had not all been cleaned out. and when the king came back up the steps, he said:
 Tt smells pretty strong" Renarking on the depth and spa ciOusness of the dugouts with their 1 beds, tables and chairs, he said to some soldiers, Evidently the Ger but you gave them a surprise and they are not so comfortable now" A Dramatic Moment. A dramatic moment occurred as the 1 king was walking across a field swept 1 by g German charge. He came to a grave at the bottom of a shell era | ter, with a cross bearing the inscrip- ton: Unknown British Soldier" Both 1 the king and the Prince of Wales 1 halted and saluted the cross 1 Tt was sporting of the king to come ] here" said one of the soldiers, and 1 if Fritz only knew it, wouldn't he be- gin Q strife with his guns As it is, Whistling Percy might let loose any l minute" CYVhistling Percy is the name for 9 noisy shell from the Ger ] man guns)
 1 Sir Douglas Haig, as the kings host ! told him what was worth seeing dur ! ing his visit and then the king laid i out his program each day. When the | king visited the men of the Scottish division, which had seen such desper- l ate fighting at Delville, or Devil i wOOd' the survivors of the South Af- | Ticans gave him the Sulu war cry. He managed to see something of all kinds l of soldiers fighting under the British ! flag from the Scots and Irish to the 1 Canadian overseas cOntingents.