The Washington herald., 1916-06-04
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Try, the bar was lifted and we were in
the zone of the armies"
That was the end OF the red tape
once inside that bar, / found myself the
guest of the army In the days during
which 1 have motored hundreds Of miles
up and down the lines l have been
shown everything that asked to see. so
Tar as l know everything that there Is
TO see. And not a question that l asked
has not been answered fully and frankly.
That is the Englishman's characterize
gives YOU all his confidence or none. 1t
would never occur to him to take cor
respondents on carefully stage-managed
tours to selected points instructing his
officers in advance what they were to
say and do to produce certain desired
impressions, giving the correspondents
themselves no choice in what they were
to see or whom they were to meet. He
leaves that sort of thing to the Ger
mans, not only because he doesn't like
1t, but. also. as he would be the first TO
acknowledge, because he couldn't do 1t
II he tried.
Has Seen Half of Lines.
During my stay at headquarters. l
have seen more than half the British and
German trench lines on the whole front
from the User canal to the Somme,
thanks to the magnificently clear spring
weather and the relative inactivity of
German cannon at times when
was taken to exposed points of vantage
whence the best views on the western
front can be obtained. but which can
not be occupied because their prominence
makes them easy and obvious targets.
Thanks to the kindness Of the general
commanding that portion of the line,
have enjoyed a ramble of some miles
1aFV .
little hills and Stag heaps dotted about
here and there bearing such names as
Hill 20. Fosse S, the HohenZollern Re-
doubt and the Double CrassieT. The plain
was the plain of Loos, and for miles in
all directions not a human being could be
seen. though some hundreds of thousands
of men were hiding there. We constantly
jumped trenches with men in them. and
were Ourselves-my two officer escorts
and myself-vioIatinE the general rule
that everybody must keep to the trenches
in the daytime. We were out Of effective
rifle range, and though the Germans
could see US perfectly well. the theory
Was that their nrst shell would miss US,
and we could jump in an instant to safety
in trench The Germans saw it that
way. too. and beyond an occasional shell
in our general neighbOrhood offered no
opposition even when we walked up and
i
wrecked by shell fire and left standing
in the open because they are useless and
cannot be removed without probable loss.
Taken Into Npres.
have been taken into what was once
Ypres (deleted by CENSOR on a bright
morning with German aeroplanes over
head. and German shells crashing into
the ruins. \ few other civilians have
haa in lr1f do vH-ha ha
Germans cannot see YOU cOming-(de-
leted BY CENSOR has, I am told been
chosen in the past for these expeditions.
The Roche remarked the staff officer
with me on this occasion as a shell ex-
plOded in the road and we hastily turned
a corner. doesn't like motor cars" and
he pointed to a great German sausage
balloon planted where its occupants had
perfect view of our movements
The very latest types of aeropIanes.
some of them not yet in use have been
shown and explained to me at an aero
dTome in the rear, and l have watched
lighting in the air over the Ypres salient
and stood beside a great hOwitzer as il
received wireless signals from its spot
ting" plane far away over the German
lines. directing its FIRE. With my fingers
i'm my ears. in a gunpit far below the
ground and supported by steel girders.
with A narrow opening only for the shells.
/ have been deafened by the rapid fire
Of heldguns. have been in the trenches.
and. far in the rear. have followed step
by step the mechanism by which a mod
Crn army in the field is kept supplied.
Studies in Organization.
Not the least interesting has proved the
study Of the organizations at the great
bases tdeleted by Censor). the bakery
which supplies the army with fresh bread
every day. the great repair shops where
everything from a torn uniform or bat
tered shoe to 4 wrecked siege gun is
put in shape for service, the rest camps
where men whose nerves have given way