The review. [volume] (High Point, N.C.) 1908-19??, 1917-05-10

farther away; Immediately more reports nearer at
hand, and instantly it is followed by crash and
tear of sound The first impression is that the
town is being blown up in bombardment. Few
have heard anything like 1T. The soldiers look
at each other.
1T is the attack beginning" they say. Later
they get their orders.
In a smaller town nearer the trenches, where
there is more artillery the noise is still great
er. By the sound there to be gun to
every few square feet, thinks when thinking is
possible. The scream Of the shells passing over
from batteries in the rear is drowned in this din
1t is an inferno of ear-splitting noise
In the trenches the few soldiers cover in the
dugouts. Heaps Of debris fall about them To
them the noise Of the guns in the is drowned
in the crash of hundreds of shells bursting in the
Germans trenches before them and the shrieks of
the shells they above them in the air faster
than sound in such numbers that the noise is in
describable. Where the enemys trenches are is
a continuous mass of spouting dirt that shuts out
everything. The whole German line here is be-
Ing beaten to pieces.
Few of the soldiers have ever experienced any
thing like this. The trenches of the Germans
out 400 feet away. Now and then shell falling
short Of it's range comes the French trenches
or tears into them. but with the innumerable shells
now tearing about it cannot be helped
The Germans, taken by SURPRISE do not reply
until some time later. They open up their own
artillery little by little. Their guns, is seems are
aimed at the batteries of the French they know,
Tor few of the shells fall about the trenches. But
II is nothing to the madness of the fire they are
lighting against -
Some of the French guns are aimed at the Ger
man batteries and an artillery duel is The Ger
man guns are outnumbered Other French guns
are firing on the roads of the enemy to prevent
troops and supplies from being fastened up.
AND now in the rear Of the French hnes-nO-
Oouy seems to- know where they are coming from,
"Aere they have been concealed all this dme-st1ll
otner guns Of all sizes are being rushed up. They
@ar through the amazed villages drawn by wild
S'eeds maddened by the drivers. Efforts Of spies
are now in vain.
The line bearing assorted equipment has ceased
Al a measure. Instead are the guns and the heavy
sK1dding caissons bearing ammunition. Darkness
1als and the whole countryside Is covered with
udSnes 1t is impossible to distinguish sound from
HOund but the flashes dart out from everywhere
IKE summer lightning. More guns are being
rushed up, increased number of ammunition
wagons and troops-countless numbers.
Inc terrific cannonading continues all night.
Soluers who able, sleep in dozes. Morning
Ofeaks The soldiers nearer the front begin TO
uarch up. AS soldiers enter the towns those
forward
. as the men march they frequently turn OFF into
e neids along the road to avoid the guns and
""sons laundering by. AS far one can see the
w. noie road, ahead and behind, is compact mass
- roops-marching I'D. ss~,.~v s. y
Ae Germans are Smelling the roads az
1ny places. At first the shells fall among them.
ere are the usual scenes Of the dead. torn up In
~ manner, while the chaplain-priests, facing
10 o almost certain death Of their lot, are seen
,ush little cleartngs In the thick clouds Of chok-
S "nlOKe rushing about, some themselves wound
'Neiping those asking for aid.