Meanwhile they are content simply to do their hard duty in what remains

of a free country--a tiny corner of Belgium where the eye sees nothing

but a vast battlefield with its ruins; its camps, bubbling with active

life; its hospitals, homes of suffering; its cemeteries, too, where rest

those who died for their fatherland.

_Printed in Great Britain by Alabaster, Passmore & Sons, Ltd., London

and Maidstone._

FOOTNOTES:

[A] See _Les Batailles de la Marne_ (_Die Schlachten an der Marne_), by

An Officer of the German General Staff. Translated from the German by

Th. Buyse. Van OEst & Cie, Paris, 1917.

[B] Going into detail, we may point out that 60 kilometres of fire and

communication trenches are included in the area of the front line

organised defensively _for a single division occupying but a very narrow

sector_.

[C] For information on this subject, consult _Les Établissements

d'artillerie belges pendant la guerre_, by Captain Willy Breton.

Berger-Levrault, Paris and Nancy, 1917.

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