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First chosen were ports for U. S. cargoes (St. Nazaire, La Pallice, Bordeaux and, later, Brest). Docks and storehouses had to be built. Railroads had to be repaired or renewed. Base hospitals had to be set up. A complete telephone and telegraph system had to be installed because, explained General Pershing, "the lines throughout France were so inefficient and unreliable, as government-owned utilities usually are." Ammunition depots, training camps, aviation fields had to be laid out. And through this ever-expanding system had to be kept moving an ever-expanding supply for an ever-expanding army...
Another feature of the campaign was that the government placed 64 opposition candidates in jail "permitting them to stand for election but not to electioneer." One of these was M. Wincenty Witos, leader of the Peasant Party, thrice prime minister, locked up in the military prison at Brest-Litovsk without any charge being preferred against...
...regular army. To pass the time the prisoners write novels, play soundless music on a plank painted like the keyboard of a piano, compose invisible petitions on imaginary typewriters. Amateur theatricals turn the whole camp into a burrow of homosexuality. When the Russian Revolution and the Treaty of Brest-Litovsk come, the prisoners plan an escape en masse, nearly run into a massacre, are thankful to get back to their safe prison again. As the Revolution and counterrevolution roll across the country, the prison becomes a self-governing community: rank counts for nothing, money everything. Soon a miniature city...
...Dieu Herrick! In a special railway baggage car - redecorated with potted plants and burning candles to resemble a chapelle ardente - the remains of Myron Timothy Herrick left Paris for Brest by special train...
Because the coffin was going to be conveyed from Brest to Manhattan on the French cruiser Tourville, and because women are positively not allowed on French warships, Mrs. Parmely Herrick sped by a different route to Cherbourg, caught the Aquitania...