Word: line
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...beginning of the war Colonel Azan was at the headquarters of General Joffre. At his own request he was sent to the fighting line, as commander of a company of the 153d Regiment. He has also been Major of the 69th and attached to the headquarters of the Sixth Army. He has received the Croix de Guerre, is an officer of the Legion of Honor, has been "cited" three times and wounded three times...
...system of trenches at Fresh Pond on which two companies have been working each day under the guidance of the French Officers is rapidly nearing completion. All of the excavation is completed except a few points in the first line, and in one of the boyeaux, and the men are now engaged in performing the finishing details which will make the trenches habitable. The ever difficult problem of drainage is being met in the several ways adopted on the Western front, floor gratings are being constructed and placed and weak portions of the trench walls are being braced and reenforced...
Yesterday the banks of Boston and Cambridge were kept busy well into the night filing applications. In many places the crowds had to wait in line before being able to get to the desk...
...Major Azan last evening was especially of interest at this time, when vague reports of disruption are being scattered. The assurance was given in that speech of the desire of the French mission to do its utmost in training American officers competent for the fierce efficiency of the fighting line. The assurance was given also that the mission feels especially eager to train those officers in so far as it may in the Harvard Corps...
Contrary to the sybilline warnings of hopeful pessimists, the First Battalion returned from the firing line with no casualties. In so far as the top sergeants could check up, the companies were in possession of the normal number of ears and digits, manual and pedal. In spite of their being armed--perhaps because of it--with rifles which the instructors graphically said were made to shoot around corners, the men made decently presentable scores. If the targets had been a regiment of Prussians, it is to be presumed that such shooting would have been at least sufficient to knock...