Word: mousson
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...carry wounded from the freight station of La Chapelle to all the hospitals in the Paris district, there are four other units at work. One squad is attached to Hospital "B," at Juilly, about 40 kilometers east of Paris. The other three units are stationed at Dunkirk, Pont-a-Mousson, and on the Alsace border, the total number of cars employed in these places being about 75. Each section is attached to the French army, is fed and lodged by it, and is subject to its discipline. The army furnishes gasoline and tires, but the drivers act as their...
...from Nancy through Lunecille to Gerbeviller and back, in company with the Mayor, and Recteur of the University of Nancy, and Professor Paul Petit, of the Faculte des Sciences there. On the previous day, during my lecture at the university, I had heard the cannon roar at Pont-a-Mousson, and though I was assured that there was came absolu along all the front that I was to visit, that the lines were two or three kilometers and more apart, and that in all probability nothing but artillery duels would occur, I felt that some little excitement was probably...