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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...When we first came to this region the French had barely began their preparations. There were no reserve trenches worthy of the name, practically no rail communications within 15 miles of the front, no guns or ammunition to speak of. Then there were unfolded before us the methods of a great army preparing for a great offensive. Five miles back of the lines there was made a wonderfully constructed set of reserve trenches, protected by far-reaching mazes of barbed wire. Still farther back was a repetition of this first reserve set, not so complete in detail, but still ready...
...headquarters four miles from the town of Verdun. At that time five sections of our Field Service were working in different parts of the Verdun sector and their work has been admirably described by Mr. Irwin in the Saturday Evening Post of September 2. Our runs carried us through the outskirts of Verdun on to le Cabaret, our chief post, and occasionally to Ft. de Tavannes. This road seemed to be a centre of French batteries and consequently at times, for German shells, a distinctly undesirable situation, to say the least. We never took any stock...
Statistics as to students in the high school and universities of Germany appeared lately in the Medizinische Klinik. The brief record which brings us up to the present summer semester, holds the substance of an interlude in German history which marks the end of one chapter and the beginning of another as yet unfinished...
...French sergeant flashed a light and pointed it o show us just enough room to squeeze through between the caisson and the ditch while his men went steadily on without haste yet with efficient "team work" and no conversation, clearing the road. And this was no place to linger, as the next one was always due to arrive...
...each car, and at present we are a little short-handed, because a number of our men have joined the American Aviation Corps of the French Army; but all have their heart in the work, and it only means a little more for each one of us...