So indeed I have always held, but after much study I cannot understand the manner of its working.

Fate is enough for me." We went on and came to a flat country that was lined with ditches, all of them full of men, Germans on one side, English and French upon the other.

A terrible bombardment shook the earth, the shells raining upon the ditches.

Presently that from the English guns ceased and out of the trenches in front of them thousands of men were vomited, who ran forward through a hail of fire in which scores and hundreds fell, across an open piece of ground that was pitted with shell craters.

They came to barbed wire defenses, or what remained of them, cut the wire with nippers and pulled up the posts.