CHAPTER V.
FRANCE AND THE FRENCH Signs of War not Conspicuous--Paris reopened--A Rejuvenation--English and American Help--French Casualties--French Heroes.
One enters France nowadays by the Folkestone and Dieppe route, which is a four-hour Channel trip or longer, or by Folkestone and Boulogne, a Channel trip of ninety minutes more or less.

All the routes to Calais are used by the government for its troops, supplies, and munitions.
England's hospital base is at Boulogne.

Here is the center of her Red Cross work, with a dozen big hospital ships commandeered from the P.& O.line and bearing distinctive stripes around their hulls.

One hospital ship is set apart for the wounded Indians, and the apartments within are fitted up according to the various religious castes prevalent among the troops of India now fighting in France and Flanders.

Here at times puts in Lord Zetland's yacht, fitted out by Queen Alexandra for wounded English officers.
When you travel by rail, if you did not know that war was in the country you would never suspect it, unless you wondered why a red-hatted, blue-coated guard, with a rifle carelessly swung over his shoulder, is noticeable now and then by a cross-road or near the buttress of an important railroad bridge.