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served rather like a tonic, a taste of a potent poison, which in small doses may act as a
stimulant, hut if administered in excessive quantities will produce rapid paralysis and
death. Beyond the front line of trenches our R.A.F. continued to administer overdoses
to the enemy.
The traffic upon the roads converging fanwise upon the Grande Place pulsed steadily,
day and night, towards the great heart of the Salient, to be forced forward again, just as
steadily and surely, along the great arteries feeding the forward zone. Not a battery
ever found itself starved of ammunition even the great 9.2's were known to cry
Enough! as the stacks of shells mounted daily behind the gun-pits. By limber,
waggon and pack-train, in a never-ending procession, the 18-pounder charges came flooding
into the forward battery positions. And no activity upon the part of the enemy seemed
to check .the constant stream of men upon the duckboard tracks meandering through the
sea of shell-holes, past sluggish streams and splintered woods. From railhead to lonely
listening post the food moved forward food for the ravenous guns, food for battle-worn
men, and food, in the letters from home, for the wean' minds of men.
With the activity of our own Air Forces we are not here concerned, but it will not
be untimely to recall that, beyond the rim of the saucer, the enemy was suffering from
the creeping paralysis mentioned above. From the Rhine to the last water-logged shell-
hole in their hands, the enemy found in the allied 'planes a terror which flew by day
and by night. Let us remember, too, that somewhere in the vicinity of Poelcapelle, on
September nth, Captain Guynemer found an unknown grave after downinghis
53rd hostile 'plane. But for such men as these, British, French and Belgian, we should
have much more to relate of the enemy's activity, both in the air and on the ground,
through those long, strenuous, saturated months of the Third Battle of Ypres, 1917.
our children shall understand
When and how our fate
Was changed, and by whose hand."
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BATTLE OF MESS1NES (Correction).
Sir Philip Gibbs has requested me to point out
an error in the fifth paragraph of his article The
Battle of Messines, June 7th, 1917," published in
The Ypres Times, Vol. 2, No. 7, July, 1925.
The list of regiments should be amended to
read as follows:16th (Irish), 36th (Ulster),
25th Division, New Zealanders, and 3rd (Austra
lian).
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