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But when I guardedly sounded my friends of the Intelligence they didn't seem to be worrying about it. From them I got a chit to the local French authorities, and, as soon as we came out of the line, towards the end of December, I made straight for the country town of Douvecourt. By a bit of luck our divisional quarters were almost next door.
A guide would accompany each party and an officer of the Divisional Staff would be with the first party. We must move in absolute silence; no lights or smoking. We would be exposed to shell-fire whenever we passed the crest of the rise from the beach, where we ought to adopt an extended formation.
Kirsopp on information given by the observers of exceptional movement in the forward area. Another Divisional relief was detected by largely increased movement on July 25. And a battalion relief on August 6, with disastrous results for the enemy.
Why the rest of the van should also have been led thus astray can be explained only on the ground that Carkett's general views were shared by the divisional commander, a rear-admiral, who, as was proved a year later, possessed high courage of the pure game-cock order, but was wholly thoughtless of gaining an unfair advantage, two against one, by tactical ingenuity.
Those of us who were fortunate enough to witness the nature of the preparations for the first of General Allenby's great and triumphant moves in Palestine can speak of the debt Britain and her Allies owe not merely to the Commander-in-Chief and his Headquarters Staff, but to the three Corps Commanders, the Divisional Commanders, the Brigadiers, and the officers responsible for transport, artillery, engineer, and the other services.
We bore it into the dining-room and set it upon a chair by the side of a window. I took out my knife and proceeded to cut the string. "Wait a moment," said Jonah. "Where's the police-whistle?" "It's all right," said Berry. "James has gone for the divisional surgeon." I pulled off the veil. It was really a speaking likeness of Margery. Two hours later the telephone went. I picked up the receiver.
"Yes, sir," replied the corps commander courteously. "I wasn't at all sure that the wire was cut, and so reported." "Ah!" "This strong point should have been removed," continued the divisional commander, putting his finger upon a point of junction. "That I asked to be done, but McDowell seems to have missed it." "Ah!" "The enfilade got us from that point, of course."
"I hereby pledge myself, if elected to represent the Division on the County Council, to promote the interests of the United Irish League, and to resign my position whenever called upon to do so by the Divisional Executive." So completely has the policy been carried out that by 1911, to quote the words of Mr.
The news an hour later was that our Divisional Infantry patrols were working methodically through Vendhuile, the village on the canal bank, which the Americans had entered the day before.
The Princess Petrovska gritted her teeth viciously as she was left alone, and paid no heed to the magazines and papers left on the table a consideration for visitors that had not been discernible in the waiting-room. Meanwhile, Foyle had set every available man of the divisional detachment of the C.I.D. busily at work.
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