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Updated: June 18, 2025
There had been no gun-flashes in the night, and I felt sure that, had any one seen me, there would have been a bonfire on every hill to encourage me to keep going. So I gave it up, and went on with my work.
Every one of the creatures below raised its voice in a horrible, bleating cry. The volume of sound was numbing was agonizing in sheer impact. There were stirrings and clickings as of horns clashing against each other. Another scream from Johnny Simms. He had moved. It appeared that he was running. Cochrane saw more gun-flashes, there were more shots.
Still some of our friends received slight wounds, for they stood on the open deck of the craft. "Bless my eye-glasses!" suddenly exclaimed Mr. Damon. "I'm stuck!" "Don't mind that!" advised Ned. "Keep on pouring lead into them. We'll soon be away from here!" "Don't fire any more!" called Mr. Durban. "The gun-flashes tell them where to shoot. I'll use the electric rifle. It's better."
The battered villages and disorderly ruins looked like hieroglyphics traced on wet sand. A sea of smoke rolled over the ground for miles. It was a by-product of one of the most terrific bombardments in the history of trench warfare. Through it hundreds of gun-flashes twinkled, like the lights of a Chinese garden. Having reached a height of 12,000 feet, we crossed the trenches south of Bapaume.
They passed by us in the gathering gloom, and there seemed to be no end to these straggling multitudes of ruined, homeless people who were wandering westwards to escape the disaster that threatened to engulf us all. The eastern sky flickered with vivid gun-flashes and scintillated with brilliant shell-bursts.
At least fifty copies of different telescopic sketches were sent in to the Division, including a series of eight showing new workings by the Germans in their front line system. Reports of nearly seventy gun-flashes were sent in as well as many sound bearing reports. The following numbers of German infantry and transport vehicles were reported from Adam O.P.
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