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What made it all the more exciting was the fact that the man in the shack, hearing all those queer noises, must imagine his enemies were trying to burrow under the door for he kept up frequent furious bursts of gunfire and at any moment an unlucky roll was apt to bring the wrestlers within range of the hail of bullets.
Accordingly, after gunfire on the evening of the twenty-sixth, an order was issued for all the grenadier and light infantry companies with the 12th, and Hardenberg's Regiment to assemble, at twelve o'clock at night with a party of Engineers, and two hundred workmen from the line regiments for a sortie upon the enemy's batteries.
"First, the gunfire, then seven long whistles, followed by wait!" As the whistling ceased another gun boomed forth. "That's the emergency signal, to call all hands back who belong on submarines," uttered Radwin, wheeling about. "We must get our hats and coats, and hustle down to the water front." Radwin, had in truth, read the signal aright.
For a while we made vain attempts to find our destination from the French railway staff, but concluded they either did not understand our variation of their beautiful language or were sullen brutes knowing nothing. As we continued northward the throbbing of distant gunfire became plainer, and a strange flickering could be seen in the morning sky.
The line taken by the German armies for their stand was not the river itself, but the northern ridge. At no place more than a mile and a half from the river, it was always within gunfire of any crossing. Every place of crossing was commanded by a spur. Every road on the north bank was in their hands, every road on the south bank curved upward so as to be a fair mark for their artillery.
Shrapnel exploded without cessation and rifle fire became so rapid that it sounded hardly less loudly than the gunfire. Late in the afternoon the Germans succeeded in retaking the trenches which they had lost in the morning, capturing at that time the Russian victors of the morning to the number of 600. On the same day, March 21, 1916, the Russians extended the sphere of their attack.
During the night of July 11, 1917, British naval aeroplanes carried out successful raids in Flanders in and near five towns, when several tons of bombs were dropped with good results. Railway lines and an electric power station at Zarren were attacked by gunfire from the air, and bombs were dropped on a train near St. Denis-Westrem.
The pilot and observer were overpowered before they had time to set it afire, the usual procedure when captured. A typical day of this season with the birdmen of France was April 2, 1915. A War Office report of that day tells of forty-three reconnoitering flights and twenty others for the purpose of attacking enemy positions or ascertaining the direction of gunfire.
I think it must have been through force of habit that, when they halted to turn about and retrace the route, they stopped always for a moment or two and faced southward. It was from the southward that there came rolling up to us the sounds of a bellowing chorus of gunfire a Wagnerian chorus, truly. That perhaps was as it should be. Wagner's countrymen were helping to make it.
The Devons called for artillery, and three batteries supported them splendidly, though the gunners were under a great disadvantage in that the ground did not permit the effect of gunfire to be observed and it was difficult to follow the attackers.
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