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Updated: June 15, 2025
The telephone bell tinkled again; the colonel turned from the big map-board on the wall and took up the receiver. "Col. speaking! Yes! Have they? Sorry to hear that! Umph! No! no signs of an attack on our front. Let me know any further developments Good-bye!" He looked towards me and said briefly, "The Boche infantry have got over on our left! Came through the mist!
The hut was so cramped for space that one had to shift the table a map-board laid upon a couple of boxes in order to move round it. The winding road outside presented a moving war panorama that afternoon.
True, a shell had made a hole in one corner of the iron roof, and the place was of such antiquity that rats could be heard squeaking in the vicinity of my bed-head, but I hoped that a map-board fixed behind my pillow would protect me from unpleasantness. The colonel was suspicious of the S.O.S. line issued to us by Division that night.
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