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I could only write to the Countess by a servant of the gentleman who was now my conductor. As soon as she learned I was at Nivelle, she sent some gentlemen, natives of the part of Flanders I was in, with a strong injunction to see me safe on the frontier of France. I had to pass through the Cambresis, partly in favour of Spain and partly of the States.
Robert Georges Nivelle given chief of command of French army. Dec. 15 French at Verdun win two miles of front and capture 11,000. December 19 Llloyd George declines German peace proposals. Dec. 23 Baron Burian succeeded as minister of foreign affairs in Austria by Count Czernin. Dec. 26 Germany proposes to President Wilson "an immediate meeting of delegates of the belligerents."
Sir Henry could talk sound soldierly sense about the results gained and look forward, as did the whole army, to next summer when the maximum of skill and power should be attained. In common with Nivelle, both were leaders who had earned their way in battle, which was promoting the efficient and shelving or "degumming," in the army phrase, the inefficient.
Emerging from the galleries we met General Dubois, a great soldier and a kindly man, one who shares the daily perils of his men. The General invited us to remain and dine with him. He had that day received from General Nivelle his cravate as Commander of the Legion of Honour, and his officers were giving him a dinner-party to celebrate the event. "See how kind fate is to me," he added.
He hangs there through hundreds of years he has spoken with his great voice of God! so that they heard him for miles and miles across the land " "Maryette I am so sorry for you " "Oh! Oh! My carillon of Nivelle! My beloved carillon!" "Maryette, dear! My little Carillonnette " "No my heart is broken " "Vooz ates tray, tray belle "
Nivelle, more than held their own, recapturing a considerable portion of the terrain occupied by the enemy, including Fleury and the important Thiaumont Work. The greatest blow which the Italian army had struck against Austria since the beginning of the war was completed on August 9, when Italian troops captured the fortified city of Goritz, for which they had been struggling for months.
The gallantry of this youth, then only eighteen years of age, so animated the regiment, and restored their confidence, that they rallied and shared in the glory of the day. Immediately after the battle of Nivelle, Lord Wellington determined to advance his whole line on to French ground.
The Father of his own men, it is not surprising that General Nivelle finds a warm corner in his heart for the British Tommy, since his mother was an Englishwoman. At lunch General Nivelle and the members of his staff asked many questions as to the work of the Scottish Women's Hospitals.
To the northward, but out of sight, lies windy Biarritz; to the south is blood-stained, battered and renewed San Sebastian, a name that recalls many deeds of heroism and many of shame. The horrors of its siege and taking might make one cold even in sunlight. But between us and its new city lies the Bidassoa. Here, at St Jean de Luz, is the Nivelle flowing past Ciboure.
Turn again. And it is better that you turn quickly, because it is not known to us what is going on in that wooded district over there. For if they get a foothold in Nivelle on this drive they might cross this road before evening."
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