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Updated: May 24, 2025
"While all this wild dissipation was going on among the moneyed class in the capital the corpses of many gallant soldiers lay unburied and uncovered on the shell-plowed fields of battle near Rheims, on the road to Neuville-sur-Margival and other places sights pointed out to visitors to tickle their interest in the grim spectacle of war. In vain individuals expostulated and the press protested.
Bruce was still further aided by the shell-plowed condition of the hillside. Again and again he had to break his stride, to leap some shell-hole. Often he had to encircle such holes. More than once he bounded headlong down into a gaping crater and scrambled up its far side. Mahan's gaze followed the dog's every step. Bruce had cleared more than three-fourths of the slope.
A hot and oppressive day disclosed woods rent and scarred, standing wheat fields shell-plowed and trampled, and farm houses set ablaze. The bringing of the Belgian wounded into Liege apprised the citizens that their side had also suffered considerably.
The ride through the night in the dark without lights, without sound, over rough, shell-plowed roads had plenty of excitement. Bouconville for seven months could never be entered by day. The dugout wall of the hut was filled with sandbags to keep it up.
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