From Each One Of Them Rose Separate Columns Of Smoke, Meeting In A Pall Overhead, And Through The Smoke Came Stabbing Flashes Of Fire As German Shells Burst With Thudding Shocks Of Sound. This Was The Front Line Of Battle.

From each one of them rose separate columns of smoke, meeting in a pall overhead, and through the smoke came stabbing flashes of fire as German shells burst with thudding shocks of sound. This was the front line of battle.

Philip Gibbs

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During the early months of the war in 1914 there was a conflict of opinion between the War Office and the Foreign Office regarding news from the Front.

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But the worst handicap we had the prohibition of naming individual units who had done the fighting.

Philip Gibbs

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But do you know, I shall not be sorry to die. I shall be glad, Monsieur. And why glad, you ask? Because I love France and hate the Germans who have put this war on us.

Philip Gibbs

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All was well, until I reached the port of Havre. Three officers with the rank of lieutenant, whom afterwards I knew to be Scotland Yard men, came aboard and demanded to see my papers which they took away from me.

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A friend in the War Office warned me that I was in Kitchener's black books, and that orders had been given for my arrest next time I appeared in France.

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