Word: frenchmen
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...active engineering work of the University R. O. T. C. was begun yesterday, when Companies C and D, under the leadership of the French officers, spent the day near Fresh Pond, engaged in the outlining and construction of trenches. The Frenchmen have laid out a system of defences which include first and second line trenches, communication trenches and boyeaux, with bombproofs and dug-outs at intervals along the line. The plans also include machine gun positions and bombing posts. Two companies each day will devote their entire time to the study of these positions and the construction of a portion...
Major deReviers gave a lecture to the Corps yesterday evening on the planning and construction of trenches. After a short introductory address by Major de Reviers, Mr. Frederic Schenk '09 delivered the translation of the lecture, assisted by comments and suggestions from the other Frenchmen. With the aid of diagrams the method of constructing the usual shelter trench was described, and instructions were given in the manner of erecting barbed wire entanglements and other obstructions. Bomb proofs, deep dugouts and other shelters were treated in detail, and the Corps was instructed in the art of their construction...
Captain Dupont, to whom was ascribed the report that the six Frenchmen were to be transferred to Plattsburg has made the following statement for the CRIMSON...
Children of French soldiers are left orphaned after every battle. For most of them there is no means of obtaining the necessities of life save through gifts. If the German Emperor had never had dreams of Weltmacht, and been content to hold to his central domains, many brave Frenchmen would now be living in peace, and their children would look to their fathers for support. But the ambition of a foreign emperor brought havoc in lands not under his control, and as a result the orphans of France call to America...
There will be a reception this evening for the six French officers, given by President and Mrs. Lowell. Various members of the Faculty and their wives will be invited. Throughout the past week the Frenchmen have been entertained by various organizations in Boston at dinner and receptions, and as the first official representatives of the French Government who have been in the city since the outbreak of the war, they have been royally received everywhere...