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...Bentley '17 died of shell injuries in a hospital in France September 17,1917, while in the American Ambulance Service...
...English progress continues, while the Mohammedans weaken, the lasting possession of Jerusalem seems assured. Unlike many places captured in war, this has suffered no bombardment, much to the satisfaction of all who wish the preservation of the relies of the past. A field of historical research undamaged by shell-fire and mines has been opened up. Through an easy approach and a ready withdrawal it has been made possible to seize the Holy city in its integrity. Unlike Rheims and other centres of mediaeval Christianity, the very home of our religion has escaped destruction. Whether the refusal of the Turks...
...20th to the old battlefield of B--.We now got our first impression of the real thing, because never before have I seen such devastation. Absolutely not a tree was left standing, and hardly was there a square yard of ground which had not been churned up by a shell. Yet amid all this we were driving on a road equal to any of our state roads, and which is typical of all the roads which are built across the fields up to the front lines. In addition to the devastation we were welcomed by a huge shell breaking...
...hill, which we came to one evening about sunset. It was a battlefield but freshly taken from the enemy; the stench of the dead was still in the air, and the ground was torn and churned,--one horrid mass of blood-soaked earth, of twisted barbed wire and steel shell fragments, timbers and bits of concrete gun emplacements, pieces of personal clothing, shrapnel, broken rifles, unexploded bombs, rifle shells, human bones,--all shattered and ghastly and horrible. We were in front of the English batteries and could hear the English shells go singing and hurtling through the air over...
...boats are coming! At least so the Kaiser has informed the world. Thired of his meagre diet of English and French ships, the War Lord looks for new cannon-food, new worlds to conquer. To pursue the elusive Fall River liners is Wilhelm's latest ambition; to shell Revere would terrorize the Americans,--would soon end the war. It is indeed a rosy picture with which to lure on the terrible Teuton...