From the Trenches: Louvain to the Aisne, the First Record of an Eye-Witness

FROM THE TRENCHES
LOUVAIN TO THE AISNE, THE FIRST RECORD OF AN EYE-WITNESS
GEOFFREY WINTHROP YOUNG
LONDON: T. FISHER UNWIN 1 ADELPHI TERRACE W.C.
I wish to express my obligation to the Proprietors of the Daily News for permission to use material contributed to their columns.
First Published October, 1914.
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FROM THE TRENCHES
The Outbreak. In and Out of Paris.
On Tuesday, 28th of July, I returned from the Alps; the weather conditions had been arctic and the climbing more than usually exciting. During a bathe in the Lake of Geneva, which has become the customary end of the climbing season, I remember saying to my companion, Well, this is the end of all sensation for the year. Now for the usual dull winter's work.
On Thursday I volunteered to go with the Servian Army as War Correspondent for the Daily News , but the European conflagration was already too imminent. On Sunday, it was arranged that I should go to Paris to join the French Army.