The Square Jaw

HENRY RUFFIN AND ANDRÉ TUDESQ
THOMAS NELSON & SONS, LTD 35 & 36 PATERNOSTER ROW, LONDON. EDINBURGH NEW YORK PARIS
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BY HENRY RUFFIN AND ANDRÉ TUDESQ.
Translated from the French.
THOMAS NELSON & SONS, 35 AND 36, PATERNOSTER ROW, LONDON, E.C. EDINBURGH. NEW YORK. PARIS.
THE BATTLE OF THE ANCRE.
THE IMPROMPTU VICTORY.
The Ancre Front, 13th November.
You read the reports. The names of the places that have been taken, the calculations of the gains, the numbers of the prisoners, leave you cold. Words! words! It is on the field of battle, amidst the thunder of the guns and the magic glow of fires, that one should read the bulletins of victory.
This evening a heady, irresistible joy took possession of the Army. The prisoners were pouring in. The men were singing in their quarters. Upon a front 3-1/2 miles wide and nearly 1-1/2 deep our Allies had broken the German lines on both sides of the Ancre.
They have been giving me details of the battle. From hour to hour, here, in the midst of the troops, I am being told the incidents of the fighting. A risky privilege!