The Project Gutenberg eBook, Over the Front in an Aeroplane and Scenes Inside the French and Flemish Trenches, by Ralph Pulitzer

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OVER THE FRONT IN AN AEROPLANE

[See page 2

"A FEW SECONDS LATER THE TWO GREAT PROPELLERS

BEGAN TO FLASH ROUND"

[ OVER THE FRONT
IN AN AEROPLANE
]

AND SCENES

INSIDE THE FRENCH

AND FLEMISH TRENCHES

BY
Ralph Pulitzer

ILLUSTRATED

HARPER & BROTHERS PUBLISHERS
NEW YORK AND LONDON

Over the Front in an Aeroplane

TO
MY WIFE

[CONTENTS]

CHAP.		PAGE
I.	A Flight to the Firing Line	[1]
II.	How the Front Is Visited	[16]
III.	In the French Trenches	[41]
IV.	A Typical Day's Tour	[59]
V.	A Grenade-throwing School	[88]
VI.	With the Belgian Batteries	[99]
VII.	In the Flemish Trenches	[120]
VIII.	Lessons	[140]

[ILLUSTRATIONS]

"A Few Seconds Later the Two Great Propellers Began to Flash Round"		[Frontispiece]
"Below Us Stretched an Unbroken White Ocean of These Lower Clouds"	Facing p.	[6]
"There Were Autos with ... Razor‑edged Knife‑blades Attached"	"	[32]
Captain d'A—— and the Author	"	[32]
"There Mass Is Still Held Every Sunday for the Benefit of the Sixteen Inhabitants Who Still Persisted in Staying in the Village"	"	[48]
The Author in a Front Trench near Rheims	"	[52]
"We were Completely Absorbed in Watching the Soft Little Clouds Playfully Dancing Along Ahead of the Lazily Drifting Aeroplane"	"	[68]
"As We Hiked Along at the General's Favorite Pace"	"	[72]
"A Heavy Field-piece Standing on Treadled Wheels"	"	[72]
Part of the Enormous Encampment of Supply‑wagons, which Carry the Complete Supplies for Three Full Days for One Army Corps	"	[84]
"Colonel D——, Commanding the Artillery of the Sector"	"	[104]
The Author in One of the Biggest Shell‑pits, which were Ten Feet Deep and Twenty Feet in Diameter	"	[104]
Commandant L—— in the Nickel‑steel Skull-cap which He Wore Inside His Khaki Cap	"	[120]
"The Chauffeur Reached the Open Place by the Church"	"	[126]
On the Shattered Church Hung this Crucifix Intact though Surrounded by Shrapnel Holes	"	[126]
Under Heavy Fire in a Belgian Communicating‑trench	"	[136]

[ OVER THE FRONTIN AN AEROPLANE]

[CONTENTS]

[ILLUSTRATIONS]

[ OVER THE FRONT
IN AN AEROPLANE
]