ILLUSTRATIONS

General Sarrail, commanding the Allied armies in
Greece, making his first landing in Salonika
[Frontispiece]
FACING PAGE
President Poincaré on a visit to the front[18]
“Of another house the roof only remained, from under
it the rest of the building had been shot away”
[48]
The stone roof over this glass chandelier in the Arras
cathedral was destroyed by shells, and the chandelier
not touched
[50]
General Franchet d’Espéray[70]
King Constantine of Greece and commander-in-chief of
her armies
[102]
“In Salonika the water-front belongs to everybody”[122]
“On one side of the quay, a moving-picture palace,
... on the other a boat unloading fish”
[124]
Outside the Citadel, which is mediæval, Salonika is
modern and Turkish
[126]
“The quay supplied every spy—German, Bulgarian,
Turk, or Austrian—with an uninterrupted view”
[139]
“Hills bare of trees, from which the snow that ran
down their slopes had turned the road into a sea
of mud”
[154]
American war correspondents at the French front in
Serbia
[160]
Headquarters of the French commander in Gravec,
Serbia
[170]
After the retreat from Serbia[176]
The ruined village of Gerbéviller, destroyed after their
retreat by the Germans
[190]
“Through these woods ran a toy railroad”[192]
A first-line trench outside of Verdun[200]
A valley in Argonne showing a forest destroyed by
shells
[208]
War in the forest[216]
A poster inviting the proprietors of restaurants and
hotels and their guests to welcome the soldiers who
have permission to visit Paris, especially those
who come from the districts invaded by the Germans
[228]
All over France, on Christmas Day and the day after,
money was collected to send comforts and things
good to eat to the men at the front
[232]
A poster advertising the fund to bring from the trenches
“permissionaires,” those soldiers who obtain permission
to return home for six days
[236]
“Very interestin’. You ought to frame it”[252]
“They have women policemen now”[262]

WITH THE FRENCH
IN FRANCE AND SALONIKA

CHAPTER I