And the public will think that very simple—a picket post ... two machine guns ... and no losses.
CHAPTER XIII
A NIGHT CONVOY
The colonel just telephoned the following order:
“The echelons of the companies of machine guns will bring, to-night, thirty thousand cartridges to the P. C.[1] of the regiment. This order must be executed before daylight.”
We spent the afternoon in verifying the belts and making up the war train.
Towards seven o’clock we went slowly towards the bridge at Froissy, where we made a long halt until night fell. The sentry refused to let us take the towpath which would save us some eight miles.
These were his instructions!
It appears that the noises of the caissons and wagons might wake up the enemy, who would at once bombard the towpath near which were numerous huts of regiments who were resting.