[3] "That is impossible."
[4] "Please, Herr Direktor, may I write a letter?"
[5] "Permit to Number 58 to sing and to whistle."
[6] "Out!"
AN AMERICAN AT BATTLE OF THE SOMME WITH FRENCH ARMY
Army Life With the Soldiers Along the Somme
Told by Frederick Palmer, American War Correspondent
Mr. Palmer was the only accredited correspondent who had freedom of the field in the Battles of the Somme. At the time of this writing he has been officially appointed as a member of the staff of General Pershing, with the American Armies in France. This American has become a world figure. His life has been spent on the battlefields of the modern wars: The Greek War, the Philippine War, the Macedonian Insurrection, the Central American Wars, the Russian-Japanese War, the Turkish Revolution, the Balkan Wars. At the beginning of the Great War, he was with the British army and fleet. His descriptions of the fighting are unsurpassed in the war's literature—it is "the epic touch of great events." He has made a notable historical record in his book entitled "My Second Year of the War," in which he presents graphic pictures of the grim fighting along the Somme, with admirable descriptions of the heroism of the Canadians, the Australians and the fighters from all parts of the Earth, who are giving their lives "to make the world safe for Democracy." A single chapter from Mr. Palmer's book is here reproduced by permission of his publishers, Dodd, Mead and Company: Copyright 1917.