Soldier Silhouettes on Our Front

up out of France to the east. Three of us stood in the "crow's-nest" on an America

was confirmed. Then in a few minutes we saw another mast, and then another, and another; four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, ten, twenty-five, six-twenty-six ships coming

we had forgotten about the dawn. Then we turned for a minute, and off

on the sun?" Doctor F

are those dots on the

ed to

of destroyers coming out to me

izon, those slender guardians of the deep came toward us in formation. There were ten of them, and they met the great American convoy j

remind me of the experiences one has in France in these vivi

is

ettes of Mountain Peaks against

Silhouettes of

ght such a lurch came to the ship as threw everybody about in their staterooms. We thought it was a storm until the morning came, and we were informed that it

enly off to the east several spots appeared on the h

captain. There was a wave

tion wa

troyers coming out to meet us. They were a welcome sight. Like "hounds of the sea" they came, long and lean. Headed straight for us, they came like the winds. Then suddenly a slight mist began to fall, but not enough to obscure either the destroyers

ten while memory lasts. The French flag fluttered, the band started

covenant of old, promise of the eternal God to his peo

ps are expected. The great dirigibles sailed out a few hours ago. The sea-planes followed. Thousands of American men and women lined the docks waiting, peering with anx

enly we heard a terrific cannonading, and we knew that the transports and the convoys were in a battle with the U-bo

e big ship. Then they got near enough to see the American boys, thousands of them, lining the railings. Through the glasses we could make out the names of the transports. They were some of the largest that sail the Atlantic. When as they came slowly in on the full tide, with that rose sunset back of them,

vering dirigibles, and beyond them the great bird seaplanes, and beyond them