An Onlooker in France 1917-1919

to his aerodrome. Getting very weak, he landed, not very well, outside Amiens. He got his wrist bound up and had asked someone

coming back when it got dark, I received a message one evening from the Press "Major" to go to his chateau an

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u are being paid

s,

me your work regularly.-Tel

clearly heard him say m

ly, in the evening, to take what I had done and show it to him-t

efore those who were above the Colonel. This I did, and had comparative peace, but the seed of hostility was sown in the Col

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