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The Sequel / What the Great War will mean to Australia

Chapter 5 No.5

Word Count: 597    |    Released on: 01/12/2017

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out fifteen miles south of Rheims, wi

emy had been holding that fringe since October, having pushed back our almost daily attempt

overed by the Argonne Forest; a s

ur daily flight over the same area r

etted against the pale green of the brightening eastern sky, the dove-like a

e, we could not pursue, as our orders were for speedy reconnaissance and early report. This was no easy matter over a country covered with the snowy quilt of winter, when even trees w

re radish-shaped shells, each weighing thirty-one pounds; and were fired from an apparatus which could be worked by t

which we were attached came over to our qua

een rammed by one of our machines. Both mac

d, which explained why we were stati

war with the improvement in range of weapons. Time was not long since when the general headed his men with a waving sword. As your Shakespeare said it-'Once more into the breach,

d out Nap ventu

o risk his speedy plane, when he has a better fighting chance of rising and dropping 'cough-drops' on the slow old 'bus beneath h

morning fly' and cleaning engines the rest of the day is getting on my nerves, we'v

did happen alo

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