War's Dark Frame

by Charles Wadsworth Camp

WARS DARK FRAME

© Underwood & Underwood, N. Y.

A British Battery in Flanders

WAR'S DARK FRAME

BY
WADSWORTH CAMP
Author of "Sinister Island," etc.

WITH ILLUSTRATIONS

NEW YORK
DODD, MEAD AND COMPANY
1917

Copyright, 1917

By dodd, mead and company, Inc.

TO

MY WIFE

AND

MY MOTHER

CONTENTS

CHAPTER		PAGE
I	The Submarine Zone	1
II	The Strange England	14
III	Battle, Zeppelins, and Democracy	30
IV	Paris and Its War Spirit	44
V	Lorraine and the Devastation	56
VI	The Sinister Invasion	68
VII	The Persistent Bombardment	81
VIII	The Amazing Garden	90
IX	Between the Lines.	100
X	With the British in Flanders	108
XI	Hospitals and Headquarters	121
XII	Under Fire in a Flat Land	133
XIII	The Day's Work of Life and Death at the Front	147
XIV	The Appalling Mines	164
XV	Gas School and the Artillery	176
XVI	The Base	190
XVII	The Mad Activity of a Dead City	199
XVIII	Where Men Are Like Ants	212
XIX	The Grim Game of Intelligence.	220
XX	Tragic Secrets	244
XXI	The Advance	260

ILLUSTRATIONS

A British battery in Flanders	Frontispiece FACING PAGE
The Germans made a more thorough job here than in Louvain	32
Old men and children wandered around with a furtive air, as if in anticipation of another catastrophe	70
Gerbéviller ... this monument to the Teutonic campaign of terribleness.	78
The effect of heavy shells in Rheims	86
The new and the old	86
Poilus billeted in Rheims	86
A listening post	104
"'One more village back to France'"	108
In the towns under bombardment	140
A shattered farm behind the firing line	178
A few twigs, scattered bits of green, make an impenetrable veil against the prying airmen	188
Barbed wire entanglements in winter	216
The Church at M—— had been blasted by great shells sent from guns many miles away	256

WAR'S DARK FRAME