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ambulance 4-^2, Field Hospital No. 4, ôsd division

3. les soixante-quinze, the famous French field gun of 75 millimeters (3 inches). Its inventors were two French artillery officers. Adopted by the American army in France, it helped win the war.

Page 6. — I. Par pièce. Un coup à la minute, each gun, a shot a minute.

2. 3000 ! 2500 1 2000 mètres t The French captain is indicating the range in proportion as the Germans are advancing or retreating.

Page 6. — I. Franzose t Bon Franzose t Camarade Franzose! Frenchman! Good Frenchman! French comrade!

Page 7. — I. toits à poivrières, roofs with pointed turrets, like some old-fashioned pepper-boxes of the same shape.

2. Salon, à Paris, an exhibition of painting and sculpture held twice a year in Paris.

Page 8. — I. il n'y a que la foi qui sauve, there is nothing like keeping up one's hopes, or by faith we are saved.

Page 9. — I. Messieurs les Allemands, those German gentlemen.

Page 10. — I. Vassincourt, a village in Lorraine, near Barle-Duc, in a very important strategic position, carried by the French after fierce fighting in September, 19 14.

Page 11. — I. les vitriers, a nickname for the French chasseurs, as mentioned in their marching song:

Encore un carreau d' cassé.

Via les vitriers qui passent.

Encore un carreau d' cassé, Vlà les vitriers passés. •

Note. — Read de for rf' and voilà for v*là.

2. de ma vie je n'oublierai, pas is omitted here because de ma vie equals jamais (negative).

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