Vers où = Dans quelle direction? Whitherî

20. du Sacré-Cœur de Montmartre: of the Sacred Heart of Montmartre , a newly-built large church crowning Montmartre hill and overlooking Paris.

39, 2. d’artillerie belge: at the end of 1914 ail of Belgium, except a very small part west of the Yser river, was occupied by the Germans. The Belgian army had been reduced to 32,000 soldiers, and half of its artillery had been lost or destroyed.

6. en Artois: L’Artois was formerly a province of northern France. Its capital was Arras (sound final s).

40, 6. Plus de doute = 11 n’y a plus de doute.

10. Ouvrages blancs: “ TheChalk Pits ” were German trenches north of Arras, opposite Vimy. (See map, page 10.)

42, 18. des 210: shells 210 millimeters (8.3 inches) in diameter. — des 155 : shells 155 millimeters (5.9 inches) in diameter.

21. les 76: le soixante-quinze is a very efficient French field gun capable of firing thirty shells 75 millimeters (3 inches) in diameter per minute.

25. Brr : an onomatopœia imitating the noise made by a person shivering with cold.

43, 28. Plus une parole = On n’entend plus une parole.

46, 4. il n’en restait que sept cents: an impersonal construction. Translate, there were only seven kundred left.