

It would be madness to go farther - the machine-gun is covering the square." "The later it gets the more disturbed the city becomes.


The square is empty only the streets that lead into it are jammed with people. Their fingers hook round the mesh." "On the steps is a machine-gun ready for action. They come close up to the wire fence and lean their faces against it. In the darkness one sees their forms move like stick storks, like great birds. But to wait for dysentery is not much of a life either." "I am often on guard over the Russians. "A hospital alone shows what war is." "Any non-commissioned officer is more of an enemy to a recruit, any schoolmaster to a pupil, then they are if they were free." "Anyway the war is over so far as they are concerned.
