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Conger Reynolds correspondence, March 16-31, 1918

1918-03-23 Conger Reynolds to Daphne Reynolds Page 3

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read the letters of February 4 and February 25, and I have two dated March 3 and March 4 for surprises sometime later today.  Incidentally, the last two have come very quickly; it has taken them only nineteen days to arrive at GHQ and be forwarded to my present station.  
It was a joy indeed to find them after this last trip.  I had left Thursday morning with a captain from the general staff of the French army to escort Floyd Gibbons of The Chicago Tribune on a visit to a sector of the front at some distance from here.  We arrived there after noon and spent the rest of the day running through trenches at the heels of an officer who was the best marathon racer I have found over here.  He did allow us breathing spells,  however, during which we were able to look out across No Man's Land and see the wire entanglements of the Boches, the ruined villages they hold, and many miles of their positions on behind.

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3 read the letters of February 4 and February 25, and I have two dated March 3 and March 4 for surprises sometime later today. Incidentally, the last two have come very quickly; it has taken them only nineteen days to arrive at GHQ and be forwarded to my present station. It was a joy indeed to find them after this last trip. I had left Thursday morning with a captain from the general staff of the French army to escort Floyd Gibbons of The Chicago Tribune on a visit to a sector of the front at some distance from here. We arrived there after noon and spent the rest of the day running through trenches at the heels of an officer who was the best marathon racer I have found over here. He did allow us breathing spells, however, during which we were able to look out across No Man's Land and see the wire entanglements of the Boches, the ruined villages they hold, and many miles of their positions on behind.