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is so confident that it does not hesitate to let everybody know that it is no secret.  For each officer we met going from Colombey-les-Belles to Neufchatel and Vaucouleurs, whether from the most advanced zone or the most retired S.O.S. post had his story to tell about it.  Even a Paris newspaper hinted at it; I suppose that is why it was suspended for 24 hours - but it doesn't matter. Everyone knows; the Germans must know.
The way I know is by way of sight and feel.  At night long trains of doughboys singing, "Hail, Hail, the gang's all here, what th' hell do we care, what th'...." or the rumble and clatter of heavily laden trucks, or the chock, chock of horses and creak of harness ^[[among]] the big gun crews.
Another thing: hospitals are springing up as fast as the original mushroom ever thought of speed.  Old ones are being added to, as for