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was the tragic history of these people it made my blood boil.  The villages of the north were being burned, the fields laid waste, soldiers killed, and the people struggling for their very existance, & foolish, thoughtless men and women were demanding to see the scene exactly as if it had been a show.

We also saw frequent groups of soldiers making trenches and many many lines of earth looking like golf bunkers announced the fact that a line of trenches was there partially hidden.  Sometimes wire entanglement was in front of them. Champoiseau said much of the land was mined in this direction

At Chantilly ^[[about 35 K. from Paris]] they even took me a little detour to look at the chateau.  Here the Germans had put some of their officers and through the [[?ds]] for a short distance beyond the soldiers had wandered doing houses no harm  Mrs John Munroe who lives on the