Photograph from Paul Thompson 



BOUND FOR PARIS 



A French Red Cross train bearing sick and wounded soldiers to Paris after passing 

 through a field hospital. One of the nurses is making a tour of the train, distributing coffee 

 to the slightly wounded and sick men. 



est fortress to ruin with three well-di- 

 rected shots. 



The actual practice of war and the pe- 

 culiarities of trench fighting developed 

 the fact that neither of these schools was 

 wholly right. The light French guns were 

 ineffective against troops hidden in well- 

 constructed trenches, while the difficul- 

 ties of transportation involved in moving 

 the giant German guns from point to 

 point outbalanced their ultimate effect- 

 iveness. 



French artillery experts began at once 

 to experiment toward developing the 



most serviceable gun under actual condi- 

 tions of war, and the result of this ex- 

 periment can be gauged by the different 

 caliber of cannon now used in the French 

 army. Here is the list given in meters 

 and the approximate caliber in inches : 



First the 75 millimeter, the standard 

 field gun, 3-inch caliber ; the 95 milli- 

 meter, 3^ inch; 305 millimeter, 12 inch; 

 370 millimeter, 15 inch; 400 millimeter, 

 16 inch, and last the largest cannon in the 

 world, 520 millimeter, or 20 inches. 



I give the list in full to impress upon 

 my reader the extraordinary complication 



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