Haig Take Part--His Majesty and the Little French Girl--I
Am Permitted to Film the King and His Distinguished
Guests--A Visit to the King of the Belgians--A
Cross-Channel Journey--And Home 214

CHAPTER XXI

THE HUSH! HUSH!--A WEIRD AND FEARFUL CREATURE

Something in the Wind--An Urgent Message to Report at
Headquarters--And What Came Of It--I Hear for the First
Time of the "Hush! Hush!"--And Try to Discover What It
Is--A Wonderful Night Scene--Dawn Breaks and Reveals a
Marvellous Monster--What Is It? 222

CHAPTER XXII

THE JUGGERNAUT CAR OF BATTLE

A Weird-looking Object Makes Its First Appearance Upon the
Battlefield--And Surprises Us Almost as Much as It
Surprised Fritz--A Death-dealing Monster that Did the
Most Marvellous Things--And Left the Ground Strewn with
Corpses--Realism of the Tank Pictures 230

CHAPTER XXIII

WHERE THE VILLAGE OF GUILLEMONT WAS

An Awful Specimen of War Devastation--Preparing for an
Advance--Giving the Bosche "Jumps"--Breakfast Under
Fire--My Camera Fails Me Just Before the Opening of the
Attack--But I Manage to Set it Right and Get Some Fine
Pictures--Our Guns "Talk!" Like the Crack of a Thousand
Thunders--A Wonderful Doctor 234

CHAPTER XXIV

FIGHTING IN A SEA OF MUD

Inspecting a Tank that was _Hors de Combat_--All that was
Left of Mouquet Farm--A German Underground Fortress--A
Trip in the Bowels of the Earth--A Weird and Wonderful
Experience 245

CHAPTER XXV

THE EVE OF GREAT EVENTS

A Choppy Cross-Channel Trip--I Indulge in a Reverie--And
Try to Peer Into the Future--At Headquarters
Again--Trying to Cross the River Somme on an Improvised
Raft--In Peronne After the German Evacuation--A Specimen
of Hunnish "Kultur" 250

CHAPTER XXVI

AN UNCANNY ADVENTURE

Exploring the Unknown--A Silence That Could be Felt--In
the Village of Villers-Carbonel--A Cat and Its Kittens in
an Odd Retreat--Brooks' Penchant for "Souvenirs"--The
First Troops to Cross the Somme 259

CHAPTER XXVII

THE GERMANS IN RETREAT

The Enemy Destroy Everything as They Go--Clearing Away
the Debris of the Battlefield--And Repairing the Damage
Done by the H