the habit is
acquired, even by those who are not aviators, of thinking of the
weather in terms of its suitability for flying. There has been a bright
moon also, which has militated against night attacks.

On Saturday, Oct. 3, practically nothing happened, except that each side
shelled the other.

Toward evening on Sunday, Oct. 4, there was a similar absence of
activity. Opposite one portion of our line the enemy's bands played
patriotic airs, and the audiences which gathered gave a chance to our
waiting howitzers.

Not only do their regimental bands perform occasionally, but with their
proverbial fondness for music the Germans have in some places
gramophones [Transcriber: original 'gramaphones'] in their trenches.

On Monday, the 5th, there were three separate duels in the air between
French and German aviators, one of which was visible from our trenches.
Two of the struggles were, so far as could be seen, indecisive, but in
the third the French airmen were victorious, and brought down their
opponents, both of whom were killed by machine gun fire. The observer
was so burned as to be unrecognizable.

During the day some men of the Landwehr were taken prisoners by us. They
were in very poor condition and wept copiously when captured. One, on
being asked what he was crying for, explained that though they had been
advised to surrender to the English, they believed that they would be
shot.

On that evening our airmen had an unusual amount of attention paid to
them, both by the German aviators and their artillery of every
description.

One of our infantry patrols discovered 150 dead Germans in a wood, one
and a half miles from our front. We sent a party out to bury them, but
it was fired upon and had to withdraw.

On Tuesday, the 6th, the enemy's guns were active in the afternoon. It
is believed that the bombardment was due to anger because two of our
howitzer shells had detonated right in one of the enemy's trenches,
which was full of men. Three horses were killed by the German fire.

Wednesday, the 7th, was uneventful.

On Thursday, the 8th, the shelling by the enemy of a locality on our
front, which has so far been the scene of their greatest efforts, was
again continuous. Opposite one or two points the Germans have attempted
to gain ground by sapping in some places with the view of secretly
pushing forward machine guns in advance of their trenches, so that they
can suddenly sweep with crossfire the space betw