Rumours--Lord Kitchener's visit--A horticultural joke--German hate manufactured in Lille--Red Cross assistance--The peculiar exploit of Mapplebeck of the Flying Corps--A joy-ride through Ypres and up the Menin Road--The commencement of the fight for Hill 60--The first coming of the German gas--The plight of the French Reservists--The magnificent work of the Canadian Division--In support of the French line--Tangled traffic on the road to Ypres--Shelled in Elverdinghe--Deadly howitzer shells--Poperinghe bombarded--Belgian refugees--The aviation park evacuated--The want of traffic organisation--The 200 Canadian heroes in St. Julian--Conflicting reports about the capture of Lizerne--International failure to coincide as to the results of battle--British infantry attacks to win back the lost ground--Children at play near a battle-field--Artillery work in modern warfare--An attack on Lizerne by British field guns and French Zouaves--The ethics of gun-fire--Lizerne proves a hard nut to crack--British counter-attacks along the salient line abortive--17-inch Hun shells--A big shell lights in a château garden--Shell plus chandelier--A car in a Belgian ditch--Billets in Wormhoudt--Welcome rest 121-177 CHAPTER V. MAY. The shortening of the Ypres Salient--More Hun gas--Strange equipment for fighting the gas--The eve of Rawlinson's attack along the Fromelles road--Great hopes of winning through to Lille--The 1st Cavalry Division sent to Ypres--The French attack at Arras--The British horseshoe around Ypres--Through the ruined town of Potijze--Scenes of devastation--Under the shells--Awful smells--Streams of wounded--Shell-splinters--The G.H.Q. line--The St. Jean dug-outs--The hell of constant enemy howitzer fire--Preponderance of numbers of German heavy guns over British--The Auber ridge attack fails--Splendid examples of heroism among the wounded--The French attack fails to break through--Holding on at Ypres--Discovery of a dug-out at Potijze--The solitary old woman in wrecked Ypres--Wonderful pyrotechnic displays at night in the trenches--Blocked by shell and conflagration in Ypres--Unable to get through--An abandoned attempt at photography under bursting shells--A scared collie--The last inhabitants to escape from the ruins of Ypres--The "Princess Pat's"--A "Mother" gun and aeroplane artillery observations--General De Lisle given command of the eastern portion of the Salient--The remnants of the Northumberland Brigade--To bed by the light of the fires in Ypres--The composition of the Salient line on the night of May 12th 178-222 CHAPTER VI. MAY (_continued_).