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General de Castelnau.
VERDUN TO THE
VOSGES
PREFACE
At the beginning of September, 1914, I was commissionedby The Times to go to France as its representativeon the eastern frontier, and it so happensthat, during the war, no other English newspapercorrespondent has been stationed for any length of timeon the long section of the front between Verdun andBelfort. One or two paid flying visits to Lorraine afterI was settled there, but they were birds of passage, andwere off again almost as soon as they arrived. Incollecting the material for my despatches and lettersI was helped more than I can say by my colleague,Monsieur Fleury Lamure, a French journalist who hadalready worked for The Times in Belgium, where hespent some exciting days in August dodging about infront of the armies of von Kluck, von Bulow, and vonHausen as they advanced on Charleroi and Namur.Before the war he had served two years as an engineerofficer in the French and Russian navies, and had alsoworked in Manchuria an