gypt or
their wanderings in the Wilderness. Seated on the wooden benches,
which have been brought in from a school near by, are a score or more
of sun-reddened young Englishmen in khaki.

"Here," says the alert young officer who is acting as instructor,
unrolling a chart, "is a picture of an action in a little village
south of Mons. A company of our fellows were holding the village.
There are, you see, only two roads by which the Germans could advance,
so the captain who was in command placed machine-guns so as to command
each of them. About five o'clock in the morning the Germans appeared
on this lower road. Now, the sergeant in charge of that machine-gun,
instead of taking cover behind this hedge with this brook in front of
him, had concealed his gun in this clump of trees, which, as you see,
are out in the middle of a field. No sooner had he opened upon the
Boches, therefore, than a detachment of Uhlans galloped around and cut
him off from the town. Then it was all over but the shouting. The
Germans got into the town and our fellows got it in the neck. And all
because that fool sergeant didn't use common sense in choosing a
position for his gun. They marked his grave with a nice little white
cross. And that's what you boys will get if you don't profit by these
things I'm telling you."

There you have an example of the thorough preparation which is
necessary to wage modern war successfully. It is not merely a matter
of a man being taught how to operate a machine-gun; if he is to be of
the greatest value he must be taught how to place that gun where it is
going to do the maximum damage to the enemy. And, by means of the
graphic Sunday-school charts, and the still more graphic sentences of
the officer-teacher, those lessons are so driven home that the men
will never forget them.

Virtually everything between England and the fighting front is under
the control of the L. C.--Lines of Communication. This vast
organization, one of the most wide-spread and complex in the world,
represents six per cent of all the British forces in France. Of the
countless forms of activity which it comprises, the railways are by
far the most important. Did you know that the British have laid and
are operating more than a thousand miles of new railway in France? As
the existing railways were wholly inadequate for the transportation of
the millions of fighting men, with the stupendous quantities of food
and equipment, new networks of steel