[3] On reading the remarkable and charming book which my colleague, Lieutenant Dupont, has published under the title En Compagne, I noticed in one chapter such a similarity of phrase that I thought of changing the beginning of this description, so as to avoid the appearance of a plagiarism. I decided, however, not to alter its first form, but to leave intact this page, which was written in the trenches on that very day 24th January, 1915, long before Lieutenant Dupont’s book appeared.
[4] These were darts and position-indicating rockets.
