Central High School - Brecky Yearbook (Washington, DC)

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In July, the chalky contour of the front trenches was again anxiously watched. Airplanes patrolled the skies, flying with the precision of wild geese. A lark was singing. Then there came the staccato of machine-guns, and the storming began. Above, the airplanes dashed here and there, with agility, the burnished aureole of their propellors gleaming in the sun. They swooped and slid. They flitted in fan- tastic minuet motions about the dumfounded sausage-balloons. On the carpet below them, the land battle was fought, and the Germans were defeated at the Somme. In the autumn, an army of leviathans, called tanks, lumbered upon the field. They wrenched and rumbled a serpentine track over the warted ground, and the Germans fied in terror before the new god of the enemy. - 1917 - When Germany defied the world with an announcement of unrestricted sub- marine warfare, the United States broke relations with her, and entered the war a few months later. The country fell into a frenzy of preparation, factory chimneys smoked feverishly, and men were hastily molded into armies. The Russian Revolution began in March. Happy mobs, civilians, and soldiers, gathered in the streets of Petrograd, waving scarlet fiags. It was a gay, noisy holi- day. But German intrigue was darkly busy, and the ephemeral freedom came to a ghastly end, leaving Russia, groping on her hands and knees. Italy, repentant for her early waywardness, began a malicious drive on the Aus- trians. Endless black threads of armies were drawn over the White mountain tops, down through ferny valleys, then up again, to meet the enemy. The Piave line was reached, and the Austrians scattered like sheep. The British Crusaders, among their desert campaigns, had been delivering the Promised Land, and in Christmas month, they marched through the narrow streets, and beneath the arches of Jerusalem. ' 1918-1919 The Bolsheviki persuaded a bewildered Russia to make peace, and German ruth- lessness was allowed full sway. Vain, and bloated with her easy success there Germany began a drive for the channel-ports, in the west. In a little French town behind the lines, Clemenceau, Lloyd-George, and Foch consulted together seriously The enemy had guzzled to his fill, and had never been more powerful than now. Clemenceau believed that unless something were done immediately, it would be necessary to treat with the Germans. But Foch had a plan of welding the lighters more closely together by which the day was saved. The Germans ground their way in, and had wet their boots in the Marne before they were halted., There the Allies with Foch as Commander-in-Chief were ready to refight the first battle of the Marne. The Americans had refreshed them with a vigorous, new blood, and their unity of command had strengthened them. The French and the Americans threw the enemy across the river, and scaled the cliffs on the other side, at his heels. The terrace- torn Chateau Thierry was taken, then Fismes, then Soissons. Haig dashed his prize regiments against the Hindenburg line, and the men leaped eagerly forward through a waste of wire and concrete. Bulgaria surrendered. The Belgian ports were at last freed. Turkey and Austria clamored for peace, and far-sighted diplomats drew up an armistice for Germany to sign. The Prussian autocratic government, which had been inflated to such an enormous degree, ff0IlfZ'lllZ4'lf on page 462 8 ! v

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