Shortly afterwards a shell exploded in Colonel Logan's room, but he, too, was lucky enough to escape.

                Occasionally the Boche became really irritated and he would pound away at the Allied lines all day long. Once the Americans engaged in a big projector-gas attack followed by a heavy artillery concentration. It caught the enemy unawares, in fact, at the very moment when he himself was about to attack. He promptly retaliated by pounding the Allied front lines, battery positions, and every town within ten miles of the front. He shelled A's position eighteen times in the next ten hours. Luck, however, was against him. No one was hit and no damage was done outside of tearing up almost every telephone wire in the town and getting two direct hits on an unoccupied gun pit and a trench. Eliot Mann had a most sensational escape. He was carrying a bag of empty shell-cases down the trench when he heard the whine of an approaching 77. He dropped the bag and dove around a corner. The shell exploded in the trench on top of his bag!

                From June 11 to the 21st, Battery A of the 119th Field Artillery (American) trained with us. They occupied our second platoon's position, our third and fourth pieces moving to our first platoon emplacement. They were on their first trip to the front and were very keen to learn. They did fine work in building up and developing the gun pits.

                During the first week in June several big scares of a Boche offensive spread around. Aviators re­ ported seeing forty troop trains come in behind the German lines, and we were warned to get everything

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