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Show E0 OF j EHEMYJSWATCHED Observers Behind British Lines in France Kept Busy Day and NighL WORK IS IMPORTANT Kite Balloons and Airplanes Air-planes Are Being Used to Excellent Advantage. l.'orrr'Ord''n' e of l 7 A re 1 Treev p : f i ' i t : :-: fritisu li n i n r'PNh.'Hl, Nov. 1. There are times when it seen a rs if the who:e cf t ue front ?Vrt, as If the country fnr m 16 on either i.ie of the marred tier.'- z.m.e iai bee-i abandoned hy mn. Comp'e te siler.1 reigns. a:.-l no s.r; of movement can t detected !n any direct; But It Is J'-'- 'at thtjc times that watchfulness :s at Us ! keener t, and mre :s learned of the enemy arid Ir.s r lj.r:s than in jxrts of f i.oi-s'.er a'-tivity. 1 Ot er atic-i of the T.rvy'8 l.rve a'Ki of the country Lchin.i it :s th rVst r.ecf-i.ty r.ecf-i.ty of war. I'pon the evidence pro-d pro-d uctd clay af :r day -y ;-iec rs to titer 7e re;orts cf a tl:o".sa:. : '-e: ers, tiie ? :: de ' ict ; .i' P ::e u e : s i: j : E. V .r e'y rru.e uf tr'-nt n- .;:- pa:r cf - c.-ifn pys ar r-er:.-e fillv watcrlrj:. i 7.'.tn:n? an o asion-jd e nir of ir.-:-jr -n ' e."v or i . - -o"? :iy un- '.T-'on.v.t i : itself, t -. t : t u a 1 - y a ri b e r In t '- w -'. of k now b?d ie t uit irr ws ccn-". ccn-". i n -: 1 1 1 ;.' a : so n : e f a r - o f h e i ; u a r . e r s. Every Movement Watched. The --f all t'r.s wat-hTg and sfdv :s to discover trie euemv 6 inter t;on. Fvr example, if re means to att--k. ;e w, 1 bri: a up ani retain a larce nunher cf trc-oj -5 in t ' e z iTe wii'rs t'-e att --t is to 'e !:c:r e 1. If he a-andor.s the hiea. te sti ,-;,; wih i.e riu-.e-i. A ir.assir; of" batteries i trills a tomhuzdrren.. Con-siderau.e Con-siderau.e mnvemer.t r-e'-md the erry hues s ss t-e re'' o a civ ision. It is ry c mtmual considers tlr- of such hir.es as these that A commander ce-d ce-d es t7e plan ? o: ot-m -'id. Te o:.i t'.arv e v ery d .i y o nervation .s em 1 !.' -e 1 r.:.-lrr '...r-: rr:a:u hea-ts I ground observtit '.on. k r. '" l.oo'is, ar-i i airrlares. dr"iir.j o1 -srva ' .on is work. ' -.v;,i 7;i e'-cares t: 'ousincl - of ir-aire soldiers sol-diers ev7' uiy of tr.e year, an i :t is the work of the men in these around observation obser-vation posvs to keep a micrcs'op.c lookout look-out over the enemy? front -line trench, system and its immediate vicimtv. The work of the bhloons and airplanes is grer.era.il v devoted to the enemy's ar-rilcrv ar-rilcrv t:.d back areas. Conditions of srouni observation vrv from th.ose of a r-hi n i v dugout : u the side c f a h 1 i on a gulvri summer cay to tli-se of a tali chdrr.-rev. chdrr.-rev. s.vcu.r.i: thro'-i'n several feet in a i storm of sleet with a hostile battery I c-T'.:r.uousIv tryir to le'el the cb.imr.ev i with, a well aurr.ee s'rot. Trie observer has his maps, his glosses, his notebook ana a telephone. ; Observers Are Keen. Looking out of Lis slit, he sees ixm?- ! riatelv ivfare him his own trench system, sys-tem, then a strip of land of greater or I less width, torn by shell holes, w: there-". ' bv pas. covered with troud masses of rustV wire. Beyond this runs the iiresru- ' lar line of the hostile front parapet, and behind this aam the complicated net- : work, that is the mass of enemy support, reserve and communication trenches. In the background stretches the ene- ; my s rearward territory, dotted with rained farms, bare patches of wood and lines of tree stumps th.at mark a road. re is no sisn ot movement save for a srrokir,; chhmney or th.e watte steam of a moving tram, fp.r away tn trie distance. dis-tance. But in reality things are happeuinr all the time, if one can only see ihenu Suddenly Sud-denly a particular point in ft weed-srrown field" catches the eye. Son-et inns: has moved.' and a patient watch.'.na: through the telescope reveals a regular succession succes-sion ot" spade : ud s of earth be '. n s thrown from below th.e surface. A new communication commu-nication trench is bein dus. And dailv w -afch in ir will reveal the direction U is takin?. " Ends Pieced Together. A morn In ? inspection of the nostl'e parapet reveals a speck of llsrht color that vcis not there the day before. The speck seems to have sown during t-ie night as each successive dawn allows it to be seen : it is perhaps a new m.achine-gnn emplacement. Something that looks like a he-uce appears one morning across what was an c pe n held th. e previous night; it must be a screen to hic.e something, and TToloni e-1 study may discover wh-ic that Xhe ground observer's work is lust cr.e drop in the streams of in ieiii.se nee that flow unceasinjriy Alone thousands of channels chan-nels to the central brain that must determine de-termine their combined meaning. |