As
early as June 24 Guynemer had soared again.
In order to realize the importance of this new battle of Flanders which,
begun on July 31, was to rage till the following winter, it may not be
out of place to quote a German appreciation. In an issue of the _Lokal
Anzeiger_, published at the end of September, 1917, after two months'
uninterrupted fighting, Doctor Wegener wrote as follows:
How can anybody talk of anything but this battle of Flanders? Is it
possible that some people actually grow hot over the
parliamentarization, or the loan, or the cost of butter, or the
rumors of peace, while every heart and every eye ought to be fixed
on these places where soldiers are doing wonderful deeds! This
battle is the most formidable that has yet been fought. It was
supposed to be ended, but here it is, blazing afresh and promising
a tremendous conflagration. The Englishman goes on with his usual
doggedness, and the last bombardment has excelled in horrible
intensity all that has been known so far. Even before the signal
for storming, the English were drunk with victory, so gigantic was
their artillery, so dreadful their guns, so intense their
firing.
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