Item 01: G. O. Hawkins articles and notes ca. 1916-1919 - Page 123
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on the other side of the cathedral.
The pink and vermilion of their flashes reflected on the masses of broken walls forms a vivid background to sombre skeletons of ruin in front that seems to leap from the darkness into momentary existence. From these two guns the shells surge through the air above us on their way towards the enemy with sounds that can well be imagined to be narrow streams of water flowing swiftly in space. Again there is darkness where the flashes had been. Again there is the massed blackness of the ruins with the towering fragments alone visible that rise against the silver of the sky.
Flash, Flash, Flash, Bang, Crack Crack
Other hidden guns have fired
Again there is a vivid background of pink and vermilion but brighter than before. Again the leaping forth of skeletons of ruin.
And then comes the swallowing