Item 01: G. O. Hawkins articles and notes ca. 1916-1919 - Page 92
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[Page 92]
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and have cleaved and torn asunder massive plates and heavy assembled parts of these monstrous instruments of war as though such wonderfully conceived and highly wrought work of mans imperious mind and cunning hand had no more strength than the fragile toys of children. Such destruction is from the batteries of the enemy therefor it is the work of man also and must be accepted as the fortune of war, but not without the hope that the enemy guns have suffered in a like manner from our own.
All this broken armament has come from France just as it had been when on the battle field, in the grotesque gaiety of its painted camouflage. The gun barrels with their patches of heterogeneous color have a weird reptilian appearance, and the flat surfaces of bullet shields and other parts resemble the