The nerve centre that moves more than 2,000,000 men is in a village school house seventy miles behind the firing lines. The rare observer who is permitted to learn its whereabouts and approach finds @ contrast between the tranquility here and the intense action near the trenches. No cannon, machine gun or rifle fire can be heard here. The commander-in-chief ce-ordinates his information and arrives at his decisions not only far from the disturbance of actual conflict, but in the depth of the country away from the first and second lines of reserves, the incessant noise of moter trans-
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