Last August came the new revolution in Cuba, and Catherine found all her interest in Manuela reawakened as she read in daily dispatches of the uprising in Pinar del Rio, of the raids of Pino Guerra, of the feeble resistance of the Government forces, of the burning of plantations and the seizure of horses and cattle.
"The Mermaid of Druid Lake and Other Stories"
Charles Weathers Bump
He was concentrating masses of men round Arras for the battles which had been planned in the autumn of '16. The Commander-in-Chief has explained in one of his dispatches how the general plan of campaign for the spring offensive was modified because of the German retreat which relieved us of another battle of the Ancre.
"From Bapaume to Passchendaele, 1917"
Philip Gibbs
I don't know how much this will mean to people at home, to whom the town is just a name, familiar only because of its repetition in dispatches.
"From Bapaume to Passchendaele, 1917"
Philip Gibbs