The youthful drivers of these camions are alert, intent, but a hard day's work on the docks by no means suffices to dampen the spirits of the passengers, who whistle ragtime airs as they bump over the cobbles.
French, and youngsters in the uniform of the American Field Service, going over to drive camions and ambulances; many of whom, without undue regret, had left college after a freshman year.
On the first day, all traffic was frontward, men, guns, and camions going up towards the lines, and then the tide began to flow back.
Fritz kept coming all the time and they hiked us on to Aubercourt and then to Dormant, and each place we stopped and dug trenches, and then they shoots us into camions and rushes us north to a town not far out of Amiens.
Almost any morning, at nine, I can see the long line of camions carrying the revitaillement towards the front, and the other afternoon, as I was driving up the hill, I met a train of ambulances coming down.
Camions were rushed from Allerey to Dijon, and two days later the necessary supplies were all at the hospital center--and well in advance of the coming of the wounded soldiers.
We put them in our camions and took them ten kilometers to the Oise Canal, there transferred them to barges and thus they were conveyed to Paris.
Three or four big gray camions were waiting at the upper end of the yard while the workmen loaded them.
There were no nurses about the place, none in the town, because the civilians had been ordered out, so the drivers of the Red Cross camions offered their services.
The little railway goods cars with the Red Cross supplies pull up along one side of the quai platform, while upon the other side stand the camions or trucks to carry the supplies down into Paris.
From time to time he would meet motor cars orcamions or little groups of soldiers who, in response to his signalings, would stop and frankly tell him what they knew about the position or the movement of our army.
There were many times when girls rode eight miles in camions to their work, and many of these girls who were well used to limousines and who knew naught of trucks until they came to France.
George and Bobby soon passed the quaint old church, no longer a place of worship but a hospital, and continued on, soon leaving behind them the village, with its soldiers, camions and other paraphernalia of war.
He could see the heavy camions rumbling through the streets and all the sights typical of military operations which he had observed on the opposite side of the trenches.
Soldiers were billeted in the village; and in the courtyards and out on the streets were rolling kitchens, while parked at various points they saw huge camions awaiting their turn to carry supplies toward the front.
In the first place the roads, which I expected to see (and feel) cut to pieces by the enormous amount of artillery and heavy camions that have rumbled over them constantly during the last two years, were in perfect condition.
Every little while, slithering through the rain, splashing mud to the right and left, a convoy of camions went by and disappeared, truck after truck, in the white streaming rain.
Two camions are blocked across the road and there are three batteries of seventy-fives waiting to get up the road.
Along the roads camions overturned, dead mules tangled in their traces beside shattered caissons, huddled bodies in long blue coats half buried in the mud of the ditches.
The men packed into the camions had broken through the canvas covers and leaned out, waving their arms and shouting.
Covered with greenish mud, splashing the mud right and left with their great flat wheels, camions began passing them returning from the direction of the lines.
All day, all day, a double line of camions went up, full of ammunition and ravitaillement and men.
Through the town of Meaux went the long line of camions and to the village of Montriel-aux-Lions, less than four miles from the rapidly advancing German line.
Janet and Alice went back and forth in one of the supply camions of the Y.
And since then the Government has let the camions that go through to the front, leave bread and meat and once a bag of potatoes for us.
About eleven the big convoy of camions on the way to the front came through, lurching along the improvised road laid out across the fields.
The house shook, the windows rattled, the glasses danced on the sideboard to the thunder of the innumerable marching feet outside, to the endless rumble of the camions and artillery.
There were armies of workmen in every direction and carts and camions loaded with cases making their way with difficulty through the mud.
It appears that the Germans systematically bombard the roads at night, hoping to destroy the camions bringing up the food for the city, fresh munitions and men.
After lunch we stood for some time watching the unending stream ofcamions proceeding into Verdun.
On every hand we saw artillery parks, ammunition parks, and regiments resting, whilst along the road a long line of camions passed unceasingly.
An uninterrupted file of camions extends from Bar-le-Duc to Verdun.
The lads overtook heavily laden lorries, or camions as the French call them; they passed columns of marching men and those billeted in villages or encamped in the wayside fields.
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