CHAPTER TWO

MALANCOURT WOOD AND ST. MENEHOULDE

_This chapter adds a few impressions noted by the author during a very short trip he made to the Argonne in the month of July, 1915._

_It was at this epoch the army of the Crown Prince undertook strong attacks to the north of St. Menehoulde._

_This sojourn took place between the two periods spent on the Belgian front._

_For the first time Sub-Lieutenant Capart took part in an episode in the war of mines._

_After having visited Verdun, Douaumont, and made a series of reconnaissances in Malancourt Wood, that of Hesse, and also to the west of Vauquois, Capart left for the Flanders' front where he took up his unfinished work._