Saturday light firing was carried on through the day. The Bosch was fairly busy with shells, especially on Maricourt, putting over about 15 rounds of 17-inch. I have never seen such bursts – just like the photo of a Whitehead torpedo going up. The net results, I hear, were one 9.2-inch howitzer had a direct hit, two of the detachment being wounded. During the afternoon 8-inch howitzers (6 cannon) were doing gun fire five minutes and were fairly whistling them over our heads. Towards evening, some most peculiar shell were observed bursting in air to the right of Montauban. They burst like an umbrella, a shower of sparks falling to the ground and a tremendous cloud of white smoke left in the shape of a mushroom and making small clouds in the air. At six, we were informed that we were to attack in the morning, which we had already guessed, as the infantry were thick as fleas working their way towards the front trenches.
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