Hilltop on the Marne

This author wishes to apologize for the constant use of the word English in speak ing of the British Expedition to France. At the beginning of the war this was a colloquial error into which we all fell over here, even the French p.ress Everything in khaki was spoken of as English, even though we knew perfectly well that Scotch, Irish, and Welsh were equally well repre sented in the ranks, and the colors they followed were almost universally spoken of as the English flag. These letters were written in the days before the attention of the French press was called to this erro'r of.