Quote, "One of the minor peculiarities of this unprecedented war is the Tour of the Front.After some months of suppressed information--in which even the war correspondent was discouraged to the point of elimination--it was discovered on both sides that this was a struggle in which Opinion was playing a larger and more important part than it had ever done before.

This wild spreading weed was perhaps of decisive importance; the Germans at any rate were attempting to make it a cultivated flower."