Mon. Apr. 30 -

We don't get as much to eat here as we would like and are very hungry as we have to work rather hard at times with little sleep, but weather continues very warm and pleasant. Our batteries right here are in important and exposed position. Enemy can shell from right and left as well as front. The 7th Bty is right beside us. One of their men was badly wounded in the shelling day before yesterday. It has been said that there are so many guns in place that they could be put axle to axle. Of course, they aren't axle to axle but there are many rows of them. The light field guns behind the infantry trenches, then heavier howitzers on hillside behind us and still heavier howitzers and naval guns along roads away in rear. Our barrage the other morning was fairly successful, the infantry making advances but at heavy cost while evening guns keep up a fairly heavy fire around here. It is said that Von Hindenburg in person is in charge of operations against us and that he said that he would retake Vimy Ridge and even Mont. St. Eloy if it cost him every man he had.