BATTLEFIELD SECRETS

Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2301, 7 November 1914, Page 8

BATTLEFIELD SECRETS

Through the courtesy of the United Press, says the "Daily Mail" correspondent at Now York, I am able to send , you an account of flio elaborate precautions taken b.y the Germans to prevent the Alike from learning tho extent of their lessee. Like Hamlet in tho grayediggors' sqene, the correspondent philosophises over a basket of httlo metal discs collected in one trench. Kach disc represented linman lifo. In formor .ware a rigid distinction, was made between discs rcprcsentmg officers ond men, biit so groat havo been the losses and so urgent t)ie need for hurry in this campaign that for tho first time the bodies .of ofiicers and men hare been buried not separately but in one common grave. Tho correspondent remarks that ono of the features of the Gorman side of the battlefields in this war is the thorough manner in which the battlefields are cleaned up after the battle. "Tin's is dono not only to satisfy the natural sense of orderliness which ie so characteristic of the Germans, but also in order that the battlefield shall reveal no tales of their method and purpose. ■ The idea is that tlie battlefield shall disclofie nothing from which a conclusion can be drawn as to losses or any other information. Everything is removed as if a ragpicker had gone over the scene. There is , little trace of graves from the size of which a conclusion might bo drawn as to tho number of dead buried. For Children's Ilackinß Couch at Ninht. Woods' Great Peppermint Curo. Is. lid. , Messrs. Harcourt anil Co., Ltd., have four farm» of 1)3,500. 1>074, 1200, and GoO news for wile. A register containing pan ticuJars of properties from 10 to 10,000 acres will be.forwarded on application,