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'A British officer at the front tells a story that has been going therounds of tie headquarters staff. • "The sapper who appears every night to do odd .lobs about our lines brings us nightly all the humorous gossip ■ of' the staff, 5 he writes. "Here is one it-em. The Indian division and the Germans eventually pushed their trenches so closo to one another that they used the same parapet and took it in turns to fire through the loopholes. The Indians pass their leisure in eating jam, not only because it is pleasant aud nutritious, but so that they can have a plentiful supply of hand grenades, which are mado up of nails and bits of _ old iron placed in a jam tin, together with a few ounces of gun cotton."
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Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2391, 22 February 1915, Page 7
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133CLOSE QUARTERS Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2391, 22 February 1915, Page 7
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