IN THE "LABYRINTH"
UNDERGROUND FIGHTING , tey Telesrapli—Press;. Association—Copyright (R«c. July v 4, 5.5; p.m.) ■ r Paris, July' 3. ! A' French' officer 'describing the underground fighting in' : the ' "Labyrinth" states' that' the Frojich and Germans fought; for, three wcefo iiv. narrow passages, lit sometimes njith oil-lamps. They tised sandbags'for defences, and when a, breach was iria'de a hand-to-hand straggle ifollowed w.it2i ' bayonet and •grenade. Tho .Germans sometimes -used (revolvers, knives, and:.'corrosive fluids, and" at'times only fists. - ■ ■ ' The French captured one funnel sixty yards long after thirteen, days' incessant fighting'in.'; almost ■. complete the Gfermaiislemploy mg ' strap's of ; all ''descriptions;. . In'' tlie tuimsls'' eighteen, -to was. isonstantly, oozing.. -
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Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2505, 5 July 1915, Page 6
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105IN THE "LABYRINTH" Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2505, 5 July 1915, Page 6
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