IN THE LABYRINTH

Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2510, 10 July 1915, Page 5

IN THE LABYRINTH

GERMANY'S BEST TROOPS By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright ~ .(Rec. 'July 9,-11,10 p.m.) London, July 9. ! "Eye-witness" of the fighting in the Labyrinth narrates, that the front . is barely ten miles, and hundreds of thousands of men have been incessantly engaged since the beginning of May attacking and defending the watershed from whence the Scheldt flows. The -Germans, brought their best, troops to defend the entrauce to the Lens plain. 2'ho garrison at Souchez was fighting superbly at Buvalbottom, and only; ten were taken. .

; In Alsace they need all -their discipline to withstand the fury of iiia French attack. A divisional commioder recently complaint that his men were not taking tho elementary precautions. The men replied with affectionate respect "Well, General, 'we are all here to to killed," and cheered when the General retorted, "Yes, my children, you and I are here to be killed, but we must > so contrive that our death will bo useful to France."

Tho Germans sometimes burrow sixty feet. There is a regular system of socalled communication bowels and also a great concentration of heavy artillery on the slopes at Angres. ' At the Bois do Folie there has been much fighting underground in the .galleries by tho light of torches and electric flares. Attaeks with hand-gren-ades, which fill tho galleries with poisonous fumes, end in desperate hand-to-hand encounters. ■ ■ ''<

An officer in charge of a; machine-gun section narrates that after a week of Apache warfare, in which tho German's were fighting with automatic revolvers and knives, the Germans organised a night attack. "I moved the machinegun to the barricade in the main street. When the Germans debouched at fifty metres' distance and filled the whole street they fell one after another when the gun caught them. It was a terrible movement of slaughter."