GERMAN TRENCH DODGES.

Pukekohe & Waiuku Times, Volume 5, Issue 156, 17 March 1916, Page 1 (Supplement)

GERMAN TRENCH DODGES.

From a f-tateinont made li.v German prisoners wliom the Russians have captured. it would appear that the Huns arc using some ingenious and complicated trench devices in the fighting about P.iua.

The German entanglements in that neighbourhood are sometimes 200 yards deep. and are made of a tough wattle which takes as long to break through a*> it takes to c'ip through wire. The Germans burn ofF the leaves and small twigs of trees and plant the hushv pointed brandies ns "battle forests,'' an obstruction in t.lie shape of a beam, with points projecting towards t.':e eneinv These pl'>ntat'ons :ir(< sometimes a ini'e deep. Russians, in attacking, had to march throiiL'h them and exploded " tread mines'' hidden under a spr'nkFng of soil. Another protective machine used lathe Hermans is called the " devil's wall.'' a steel or steel-sheeted barrier breast-h'L'h. tnounteil on wheels, from ten ti fift-vn vnrds long. Sheltered by it from all me-sillcs except hand grenad(■; th> men march to the attack. The latest "devil's walls'' have artificial rrms with clipping and haekiti'r ripo'l:"ires. wlr'cli are manipulated by so!f'i»rs le'ii-'d them. The walls n>o telescopic iml can be earrowed to Miil (hr> ground eve'- which the attack '* n.r.de.

'' Tool; lo re." said Mr. Fatthodde. angrilv. "I'm not going to stnrnl this sort of thin" any longer. That brother of yours called men fool lfo-day, and in public too." "That's iusl like Tom." replied hi* "-'fe. "He'saNvavs blurting out family i=eeret«."