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, WHAT SjUCCESS REyEALED. GERMAN DEFENSIVE WORKS. AN UNDERGROUND CITY. [United Pbbm aeß6oiation.] ... , (Received ,1.20 p.m.) . , . k ' | Petijograd, .DeceitWQ. U ; jßfemarkable German defence measures enabling them to hold the front with the scantiest defence forces have been brought to light by. the Rsssian successes at Kemmern. The field fortifications surpass previously seen. There are seven rows of trenches and a whole underground city for shelter. A prisoner says that the Kaiser, in October, declared that the soldiers must dig, and the men who would not dig their comrades’ shelters, must dig their comrades’ graves.' The entanglement in places are two hundred yards deep. A portion consists of tough wattle in order to economise wire, and is equally difficult' to hack through. The Germans in the middle Drina burn off forests and plant sharp branches as chevaux de frise, which are sometimes a mile deep and sown with mines exploding on contact.
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Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXVIV, Issue 5, 9 December 1915, Page 5
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151Russia. Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXVIV, Issue 5, 9 December 1915, Page 5
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