HUN "TRAPS."

Taranaki Daily News, 14 February 1918, Page 5

HUN "TRAPS."

A TRAIL OF TREACHERY. V A remarkable story.of wha| be tera4 tlic world's record for death-trap treaeh-f cry, winch was established by the Ger+ mans in the forced retreat from tba Aisne, is told by Mr, Forrest, the Unite* Press Association correspondent with the French, armies. Here are a fsw! traps left behind by the Huns to catd* unwary Frenchmen:— Branches barring th,s entrances tOwiag< outs if removed would produce aa fetx-i plosion in th e shelter a few later. A book on a table if touched wonftdj detonate a charge. Coal in buckets was mixed withuidgh : explosives. Store pipes were charged to4>lw«p( if a Arc was ignited. Telephone wires were connected' wSChi hidden mines. ' Kails driven in walls if taadtes meant death. A shovel leaning against a, watt it removed connected wires with.-expksSffflSj A chair would blow up f£ eat npott. Tools, pieces of metal, Ihebnete, tap--tifleial flowers, and all kinds. «l oft/a* , ontly abandoned souvenirs were dta*f&< | traps. • I Window weights were hung hj) fiHf on a box of detonators if dJitutSdj, i Nails were driven on stairwaysiro4B|! to be literally triggers for mines. ,! Barbed-wire barricades in tueteKeai were o n hair-trigger contact •with'SjaHSi: explosives. , , Roads apparently in ppyfeef.p/maifjup contained many traps. going of t&& would allow troops topjpass, But wWfiS; explode when a sed. / r Experience te/provM that Jahejyia Hermans lcapra private house oir>ffluJ>hc building-It is usually a danger spotHere explosions are retarded Iby-iifcfiiW of/clocks, which sometimes MaSL aT«S«Ji for over a week before they set off i&j fatal charge. Small mines are lites**): hidden in floors, ceilh&s, and w*|Bs. : Many times a fuse is suspended in ffis' chimney, so that it will eventually? fl& ignited and communicate tte-spßirj£-«||h a concealed mine. ,