. Vive la France! . Fighting in a quarrel that is not his irooptr from Francct African pjttcxiona on duty in ilio » , .h It Ji *- c bo nS OJ D- s £ < « -T3 -C C (J en <u (— a. 0 ^ r- a u a .s tn OJ O to 3 g c c o oc V U■a H -5 -G ^i^sj^-s FIGHTING IN CHAMPAGNE 173 ing them out of their dug-outs with their longlances. But in the vast maze of communica-tion trenches and in the underground sheltersGermans still swarmed thickly, so the trenchcleaners, as the Algerian and Senegalesetirailleurs are called, were ordered to clearthem out, a task which they performed withneatnes
. Vive la France! . Fighting in a quarrel that is not his irooptr from Francct African pjttcxiona on duty in ilio » , .h It Ji *- c bo nS OJ D- s £ < « -T3 -C C (J en <u (— a. 0 ^ r- a u a .s tn OJ O to 3 g c c o oc V U■a H -5 -G ^i^sj^-s FIGHTING IN CHAMPAGNE 173 ing them out of their dug-outs with their longlances. But in the vast maze of communica-tion trenches and in the underground sheltersGermans still swarmed thickly, so the trenchcleaners, as the Algerian and Senegalesetirailleurs are called, were ordered to clearthem out, a task which they performed withneatness and despatch, revolver in one handand cutlass in the other. Even five days afterthe trenches were taken occasional Germanswere found in hiding in the labyrinth of under-ground shelters. The thing of which the Champagne battle-field most reminded me was a looked and smelled as though all the garbagecans in Europe and America had been emptiedupon it. This region, as I have remarkedbefore, is of a chalk formation, and wherevera trench had been dug, or a shell had burst,or a mine had been exploded, it lef
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