. Vive la France! . nse woods, and it is in these woods that thecantonments for the men are built, and amidtheir leafy recesses that the soldiers spend theirtime when off duty in sleeping, smoking, andcard-playing. Though the German batteriesperiodically rake the woods with shell-fire, it isan almost total waste of ammunition, for themen simply retreat to the remarkable under-ground cities which they have constructed, andstay there until the shell-storm is over. Thetroglodyte habitations which have come intoexistence along the entire length of the westernbattle-front are perhaps the most curio
. Vive la France! . nse woods, and it is in these woods that thecantonments for the men are built, and amidtheir leafy recesses that the soldiers spend theirtime when off duty in sleeping, smoking, andcard-playing. Though the German batteriesperiodically rake the woods with shell-fire, it isan almost total waste of ammunition, for themen simply retreat to the remarkable under-ground cities which they have constructed, andstay there until the shell-storm is over. Thetroglodyte habitations which have come intoexistence along the entire length of the westernbattle-front are perhaps the most curious prod-ucts of this siege warfare. In these dwellingsburrowed out of the earth the soldiers of Francelive as the cavemen lived before the dawn ofcivilization. A dozen to twenty feet below thesurface of the ground, and so strongly roofedover with logs and earth as to render their oc-cupants safe from the most torrential rain ofhigh explosive, I was shown rooms with sleep-ing-quarters for a hundred men apiece, black-. 3 7 be oc g o_o 60O H
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