. Vive la France! . A ItciicIi smoke buinb. The Frcnth arc luinK these tmcikc bombs to screen the movements of troopsiuit at ihc smoke from a destroyer screens the movements of a o o u C o viC m T3 G -ac THE RETAKING OF ALSACE 141 the guns, would result in their shells landingamong their own men, they generally playsafe and concentrate their fire on the enemyssecond-line trenches instead of on the first-line. The fighting in these close-up positionshas consequently degenerated into a warfareof bombs, hand-grenades, poison-gas, burningoil, and other methods reminiscent of theMiddle
. Vive la France! . A ItciicIi smoke buinb. The Frcnth arc luinK these tmcikc bombs to screen the movements of troopsiuit at ihc smoke from a destroyer screens the movements of a o o u C o viC m T3 G -ac THE RETAKING OF ALSACE 141 the guns, would result in their shells landingamong their own men, they generally playsafe and concentrate their fire on the enemyssecond-line trenches instead of on the first-line. The fighting in these close-up positionshas consequently degenerated into a warfareof bombs, hand-grenades, poison-gas, burningoil, and other methods reminiscent of theMiddle Ages. As a protection against bombsand hand-grenades, some of the trenches whichI visited had erected along their parapetsten-foot-high screens of wire netting, like theback nets of tennis-courts. In this war the hand-grenade is king. Com-pared with it the high-power rifle is a grenadier regiments again deserve thename. For cleaning out a trench or stoppinga massed charge there is nothing like a well-aimed volley of hand-grenades. I believe thatthe total failure of the repeated German at-tempts to break through on the western frontis due to three causes: the overwhelming sup
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