Show NIGHT OF HORROR IN THE TRENCHES vivid description I 1 G n of his experience penned by a french lieutenant MENS NERVES SHATTERED quiet of day 1 li broken broke by terrific bombardment that make the earth rock bank like ship 1 in storm paris pact the part paris journal prints a most moat graphic account written by a french lieutenant in simple but vivid language ot of his experience during a heavy boul bombardment ariment of III pre french lich liner recently by the germans T the he day was wall quiet writes this ol of fleer fice r towards toward evening we me received id a broadside of rifle it alre chic dislodged a tow few sandbars sandbags sand bags then every everything thin g we was quiet again get A at plus nine I 1 clock I 1 vi went at below to my dugout toy fic something to eat our lit tie lie table was already set and the steaming coffee was waa just juet placed before mo me when suddenly denly there ates as an aa ex illusion that shook hook the earth b beneath sib our feet and scattered pieces of rock clet and clay in n our der midst in 1 it B D DO use net am said one of the men tic I 1 mil bee we a are not go going in g to be permit hermit ted led to eat I 1 climbed back into the trench and mc not a sound ad vices aa heard beard where was the eipl explosion 1 I on to the right answered a voice 1 in the dark be careful the they are send yer lag ing us UK those ISO milli millimeter shell I 1 here a one coming now I 1 crouched down against the ft all it and ad in a twinkling eltty fly meters of the fl trench were aroun ground to dust at sp sparks h flew and dark gamo gaseous fumes eclipsed Ii pd the blackness of the night TA then zam same another shell on its murder murderous mission tearing up the earth ind and so ac compan led by deafening things began to look serious some one I 1 all shouted buted lieutenant there la Is no sense 1 in your you r standing there and risking your yaw life the roan man was waa right I 1 returned to the dugout the bombardment con tinned like one continuous tell roll of thunder hunder A heavy twit loosened by the tha detonations deto nations fell fall at my feet and yet we hear so sas a one of my men that they are short of artim ammuel mil 10 lion lo I 1 wall waa getting tired of this thia V we bad to answer those thosa fell faoa I 1 asked the telephone operator to connect me with the emi commander camme there I 1 la no an answer said the op orator the tha wire has probably been bale shot way away I 1 scribbled something on a piece of paper and banded it to one of my young men the telephone la Is disconnected my friend see that you get this to the he commander r hv have a a little brandy it if you please p me he smiled settled saluted oil and ad was waa off fifty fir t y meters off ha be f fell 11 with a shot in his neck the bombardment grew more in tense less oh what amt a wall night t our on trenches seemed to away to end and fro like the deck of a ship 1 in term storm the air we was full fell of sulphur alpha fumes and breathing became AIM difficult oil death sur our rounded us I 1 wondered how many of 11 my ram men were war tn still alive and w would old w we be able b to withstand the foe fee if he be made ads a charge on our trenches I 1 nerved myself to remain calm how 1 I would have liked to lay down and sleep loop strange smog that the co arial of shells through the air always produces drowsiness I 1 fought against this weakness courage returned who when the bombardment seemed 0 il slacken lacken for a moment t however we orly deluded ourselves 0 for the shells were coming faster and faster suit and thicker led and thicker I 1 tried to figure fig or out th the call unable II 11 ber bar of the shells but we was unable I 1 to think every man was hugging the wall of the t tench ch it if we could all lie bleed bleep D and not act wake up again a ao so as to be out of this hell be careful my friends now that the lne bombardment he hag we can expect pt the enemy A few of the men inen aroe with an effort they looked at mo me bewildered and did olt not seem in to in understand d their faces facea were the ill col or r 0 ot the go earth a th ali ah what was that A Is tew meters meter off if at the c pirelli entrance of the trench I 1 im saw soldier sold lera like so BO many onto ants digging 1 in I the earth they had thrown their lines aside and their only aim now a as aa to save eave their comrades com ho were bur led under the eth earth by the collapse 01 0 collapse the walls wall of at the trench I 1 saw I 1 lou leu tenant count tactics there giving orders eight poor follows are lying under there tor for utmost almost two bours boura no now he shouts halt only by a ra miracle irsel we waa I 1 I 1 avci from being there too it seems impossible for us 09 to reach the men what a terrible arri blo night this his hia been and with a sort we ot if tired laugh he added and to think that such in an awful experience aa 1 t this his 11 he hag hot been 1 IB never ever even 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