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Show MAXIM EFFECTIVELY GUARDSSDLD!ER3 British Officer, Caught in Trenches, Praises Deadly Fire of Germans. MUD IN THE ROADS Teutons Accurate in Shelling Shell-ing Positions of French and English. t Stect,tL C.io'u- to The Trtbunf. LONDON", IV. UtiUsh offi cer t'l's how he r.aa kft )uionor for fvm hours in his oiv tvn'Ji by a ! Genuaji maxim in th following letter homo: i Ve in now in tho ui.lt oi" Tvin-I Tvin-I tor, with tho most horrible treat her I vvu can im.iijife H in snoning nan), aiul the ma-ls anil paths aio knt'e-ilet'u m mu.l water. fow nights aijo, in takinp up a o-sit o-sit ion, hal to waUe alouz & roai whU-n was marked in tho map s.s a riven fn.biouly tho Hermans mauage-l fco find out wo woro on th 0 roa s and t tart ti i v ui i fchraiMioh Thoy really aro woudorrul, and tho avv:ira. of thiir shelling js iioudh. Iht-ir first shdl kiilod two poor follows ajid woun.lod a uumbor more, A fow days ao we had ruther an unplea.tant cxio-rionco cxio-rionco in our dugout, waich was covered In trench. Under Maxim's Fire. I ?uppoo tney spotted uur or dorlit'a ouuimtr and ;oinf but anv-way anv-way they truined a ilaxioi on the eutrant-e ami kept us priunern nil day without any food. Everv half nour or to they ratUed a low shots I at us, wbit'h lizxed over our roof, ! HcatU-rins the oarth and laiKling in j the diti'h forniiBu' the entrance. My first aid post was badly shelled a few weeks aco and I In -ft J six of uiy ttretrher bearers. Wo ! were sit tint; ia a rocui w h:u mi-1-aen'v we h'-nrd the whittle cf a sbell, fcilowfd by ai aw.ul ep!o-' ep!o-' Tht whole wail forrainj tho ; side cf tho room fell on top of '. Three were kiilod and three ! ery seriuiirly injured, while I got 01 f ivith it:-t a i cat roncu?sion and a t wen ty-four hour heada'jho. Kortunately I had j;ot my wounded awar about half an hour before, and there were only about j two-thirls oi my party with me, or I there would have been a more se- I nous casualty list. Shelled Trenches. Yesterday the Germans had a j couple of Zeppelins and an aero-l aero-l plane over us and then shelled the I ire dc hey on our rijht like hadea I with hiirh-explordvediite bodies and ' Krumps. f ' Thev really had a 1 bad time. I wonder when ours 13 coming. Our artillery was quite unablb to cope with the weight of the cund the- lisd np against ua. Their snipers axe dcAdly, too, aud a? soon as a ma a moves by daylight day-light he gets shot. Ail mv business has to be done by nijrht, which is the only time it is tafe to move. It is doc saie then, of course, but still things are more hopeful. But the cold nights are very trying, and how to get wet feet warm is an unsolved problem. prob-lem. 1 |