Show i MILITARY Y PIONEER ISUM IS HUMAN UM N MOlE AT NIG T WO K Burrows Through Earth to toMake toMake toMake Make Passageway for Trench T Takers aker Correspondence Associated Press Prel KARLSRUHE K G Germany Jan 18 At At night when the searchlights nit flit from trench to 10 trench of or the enemy and when gunners gunner send shells Into hostile works work which during the tho da day have been bun tingled d dout out for or this attention the human mole mole mole- the tho pioneer pioneer goes goes to work worle The present war at quarters ha has made nude It Impo Impossible impossible im Im- Im- Im po possible for tor him to labor in daylight Not ot alone alono is hi er e every cry part of or tho the field scrutinized with powerful glasses b by the observation officers but men in aeroplanes are also constantly on the lookout for a Q red led or brown scar aJr In tho the landscape that might show sho pioneers busy at work ark digging trenches Contrary to popular belief trenches are but seldom dug b by the Infantrymen cn nowa nowa- days The little spades the they carry serve liene for Cor the solo Bolo purpose of throwing up cover coer when durin during an nn attack the firing line ow- ow In Inz to superiority of ar fire from the enemy's ene- ene nem m mj mys position must Itself superficIally super super- until reinforcements can be brought up The trenches of or the permanent permanent perma perma- nent positions are du dug h by the pioneers aa as asare are also the approach of ot trenches bomb- bomb proofs and tunnels which make up a modern modem position fight line u What hat It means menne to be be- bet n. n pioneer io le well told lold In a letter which has hils Just jUit been published published pub pub- In the German pr press The writer explains that the division lelon staff had thought it ad advisable to advance ance closer cloer to th the Fr French trenches Before this could be done tone a trench had to be du dug due otherwise e the infantry sent cent there would have b been en mowed mower down bj by the tho fire from tho the other side The locality of or the proposed proposed pro pro- posed fed trench Ja lay b the French and German trenches So we Vie J Wt left t the half hair ruin ruined d d little tittle village on the banks of ot the c canal reached the and labored through the deep mud and around the hoJ holes f blown in tho the ground b by the shells continues continue the pioneer pio plo neer About us hummed bullets which seemed e me to have ha lost JOt their wa way and tho the spades beat heat gently against the rifles After Alter wading through muddy fields we W e crowed crossed d a pontoon bridge e. e upon which our steps resounded In dull concussions iter I we we entered alon along the sphere phere of or tho the En English Eng Eng- lish bullets and had to get et into tho the ditch along alonS' the road to escape them After that we croas crossed d more mudd muddy fields crept through h barbed wire fenc fences and finally reached the spot T There Thre We Wo do deployed to and ln went Jent to work It had hOod Started Burled to rain again aln and the ground we worked In b became softer than it had hod been Yo We worked like manJa maniacs to get ct cover eo against t the fire of or the tho enemy Thought Though It was dark tho the bullets hit lilt the well wall l f of If a 0 nearby house like hall hail Aft Alter After r a while tho the fire Ore grew worse J Lay 13 downs J came the command Wo We o rested sol soa enough In the mud but theio thole was a nut nasty smell about it For ten minutes min min- utes we ne waited ratted In this position and then resumed our work ork Some of or the tho roun ground we were werl on had been In filled in it seemed 9 for tor after a 3 while Wo we hit a a. layer of ot brick fragments which seriously Jy retarded our pro progress sa ru I The Tho trench tr ww W were ere dJ was VIas only i ISO to onA 00 OO feet from th UI the trench of or the enemy n mr fome some of ot tho the bravest bra of or whom had perched themselves In Jn the crowns crown of or some somo I US willow trees tree an and were popping away ny at But a a. winter thunderstorm came to our aid aid its ts downpour caused cause the ar ardor or or of the men In ln the thc tr trees s to cool coot We o kept on with work to the our ao- ao 0 of or tho the Incessant nt heavy ar sr- tiller tillery nr 1115 from both sides eidee Now and then the bombardment would develop into a long lom rolling roiling cannonade Shrieking and hO howling lIng the projectiles rushed through tho the air All above U us to explode on either lade d with Ith terrific crashes Meanwhile W wo we had burled ourselves e well ell in the tho earth and when the rain ceased and t the tho bullets began again aln to conic come from the willow trees tho they could no to longer r molest us With loud splashes the they hit the soft loam about OP ns cr but we wore were below the level le of or the parapet we had thrown up Another half halt hour and ond our work was done With not a a. dry thread on our bodies and cover covered d with mud from head to foot Coot we Wc returned to our quarters ac ac companied h by the tho humming of ot the bullets bul bul- lets leU which ep sped d about us Now X there were stars tart In the clear pk sky ky the the same ammo stars as at nt homo But they look upon a a. different r nt scene To the right of us a l searchlight lit JIt up the ruins of ot destroyed towns and nd in sharp ta I thanked God Cod that such a. a I Ca fate Ie bate bas been spared snared my home |