Show Cave Mait Mans Man's s Weapon Used by British in Flanders Fighting TORONTO Oct 27 British British troops fighting in Flanders have adopted the weapon of the ancient caveman for forhand forhand forhand hand to hand fighting in the trenches according to a letter re received by the Rev A. A Logan Geggie from his nephew who Is at the front with the Canadian contingent In his letter the writer says For our very latest weapon we have gone back to the early days It ls l's s a club or according to the military mill mili tary vocabulary a knobkerries ies a wooden affair similar to a policeman's truncheon weighted with lead and very liberally with boot tacks It is for hand to hand affairs in a narrow trench This morning a daredevil corporal of ot ours with four companions crept over to the German listening posts armed with these weapons A listenIng listening listening listen listen- ing post is merely a run out from the main fire tire trench It is a apost apost apost post in which one listens for sounds of movements patrols etc ete In this case the Germans Bavarian landwehr landwehr landwehr land- land wehr were not listening good enough Our chaps just reached over the parapet and clumped them on the nut and three very astonished Fritzes returned to consciousness in our number 42 trench Some weapon is that club |