Show BERTHS IN TRENCHES FOR BRITISH SOLDIERS london engla england nd A descriptive account of r recent ece at developments in france sent by an eye witness attached to the ill utah general head quarters lu arterB has haa been given out la in london and is in part as follows on the firing line the men sleep al beep and obtain shelter in dugouts they ther have hollowed or cut under the side of the trenches ren ches these refuges are raised slightly above the bottom 0 of the trench so as aa to remain dry in wet weather tho the floor of the trench also Is sloped for or purposes of drainage are appropriately named some of the trenches are provided with overhead cover which gives given protection from the weather as well as from shrapnel balls and splinters ot of shells considerable ingenuity has been exercised by the men in nam naming ing these shelters among the favorite designations are the hotel cecil the billitz hotel the 1111 let doux hotel and the ruo rue dormar on the road barricades also are to be found boards bearing this notice this way to the tha prussians obstacles of every kind abound and at night each side can hear the enemy driving pickets for entangle ments digging or working forward by sapping in some dome places obstacles have been construct ed by both sides so close together that some wag suggested that each side provide working parties to perform this fatiguing duty alternately inasmuch as the work ot of the tha enemy Is almost indistinguishable from ours and serves the same purpose quarries make spacious halls halla quarries and caves to which allusion already has been made provide ample accommodation for whole battalions and most comfortable are the shel shelters tere which have been een constructed tit in tt thea v the north norten slopes slope of the tha alan alano valley for tortu tuel iely ar are very tory bleek bleep dad this to 10 A awil ex extent en protects us tie front from the shells many any 0 of which over our hocus haic ls to burst in the meadows along the river pank bank bomb dropped on ammunition it aready has boen been mentioned that according to td information obtained from tho the enemy 15 germans were killed by a bomb dropped upon the ammunition wagon of a cavalry column it was thought at the time that this might have been the work of fit one end of our airmen who reported eliat lie he had dropped a hand grenade on this convoy and had then got a birds i eye view ol of the finest display ot of fireworks tie ho had ever seen from corroborative evidence it appears that this was tho the case that the grenade thrown by him probably was waa the cause of the destruction of a small convoy carrying field gurt gun and howitzer howl tier am ammunition which now has been round found i k total wreck along the road lio lie 14 motor lorries their iron skeletons twisted and broken everything inflammable has been burned as aa havo have tho the stripped trees some wit wilt split on both sides ot 0 tho the road only clothing of drivers left of the drivers nothing remains exi copt tattered boots and charred scraps of clothing while the ground within a radius of GO 60 yards of the wagons to li litter litterst pt with lleces of iron split brass cartridge cases which have exploded and some fixed axed gun ammunition with live shells it it were possible to reconstruct this incident it it was in fact brought about ai as supposed the grenade from tho the aeroplane must have hava detonated on the lorry on one side ot of the road and caused the car bridges carried by it to explode three vehicles immediately in the rear must then have teen been set on fire with a similar result it this appalling destruction was vas duo due to one hand baud grenade it la is an illustration ot of the potentialities ot of a small amount of 0 high explosive detonated in the right spot while the nature of the place where tho the disaster occurred a narrow forest road bo tween high trees Is a T f to the skill ot of the airman it Is only fair to add that some coma french newspapers claim this damage to the enemy was waa caused by the be action of 0 a detachment of 0 their dragoons |