Show NOT A TRENCH OF BAYONETS true brud story of famous incident at verdun which french bravery has made immortal the scaffolding lias has now been taken lown down from froin the monument over the famous trench of tho the bayonets jit at AS inaugurated the tern tenn ichii trench cle i Is a misnomer the true story ls la hits fifty seven survivors of two breton i battalions were holding tho the line there I 1 not in a trench tien cli but in a series of shell holes nearly neaily regularly spaced and aligned the men were so packed ed thata eliat t cieli hep any were wounded mounded they were un able to fall down while for security they held their rifles with fled ed bay conets in tile the air during the whole of jupe julie 11 12 and 13 1010 1916 a terrible artillery ael raged round them caught between tile the french and german barrage barrag tf fires ares one by one the men died while the bursting shells burled buried them under waves of 0 torn up lip ground wien when the scene could bo be visited till nil that ined was a line of bayonets protruding from tile the ground continental Continent at l of tile the london mall |