Show I Building a Trench Trenches on th the western front appear appear appear ap ap- ap- ap pear to the civilian eye which Is fixed upon photographs to be Just a ditch backed by dugouts dugo ts In reality details a trench correspondent an enormous enormous amount of ot work and scientific study Is la required for the establishment of ot a complete winter trench For every mile mUe a trench over sand bags are needed One man can ca'n fill a bag with earth and lift it to place 25 times in a night when all nIl the f work of ot repairing trenches Is done 4 t- t tIt It would take a battalion eight months to do this work A mile mUe of trench and Its concomitant concomitant f r 1 1 tant protection demands six-foot six u stakes small pickets i 1 sandbags weighing 1000 tons In all feet of corrugated feet teet of timber etc ete f |