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Show Canadians Raid German Dugout t-- , enemy's front line had been strengthened strength-ened and the assembly trenches manned man-ned with supports. Their losses were heavier in consequence. The judgments of the Canadian officers of-ficers were formed by guesswork from nlrplane photographs. All proved correct. cor-rect. Each Canadian by consulting his watch recognized each particular German Ger-man trench and did his appointed work till all was over. A friendly snowstorm masked the homeward journey, which began one hour after the start. Said a German noncommissioned officer of-ficer sadly : "If you had only come the day before be-fore you would have captured the corps commander." The prisoners, many of them Sile-sians, Sile-sians, surrendered readily. Two small and one large ammunition dump were blown up. The death roll inflicted was as high as 300, Including, it is thought, a battalion commander. We took 100 prisoners, several machine guns and a trench mortar. Our casualties were light. . ' First Learned Enemy's Language Says Correspondent of London Times. PREPARE WITH CHEAT CARE Affair Moves on With Unfaltering Precision Pre-cision Judgment of Officers Formed by Guesswork From Airplane Photographs. London. A Times correspondent with the British army in the field writes the following description of a raid on German trenches made on the Somme front : A full account of the raid made by Canadians on the German lines near Cnlonne on January 17 serves to show that the raid, though soon over, received re-ceived much care from the staff officers offi-cers and the men who carried it out. The Canadian lads were set to studying study-ing the German language and acquired some phrases, such as "Raus" and another phrase explaining that if the Germans stayed down they must expect ex-pect the worst immediately. Our men hate the necessity of bombing deep dugouts, full of the frightened enemy, but the time Is short and bombing Is necessary if orders are not obeyed at once. A modest. Cann-) Cann-) dlan officer said he called down one - dugout six times, shouting in German - on this occasion. I Burned Battalion Orders. r "I didn't want to bomb," he said. - "I knew the number below. Every time l I shouted a voice replied, "Yes," in good English. At last out came a - German company commander, a ser- - geant major, with four others. He J apologized for delaying and said he - had been burning the battalion orders, s lie had only just time enough." ) Three men were detailed to stay be-3 be-3 hind and when the German wire was reached to cut paths. It happened that 1 our guns made n beautiful mess of 1 thnt wire. Nevertheless these three B cut the tangle into short lengths and the shorter boys went over nt eight In b the morning. After an active walk of b four minutes the first waves of raiders Y was at the first line. In 20 minutes the l second line was 'reached. The affair moved with unfaltering precision. The |