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Show WATCH , KEPT-;, 01 Tills i'-TORTARGETS "Keep Your 'Head Down," Guide's Advice to Corretpondentson Visit to British Defeniet Drltlsh Headquarters In France, la LonJcni, Mnrch 8'. "There pu are and keep your head downJ h Is h fair target at that distance," said tho oMcor who had como out of tho shelter to meet tho newspaper correspondents cor-respondents who woro being permitted per-mitted to visit tho trenches'. Tho correspondents worcj In tho defenses de-fenses nt tho edgo of a hardwood grovo called tho I'loegstcert woods Tho British had fought fiercely In ordor to got possession of this groo, ror it meant cover tor tnom. Occas tonally bullets whistled overhead and tho Bttlsh of German shclis which wcro being fired nt something In the , ronr, passed higher up, whllo a hid den British battery was sending Its sheila In the opposite direction. At Intervals In the defenses tho men wero waiting with rifles laid to plug any moving thing that looked llko a "aerboyl" "Sharpshooters Waiting ; Two hundred nnd fifty yards away ,wna a wall of sandbags. Tho baro 'field b'otweon tho two llnca was as jlirelcss as a desert and for all one could boo tho Oermnn breastwork was not occupied by a slnglo humnn being, nut thero, as on tho British Bldo, sharpshooters woro wnlt!rig"nnd officers wcro watching through the refracting mirrors of tho periscope Tor threo months thd' trenches hnvo romnlned In tho snmo position, and novcr In nil that tlmo, hero ns olsowhoro nlong tho lino, hut someone Is on tho lookout and tho reserves nro ready for an attack. "Hero wo will bo until tho big push comes," sny tho men. lly 'the big push' they rofcr to tho movement whon tho now British army Is In tho trenches. Patrols Creep Out at Night At night Gorman patrols creep out to sco It the British aro up to anything any-thing now and tho Drltlsh do liko-wlso liko-wlso to ascertain It tho Germans Hro And sometimes somo of tho men nro killed. Except for tho thresh of shells rind tho bnng of tho guns tho sceno is most poncoful. Vhon'.tho GornrfTfc cut looso with porno' tlirllls ols in of rapid tiro guns or begin shclllilK, iho men tnko to tlinlr sholtcrs until tho storm Is over. They nro always In danger from sniping and aro lllcoly to bo eallcd at any mlnuto to suffer hoavy lossos In ropelllng an nttnek. Tlioy nro veterans who coaso to think of possibilities. Familiar With Death I'rom Mons to Ypres tho Drltlsh regular gained fnmlllnrlty wlthdenth. Very proud nro tho men who hnvo stuck It through from tho tlmo of tho British landing until now. Whon nno of them wns asked about It ho said- "Just luck, Hint's all Mnybo I'll got It from ft sniper whon this winter Is over." At night nil tho work In tho nrlgh borhood of tho trenches Is dona. Across tho Hro zono boj'ond tho tronches, food nnd timbers nnd pv-erythlng pv-erythlng needed in tho trenches Is cnrrlod up by hand In n wallow of mud. Yet ono henrs no ono grow ling or swcnrlng when It would seem Onl human Irritation must hnvo an cicapo valvo "Profanity romes too high," iald n soldier. "Tho Gorboys limy hear 1 on and then turn looso. And It may not only cost nu your llfo, hut our pals " mm m |