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Show OO GERMAN LUXURIES ON WAR FRONT Paris, July 7, 5:44 a. m. The work of sorting the booty taken by the French troops in the fighting at the Somme brings to light many curious facts. In the Mereaucourt woods a heavy German battery was found completely com-pletely dismounted. The battery com-..mander's com-..mander's shelter alone remained intact. in-tact. The luxury of the arrangements in the German positions on the Santerre plateau showed that they were considered consid-ered impregnable. In the positions occupied by the battery mentioned were a piano, a brass bedstead and a complete hot and cold water supply. The greatest booty fell to General Balfourier's famous "Iron corps" which distinguished itself at Verdun. This corps took enough material to set a wljole army. nn |