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Show IRATSDAILYENEMY TO IE SOLDIERS BEHIND BRITISH LINES IN j FRANCE, July 31. (Mail.) An j enemy whose activities do not figure in : the official reports but against which allied soldiers wage daily warfare is the rat. Tens of thousands of rats, huge sharp-fanged fighters, have dug I themselves in among the billets and trenches in France and Flanders, and they are a constant torment. Thanks to modern medical science, there has been little or no disease communicated by the rodents. Rats multiply rapidly in the trenches trench-es and thrive well. They steal the soldier's sol-dier's rations, disturb his rest and spitefully bite him when he offers resistance. re-sistance. The pest is hunted with ferrets, fer-rets, terriers, poison and traps, and when particularly numerous given a gas attack. After the trenches are drenched with gas, they arc generally clear of rats for a long period, oo |