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Show ITALIANS FIGHT ! WITH PICK AXES Auxiliary Troops Digging Trenches in Flanders Use Tools to Fight Germans. WASHINGTON, April 26 How two companies of Italian auxiliary troops digging trenches for the allies in Flanders Flan-ders fought attacking German troops .vith their pick axes is told in a dispatch dis-patch today from Rome. The message says: "The first Italian troops reached France last November. These contin-gents contin-gents made munitions for artillery and various war necessities showing disci- 1 pllne and capacity. Later on, others arrived ar-rived under General Tarditi and were employed in defensive construction, j proving themselves excellent workmen not displeased that they were unable to carry arms against the enemy lik-the lik-the French and Enclish. Two auxiliary auxil-iary companies, working in the trenches trench-es in Flanders found themselves in I front of the advancing Germans. The i German subaltern In charge ordered ; the soldiers to do some work before , I surrendering but the Italians fell upon 1 the Germans with their picks, killing many, capturing others and retiring in an orderly manner." rn |