The guns were firing from a hollow near the Ain Karim-Jerusalem track, some 600 yards behind the forward trenches on Subr, and were showing an uncomfortable activity.

Just outside the stockade we dug as best we could a shallow trench, while the muskets of the others kept watch over us.

Fifteen thousand Russians under cover of the gloom had come out from Sebastopol and driven our French allies out of their advanced trenches.

The traces of a narrow trench, surrounding a square plat of ground, now covered with the interlacing arms of hawthorn and wild honey-suckle, arrest the attention as we are proceeding along a strongly beaten track in the deep woods, and we are assured that this is the site of the "old French town" which has given its name to the portion of country around.

Except for an occasional far-off detonation and the more or less constant and, so to speak, absent-minded cracking of rifles, a mere keeping awake, apparently, and letting the men in the opposite trenches know you are awake, the afternoon was peaceful.

With the immense increase of difficulties in making way through the crowded trenches, and renewing the attack against works now fully armed and manned, the attempt was postponed till next day, when fresh troops, headed by the Highlanders, were to renew it.

It was so I could open a little trench through the muddy land and start the water flowing into the pit.

There was, too, an entire absence of the heavy and continuous work in the wet trenches.

Accordingly, drawing out their troops, they encamp before the town, and cover the nearest trench with hurdles and fill it up with earth, and make ready for a sally and every casualty.

No huddling in muddy trenches here, waiting to be smashed by jagged chunks of ironeverything clean, aloof, scientific, exact, a matter of fine wires crossing on a periscope lens, of elevation, wind pressure, and so on, and everything in the wide outdoors, and done, so to say, with a magnificent gesture.

On a nine-mile front east and north of Ypres, a long drawn-out battle carried the advancing French and British troops more than a mile into the intricate hostile trench system on August 16, after successive advances on previous days.

We wage mimic warfare in full marching order; we fire rifles and machine-guns upon improvised ranges; we perform hazardous feats with bombs and a dummy trench.

But the Colonel had escaped that shell and sent a message back to the left trench to hang on, and that he had asked for reënforcements.

It had a more massive air than the average French trench, and its cellarage, if I may use this civilian word, was deeper than that of any French trench.

Making the sweet pea trench.

The ambassadors, dismissed with these hopes, with difficulty effected their return to Capua, which was by this time surrounded by a double trench and rampart. 23.

In order to allow men to regain their wind, or should the fire of the enemy be so effective as to prevent a further advance without reinforcement, advantage may be taken to lie close in cover, or hasty fire trenches may be thrown up in order to allow the line to maintain its position.

That was what the Austrians and Germans did and, following their artillery with an infantry assault, captured one of the upper Russian trenches.

Then as the whole army in battle array moved forward, strong in its might of numbers, the advance was checked and thrown into confusion by the opposing trench.

He brought a spade and hoe from a little hut near the stream, and we dug a broad and shallow trench and laid the bodies in it.

Tyee looked back and saw the women and children clustering blackly in the deserted trenches.

That was my last of that fearful trench.

To obtain head cover in a trench fill a gunny sack or other bag with sand or soil and place it on top of the parapet, aiming around the right-hand side of it, or dig a small lateral trench in the parapet large enough to hold the rifle.

This afternoon I reached the foremost trench, south of Grandpré.

The part above ground was then covered by a buffalo robe, and a trench about eight feet square was then dug about the grave.