These bombs were cylinders, about the size of two baking-powder tins joined together, filled with dynamite and exploded by a fuse.

The bomb at Cesare's had been the last straw.

But those bombs are oners.

In the words of an eyewitness, the Germans fought like cornered rats among the shell holes and wire incumbrances of "No man's Land," where the struggle raged, bomb and bayonet being the principal weapons.

" To bomb soon became as common a verb with the army as to bayonet.

If behind, and travelling at fifty or sixty miles an hour, the bomb would carry forwardjust enough probably to bring it over; and if apparently over, still the bomb would have been several seconds in fallingit might be right on top of us now!

The bombs are hand grenades, manufactured at the arsenal of the Servian Army in Kragujevac.