The breastwork seemed all too weak now we knew the force which would be brought against it, and we started to dig a trench around it, but so feeble were the men that it was only half completed.

"When daylight came two of our fellows, at the invitation of the enemy, left the trenches, met half-way, and drank together.

For a moment I thought my head had been blown off, but I recovered and kept on running until I reached a trench, where I had an opportunity to bandage the wound.

They cut zig-zag trenches up the hillside, and finally stormed and took a Russian trench close under the guns of the fort.

They are only used in actual attacks and never for the purpose of merely holding trenches.

A new method of warfare had been developed and the world began to realize that all historic conditions of war had been revolutionized by the use of scientific weapons of destruction like the machine gun, which mowed down men like hay, and the high explosive shell that destroyed protective works as if they were made of cardboard and filled the trenches with dead and dying bodies.

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

The second wave passed over the bodies of their comrades without a moment's check and, moving through the wire smashed by our artillery, entered Umbrella Hill trenches and set about the Turks with their bayonets.

On January 21 it was announced that the Turks had been driven out of positions on the right bank of the Tigris, near Kut, the British occupying their trenches on a wide front.

Then I saw another trench that ran slantwise up the hillock and it contained more of the pygmies.

They cut zig-zag trenches up the hillside, and finally stormed and took a Russian trench close under the guns of the fort.

The French infantry charged this trench and the decoys fled, making toward the flanks, and as the French poured over the trenches the hidden guns swept them.

A prominent feature of the attack was the use by the British of armored automobile trucks of unusual size and power, so constructed that they were able to cross trenches and shell-holes.

, a greater number of German prisoners was taken by the French in an advance along a two-and-a-half-mile front south of the Somme, and on the 9th the French strengthened their positions near Sailly, clearing out German trenches and taking more prisoners.

That day I visited the trenches on the Volconiac, starting in the early afternoon and getting back at nightfall.

And in the dreary days that followed, and in the wild nights when they pushed the trenches closer, there was much discussion as to the wisdom of letting the Sunlanders go.

RUSSIAN INFANTRY CHARGES "Back behind us, on the extreme left, I was told the Russians were attacking the German trenches by an infantry charge, the German field telephone service having apprised the commanders along the front.

"Ignoring our guns, the German artillerymen, probably relying on concealment for immunity, were concentrating all their efforts in a particularly forceful effort to enfilade our trenches.

The Germans had thrown up conspicuous trenches and with decoys sparsely filled them.

The British built trenches with lateral individual dugouts at right angles to the main trench, protecting the men against flank fireand these aroused the admiration even of their enemies.

but it makes little difference to the weary German who mans the trenches over against him.

Harold had seized the advantage of a rising ground, and having likewise drawn some trenches to secure his flanks, he resolved to stand upon the defensive, and to avoid all action with the cavalry, in which he was inferior.

It only requires a few minutes to construct a trench that gives great protection.

An aerial reconnaissance nearly a year before we took Jerusalem showed the Turks busily making trenches on the hills east of the wadi Surar.

Each morning, with hardly ever a miss, they shelled our trenches, but almost invariably in the same place: the left-hand end.