WAR SIDELIGHTS.

Bruce Herald, Volume LI, Issue 67, 30 August 1915, Page 4

WAR SIDELIGHTS.

*»» —■ One of the most interesting of the appliances used in the war is the motor plough that the Germans employ, it cuts a ttench 3ft wide and 3ft deep at the rate of one yard a minute or more. Under favorable soil conditions it will even cut 100 yards of trench in an •hour, a rampart. It therefore does the work of 200 men, and can be kept going all night and day. The Prussian Army carried 20 of the ploughs, first into Belgium and then into France; but since September the FSrench have got possession of 15 of shem. A photograph of the miniature Kiel Camali and! its fortified entrance* conBtjnujotedi by German war prisoners on the estate of Mr J. Mavelock Wilson, at Eastoote., Northamptonshire, MgiLamd, is rejjrod'ucecl in an American the Fatherland is illustrated by the retire Fatherland as iEusTatedi by the reproduction of the church and buildings Jm the bank. The German prisoners •who made -the reproduction are sitting on the bank a.nd' the English constables who guard the prisoners are leaning over the footbridge. An artilleryman invalided from the front relates that in one 6-inch Germah shell there was discovered a, brass candlestick, while another contained bicycle crank and a quantity of broken glass. ' German troop 9 in the Argonne have been vaccinated against cholera, according to a statement appearing in the 'Journal des Debate.' The paper Wa that the Germans are preparing French soldiers with cholera.