WHERE BRITISH ARE ENTRENCHED
A "MOST MUDDY AND DAMNABLE COUNTRY." London, March 10. A correspondent with the British troops says:—"The country where the British are entrenched is the most interesting portion of Flanders. It is also tho most disheartening, monotonous, muddy, damnable country imaginable for tho operations of an anuy accustomed to sanitation and cleanliness. Tho whole place is a warren of old and new trenches made by tho French, Germans, and British, and abandoned, re-occupied, blown to pieces, and mined, mazes of entanglements completing tile panorama. The British line lias been hammered out into a number of curves and capers. The trenches swallow timber with the voracity of a speculative gultl mino."—"Times" and Sydney ' Sun" Semcas,
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Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2407, 12 March 1915, Page 5
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