HOW DEEP IS IT WITH YOU?
'"General Winter' has arrived in Flanders," says Mr Philip Gibbs. "The elements havo made a quagmire of the war zone, and filled the trenches with icecold water which freezes about the feet of soldiers in the small hours, before the dawn
"'How deep ia it with you?' shouteed a German soldier the other day. His voice came from behind a pile o£ sandbags which divide the enemy and ourselves in a communication trench between the main lines.
"'Up to our blooming knees,' said an English corporal, who was trying to keep his bombs dry under * tarpaulin from which the rain, streamed into the chalky wo,tor where he stood.
" ' 80? . . ', You are lucky fellow*, .We're jir t? osr belts ia .it.'-
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Evening Post, Volume CXI, Issue 18, 22 January 1916, Page 13
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