REMARKABLE.

Feilding Star, Volume XII, Issue 2886, 4 March 1916, Page 2

REMARKABLE.

EXPEIMENCE OF SOLDIERS THREE. CAUGHT IN AN EXPLOSION. BURIED UNDER GERMANS. Pari*. March 2. Le Petit Journal tells a gruesome story ami setpiol concerning three French soldiers who had completed the laying of a mine at Uois tit; la Vauche. While returning, they were buried by a terrific explosion. The root ot the gallery collapsed through a German shell bursting. For hours the men awaited the explosion of their own mine, and then, with trowel and hands, they began to dig their way out. Soon the, narrow gallory began to drip with a warm liquid, which they discovered to bo blood. As they tlit)'" the rivulet of blood iucreaesd : and the soldiers, clawing Irani ically. struck a mass of human flesh, the first huge heap of German bodies which rolled to the boflom of ihe craler after tin- mine bat I been sprung, annihilating a whole Germany company. Through the mass of distorted corpses the three men slowly hacked their avuv to freedom.