REVIVAL OF THE MACE.
I SPIKE-STUDDED CLUBS FOR TRENCH FIGHTING. English- newspapers mention the fact that the mace, so popular with warriors in the days of knighthood, is not out of date in the present struggle. Both the German and the Allied trench warriors are armed with a weapon .which can be called nothing but a mace. It is a short, heavy club covered Avith spikes. The bludgeons are supplied to parties which creep up on the encmys trench under cover of darkness. When an attacking party, small in number, enters an enemy's trench, the success of their venture depends on their ability to a void discovery by others in the same trench or an adjoining one. For this reason it is necessary to kill their opponents silently. Tbe mace or spiked bludgeon makes this possible. By killing silently the f cay Avatchers in the trench attacked the enemy can gain a foothold for a lai*ge attacking force.
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Grey River Argus, 14 April 1916, Page 7
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