GERMAN BURROWING

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume LXXII, 21 October 1916, Page 8

GERMAN BURROWING

NEW FORMS OF TRENCH

DEFENCE

HUGE TUNNELS FOR UNDER-

GROUND TRANSFER

BY CABLE—PRESS ASSOCIATION—COPYRIGHT. (Received Oct. 2L, 10.20 a.m.) NEW YORK, Oct. 20. Despatches from French field headquarters declare that the French victory at Sailly-Saillisel has increased the Allied breach in the German line to a maximum depth of over eleven miles, and soon the Allies will be in a position for most effective assaults simultaneously on three sides.

The Germans, fearing this development, are constructing deep subterranean tunnels on a scale hitherto unequalled, which are capable of sheltering a thousand men and providing for their rapid transfer underground from place to place. The tunnels are equipped with miniature railways for the transportation of machine guns and ammunition to the exits, where a lift transports the guns and crews to the surface or permits of their descent to a tunnel to other points with the maximum of rapidity.