A French soldier calculated the amount of sod that lias been used in the work oi trench-making. There arc about SCO miles ot fnst-hne trenches stretching from the North Sea. to. Switzerland. And thcro are five or six lines of trenches upon rice side. A total of ten lines of trenches on Ka« - <^" 6jd6s would .give a length of abouc 5000 miles, and tins has involved a task of excavating twice as great a s that of the Panama Canal. And it has all been done by hand labour with military shovels, and much of it has been done under fire and by men who have, to v.-crk wfcile 'Ting or. their cheats,. ■
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Manawatu Standard, Volume XLI, Issue 10526, 2 December 1916, Page 10
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113Page 10 Advertisements Column 5 Manawatu Standard, Volume XLI, Issue 10526, 2 December 1916, Page 10
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