A DISPUTED "SANDBAG SEAM."
A young Glasgow officer, writing (b a friend in the city, gives an idea of the proximity of the British troops n't certain points to the enemy's trenches.' "Wo are having a lively time here," he says, "within l! 0 yards of the enemy at some places. The farthest away I think our trenches are is about Mil yards. There is a story, agood one, of tin! Indians, who live on ouv riglitjand who are so dose that only one sandbag divides them, a stretcher at that, and they are lighting to decide whose side the seam of the bag lies on." The writer says lie is "anxious to get some device to light a fuse on a hand grenade or bciub without striking a light or without much trouble." lleis busy on this project, he adds, having been 'transferred from his own reg'h incut to the Itoyal Engineers for special duty. • ■■>
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North Otago Times, Volume CI, Issue 13234, 4 March 1915, Page 5
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156A DISPUTED "SANDBAG SEAM." North Otago Times, Volume CI, Issue 13234, 4 March 1915, Page 5
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