GRIM DISCOVERY
BURIED GERMAN DUGOUT OCCUPANTS’ TERRIBLE FATE (United Press Association.) (J!y Electric Telegraph—Copyright.) PARIS, April 9. (Received April 10, at 5.5 p.m.) A grim battlefield find was made in a wood near Chaulnes. A gamekeeper’s dog suddenly disappeared in a hole, and investigation revealed that it led to an underground • gallery roofed with sheet iron. A skeleton wearing a German shrapnel helmet was found on a seat of earth and a rifle was within reach. Nineteen other skeletons of Germans were then found. Apparently they were imprisoned by a shell which closed the entrance of the sap during the bombardments of September, 1917, and died of suffocation.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 22544, 11 April 1935, Page 9
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