some exposed wiring at One Tree Hill and in front of the Sugar Refinery and suffered only two slight casualties. At Fort Bertha this Company did the best hidden trench work that had yet been carried out by the Battalion. The enemy's artillery activity during the month was rather below normal, though he was quite spiteful in regard to certain spots, such as the Sugar Refinery and the neighbourhood of Courcelles, and developed an unpleasant habit of throwing over crashes, a concentration of a number of guns on a particular page 140 point for about a minute. These crashes came without warning; they were a mixture of shrapnel and H.E. from guns of all calibres up to 8-inch. "The weather," reported Lieut.-Col. Saxby, "has on the whole been fine, with a few wet days in the middle of the month, and it was rather surprising that with so much in his favour he developed no infantry attacks on our front. Still, he was busy elsewhere, and probably knew as well as we did the stack of troops we had behind us." All the work was carried out in the morning, leaving the afternoon free, and football and even tennis were played, "weapons" for which were supplied by the Y.M.C.A. Influenza resulted in a good deal of sickness, but casualties were extremely light; only three men were wounded during the month of May. In the early part of June, trench work was pushed ahead to finish the job and it was