Complex sentence: Sometimes the British and German positions were so close that troopers on each front line could hear what was said in the opposite trench; one group of Southern Rhodesians attempted to avoid being understood in this situation by speaking a mixture of Shona and Sindebele instead of English.
Split into simpler sentences: Sometimes the British and German positions were so close that troopers on each front line could hear what was said in the opposite trench. One group of Southern Rhodesians attempted to avoid being understood in this situation by speaking a mixture of Shona and Sindebele instead of English.