The evening herald. [volume] (Albuquerque, New Mexico) 1914-1922, 1915-11-10
Associated Press Correspond
ent Visits Fifteen Mile
Stretch Taken in Battle Of
Sept. 25th and goth
M WERE KILLED
OR BURIED ALIVE
Only by slaughtering All Of
Defenders Could Great Al
lied Force Take Trenches on
Western Front.

Chalons, France, oct. 2a.-"When
have taken YOU out before, we
have shown you trenches" saii a
officer. This limo we are GO
Ing to show you a field Of victory
lines OF trenches which we took from
the Germans"
Not all the spoil had yet oeea re-
moved from that secdon hftcen miles
lone and from ono 10 Ave IN breadth
on September 25th and 2tth.
the French had broken back the Siege
line or the Germans with the concen-
tratioa OF infantry and .he expendi-
tu-e OF a million shells.
What looked like a man-of-war
turret on wheels was being drawn
along the road. This cupola Of riyit-
ed armour was dented hy shell frag-
ments. II has an opening for the
OF a small gun I'M "a door for
tho exit and entrance Of tho crew,
which could be fastened by "A bolt and
q heavy chain.
Three men were found inside
locked in said an onicer. The tur-
ret wa set In the parapet ~ o. trench
at an important point Of the hnc Al
.he German soldiers In the ncighbor-
hood had either been killed or buried
alive We had to break the lock 60
tho crew out. M three wcr"
alive bat stunned. They had gone on
hrfng their gun as long as they could
Freely the correspondent moved
between .he old first line French AID
German trenches. which. for mony
months had been n zone OF death for
whoever showed himself. In front ~
the first line trench the Germans had
b~arhei-wire eatapglcmentg Ave or six
feet broad. 4 rabbit could not have
gone through without being caught
In places now one had 20 search 60
find any wire. " had beer chopped
into bits by the burst ~ shrapnel but
lets from the ''soXiante quinzc' guns
and then kneaded into the earth by
high explosive shells. Those guns
had been firing from a range OF any
where from 1000 20 5000 yards. yet
with such accuracy that they could bic
the ribbon Of wire six feet broad on
such accuracy depended tho slcccfi
of the infantry .n reaching the GER
man trenches There must h" guns
and shells enough to dosiroy wire over
"a from. OF fifteen miles. n the Ger
mans ia the trench with their rifle
ana machine guns and hand gr"1o'"s
could 20 on firing 81 meant murder
for the Frcnchmen exposed 10 the
open as they charged
So fifteen or twenty yards nryorl
where the wire was bcing cut more
sholl-hre had 90 Kill ,he fire from tho
German trcnchcs. some blast of
shrapncl bullets here. too. ouough tn
make any man en- the German trenches
want TO keep his heal down n ~" was
buried or evisceratcd by hig cN-
ploslve SHELF. For hundreds 80 yards
In some places there was scarcely any
semblancc Of trenches after 'hc
French guns had prepared the way
for the French infantry. II NoF a.
IL the trenches had been q ma nif'
systematically with charges plotted
out checkcr-hoard fashion.
A. other places whore the dc7'ruo-
tioa hal not been so complete lt wn
possihle 90 see what % German
trenches were like and with amazing
thoroughncss and care thcy had been
built.
To a layman they seemed imprcF-
nnble. Down these flantins shaf
under the p%arapcis wor" caves twenty
ana thirty feet deep for refuge 100 a
bomoardmcut In man" c1r"H ih'
I openings had been closed hy the de.
scent Of "a ton or more Of earth ron
.he parnpet from the conclusion of Fl
large caiibrc howltzer she'll ANA al
the men Within were buried alive.
The fate Of those who were IN th'
I trench itself was often To- Dee hutle
In fragments Of fo1h and bono. h.owl
into the soil by the explosions Tn
/ German guns could not nro oa .h0
French infantry az they reached th'
/ baroed-wlrc for fear Of hitting thl
Germans go the trenches and th'
French FIRE stopped for fear OF hi'
ting the French. Who're an infern'
Of explosions HAD rnge1 pence reign
ed over the WrcrkiRe wroush h'
Frnch g%uuHcry, NJ the French soldier
sprang over tho remnants NJ purapet
10 face with hayouot and dagger AN.
German hat had survived aud wa
In possession of his senses.
Even those who we're" said % FOL
der. often yielded. what woul
you2 We swarmol around them w
summoned those alive a. of thei
dupouts. Thus WI tpok our prisoner
That is, we took those who were allh'
The dead ana the wounded An
Monsieur. they were more numcrou
than the prisoners II was terrible
Monsieur. and 80 aI happened yer
fast. Monsieur. The blood was no.
We had waited many months. u wa
victory. How good the hough-h
of the %soiynnte quinze sounded benin
us' How good the scream Of our hi
sheli7' Then there were the mines "
exploded Have you see the craters
So big you could almost put tho Ar
de Triomphe into one OF them w
charged into a wall Of smoke an
dut. from the shells and the sno''
ara dust were sim thick when W
rc'ched the German trenches
"And what ala You think OF "hr
ycu charged
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