Bisbee daily review., 1915-01-17
NECESSARY HAIL pr
 LEAD DIRECTED AT
 DIXMUDE TRENCHES
Relief of Soldiers Who Hold Town is Accompanied by Perils Because of Constant Bombardment Maintained by the Allies

hiIhLlN, Jan. lb.-Dangers attpnd- ing the act of withdrawing fatisued forces fro mthe German trenches and relieving them with fresh troops ia dramatically discussed by cores pondent Of the Berliner Tageb1att who prefaced the story with exper. fences of himself and colleagues in getting into and out of The firing line
 We could only reach the village Eessen' he writes Here we had to leave the automobile in the mud be. hind a church whose walls showed The marks of desperate struggle Everywhere on the ground. bandapes arms and parts of uniforms every thing covered with yellow mud Be. side the church were fresh graves.
 From Eessen to Dixmude the road Tor three kilometers runs parallel to the French trenches. Every auto and every wagon seen on the road is taken under fire from the trenches which are only about 400 yards away So we left the automobile in cover and continued our journey on foot keeping about SO feet apart in order to be as inconspicuous to the enemy as possible. But they had already seen us. A rolling fusilade began to sweep the road We jumped from tree 10 tree and made part of the distance by running in stopped position be, hind a hedge.
 The mud was several feet deep i'm places. and our way lay past trenches aud dead horses. Many of the animals were chestnuts. deeply imbedded i'm The mud. and their wide-open eyes stared into the leaden sky in most uncanny fashion
 After while we came to an ev. posed railroad crossigu some goo feet rom the trenches of the enemy. First one man bolted across the open place then the other, until We were an over The bullets fro mthe French helped every one to lose no time.
 But now We had the protection of the railroad embankment and avail ing ourselves Of this We soon reached the ruins of Dixmude. Several streets and especially the market place lie within the fire zone of the enemy.
 Tn this uncanny town dweHs un- speakable fear DiNmude has been shot mp as DO other place in the the atre of war The town is empty and deserted. But you become aware of a noise.ess. mcauny sort or life in the houses. It comes from the cellars where our soldiers are in quarters
 We finally met the commaudant Of the place He had been decorated with the iron cross first class. and showed that he was glad to see new faces in this place of desolation.
 As he explained the situation to us, bullets hit the walls to the left and right of us. We counted forty-Ave in one minute on the wall of a build. ing close by Zealously by day and night this waste of ammunition goes on
 The only living creatures our men found in Dxmude were dog and three cats Three times -four times Dixmude has been the center Of a bat, tie But now the large heap of ruins is in our possession, and with it we have gained a point directly on he Nser canal. which passes close to the last houses Of the town on the west
 Hut we intended to get into th, trenches-the firing line
 The road to this lay through trench approach whose wild an, bloody history is not likely to dul an equal even in this war of we gC
 through shell-wrecked houses. tuu nels, cellars stables upstairs througl rows of rooms then down again across a narrow street exposed t the fire O fthe enemy. through nor, houses and rooms and across yards and finally into long subterraneal passage from whose ceiling the wa ter ran in streams.
 In the distance we finally saw light, very much as one does iu con ing to the end of a railroad tunnel we were in the trench closest to tn enemy.
 We are cautioned not to speak Bu a scant 300 feet away from us is th trench of the French. You could se everything very plainly without tn aid Of field glasses -along the othe objects a number Of careless Frenc soldiers who moved about As V looked through the loopholes in th iron shields placed along the fire sid of the trench, we saw an almost uI interrupted succession Of flashes froi the French trench. But the fire scene to be directed more upon the ruine houses than upon our field position Now and then one of the bullets h one of the shields, the ringing met reminding us of where we were
 "A careful survey of the countr without, through one of the loo holes. brought some corpses int view The bodies were wrapped
 blue coats and the heads were GO cred with black hair Our men wou have gladly buried the fallen enemie but 1t was impossible to leave tl trenches. One has but to show q nofuf of rhp helmet or affpmpt