The Spectator., 1915-04-20
USE BODIES OF
 DEAD SOLDIERS
 AS BREASTW0RKS
British Captain, Whose Diary Was Found on His Body,
 Describes Fighting.
TRENCH LIFE SIMPLY HADES
Finds War Not What IL Was Pic tured, but Superhumsn Trial of Superhuman Power, Intellect
 and Nerves.

Cologne.-The diary of British sol dier, which presents the grisly side of war more brutally than has any trained writer, was found in a trench captured by the Germans near Ypres The hand that penned the entry was forever still, but it had left rec ord picturing vividly the scenes in the British trenches, inadequately built, whose horrors were so great that the men could not sleep within their shel- ters, whose earthen walls were nor. Jared with the bodies of dead French men. Even more terrible was the revelation of the ghastly fear of these men, who lay expecting death within charnel house. The semiofficial Cologne Gazette publishes the follow. ing excerpts from this journal and thus comments on it:
 One of the leading press organs of neutral countries has recently declared, in review of Kitcheners army of a million that 1t is comparatively easy to enlist multitude of soldiers, but hard to provide for the necessary quantities of equipment and munitions. That is true. But the greatest diffi- culty of all undoubtedly lies in i'm buing the newly recruited troops with the desired soldierly spirit--in other words, to accomplish extemporaneous ly what has been developed in Ger. many through the labor of hundred years and what has been bestowed upon the present German generation as their inheritance and training.
 Captain Jordain's Journal.
 Before us lies the war journal of the English Captain Jourdain of the First Suffolk, who on January r landed with the Kitchener re-enforce- ments at Havre and in time arrived with his company in the trenches in Ipres. Parts of this journal are re. produced here literally:
 February 5.-They say that the Ger. man guns. on account of the immedi. ate neighborhood of the several trenches, cannot put us under fire. Let us hope it remains so, for the grenades are something terrible. Ev. anywhere dead Frenchmen are used for the strengthening of the breastworks, and my first work in the trenches was to bury dead chasseur.
 February 6.-The trench is full of French ammunition and all sorts of things. even fieldglasses. They are a disorderly lot.
 Trench Work veritabIe Hades.
 February S.-Only half rested, we had to go this evening at nine o'clock again into the trenches. No man can say that this method of warfare pleases him. It is a veritable hell Thank God we have not yet been under fire, although this time they will make it hot as hades for us in the brigade trench.
 February 9.--In the course of the afternoon on both sides heavy artil. lery fire This is not war such as We had even pictured or imagined. It Is 5uperhuman trial of superhuman power. intellect and nerves. General. ly we cannot sleep, and the shooting continues with more or less yehe- mence. Our trenches are very poor. Hardly bulletproof. and therefore very dangerous. It Is real wonder that Gle rea.alns spared, for a shot in tae cap er tlaic is the order of the Gay The sanitary conditions are bad, and cn the terrain before us lie many dead Frenchmsn aud Ger. mans The hreastwork is bordered