Bisbee daily review., 1917-10-07

each corporal assuming the duties of a "shifter." The slogan was ten min utes on and twenty minutes off" The first squads discarding rifles for shov- els and picks, attacked the ground and threw dirt right and left until relieved. The second squad jumped in and the work went ahead without a moments s delay. It was not long before the battlefield" began to be chopped up by trenches and piles of dirt running in every direction.
 Miners At Home.
 The soldiers needed little instruc- tion on how to hurl the dirt aside. Scat tered through the regiment were scores of men who, until they felt they were needed by the nation, had spent years in the biggest mining camps of the southwest. Men who had muck ed" copper ore in the Warren, Globe Miami and Clifton-Morenci districts; men wLo had dug for gold during the reign of prosperity around Oatman; men who had drilled and tapped many of the biggest treasure vaults of Ari- zona and Indian soldiers whose fore fathers had crudely mined silver and gold and copper in the early days of the great west, jumped into the trench es and quickly demonstrated the prop CT way of handling muck stick. Al ter the regiment had worked all morn ing the trenches began to have famil- jar look to the soldiers. The next day the constructor work was again taken up and work of building dug-outs, com munication trenches and quarters talk en. A few more days and the entire system was complete
 Camouflage At Naco.
 The soldiers then gained their first experience in "camouflage," the art of fooling the Germans. Bushes, grass and flowers were carried in from hun dreds of yards in every direction and re-planted between the trenches or pill ed over the roofs" of certain portions. No skilled landscape gardner or florist was there to direct the work, but when it was finished every shrub and flow CT appeared perfectly at home in its new location. The fresh piles of dirt were leveled down, stakes were re- moved and the little patch of desert appeared again as uninviting and void of human habitatfon as before.
 The Trench System.
 The trench system offers the best training possible for the regiment. It consists of firing, communicating and defense trenches; hospital and living quarters and. moss interesting of all, an elaborate system of outposts. In this class are the machine gun trench es, listening posts and fiarepots. The machine gun posts are located so as to Completely sweep the outlined posi- tions of the enemy, hidden from view even at close range and protected by wide entertainments. The listening posts are located far in front of the fir ing trenches and connected with them by other narrow trenches. It is in these that the listeners" men with he keenest sense of hearing, sit and listen during the night for any slight noise that will betray any activities by the enemy" Each listening post, in actual warfare, is connected with ev- cry portion of the trench system by telephone In front of the trench sys- tenn the soldiers have constructed barb-wire entanglements and lad out "trip wires" The latter are small wires strung between the bushes but a few inches above the ground. Should any of the enemy's force manage 10 get near the trenches in spite of the list ening posts, he can hardly help but strike on of the "trip wires" These, acting on the principal of burglar alarms, cause the release of a spring holding down a flare pot" of which several are hidden in front of the trenches. The flare pots" are imme diately ignited and No ma1's land" is for 75 seconds or more. The light from the flare pots" is thrown directly toward the enemy trenches, giving the defenders oppor- tunity to locate and open fire on any providers.
 Other Features.
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