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Into a four-foot trench by the Vodegel's hunting lodge in the Sussex Hills last week were lowered eight small, flower-covered boxes. As the first shovelful of dirt fell down upon them, Frederick Vodegel fired three volleys from his shotgun. That, he explained, was the German farewell salute to noted hunting dogs. On a boulder by the grave will be chiseled the 13 dachshunds' names, above them the word: MURDERED...
...reminiscent of propaganda newsreels released during the War: a mangled soldier being carried into a front line dressing station and coming out with both legs gone; an old Belgian woman sitting in a shell-hole beside the corpse of a soldier and snivelling into his hat; hand-to-hand trench fighting in which, although the photography is somewhat blurred, it is possible to see a real bayonet go through a real soldier; a squad of U. S. infantry going over the top into machine gun fire; a zeppelin picked out by searchlights over England; a chaplain walking through an evacuated...
...TRENCH (Herbert) Deirdre Wed and Other Poems...
...Champs Elysées in Paris, on the third anniversary of his death, was dedicated a statue of Wartime Premier Georges Clemenceau, clad in his trench-visiting tin hat and thick coat. Present were President Albert Lebrun, Premier Edouard Herriot, General Max Weygand. Notably absent were Clemenceau's son and two daughters. Long protesting against this "insignificant" monument in a "nonexistent square," they objected also to the statue's muffler, declaring their father never wore...
...next twelve years only a minute wage, plus bed & board. The Treaty of St. Germain, they added bitterly, deprived Austria of all seaports and consequently of her Navy, reduced her Army to 30,000 men (including officers) and limited her "heavier armaments" to 450 machine guns, 60 trench mortars and 90 field guns & howitzers. Each Austrian soldier is permitted to have a gun, but the nation's stock of bullets is limited...