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...unearthed more than sixty graves in which this tribe had buried their leaders. So generous were they with their offerings to the dead that it took us three years to remove the material from one trench 80 feet long, and I doubt if any similar area has produced such a wealth of archeological specimens...
...Verdun!" Behind Belgium and Luxembourg, whom France trusts, Marshal Foch and General Weygand thought it sufficient to scatter only small forts, backed by what they decided to call '"Flying Fortresses." These, a post-War innovation, consist of trainloads of motorized trench digging and barbed-wire stringing machines of Gargantuan size. In three days each "Flying Fortress" is supposed to turn out a complete system of front line trenches for the sector which it covers and within a week all the "Flying Fortresses" working together can dig France in from the North Sea to the Sarre...
...last week at Curtiss Airport, L. I. a group of men was observed stretching a huge, soiled piece of cloth between two poles alongside a trench. A stovepipe was rigged between the trench and a hole in the fabric. Someone touched a match to a pile of kindling in the trench. Soon the fabric began to bulge and billow with hot air inside it. After ten minutes of fire-stoking and manipulating of ropes, the fabric took shape as a balloon, tugging and straining at its guys. A trapeze was rigged below the balloon's mouth, and just above...
...near Nanawa, the Verdun" of the Chaco, that the Bolivian and Paraguayan armies are locked in a battle which may determine the ultimate winner of the war. Modern trench methods have been adopted by both sides. At some parts of the Nanawa front, the enemy forces are less than 100 feet apart. Although the trenches are crudely built and uncomfortable, the sanitary conditions are good...
...Morning after leaving Bidon 5 they flew peacefully on to Timbuctoo's landing-field, Khabara. were forced down by a sandstorm, had to anchor the plane with sandbags, shelter themselves in a trench under it. The storm over, they flew peacefully Timbuctoo's on to landing-field, Timbuctoo Khabara. (Traveler Seabrook winds up his book with bitter remarks about the present impossibility of landing anywhere nearer a desired destination than "baseball fields and suburbs.") Not all Saharan oases are natural, Seabrook discovered. Some have been fed for centuries by long underground aqueducts which pick up moisture...