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Cave-Men of the Trenches

���On the right bank of the river Oise, near Noyon, France, there are sev- eral caves and chasms so extensive that they can give shelter to a whole regiment of troops. The great arch shown in the photograph to the left has been named by the Germans "Bismarck Rock." Sol- diers are shown building a scaffold- ing in order to place an appropriate inscription over the entrance

��An officer's underground home in "The Forest of the Saxons," so called because a regiment of German Saxons are quartered there. Much time and care have apparently been spent in the construction of this bomb-proof, as it is complete to the smallest detail. Below, a realistic picture of the " home life " of the French soldiers in an under- ground grotto

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