The Archive · 1914

Operations in the Eastern

TH (EATRE, deadly effect in an enclosed space, at any rate, is shown by the scene which met the eyes of the French when they entered a chateau occupied by Germans, which had just been bombarded.

"On entering the drawing-room they found a company of Wiirtembergers petrified in action, Some were standing at the windows taking aim, with their fingers still pressed on the trigg=r; others were playing cards and smoking cigarettes.

"An officer was there with his mouth open, in the act of dictating an order, "The figures looked absolutely lifelike, and had preserved the positions which they had occupied searcely an hour before, when they unconsciously breathed death."

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