The Old Front Line
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This was a gully or ravine, about five hundred yards long, well within his position, running (roughly speak- ing) at right angles with his front line. Prob- ably it was a steep and deep natural fold made steeper and deeper by years of cultivation. It is from thirty to forty feet deep, and about as much across at the top ; it has abrupt sides, and thrusts out two forks to its southern side.
These forks give it the look of a letter Y upon the maps, for which reason both the French and ourselves c...alled the place the " Ravin en Y " or " Y Ravine." Part of the southernmost fork was slightly open to observation from our lines ; the main bulk of the gully was invisible to us, except from the air.
44 The Old Front Line Whenever the enemy has had a bank of any kind, at all screened from fire, he has dug into it for shelter. In the Y Ravine, which provided these great expanses of banks, he dug himself shelters of unusual strength and size. He sank shafts into the banks, tunnelled long living rooms, both above and below the gully-bottom, linked the rooms together with galleries, and cut hatchways and bolting holes to lead to the surface as well as to the guUy.
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To quickly assess the difficulty of the text, read a short excerpt:
This was a gully or ravine, about five hundred yards long, well within his position, running (roughly speak- ing) at right angles with his front line. Prob- ably it was a steep and deep natural fold made steeper and deeper by years of cultivation. It is from thirty to forty feet deep, and about as much across at the top ; it has abrupt sides, and thrusts out two forks to its southern side.
These forks give it the look of a letter Y upon the maps, for which reason both the French and ourselves c...alled the place the " Ravin en Y " or " Y Ravine." Part of the southernmost fork was slightly open to observation from our lines ; the main bulk of the gully was invisible to us, except from the air.
44 The Old Front Line Whenever the enemy has had a bank of any kind, at all screened from fire, he has dug into it for shelter. In the Y Ravine, which provided these great expanses of banks, he dug himself shelters of unusual strength and size. He sank shafts into the banks, tunnelled long living rooms, both above and below the gully-bottom, linked the rooms together with galleries, and cut hatchways and bolting holes to lead to the surface as well as to the guUy.
What to read after The Old Front Line?
You can find similar books in the "Read Also" column, or choose other free books by Masefield John to read onlineMoreLess
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