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Electric light & replete with offices, stores and Brigade Headquarters, Telephones & furniture, all gas proof & shell proof.
From our lines underground out beyond the enemy's system run tunnells to mines stored with tons of explosives all waiting the touch to explode them. I was told it is possible to walk 16 miles underground with under the Bosch lines without coming to daylight. A rather curious story was told by the same informant of a mine that was being laid by us & when the ammunition was being stored in it, after a lot of labour carrying it in, somehow the heap did not seem to get any larger. It was found that the Bosch had tunnelled under also & had found the spot & was taking it out as we put it in so of course it had to cease.