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   From: muratlanne@gmail.com   
      
   "Jim Wilkins"  wrote in message news:ufk561$d8ag$1@dont-email.me...   
   > The defense that quickly developed was to dig bunkers and disperse the   
   > troops into several lines of trenches, with the first lightly manned, only   
   > enough to detect an attack and call for help.   
      
   As a result both sides relieved the boredom by taking up the hobby of   
   raiding the enemy's lightly manned trenches at night on the excuse of   
   bringing back prisoners to interrogate. In Herbert McBride's account to   
   avoid shooting each other they armed themselves with mainly short-ranged   
   melee weapons, such as machine gun barrels to use as clubs. With automatic   
   weapons available they chose to fight the Hun like the Romans.   
      
   https://www.amazon.com/Rifleman-Went-War-Herbert-McBride/dp/1517731828   
   He went to Canada to get INTO the war and seems to have actually enjoyed it.   
   His accounts of sniping became a textbook, for example he fired from the   
   grass near a wrecked farmhouse that drew all the return fire, and carefully   
   sketched the enemy line to detect any changes.   
      
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