L'histoire littéraire de la guerre mondiale, compilée à partir de sources originales et contemporaines: Américaine, britannique, française, allemande et autres . l'échelle n'avait pas été définitivement adoptée jusqu'en janvier 1916, en tout, vingt-quatre mines hadété construite par les Britanniques, dont quatre étaient en fin de compte surpassé le front choisi pour l'offensive thei*. Beaucoup d'entre eux avaient été achevés pendant douze mois. Un travail constant et anxieux avait été nécessaire pour assurer leur sécurité. Au total, 8 000 yards de galerie ont été parcourus dans leur construction, et plus d'un million de livres d'explosifs ont été utilisés. Sortie thesimultaneous

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The Literary digest history of the world war, compiled from original and contemporary sources: American, British, French, German, and others . scale had not been definitelyadopted till January, 1916, In all, twenty-four mines hadbeen constructed by the British, four of which were outsidethe front ultimately selected for thei* offensive. Many ofthem had been completed for twelve months. Constant andanxious work had been needed to ensure their safety. Atotal of 8, 000 yards of gallery were driven in their construc-tion, and over a million pounds of explosives were used. Thesimultaneous discharge of such an enormous aggregate ofexplosive was without parallel in land mining. At the beginning of the war the area behind the Britishfront from Ypres to the Lys had been served by one rail-way only. This was the trunk line from Calais to Lille byway of Armentieres. At Ilazebrouek, aJine branched off fromit which, skirting the western end of the Mont-dcs-Cats range, connected Ypres with the railroads leading to Ostend, Bruges, and Ghent. Between the first battle of Ypres and thebattle of Vimy-Arras these inadecpate. communications had 164. BEFORE JMESSINES RIDGE WAS TAKEN Gen. Sir Herbert Plumer. commander of the Second British Army, whoprepared the great explosion of June 7, 1917, is here shown with cap raised, while examining a mine crater. This mine was exploded before the attacicon Messines itself as a part of the preliminary training Plumer gave his army 165 ox THE WESTERN ^EONT been greatly supplemented, and in si^bsequent weeks weredeveloped to sueh an extent that beliind the British linesthere existed a series of junctions, with broad gage andnarrow gage trains, all as busy as a Lpndon terminus. Atthe same time roads and paths in the district were en-larged. Special precautions were taken to supply the in-fantry with water. Existing lakes were tapped, pits tocatch rain-water were dug around Kemmel, and the water ofthe Lys was pumped into barges and then sterilized. Fromlak

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