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A CHAMBER OF HORRORS. (Continued from page 3, column 1) tunnel from the other end, which, with the aid of a poilu, we finally discovered. The entrance-to this tunnel was extremely difficult. We soon had to walk on all fours. Soon the pale light of the orifice through which we had entered was lost and we had to light our candles aid electric lights. Arrived at the foot of a staircase of seventy steps, we found ourselves in a series of little rooms, about which were scattered innumerable bottles. It had been the German beer shop. * There were also all the appliances for boiling and sterilizing water. One of the rooms had evidently been a dormitory, the mattresses being still there, but this was not what we had come to seek?not a corpse was to "be found. Had they, then, invented this gruesome tale? Suddenly in the last compartment by the light of my smoky candle I seemed to see in the partition wall of the mine a closed door. I pulled it towards myself and it opened, releasing an odor of mushrooms and mould and a swarm of mosquitoes. A Scene of Horror. The pale and smoky candle revealed a horrible sight. Before me lay the bodies of soldiers in every imaginable pose in which death had overtaken them with such suddenness. They had lain there sihce August, 1917, some leaning against each other, some on the back, some on the facd, some seated, others leaning on their guns, many lying side by side seemed asleep. It would seem as if thft "hmr?Mitv and lack of light and air had preserved the bodies?the flesh was still on the hands except in certain places, where it had fallen off and the bones were exposed. The heads were still covered with * hair under the helmets, while the eyes, wide op)en, were like great empty black holes, which seemed to shrink with terror from the light. ( The spectacle was infernal and one had to summon all the force of his soul to preserve his equanimity and see what he wished to see. How had they died? What must be done to prevent our own men from a similar fate? These thoughts were strong enough to conquer the horrible repulsion I experienced against continuing the exploration. "The corpse of an enemy always smells good," says an old proverb of the savages, but at the same time I r realized that a soldier wha has died for his country is always worthy of respect, even when it is the case of a country like Germany, which has treated us with the most abominable cruelty. I wished to pass among the dead- with reverence and to accomplish this I prayed to the god of battles that he would accord to these warriors the pardon of their faults towards us, and that their souls in repose might show their compatriots, still living, the folly of the war and of their own misdeeds. Trying Moments. A muddy and blackish water stood over the surface of the soil in the middle of which one found groups of corpses forming little islands. You can imagine the pain and horror with which I passed from one of these little islands to another assisting myself with endp of old rails and moldy planks. To cross here it was necessary to step across a head, or an arm, or a cross formed by a leg and an arm?at one point I thought I had arrived at solid ground formed of sacks of earth. It proved to be backs or loins.-' Perspiration poured down my face, my hands were covered with the mould and filth of the walls, my clothes had touched everywhere the the horrors which surrounded me. In spite of all my precaution my feet had sunk in the mud and water where for nine months the decomposition of these corpses had been in progress. Victims of Their Own Device. At last I arrived at the end of the tunnel, only to find it a cul-de-sac. It had been completely closed by the explosion of one our largest projectiles. This projectile had penetrated the earth to a great depth, burst the tun nel and spread on all sides a mass or oxide <Jf carbon, which had asphyxiated in the most terrific manner all those who had taken shelter in the I tunnel. Those who had been at the end through which I had made my entrance were dhtirelv cut off from the outer air by the little door, carefully closed, of which I have spoken, and must have been instantly killed. This door had been used as a protection from the gas which they anticipated. What they had looked upon, as a safety device proved the cause of instant dath. They were victims of an invention which they and their kaiser had so much admired. Seeking an Exit. I had been told that the tunnel contained surgical operating rooms! and that I would find a surgeon in I the act of taking off a leg, etc. I ex-j amined. thoroughly every outlet and j passage without success. You may] imagine with what relief I left thisj chamber of horrors and found my-l self once more in the fresh .air. The light of the morning was becoming; strong and there was considerable danger of being discovered by the enemy. I was not willing to leave, however, without extending my research as far as possible. I had heard that there was another entrance at the side of the first one by which one could discover the infirmary. I felt that I must find it. A poilu in charge of a mitralleuse was stationed at a little distance; with his aid I discovered the entrance which I wished, but this time it was absolutely the unknown. The entrance was nothing but a man hole without steps about eight or ten meters in depth and filled with water. I saw how one might descend?simply let. oneself fall in, but the question was how to get out. 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