Note 29 — Chapter IV · THE SALIENT AND “PLUG STREET” October 1915 to May 1916
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Noises, alleged to be German mining on the Corps’ front, were actually traced to (a) revetting, (b) sentries stamping their feet, (c) rats burrowing on the parapet, (d) a loose beam or branch blown by the wind, (e) running water, (f) the beat of a man’s own heart, (g) a half-dead fly buzzing at the bottom of a hole (this was taken for a machine drill), and (h) actual mining.