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When the World Shook

CHAPTER XX
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Then through the gaps they surged in, shouting and hurling hand grenades.

They reached the German trenches, they leapt into them and from those holes arose a hellish din.

Pistols were fired and everywhere bayonets flashed.
Behind them rushed a horde of little, dark-skinned men, Indians who carried great knives in their hands.

Those leapt over the first trench and running on with wild yells, dived into the second, those who were left of them, and there began hacking with their knives at the defenders and the soldiers who worked the spitting maxim guns.

In twenty minutes it was over; those lines of trenches were taken, and once more from either side the guns began to boom.
"War again," said Oro, "clean, honest war, such as the god I call Fate decrees for man.


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