On the north of the distillery, beyond “No man’s land” with its barbed-wire entanglements, a very important =glass-works= formed the first German line. Before the war, these glass-works turned out several millions of champagne bottles every year. _A heap of these bottles is visible in the photo below._ Between the buildings of these works, now completely ruined by the incessant bombardments, are countless passages and trenches of reinforced concrete, observation posts, blockhouses, concrete machine-gun positions and deep dug-outs. [Illustration: THE GLASS-WORKS OF VAUXROT. _In the background: Hill 136._] [Illustration: THE BANKS OF THE AISNE. _In the background: Chapel of the Glass-Works. To the left of the Chapel, a German Machine-Gun was posted, below a crane._] From Vauxrot to Pasly, the lines were separated by the Aisne. On both banks of the river were outposts and advanced trenches with machine-guns (_photo below_). _From Vauxrot, proceed to Pasly_ (_see map, p. _53). From the church at Pasly there is an interesting walk to the caves seen in the photograph on p. 59 shutting in the horizon to the north of the village. _Follow the road for nearly half-a-mile, then turn to the right into the road which goes up the side of the hill and skirts the caves. The latter were fortified by the Germans, and afterwards inhabited by the population of Pasly._ [Illustration: THE DAM AT VAUXROT. _A nest of Machine-Guns was posted near the pile._] [Illustration: PASLY. _On the horizon Hill containing caves._] A =monument= to the school-teachers shot by the Germans in 1870, was destroyed by the enemy in 1914 (_photo below_). [Illustration: SCHOOL-TEACHERS’ MONUMENT DESTROYED BY THE GERMANS AT PASLY. (_see above_)] _The road leads back to the village. Return via Vauxrot to the Place de Laon, then follow on the left the Avenue de Laon to Saint-Paul._ The defence-works visited between Pasly, the glass-works and the distillery, extended from there in an almost straight and formidable entrenched line to the National Road from Paris to Maubeuge (N. 2). [Illustration: ORGANIZED CAVE AT PASLY.] After crossing this road, about half-way between Soissons and Crouy, they encircle the =hamlet of St-Paul= on the north and east. This fortified hamlet formed the =Saint-Paul salient= and protected the faubourg of Saint-Waast. [Illustration: ENTRANCE TO CAVE AT PASLY.] From Saint-Paul the trenches, sloping towards the south, extended in front of the strongly fortified Faubourg of Saint-Médard and rejoined the Aisne at the point where the river forms a great loop above Soissons. It was the eastern sector of the defences, covering alike the Faubourg of Saint-Waast and the bridge-head on the right bank. _To go from Saint-Paul to Saint-Médard, return to the Place de Laon. Take on the left the Boulevard de Laon, then the Boulevard de Metz which continues it, to the Place d’Alsace-Lorraine. Take the Rue de Bouvines on the left to the_ =Abbey of Saint-Médard=.