_Keep along G.C. 201, towards Amiens._ The remains of =Satyres Wood= are in a hollow of the road, about 1 km. beyond Estrées. Satyres Wood The remains of this once fine wood extend from this point of the road to the village of Fay, 1,500 yards to the right. From 1914 to 1916 it formed part of the German first-line defence-works, and was covered with entrenchments of all kinds. On July 1, 1916, the French carried the whole wood, promptly re-organised the defence-works, and used them against their former occupants. [Illustration: A CORNER OF SATYRES WOOD.] [Illustration: SATYRES WOOD. _The German Post of Commandment seen in the photograph below, is under this road._] Numerous cottages and shelters hidden by the trees were used as billets by the enemy troops in this sector. The officers occupied a special quarter. A large signboard with the inscription, "Durchgang nur für Offiziere," interdicted its access to the common soldiers. All the shelters were spacious and comfortably furnished with beds, tables, armchairs, hangings, chandeliers, and even pianos--all taken from the neighbouring villages. Some of the cottages were decorated outside, and sometimes bore inscriptions like the following, carved on the door of a post of commandment:-- "Macht Joffre auch ein böses Gesicht Hier treffen uns seine Granaten nicht." (Joffre may roll his eyes: his shells cannot reach us here.) Tho French soldiers called this wood "Satyres Wood," as they found women's clothing in various places. [Illustration: SATYRES WOOD. GERMAN POST OF COMMANDMENT UNDER THE ROAD _(see above)_.] [Illustration: DENIÉCOURT WOOD AT SUNSET.] _Return to the entrance to Estrées, and take the road on the right to =Deniécourt=. On entering the village, take on foot the small road on the right to =the ruins of Deniécourt Château=_, situated in a devastated park. Deniécourt village lies about 2 km. (by road) east of =Soyécourt=. Across the fields, the distance is shorter, and it was covered in a single rush on the day Soyécourt was captured, after which the advance was stayed. The second German line ran through Deniécourt, which was fortified accordingly. The most important defence-works were those around the château, which latter formed the key of the whole position. Deep shelters had been made under the château itself and also in the surrounding park. The whole formed an inextricable maze of trenches, fortified works, machine-gun posts, traps and barbed-wire entanglements, which had to be reduced by shell-fire. The castle was razed to the ground, the defences in the park destroyed and the ground levelled.