The war continued without truce. Each party stopped its galleries at two hundred metres from the other; it was a duel to the last drop of blood, although the managers and engineers maintained polite relations with each other.
La guerre continuait sans treve, chaque exploitation arretait ses galeries a deux cents metres les unes des autres, c'était un duel au dernier sang, bien que les directeurs et les ingénieurs eussent entre eux des relations polies.