Now, speaking with all respect, gentlemen, and as an absolute novice in the military art, I sometimes ask why this God-given weapon isn't more used in the present war.

I haven't been to any of the fronts, but I've studied them some from maps and the newspapers.

Take your German position in Flanders, where you've got the high ground.

If I were a British general I reckon I would very soon make it no sort of position.' Moellendorff asked, 'How ?' 'Why, I'd wash it away.

Wash away the fourteen feet of soil down to the stone.