Our guide pointed off to the right.

"There," he said, "is where we dropped the first of our big ones when we were trying to get the range of the fort.

You see our guns were posted at a point between eight and nine kilometers away and at the start we overshot a trifle.

Still to the garrison yonder it must have been an unhappy foretaste of what they might shortly expect, when they saw the forty- twos striking here in this field and saw what execution they did among the cabbage and the beet patches." We left the car and, following our guide, went to look.

Spaced very neatly at intervals apart of perhaps a hundred and fifty yards a series of craters broke the surface of the earth.