four-metre

Updated: May 4, 2025

Unless a very big attack is contemplated, I suppose there is no advantage in an assault; across that narrow interval we should only get into trenches that might be costly or impossible to hold, and so it would be for the Germans on our side. But there is a kind of etiquette observed; loud vulgar talking on either side of the four-metre gap leads at once to bomb throwing.

H. G. (Herbert George) Wells - War and the future: Italy, France and Britain at war