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Updated: June 7, 2025
We used to strafe the Turks for bringing up ammunition to the firing-line under cover of the Red Cross, but it seems to me that in effect we were doing much the same thing. You cannot expect the enemy to play the game according to the Geneva Convention if you yourself fail to observe the rules.
It was the eternal question of the trenches, the army, and the world. We had it over with before the soldier-cook brought on the roast chicken, which was received with a befitting chorus of approbation. Who would carve? Who knew how to carve? Modesty passed the honour to her neighbour, till a brave man said: "I will! I will strafe the chicken!"
The comparative security of station cloak-rooms as safe deposits has long been recognized by jewel thieves and the like and this means of leaving my document behind in safety seemed to me to be better than any other I could think of. So I dived into my bag and from the piles of literature it contained picked up a book at random. It was a German brochure: Gott strafe England! by Prof. Dr.
But these, our men noticed, were ever the quickest to "strafe," always the first to rail and upbraid and strike when a German officer was near.
It's true that he does jolly good work when the Huns 'strafe' his wire and he has to go out and mend it, but he doesn't go forward in an attack; he sits in his dug-out and telephones like blazes for reinforcements while the Germans pepper his roof for him with 'whizz-bangs.
" for one, and a few men the same lot that have been across with me before. H.Q. specially want to know the actual results of the heavy 'strafe. They are going to cease fire to-night, between twelve and one. I want to find out where their machine guns are fixed up " And so the conversation went on. At that moment another officer came in, and I got him to show me round "Jacob's Ladder."
Five minutes after the two guns passed, the Boche began a hellish strafe upon a battery that had perched itself under the crest of the hill. A couple of hundred 5·9's came over, and we had a view of rapid awe-inspiring bursts, and of men rushing for cover. "Good shooting that," remarked the colonel, who had come to the doorway. The brigadier paid us another visit late that night.
I was returning in the drizzle of evening, clanking along the greasy path between the sad poplars, when I struck a Labour company repairing the ravages of a Boche strafe that morning. I wasn't very certain of my road and asked one of the workers. He straightened himself and saluted, and I saw beneath a disreputable cap the features of the man who had been with me in the Coolin crevice.
"This was obviously the best place to hide, as, except for Father's horse, the Home hasn't had an inmate for two years. There was some talk of Father making this the headquarters of the Great General Strafe in this campaign, but I don't believe they have done so yet." "Hush!" said Bleak. "What is that I hear?" A dull, regular, recurrent sound, a sort of rasping sigh, stole through the thickets.
Above the German canteen or commissary shop was a great wooden board with "Gott strafe England" a curious proof of how bitterly the Huns hated Great Britain, for there were no British troops in the sectors in front of this part of the invaded territory. We worked hard "policing up" ourselves and our equipment during the few days we stayed at Bouligny.
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