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Updated: June 17, 2025
The Germans were so busy with the aeroplane that they had their backs turned to the front line and our infantry were able to cross no-man's land without any artillery preparation, take prisoners and bomb dug-outs. An article in the Cologne Gazette showed what the Germans thought of low "strafing." They also work on cunningly calculated methods.
"Be careful," came the warning voice of a major, "the whole of the ground here is in view of the Bosche artillery observers. If they see anyone moving about they'll start 'strafing' like anything, and I assure you they do it very conscientiously." I therefore kept as low as possible.
One of Heaven's little ways of strafing him for Doggieism. But to-night he did not heed it. Often the passage of transport had been a distraction for which he had longed and which, when it came, was warmly welcome. But to-night, during his spell, the roadway of the village was as still as death, and he loved the stillness and the blackness. Once he had welcomed familiar approaching steps.
It is reckoned that the rate of casualties in this city just now is a thousand a week; military, of course there are no civilians here; it is a battlefield where battles have been fought, where strafing is going on now, and around which a great battle is about to be fought. One battalion in our brigade went over the top on a raid last night.
The section for this gun lived in the old cellar close by, and it was this cellar which gave me an idea. When I went into our cottage I searched to see if we had overlooked a cellar. No, there wasn't one. Now, then, the idea. I thought, "Why not make a cellar, and thus have a place to dive into when the strafing begins."
You've evidently drawn fire by that contraption of yours. Where are you going?" "To Trones Wood," I said. The look of blank amazement on his face was amusing. "My dear chap," he said, "are you serious?" "Well," I replied, "I had intended going there till a moment ago, but the strafing seems to get worse." Shrapnel was now bursting overhead, a piece hitting one of the men close by.
They must have been short of small-arm ammunition and bombs, because on that last strafing they cleared out and stayed. After the row was over we counted noses and found four dead and three slightly wounded, including Lieutenant May. I detailed two men to take the wounded and the Lieutenant back. That left four of us to consolidate the position.
They were giving the communication trench a turn at "strafing," now, and shells were urgently dropping behind us. There was no use trying to respond to one's natural inclination to run away from the pursuing shower when you had to squeeze past soldiers as you went. "But look at what we are going into! This is like beating up grouse to the guns, and we are the birds! I am wondering if I like it."
He did not know that he had said "Pretty!" or R that he had said "A black business!" several times that afternoon; nor did I know that I had exclaimed, "For the love of Mike!" Psychologists take notice; and golfers are reminded that their favourite expletives when they foozle will come perfectly natural to them when the Germans are "strafing."
They swept between the hovels on one side and the warehouses on the other, strafing the mob, darted up to a thousand feet, looped, and came swooping back, and this time there were three long blue-gray troop-carriers behind them. These landed in the hastily-cleared street and began disgorging native Company soldiers Kragan mercenaries, he noted with satisfaction.
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