And instantly we heard of concrete emplacements in this countryat Willesden, Edinburgh, and elsewhere.

Occasionally one saw the hastily-made shelter-trenches of a skirmish line; and again, the emplacements for batterieshurried field- emplacements, so puny beside those of trench warfare.

They must have set those anti-aircraft quick-firers of theirs in fresh elevated emplacements after the Yankees had taken the measure of their power to do harm; but the trap, if such it was intended to be, had failed to catch a single victim.

I.O. (not the gadfly, but the Intelligence Officer) dropped in with his usual list of suspected hostile emplacements.

Occasionally one saw the hastily-made shelter-trenches of a skirmish line; and again, the emplacements for batterieshurried field- emplacements, so puny beside those of trench warfare.