The whole city was undermined with tunnels and dugouts, which had been reinforced with concrete, and most of the ruined buildings had been turned into machine-gun emplacements.

Part of the ground about the Grassier was inundated, due to the waterway near by having broken its banks, and this, in conjunction with the great number of machine-gun emplacements on the elevation, made it a particularly difficult position for attack.

True, she had patients and a doctor on board when a pinnace from one of our cruisers examined her, but she also had machine-guns mounted and gun emplacements screwed to her deck, and all the adaptations required for a commerce raider.

The search-lights and the huge gun positions and the maze of trenches, barbed wire and machine-gun emplacements hewn out of the living rock, of course, to the Teuton mind, do not constitute defence.

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.

After half-an-hour's breather they were to go on to some machine-gun emplacements, dispose of these, wait a further twenty minutes, and then take the town.

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

I got up just before dawn as usual, and taking advantage of the grey light, stole about the village and around the house, sizing up the locality and seeing how my position stood with regard to the various machine-gun emplacements.

We made a long and exhaustive examination that night, both of the existing machine-gun emplacements and of the entire ground, with a view to changing our positions.

I handed over all my gun emplacements to the incoming machine-gun officer, and finally collected my various sections with all their tackle on the road as well.

But it is manifest now that if the Belgian and French frontiers had been properly preparedas they should have been prepared when the Germans built their strategic railwayswith trenches and gun emplacements and secondary and tertiary lines, the Germans would never have got fifty miles into either France or Belgium.

You can still see the trenches and gun emplacements; I cleared them out yesterday.

In the grounds of another country place were discovered concrete emplacements for the use of the German siege-guns.

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

With that marvellous foresight which the Germans had shown in all their plans, these had been embedded in cement two weeks before in high emplacements, while their advanced columns were threatening down to Paris.

At last nearly all the men were killed, and on his side of the emplacement the Abbé Armand was left with two men alive.

There were suggestions of huge gun emplacements above there, and nearer were piles of mighty cylinders that were perhaps ammunition.

Our position was semi-circular in form and about three-quarters of a mile long; its main strength lay in a chain of machine-gun emplacements at intervals of about two hundred yards.

They pull up new guns and shift their 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.

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.

Here were the emplacements of a battery of French soixante-quinze within a circle of holes torn by its adversaries' replies to its fire; a little farther along, concealed by shrubbery, the position of another battery which the enemy had not located.

At any rate, no other battery had a dug-out for a litter of eight pups, with clean straw for their bed, right between two gun-emplacements.

Dug-outs were bombed, emplacements destroyed, and a respectable bag of captives brought over.

A train of the Militar-Personenzug variety bore me next morning through a country of barbed wire, gun emplacements and fields seamed with trenches to Tapiau, a town withered in the blast of war.