In Gradisca burning petrol was running about the streets.

The air was full of the roaring of the fires, the crackle of blazing woodwork, the crash of houses falling in, the loud explosions of ammunition dumps and petrol stores, which now and again for a few seconds lighted up the whole night sky for miles around with a terrific glare, and then died down again.

Medola, having handed over his horse to an orderly, who was to ride on ahead and arrange for a fresh supply of petrol for his tractors, of which there were three, mounted the front of the leading tractor and I got up beside him.

A breakdown gang appeared and a number of new tractors and lorries with refills of petrol.

" "Plenty of petrol in the car?" asked Allerdyke, turning down the platform.

" On one occasion he commandeered a motorcycle standing outside a cafe and rode it until the petrol ran out, whereupon he abandoned it by the roadside and pushed on afoot.

Even the few people who had influence enough to retain their cars found them useless, as one of the very first acts of the military authorities was to commandeer the entire supply of petrol.

When war was declared one of the first steps taken by the military authorities was to commandeer every motor-car, every motor-cycle and every litre of petrol in the kingdom.

Its petrol was exhausted.

At Termonde, which they destroyed in spite of the fact that the inhabitants had evacuated the city before their arrival, they used a motor-car equipped with a large tank for petrol, a pump, a hose, and a spraying-nozzle.

Though the gas and electric lights were out, the sky was rosy from the reflection of the petrol-tanks which the Belgians had set on fire; now and then a shell would burst with the intensity of magnesium, and the quivering beams of two searchlights on the forts across the river still further lit up the ghastly scene.

In further evidence of her humanity she has taken to spraying our soldiers in the West with flaming petrol and squirting boiling pitch over our Russian allies.

And good the smell the nose receives From new-baked loaves, from hops, From churches, from decaying leaves, From pinks, from grocers' shops; And smells of rare and fine bouquet Proceed, the world allows, From petrol, roses, cellars, hay, Scrubbed planks, hot gin and cows.

Meanwhile Day went to and fro Wind Vane Hill to light at intervals upon its crest bundles of tow well soaked in petrol.

Almost every day, for instance, a German aeroplaneone of the famous Taube flock would come and drop bombs by the Town Hall or the harbour, killing a woman or two and a child, or breaking many panes of glass, but never destroying anything of military importance (for women and children are of no importance in time of war), although down by the docks there were rich stores of ammunition, petrol, and material of every kind.

We are going to supply their Mediterranean submarines with petrol.

The tin trunk, in which lurks the clockwork, emitted dense volumes of petrol-perfumed smoke from every chink.

And then" "Sooner or later you must land somewhere for petrol, you know.

"Ifthe fire spreads to the forward petrol-tanks, none!" gasped the chief engineer.

Chars and burns on his uniform showed where blazing petrol from the final explosion had spattered him.

" "How about petrol?"

" "There's a chance that will do till we can run down a caravan along the Red Sea, carrying petrol to Suakin or Port Sudan.

That's where we've got to restock petrol.

"Provided we get some petrol," put in Bohannan.

In an hour some five hundred tin cases of petrol had been hoisted aboard.