HOWITZERS The howitzer as a weapon for use against the submarine when submerged was almost non-existent at the beginning of 1917, only thirty bomb-throwers, on the lines of trench-mortars, being on order.

*** The beggar who has been going about telling a pitiful story of being wounded by a trench-mortar during the Jutland battle is now regarded by the police as an impostor.

A Boche trench-mortar knocks down several yards of your parapet.

Deathly stillness reigned, relieved only by an occasional thud, as a shell or trench-mortar bomb exploded upon the ground above their heads.

Shells and trench-mortar bombs, taking us in flank, had extinguished many valuable lives.

Many arms of the Service took honourable part in the enterpriseheavy guns, field guns, trench-mortars, machine-guns; Sappers and Pioneers; Infantry in various capacities.

The Corps Commander has promised to back you with every gun, trench-mortar, culverin, and arquebus in his possession.

At this point they were to wait until Trafalgar Square had been suitably dealt with by a trench-mortar.

(Here followed a paragraph addressed exclusively to the Trench-Mortar Officer.)

And when our new trench-mortar batteries got to work too,at sixteen to the dozen,well, it was bad enough for us; but what it must have been like at the business end of things, Lord knows!