Stand upon the sloping bank to the east of the Yper, and you will see the solid wall of sandbags which compose it stand huge and menacing, from the Pilkem Ridge to Wieltje, dominating in its entirety the low ground between the German position and the mud-soaked British lines. Make your way across the fields to La Brique or Friscate Farm, creep up a broken stairway and look through the rafters of the attic, or stand in the front-line trenches beyond Forward Cottage, periscope in hand, and its sinister mass will fill the landscape. C.R.A.s will plot its course upon squared maps, and direct shoots upon C. 15, A. 33, or C. 14, B. 47; Stokes Mortar officers will select some machine-gun emplacement or noted dugout for their daily ration; an aeroplane flying low will bomb it along its length, but the next day it will be restored and remain impregnable, crowned with its fringe of stakes and wire, as the Germans intended when they built it that it should remain. Elsewhere, at Zillebeke perhaps or Hooge, the trenches opposite may, if at a cost, be taken.
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