Si on essayait une sortie, why not try to break through

Page 74. — i. la redoute de Th., the redoubt of Thiaumont, a position in advance of fort Douaumont.

2; AchI DochI Unglaublich I German for Why/ but it is quite incredible/

3. voilà les Boches qui ... : do not translate voilà . . . qui.

4. par raison démonstrative, an aUusion to Molière's comedy the Bourgeois gentilhomme where we see M. Jourdain, the hero, paying a fencing master to teach him the art of killing his adversary in thorough and scientific fashion or, as M. Jourdain says, " by demonstration."

Page 76. — i. l'offensive de la Somme, the joint French and British offensive of July, 19 16. It was the signal, later on, for a German retreat to the so-called Hindenburg line, in the spring of 191 7.