So they had been set on fire or blown up, or allowed to drive head-on into a stone wall or over an embankment.
From the road above we could see them in the field below, lying like giant turtles on their backs.

In one place in the forest of Villers was a line of fifteen trucks, each capable of carrying five tons.

The gasolene to feed them had become exhausted, and the whole fifteen had been set on fire.

In war this is necessary, but it was none the less waste.
When an army takes the field it must consider first its own safety; and to embarrass the enemy everything else must be sacrificed.

It cannot consider the feelings or pockets of railroad or telegraph companies.