4. Pioneer ——, and 2 infantrymen will stack wood in houses. No. 2 is a time-table to be carried out at Bancourt, a village just east of Bapaume. In the village of Bancourt it is more important to set fire to the houses than to blow them up. 5th March:—Straw will be heaped up and tarred. 10th March:—Explosives are to be ready for the cellars and wells in Bancourt. 11th March:—All unused wells and watering ponds must be plentifully polluted with dung and creosote soda. Sufficient dung and creosote soda must be placed in readiness beside the wells which are still in use. 12th March:—Bancourt must be ready to be set on fire. 13th March:—Parade in fighting kit, issue of iron rations, cleaning of arms, instruction regarding safe roads to be used and instructions for the demolition party. 14th March:—Explosives to be issued for destroying the cellars and wells in Bancourt. Bancourt church tower will be blown up. 16th March:—All wells in Bancourt with the exception of one will be blown up by 6.30 p.m. 17th March:—The road mines will be fired at 3 a.m. The remaining cellars in Bancourt will be blown up at 3.15 a.m., and Bancourt will be set on fire at 4 a.m. Your obedient servant, IAN MALCOLM. BRYANSTON SQUARE, April 6th. 5, BRYANSTON SQUARE, _April 6th_. It is noticeable that along many roads the great trees on either side of them have only been felled on one side, sometimes on the other, seldom on both at the same point. Possibly those left were intended as landmarks for artillery ranging purposes. Beyond Bapaume every village, with a mine crater at its entrance, has shared the same fate. At Beugny, part of the outer walls of the church still stand; inside them are lying about church ornaments, crucifixes, figures of saints deliberately destroyed by being decapitated, and mingling with this strange collection on the ground are countless old champagne and hock bottles. Around the church are hundreds of German graves. Amongst them I noticed one cross, similar to all the others, bearing as an inscription the one word "Englander." Hidden in the ruins of these places the Germans have not omitted to leave traps and ruses. Many of the roads were left for us mined, so that every cross-road became suspicious and the R.E.’s were busy investigating. A good many traps were discovered in time; others, unfortunately, were not.