Excerpt: During the first few days of November 1914 Messines was lost-in silence; during the first few days of June 1917 Messines was regained-and the noise of its capture was heard in London. And during the two and a half years between these two events the game over the water has been going on. It hasn't changed very much in the time-that game-to the player. To those who look on, doubtless, the difference is enormous. Now they speak easily of millions where before they thought diffidently of ...