LETTER IX
February 1, 1918.
Problem 9
My dear Dick,—
This week my letter will be a short one, as it only contains one very simple problem.
You are on outpost duty and have been told that the General is very anxious to get one or two live prisoners. Your picquet is at some cross-roads a quarter of a mile south of the road A B marked on the map. You have reason to believe that it is probable that the enemy will patrol down the road A B. A B is a good road with strong fences on either side of it, and with ditches on the road side of the fence.
Does any special way of taking prisoners alive in this road suggest itself to you?