Julian Summerhayes

British infantry advancing through a gas attack at Loos, September 25, 1915. Loos was the first time that the British used gas in an attack. It didn't help. They lost almost 60,000 men and ultimately failed to take German positions. A Strange Meeting (alternate version). Earth's wheels run oiled with blood. Forget we that. Let us lie down and dig ourselves in thought. Beauty is yours and you have mastery, Wisdom is mine and I have mystery. We two will stay behind and keep our troth. Let us forego men's minds that are brute's natures, Be we not swift with swiftness of the tigress. Let us break ranks from those who trek from progress. Miss we the march of this retreating world Into old citadels that are not walled. Let us lie out and hold the open truth. Then when their blood hath clogged the chariot wheels We will go up and wash them from deep wells. What though we sink from men as pitchers falling Many shall raise us up to be their filling Even from wells we sunk too deep for war And filled by brows that bled where no wounds were. -Wilfred Owen.

English writer H. G. Wells (1866 - 1946, right) with English comic actor and filmmaker Charlie Chaplin (1889 - 1977, seated left) at the offices of the Stoll Pictures film company in London, 1921. They are about to watch a screening of the new film, 'Kipps', based on Wells' novel of the same name.

When giants walked among us.