Henry Ernest Dudeney/Modern Puzzles/118 - The Improvised Draughts-Board/Linguistic Note

Linguistic Note on Henry Ernest Dudeney's Modern Puzzles: $118$ - The Improvised Draughts-Board

Non-British readers may need to know that draughts (pronounced drafts) is what the game checkers is known as in Britain.

Also note that the Great War is what the First World War ($\text {1914}$ – $\text {1918}$) was known as before the Second World War ($\text {1939}$ – $\text {1945}$) surpassed it in horror.