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  is known as in Britain.

Also note that the Great War is what the ' was known as before the '  surpassed it in horror.