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Elmore battles of Verdun, Aucre, and the Same the black shoep was reported returning Mr Denman Faller Russell
came up on lo the quarter-deck sa
Mr 3. EraRE has indeed brought about a complete change in the tactics of infantry; sccord period of
harbour the
conclusion of her
Slowly the Mrs Garlick pastr
to
ing to this experience, the French infan.battleship Mr. and Mrs B. A. Mr& Mes A. Findlay
the stern
try battalions consist now ut 3 companies, "Attention, played a the “General 1-machine-gun company (of 8 guns) and saluto. Gon the bugle, and down Mr and Mrs H. R Mr&Mrs V. Findlay 1 37-mm. gun. It has been realised that
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Harling & child Smith, Med were put full speed satern. Epissh! An there is no other method of bringing the anchor, was fal go, and the cable rooted Mraad Mrs J. C. M. Mrs K. Sveen machine-guns speedily into action, except in the fairleads over the
tern This to put them under direct command of admiral stared wide-ared Splash M. F. B. Johnson Me and Mr. G. E
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See Acts of the Apostles rii, 39, it ran. The only relettuce I can Mr. A. Burbury Mr W. Morley
Mr. and Mrs TB. ME. A Neilson
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efficient. From the tactical point of view, the characteristics of the new weapona see
to bring about the thinning of to anoboring in the Bible",
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Men FieristicosemĽA. A. Newman ·
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wer of material means Bible on his way down from the signalME Colebrook
greater fighting power a given numbridge. He opened it and handed it in her of men, hen properly readjusted, to silence to the admiral. And the letter Mr. Corcoran the new weapons ten men with read a
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