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 War Trades Practiced at the Front

���An odd watchmaker's shop. An Italian watch- maker who had been called to the colors took up his trade again when he arrived at the front. Underneath an army- wagon he set up his shop

��Many visitors to the trenches have brought away cigar lighters made of two cartridges. In one is placed the gasoline and wick, while the bullet of the other contains flint and a steel friction wheel

��An outdoor blacksmith shop among the sand dunes near Ostend (below). Most of the German troops occupying the stretch of land along the coast of Flanders are sailors from the idle fleet. The'.r presence at the front has released a great number of soldiers for use along other sections of the line

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