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 Hobbling Prisoners with Their Own Trousers

The scissors are mightier than the rifle. Instead of placing a heavy guard around these German prisoners, the French officer merely cuts off the suspenders of the prisoners' trousers and cuts out a "V" from the belt, making a running escape impracticable

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reduced by losses in the war, and by filling in their ranks with men who are fitted to do nothing else there will be an economic gain to the country as a whole. The illustration shows one of the classes practicing upon batteries of hundreds of typewriters

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