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 Ingenuity of the Great War

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� � � ��One oi the tragedies of the war. The sinking of the hospital ship " Anglia " with wounded on board, after striking a mine in the EngUsh Channel. The remarkable photograph was taken from one of the rescuing ships just as the "Anglia" plunged beneath the waves, carrying down many of the wounded and their nurses

��the opening of the war. The moving of these great guns

to lofty positions in the Alps is no mean feat, as may be

seen in the picture, showing thirty men at work

���A system of mirrors makes it possible for the Austriaiv soldier to fire his rifle without exposing himself

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��An Italian soldier wearing a steel helmet and suit cf armor. His company is made up of picked men, whose perilous duty it is to cut the enemies' barbed wire entanglements before an in- fantry attack

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