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��Russia like every other seemingly civilized country harbors its money counterfeiters. The United States is, however, compara- tively free from counterfeiters compared with foreign countries. In Russia and Italy the destruction of counterfeiting "plants" is an everyday occurrence. The photograph shows a group of Russian counterfeiters gathered about their press and dies. Note the crude type of machine employed in this illegal industry

���A wholesale capture of Russian firearms by Austria — the work of one day's fighting

���British troops which are being retained in England awaiting the call to the front while away their time by making a huge war map of Europe with cobblestones

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