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...World War I, Colonel James Layton Ralston, then a battalion commander in the trenches, demanded that Canadians at home be conscripted to fight overseas. Last week in Parliament, Colonel Ralston, now Canada's National Defense Minister, told Canadians no conscript would fight overseas-so long as Canada had enough volunteers...
...Fifth's most important advance in ten days; by week's end its guns were shelling the city from four-mile range. At the same time vanguard troops, which included the 100th Battalion of tough, American-born Japanese, pried further through the hills, only six and a half miles from the Arno...
...Cannon's Mouth. Along a strip inland from the beach they drove some 1,500 yards into our positions before they were stopped. They got all the way into an artillery battalion which had moved twelve 105s into position the night, before. There they were stopped, and there the most forward of them died...
...passed the body of a dead American private and a few steps farther on Kouma stooped, looked at another body and cried: "My God, there's the major, the battalion commander. I thought he got out all right...
Other demonstrations in the series included one on the equipment, personnel, setting-up, and operation of a Battalion Aid Station by Capt. Allan Lerner, Surgeon, of the 241st Coast Artillery, and a lecture on types of military motors, motor maintenance, tactical motor marches, and motor discipline by Capt. Bennie Hill, Motor Officer from Ft. Devens. On successive Saturdays, ending tomorrow, one-third of the students have proceeded to Ft. Devens by motor march for a field day at that Post, and a tour to observe the field sanitary demonstration area, infiltration course, infantry weapons, firing, booby traps, the station hospital...