Word: britisher
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Captain E. A. Hodson, of the British Military Mission at Camp Devens, addressed an audience consisting of members of the University Reserve Officers' Training Corps last evening at the New Lecture Hall, in the first of a series of military lectures to be given during the months of March and April by officers of the Allied armies. The subject of the talk was: "Machine Guns and their Use." These lectures are compulsory for men in Military Science 1, and are open to all other members of the corps who wish to attend. The University military authorities have ordered that...
Other talks will be given in the near future by various officers of the British and French Missions. Lieutenant J. C. Mallett, of the French Army, is scheduled to speak on "Grenades," and Captain J. E. L. Warren, of the British Mission, will explain the use of the "Stokes Trench Mortar." The men of the corps will also hear Major C. A. Brown, U. S. M. C., who will discuss "First Aid," and Captain Henri Amann, formerly of the University Military Staff, who will address the members of the R. O. T. C. on the subject of "One-Pounders." None...
...spite of the fact that it should be well handled in order to permit the nation to take full advantage of her resources. This lecture will be one of the series in which Dr. Henry Van Dyke, former American ambassador at the Hague, Captain Ian Hay Beith, of the British Army, ex-Consul General to Austria Albert Halstead, and ex-Secretary of State William J. Bryan have spoken...
...lectures given by officers of the British and French Missions, beginning with Captain Hodson's lecture, Tuesday, March 12, uniforms will be worn...
...Says the British First Lord of the Admiralty. "Despite glowing reports in the American press, and great as the effort of that country doubtless is, there is no doubt a considerable time must elapse before the desired output is obtained." But so far is he from intending disparagement of the United States in comparison with the United Kingdom that he says in the latter there has been a serious drop in the rate of ship production, that owing to labor unrest and strike difficulties the men in the yards are not working as if the life of the country depended...