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...month are Captains Turner, Warren and Hodson, of the British Army, and Lieutenant Mallet, of the French Mission. All four of these men are now instructing in the officers' training corps at Devens. Captain Turner will lecture on "Poisonous Gases"; Captain Warren will take as a subject "The Stokes Trench Mortar"; and Captain Hodson will deliver an address on "Machine Guns and their Use." In his lecture to Military Science 2, Lieutenant Mallet has decided to speak on grenades...
...volumes has just been installed in the basement of University Hall. Many of the volumes are manuals sent by the War Department. Among these are several special English books describing the use of the bayonet. Various publishers have also contributed to the library histories and books on trench warfare...
...defection of Russia. Germany can fight on without other foreign trade if the vast resources of Russia are at her disposal, and victory by attrition, much heralded in 1915, seems more distant than ever. In spite of three years of losses greater armies will face each other across the trench lines of the Western front this spring than ever before in the conflict...
...work has been very interesting, studying the operation and construction of light railways and trench tramways and getting up reports on them. The job offers plenty of opportunity to hear the shells fly, but little chance to kill the Hun. It isn't very pleasant at times to have him just about hitting you without getting a chance to hit back...
...told you about having two men hit on my immediate right and one on my left in front of Y--. Nothing like being commissioned on the 13th, joining the 13th engineers, landing on foreign soil on the 13th, etc., for good luck. Incidentally, I went all over the Canadian trench tramways on the 13th, and believe me, it was a warm trip at times...