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...side of the English channel, a faint sound pitched awesomely deep. "That, gentlemen," said the Prime Minister, "was Hill No. 60. Within a few minutes I think we shall have it." Captured twice by Germans, thrice by Britons, famed Hill No. 60, scene of the bitterest fighting in the Ypres Salient, was sapped and mined before the last successful British attack, blown up on April 17, 1915 by one of the most titanic explosions ever loosed by man in war. Last week British Brewer John J. Calder, who bought Hill No. 60 in 1920 for patriotic reasons, announced that...
...Cornelius Jansen Bishop of Ypres in his Augustinus suggested five heretical propopositions based on St. Augustine's Doctrine of Grace. One important group of still exists in Holland...
...story of John Bullock, young London clerk who joined up soon after war was declared, to fight for King & Country. In graphic, impressionistic, sometimes onomatopoetic prose, Author Williamson tells what happened to Private Bullock, from his raptured enlistment and training on Salisbury Plain to the attack beyond Ypres in 1917 when a shell left him with only one more leg to give his King & Country. "Then his heart instead of finishing its beat and pausing to beat again swelled out its beat into an ear-bursting agony and great lurid light that leapt out of his broken-apart body with...
Many of the Legionairies, while en route to Belgium, stopped off to visit and some to picnic at Vimy Ridge, in France. Thence they proceeded to Ypres, Belgium, and assembled around the famed Menin Gate, an imposing War memorial almost covered by the inscribed names of more than 55,000 British Dead. Into a radio microphone, set up in the roadway before Menin Gate, spoke Charles of Flanders, Edward of Wales, and finally the Archbishop of York...
Acclaim. The Commons, warming to a ceremony which would last for many hours, elected by acclaim as Speaker onetime Queen's Page Fitzroy, now a grizzled War veteran of 58, wounded at Ypres and Klein Zillebecke. He, with a coy modesty demanded by ritual, first demurred at the too-great honor, and then submitted himself to what is known as the Superior Judgment of the House...