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Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2308, 16 November 1914, Page 6

Before Napoleon's time it had been tho custom for armies to carry huge unwieldly flags mounted on polos' which, while they afforded < a rallying point for their corps, also drew the enemy's fire. Napoleon revived the ancient symbol of the Caesars. The Napoleonic eagle itself was, Bin..in height and 9in. across the wings. It stood on a brass block 3in. square. '

It is believed among the troops in France that bullets fired vertically upwards at aircrft never descend as bullets, the intonse and prolonged friction of their flight to the limit of the' trajectory and the.subsequent descent of what is left of them, completely dissipating them into vapour. Thousands of bullets have recently been fired at aircraft, but none has been positively known to descend.

Mrs. Strange, stewardess of the Princes Ladies' Golf Club, Mitcham has no lower than 21 near relations on active service ' with'the fleet. Her husband, a pensioner, is captain-steward at Devonport Barracks. She lias six brothers afloat, two.brothers-in-law and 12 sailor first cousins. Eight of her uncles; are naval pensioners. Her father, ITiomas Rees, of Devonport, is a Crimean veteran, and one ,of hei jzrandf&thors also served through tho irAmeaa war.