NEWS IN BRIEF.
Members of the East Surrey Regiment have won six V.C’s., 86 D.C.M.’s., 182 M.M’s., and numerous foreign decorations during the Avar. Up to August, 1917, 23,000,000 tons of explosives and army supplies, and 51,000,000 tons of coal and oil bad been shipped from Great Britain overseas. Observations at the front and elseAvliere have proved that, as far as birds are concerned, all the forces of Avarfare are merely regarded as nothing out of the common. The first lest of shrapnel was made in England 112 years ago, Avhen a committee of British Army men reported favourably on the invention of a fellow officer, Henry Shrapnel.
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Manawatu Herald, Volume XL, Issue 1878, 17 September 1918, Page 1
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108NEWS IN BRIEF. Manawatu Herald, Volume XL, Issue 1878, 17 September 1918, Page 1
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