A Russian Red Cross attendant describes in a letter home how he saw in the thick of heavy artillery fire a crowd of about fifty rabbits standing in the middle of a ploughed field, all huddled together and filled with indescribable terror. The writer says they were the most pathetic sight he has seen on the blood-soaked battlefield. What military expert, asks the "Gazette do Hollande,"' ever dreamt that the hand grenades of the Napoleonic wars would again become favourite instruments of destruction, or that, side by side with these, the war would aee the introduction of guns so gigantic as to requires thirteen traction engines to draw them? u vno only nttaffeotonr alternative to breast milk.
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Taihape Daily Times, Volume 7, Issue 155, 5 March 1915, Page 3
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117Page 3 Advertisements Column 3 Taihape Daily Times, Volume 7, Issue 155, 5 March 1915, Page 3
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