Evening star. [volume], August 19, 1917, Image 49

About Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972

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Feeding a monster British gun on the
western front. With these great new guns
the allies have succeeded in wresting ar
tillery supremacy from the Teutons.
<(Yntr*l N?*w> photo.)
The war spirit strikes Sing Sing prison. On any pleasant after
noon there can be seen drilling two companies of "regulars" within
the grim walls of the prison. The companies are under the command
of a life-termer.
(CVntral NVw* photo.)
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A new British destroyer. The allies have in
creased the caliber of their guns until they are
supreme today. They are following the opinion
once expressed by Napoleon: "Providence is on
the side of the heaviest artillery."
(Central N?-w? ptiotu.)
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A "Sammy" and his improved gas mask at Camp
Wakefield, Mass., where Canadian officers are giving in
structions to officers of the Bay State militia.
(Copyright. 1917. Iiitermtional Film.)
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Maj. R. Perfetti, head of Italy's
aerial mission to the United States.
He is now in consultation with this
country's experts in an effort to stand
ardize aircraft production of the allies.
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The spoils of war. Saddles and
harness gathered from a battlefield
along the Marne. A salvage corps
gathers the waste, and all of it is made
over.
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