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The Recruiting Officer: How can you go into the army? You can hardly be seen from the ground. The Youthful Aspirant: Isn't that the chief qualification of a scout?


War Correspondent, (dictating to his stenographer): I am sitting in a captured trench, astride an Austrian gun. Dense smoke envelops me. A little to one side, a machine gun is clicking rapidly...