THE WORLD'S ADVANCE 



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MODERN WARFARE'S LATEST NOVELTIES 



A French soldier using a special gun for dis- 

 charging luminous balls, which are employed 

 for lighting battlefields at night. The soldiers 

 in the present war are called upon to fight at 

 any hour of the day or night, and it is due to 

 the large amount of night fighting that all 

 ^uv T *S'fdb fr '' ty l kinds of light-producing devices are being used. 



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A new type of respi- 

 rator now being used by 

 the British soldiers to 

 protect themselves 

 against poison gas 

 clouds. 



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A British naval gun going 

 to the front in Servia. This 

 gun and several others 

 have been dismounted from 

 the old English warships 

 at Malta. 



French soldiers in Flanders using 



rifles equipped with periscopes in 



order not to expose their heads 



over the tops of the trenches. 



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