Exit the Black Charger — Enter the Gas Mask 



The modern officer no longer dashes across bullet-swept fields on a snorting steed. In this 

 war he gets orders by telephone and traverses the perilous gas-swept first-line trenches on 

 foot. The hand-grenade at his belt is his surest weapon. In the oval is a naval turret 

 captured in the German trenches in the Battles of Champagne. 



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