Hobbling Prisoners with Their Own Trousers 



The scissors arc niigiiLicr than the rifle. Instead of placing a heavy guard around these 



German prisoners, the French officer merely cuts off the suspenders of the prisoners' trousers 



and cuts out a "V" from the belt, making a running escape impracticable 



Thlf picture oentlDued from opposite po^o 



reduced by losses in the war, and by filling in their ranks with men who are fitted to do noth- 

 ing else there will be an economic gain to the country as a whole. The illustration shows 

 one of the classes practicing upon batteries of hundreds of typewriters 



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