Photograph by Paul Thompson 



HOW TO TAKS A BUILDING BY STORM : A LESSON AT THE PHYSICAL TRAINING SCHOOL 



OP VINCLNNLS 



Although there have been innumerable new engines of destruction employed in the 

 present world war, such as the submarine, the airplane, and the high-explosive shell, the 

 fighting forces of Europe have also hied back to ancient and medieval principles of warfare 

 with astonishing frequency. For example, we have seen the recrudescence of the "Greek 

 fire" idea in "liquid tire," the evolution of the Chinese stinkpot in the new poisonous gas, 

 the reappearance of the armored knight in the soldier wearing a steel helmet, and the glori- 

 fication of the battering ram in the lumbering new "tank." As shown in the above illustra- 

 tion, the modern soldier is trained to scale, walls, just as were the soldiers of Darius the 

 Great, Alexander the Great, Alfred the Great, and Charlemagne. There are variations, but 

 no new principles, in the crude art of destroying human life. 



ually approaching France, both in the 

 manufacture of heavy guns and the pro- 

 duction of munitions; but this condition 

 appears after two and a half years of 

 war. During those two and a half years 

 it was the French cannon, French shells, 

 French soldiers, and Franch brains that 

 checked the military ambitions of Ger- 

 many. 



NEW MIRACLES OP SURGERY 



With all this effort applied to improve 

 her killing power, France did not neglect 

 the complement of war destruction — 

 healing. The best surgical and medical 

 minds of the country pondered long on 

 the problem of saving all that was possi- 

 ble from the human wreckage of war. 



The fruit of this thought is exemplified 

 in the work of Doctor Carrel, whose 

 achievements under the Rockefeller Foun- 

 dation are well known in the United 

 States, and Doctor Dakiri. 



These two men put all their efforts into 

 curing the evil of infection. They had 

 found in their work among the wounded 

 that 75 per cent of deaths, after the first 

 24 hours, were due to infection; that 80 

 per cent of amputations were due to in- 

 fection, and that 95 per cent of secondary 

 hemorrhage came through infection. 



While the work incidental to healing 

 the wounded was going on, Doctors Car- 

 rel and Dakin established a research labo- 

 ratory in conjunction with their military 

 hospital at Compeigne. 



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