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1 1 — e Men behind the Guns.

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Aboard His Majesty's ships, as ashore, Christmas Day is observed more or less as a Sunday, but with a certain licence allowed for " jollification " that would be deemed out of place upon a Sabbath. As little work as possible is done. This year, of course, the Christmas Day will

were the notable service in the present war. Both monoplanes and biplanes are used, but the latter, in the opinion of the best Wings are injured by rifle or machine-gun fire, the two upper planes ensure a sufficient amount of stability to keep it in the British airmen in dispatc

Various suggestions have been put forward for a formal truce to be agreed upon by the combatants of the various armies now at war during the week of Christmas, during which time no military or naval movements of any description should be undertaken. While it is now improbable th

T HE Marseillaise and the Brabanconne, the Belgian national anthem, have this in common, that they both arose under the influence of revolutionary sentiment, but no other comparison is possible. The Marseillaise is genuinely inspired both as to words and music; the words of the