War Sees Return to Ancient Weapons
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War Sees Return to Ancient Weapons
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War Sees Return to Ancient Weapons
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Caption: Hand grenade, shield, steel helmet-medievalism personified. Nothing is new
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One of the remark-
able features of the
present world war is the
revival of weapons,
methods of attack and
of defence which origi-
nated a long time ago. Trench warfare is
nothing new, but merely a modern elabo-
ration of one of the oldest methods of de-
fence known. The steel helmets, shields
and breast plates adopted by practically
all of the armies
engaged in this
war are adaptations
of types that had
been in use long
before the birth of
Christ. The illus-
tration shows an-
other revival. The
French soldier pic-
tured is in the act
of throwing a hand
grenade into the
German trenches,
perhaps only fifty
or sixty yards dis-
tant. These hand
grenades, which are
extensively used in
trench warfare, are
terrible weapons.
They are filled with
the most powerful
explosives and
great care must be
taken to prevent .
their premature ex-
plosion.
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Language (Dublin Core)
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eng
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Date Issued (Dublin Core)
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1918-05
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pages (Bibliographic Ontology)
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754
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Rights (Dublin Core)
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Public Domain (Google digitized)
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Jesus
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Archived by (Dublin Core)
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Filippo Valle
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Alberto Bordignon (Supervisor)
Popular Science Monthly, v. 92, n. 5, 1918
