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... describes another corre¬ spondent, In the ruins of PuliletM, but after sharp fighting and a grim man-hunt among the broken brickwork, the enemy was destroyed In this Tillage.— ...

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... COURTYARD. The architectural treasures of Venice have been protected as far as may be from the air-vandals by sand-bags and brickwork and other coverings. The great air-raid on the night of February 26, when 300 bombs were dropped, was the forty-fifth which ...

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... theatre has been established, it will be seen, in a building that resembles a section of a tunnel, with an arched roof of brick-work, in which case it is probably safe from shell-fire, if German shells should still be able to reach the city. The small stage ...

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... Engineers. The lower photograph shows pioneers repairing the lock on a canal, partially wrecked by the enemy. As seen, the brickwork walls of the entrance-way to the lock had not fallen in when the gates were blown up, and are strutted across by transverse ...

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... illustration of a destroyed main-line Somme bridge near Péronne. Railway viaducts were destroyed by mining the sup¬ porting brickwork at either side, causing the bridge to fall in, as the second illustration at Chaulnes shows.—[Official ...

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... lower illustration shows an officer standing outside the entrance of the same dug-out, renamed The Comer House. As the brickwork to the left indicate«, the dug-out was constructed beneath a houae. The roof is supported by iron girders, and shored up ...

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... and marble pillars, the carved and gilded wood¬ work, and the sacred statuary are mantled round with piled-up sand-bags. Brickwork and sand-baf screens are built up along the exterior to protect the sculptured façade and the main portal and restibulc. ...

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... with steel uprights as wall and I formed the r°°f be'S transverseiron beams with concrete slabs in layers over them. The brickwork walls of a house rear portion and garrison living quarters. On top, an ordinary house-roof disguised the structure.—[Canadian ...