H It j n f r- r i S IJ l t f USED sea n nir ir YEARS ARS G tJ P. P 1 j f y I i AGO IN BATTLE BAHLE f J- J Go Government Giving Away t p b Bombs Intended for fori i Doughboys' Doughboys Use Ue Washington Hand gr grenades nades which the j Government will shortly make available to thrifty individuals I through banks and trust companies as 11 souvenirs souvenir's of oC the Great War date datt r H back five centuries as war weapons I They l y were were known to have haven been en us used sed d dIn 1 l In lii 1427 at the siege of the Fortress I f of Casamaggiore on the River Po r the defenders using a glass bottle J t filled filed with powder r 1 The term grew out of Df the training of oC the best qualified w 1 among the soldiers of Louis XIV ir it r 1765 i to hurl these grenades In English En En- 1 gUsh glish history as well the grenadier i found from the Seventeenth C Cent Century Cen Cn n. n t tury Ir on The Japanese Kusso-Japanese war however developed the grenade Int c the effective weapon it proved in the th Great War Jam tins tomato i cans 1 and acid other metal receptacles receptacle were wen salved from scrap heaps and arid fillet t 2 with po powder These were th the imme immediate diate forerunners of the modern cast casi Iron corrugated TNT grenades Ij known as the Mills Defensive Bomb which caused so much g J wh when n hurled Into a German trend k c or Dr dugout dUgout It is the Mills 1 with the tle TNT T removed that the Gov Government II F- F S t is p putting out no now as sav say Ings b 1 2 Asic l any bank bant how to get gel on one You You 4 f J x dont don't ha e to pay pay pay-a a a cent for it it s l i- i