| Show war distances distance war besides being a great leveler Is also a great educator places we had bad never even heard ot of previously are now becoming as familiar in our mouths as household words the tha distances are apt to be somewhat confusing unless understood it ought however to be quite easy to remember that a meter measures about one and one twelfth yards or more exactly inches A decameter Is 10 meters a hectometer Is meters and a kilometer Is 1000 meters or a little more than three fifths ot of a mile the russians express the length of their marches or the distance from place to place in A Is rather more than a kilometer the exact distance being of a mile or between three fifths and tour four fifths of that distance |
