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Show GIGANTIC HUT IS USEDMIERS New Invention Adds to the Comfort of British and Canadians at Front. TORONTO, Ont., March 10. A recent invention adding to the comfort of the British and Canadian field forces at the French front is described in a dispatch received here today from London. It is known as the "Nissen hut" a semicircular semi-circular shelter with the appearance of a gigantic bit of stovepipe half buried in the earth and containing doors and windows. There is room for twenty-five men in each. A thousand of these huts are under order. Tho convenience of transportation and the speed with which they can be erected enable men hitherto hither-to forced to sleep in the open during an advance to obtain shelter. Already the hut is the subject of an army song "Put Me in My Little Nissen Bed." The event of tho week at the Canadian Cana-dian army headquarters at the French front, according to the dispatch, was a visit by Sir Bobert Borden, Canadian premier, and Robert Rogers and J. D. Hazen, members of the premier 's cabinet. cabi-net. The famous First brigade of the dominion's original division passed in 1 review. Only a few of the men in line were present at Ypres. The men appeared ap-peared splendidly fit. Later Sir Robert and his party, including in-cluding Prince Arthur of Connaught, visited a part of the front from which they ould glimpse the German lines. Aviators hover above the Canadians to prevent German airmen from gaining in-formation in-formation which they might convey to the artillery regarding the Canadians' presence. |