Show MILITARY ITEMS ai d every british soldier costs his country every year the height of the rock of gibraltar it IS estimated to be 1437 english feet nearly ten per cent of the recipients of the victoria cross are military dec tors the french have done a thing the lik lika e of which has not been done since ism 1877 they have allowed the german naval in paris capt siegel biegel to inspect i lie hie dockyard at brest an idea of the possibilities of the taissa guns may be had from the fact ahat il at a six inch gun made at i tv castle england has been fired with 11 barg aj ge e of cordite T with ith a muzzle vel 0 3 of feet per second d if I 1 ugh explosive shells have proved so with fulch buich firing breech loaders in the french experiments that the british admira lity haz has already supplied the channel fleet with them and will soon provide shells for the who whole r bavy mi A n woman oman signing I 1 herself A col colonels one V i wife recently wrote a letter to one of the large london dallies dailies in which she seriously proposes that should the prophecies of war against england be realized reali sed the duties of the army in the i ear car might be successfully performed by women orderlies she declares that she is ready to aa assist in the organization of a womans comans cycling corps to help resist I 1 her count rys rya enemies |