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hartoum, England's famous Field Marshal and Secretary of State for War, who lost his life at sea while on a mission to Russia, June 5, 1916. Gen. Sir E.H. Allenby, British commander in Palestine and Syria, who defeated the Turks and captured Jerusalem, the Holy City, in December, 1917.] [Illustration: Copyright, Underwood & Underwood, N.Y. Top: United States Warship North Dakota. Bottom: New type of rapid-firing machine gun used by the United States Army.] [Illustration: _Top_--Inspection of Czecho-Slovaks at railroad station, Vladivostok, before leaving for interior of Siberia in campaign against the Bolsheviki; later aided by American troops. (_Copyright, U. & U._) _Bottom_--"Blue Devils of France"; battle-scarred veterans of the fighting lines leaving the White House after their reception. President Wilson shook hands with every one of these gallant soldiers. (_Copyright, I.F.S._)] [Illustration: British cavalry engaged against German infantry driven out of shelter of the trees by fire and smoke near Chantilly. The charge down the grassy glade of the flaming forest. The woods had been set on fire by British infantry in order to smoke out a large force of Germans who had secreted themselves in the forest. As soon as they emerged they were charged with destructive effect by the British and sustained heavy losses.--_Drawn by Frederic de Haenen from a sketch by Frederic Villiers_. (_Sun Printing and Publishing Assn_.)] [Illustration: _Above_--How a commanding general works while his troops are fast asleep. A night scene in the tent headquarters of Maj.-Gen. Adelbert Cronkhite, U.S.A., division commander on the front in France. The general stands at the right and his chief of staff, Col. Wm. H. Waldron, at the left. _Below_--U.S. Secretary of War Newton D. Baker getting ready to try on an American infantryman's pack at a rest camp in England. (_U.S. Official Photos_.)] [Illustration: President Wilson and General Pershing receiving American troops at Humas, near the front, on Christmas day, 1918. The President is seen wearing the fur coat made from trophies of the hunt, presented by Southern friends. Mrs. Wilson stands at the right.] [Illustration: _Top_--American fighters in France, just out of the trenches, are seen at a wayside station of the American Red Cross, receiving welcome refreshments within gunfire of the battle front. (_Photo from I.F.S._)] [Illustration: _Bottom_--First ai
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