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rising and successful general, who is plotting an offensive The General . . . Cyrus Moffat Nancy Prendergasp, his daughter, who has gone in for nursing, unknown to her father. She is in love with ---- Featuring Miss Sybil Fane DICK MANVERS a lance Corporal in the pay department, who, after extensive & painful researches, has invented a new bomb "DICK" Steven Fairbrother Dick shows his new bomb to the General who decides to use it in the offensive But is overheard and seen by Captain ADRIAN BLACK an unscrupulous adventurer in the pay of a powerful Government That night he is seen by Nancy substituting PLUM & APPLE for The new explosive END OF PART I PART II WILL FOLLOW IMMEDIATELY Flanders Film Mfg Co--Milwaukee, Wisconsin. U.S.A.] [Illustration: The Offensive begins. The new bomb is found to be equally explosive in spite of Captain Black's dark deed Nancy, who fears disaster, steals her Father's private Howitzer and races to the Offensive Black throws every obstacle in her way "Dont you know me Dick?" The General, who has been doing a bit on his own, becomes the unwilling witness of a touching scene The General having heard their story, orders the arrest of Captain Black How Dick Manvers Got His Star. Every familiar feature of the Film is happily caricatured by Captain Bairnsfather in his amusing page of pictures. The hero, the heroine (with smile), the villain, the heavy father, all of the most approved pattern--everything down to the meticulous inaccuracy characteristic of the American film in matters of detail, is shown with the good-natured sarcasm befitting a master of satire as well as of humour, while the story tells itself with breathless enthusiasm.] [Illustration: The Whip Hand. Private Mulligatawny (the Australian Stock-whip wonder) frequently causes a lot of bother in the enemy's trenches.] [Illustration: Christmas Day: How it dawned for many.] [Illustration: "Under the spreading chestnut tree the village smithy stands."] [Illustration: Veni 1914 Vidi 1915 Vici! 1916 Augusts Three. To each year its type.] [Illustration: Overheard in an Orchard. Said the Apple to the Plum: "Well, anyway, old man, they can never ask us what we did in the great war!"] [Illustration: LEARN To FIGHT Anyone with a taste for Fishing, or Moth Collecting can learn to fight. Anyone can put a hook in a worm, or a pin in a moth. WE DEVELO
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