ILLUSTRATIONS

Spring-time in the North Sea--Snow on a British
Battleship _Frontispiece_

FACING PAGE

Marines drilling on the quarterdeck of a British Battleship 24

Fifteen-inch guns on a British Battleship 25

A forest of shells in a corner of one of England's
great shell filling factories 86

A light railway bringing up ammunition 87

One of the wards of a base hospital, visited by the King 132

A Howitzer in the act of firing 133




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