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This is the Original Edition printed in Edinburgh and issued in America by authority of the Publishers.

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THREE YEARS

From September 3, 1914 to September 3, 1917

By BARR FERREE

A chronological survey of the bombardment of Reims from September 3, 1914 to September 3, 1917, giving the details of the bombardment day by day for the entire period of the siege. This is the first book in any language dealing with the bombardment of Reims in its entirety, and presents a remarkable picture of daily life at Reims under the shells.

The book includes a general introduction on the bombardment, a sketch of the history of the cathedral, churches and other notable buildings, and a history of the destruction of the cathedral and other important structures in Reims.

Price, post-paid, $2.00

LEONARD SCOTT PUBLICATION COMPANY

249 West 13th Street, New York

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LIFE on the Wolf was very different to life on the Hitachi. To begin with, all the single men of military age were accommodated on the 'tween decks, and slept in hammooks, which they had to sling themselves. The elder men slept in bunks taken from the Hitachi, but the quarters of all in the 'tween deoks were very restricted; there was no privacy, no convenience, and only a soreen divided the European and Japanese quarters. The condition of our fellow-countrymen from the Hitachi was the reverse of enviable, though it was a great deal better than that of the crews of captured ships, who were "accommodated" under the poop-where the captains and officers captured had quarters to themselves-and exercised on the

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poop and well-deck, the port side of which was reserved for the Japanese.

There were between three and four hundred prisoners on board, mostly British, some of whom had been captured in the February previous, as the Wolf had left Germany in November 1916, the Hitachi being the tenth prize caught. The condition in which these prisoners lived cannot be too strongly condemned. The heat in the Tropics was insufferable, the overcrowding abominable, and on the poop there was hardly room to move. But notwithstanding these hardships the men seemed to be merry and bright, and showed smiling faces to their captors. They had all evidently made up their minds to keep their end up to the last, and were not to be downed by any bad

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