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[Illustration: _The one seated_ (_reading newspaper of January
29th_). "'20,000 GERMANS FALLEN IN ATTEMPT AT COUP-DE-MAIN.' CAN
YER SEE IT? C-O-U-P., D-E., M-A-I-N. STICK A UNION JACK IN
THERE."]
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"The practice of compulsorily enrolling men for defence against
invasion can be traced from before the time of Alfred the Great, when
every man between 18 and 60 had to serve right up to the time of the
Napoleonic wars."--_Saturday Review._
It was found, however, that men who had enlisted in ALFRED THE
GREAT'S time at the age of sixty were of little real use in the
Napoleonic wars.
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