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  2. FISTS INSTEAD OF BAYONETS.

    During the first two weeks of the British advance on the Somme the hand-to-hand fighting was particularly fierce and merciless. Yet there was one British soldier who could not forget his native sportsmanship even then. He was a quiet-looking fellow, and he asked a comrade to hold his rifle while he polished off a German with his fists. When he was asked afterwards (says the "War Illustrated") why he had chosen this method, he explained ingenuously that "the bloke was too old ... [ILLUSTRATED]

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