Soldiers of the Queen's Own Cameron Highlanders, Scottish regiment of glorious traditions, are seen constructing a kapok bridge across a river, while others prepare to launch collapsible boats. These are methods of crossing rivers when bridges have been destroyed by a retreating enemy, and form part of British tactics when it comes their turn to invade. ... [ILLUSTRATED]
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Article : 217 wordsDealing with the new German- Turkish pact, diplomatic commentators admit that closer relations between Turkey and Germany are undesirable, but some political agreement was probably unavoidable when German occupation of Bulgaria made the two States virtually neighbors. ...
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Advocate (Burnie, Tas. : 1890 - 1954), Fri 20 Jun 1941, Page 5
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