Identifier: timeshistoryofwa10lond (find matches)
Title: The Times history of the war
Year: 1914 (1910s)
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Subjects: Times history of the war Times history and encyclopaedia of the war World War, 1914-1918
Publisher: London
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto

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shop and house lighting grew moresevere—the difficulty of discovering exactlywho was responsible for anti-aircraft defenceproduced a marked sense of irritation. This OUT MEN, JANUARY 1, 1917. led in some cases to demands for reprisalswhich, whether they wovild have been effectiveor not, were excluded for the simple reasonthat, at the time, machines suitable for thepurpose of long distance raids could not bespared from the urgent needs of the variousfronts in sufficient nvimbers to produce aserious effect. Nevertheless, some raids weremade on Zeppelin sheds, and by the middle of February, 1916, the duties of home defencehad been definitely divided betwpen the Navyand Army, the former being responsible untilhostile aircraft reached the coast, and there-after the latter, under the direct control of tSbnL2M!ffffiStk/Stf^ ^^^^^^^^^KF^^^^Mm^^^^^^^^^M ^^^^r V ^^^ ^^^^^^^^^^^^^Bf.^rW ^^^^^^^^ ^^^^^H ^^^^^^^^^^^H WIVES AND SWKI/mEAKrS OF THE r:(>MMEf)-OUT MEN ACCOMPANVINf J TFD, KECUUITS.
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