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We have dealt fully with this " runaway ring" elsewhere,

but we wish to say here that, if we treat this piece of barbarism with the contempt which it unquestionably deserves from the naval and military point of view, it must not be supposed that we are not deeply moved by the fate of the men, women, and children who died for England. There are tears for them as well as for the soldiers of the Service Battalion of the 18th Durham Light Infantry, for the Royal

Engineers, and for the sailors of the torpedo flotilla. We confess that we should like to see the civilians who fell buried with the flag and the soldiers allowed to shoot over their

graves.

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