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through space until they fall at length exhausted.. The whole scene is weirdly picturesque and most impressing. During the least intermission in the roar of the big guns the staccato pop-pop-pop of the machine guns breaks through the din, and at some parts a searchlight sweeps o'er the scene but the star shells pale even its light. A spectator marvels how anyone can live through such an inferno but in reality the loss of human life is very small in proportion to the expenditure of shot and shell.

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