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"DICK"

Steven Fairbrother

Dick shows his new bomb to the General who decides to use it in the offensive

But is overheard and seen by Captain ADRIAN BLACK an unscrupulous adventurer in the pay of a powerful Government

That night he is seen by Nancy substituting PLUM & APPLE for The new explosive

END OF PART I

PART II

WILL FOLLOW IMMEDIATELY

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Nancy, who fears disaster, steals her Father's private Howitzer and races to the Offensive

Black throws every obstacle in her way

"Dont you know me Dick?"

The General, who has been doing a bit on his own, becomes the unwilling witness of a touching scene

The General having heard their story, orders the arrest of Captain Black

How Dick Manvers Got His Star.

Every familiar feature of the Film is happily caricatured by Captain Bairnsfather in his amusing page of pictures. The hero, the heroine (with smile), the villain, the heavy father, all of the most approved pattern--everything down to the meticulous inaccuracy characteristic of the American film in matters of detail, is shown with the good-natured sarcasm befitting a master of satire as well as of humour, while the story tells itself with breathless enthusiasm.]

Private Mulligatawny (the Australian Stock-whip wonder) frequently causes a lot of bother in the enemy's trenches.]

Vidi 1915

Vici! 1916

Augusts Three.

To each year its type.]

Said the Apple to the Plum: "Well, anyway, old man, they can never ask us what we did in the great war!"]

Anyone with a taste for Fishing, or Moth Collecting can learn to fight.

Anyone can put a hook in a worm, or a pin in a moth. WE DEVELOP THAT INSTINCT, and by our Postal Course of Instruction, will help you to earn big money by fighting

Subjects Taught:--

Bayonet work, bombing, & asphyxiation.

This sketch shows the work of a former pupil. Try this exercise yourself on a friend, and tell us the result. We will at once tell you your chances of success.

A lieutenant writes:--

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