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The Royal Engineers Journal _ _I_·_ 1__ I _ _ _ __ ___ The Royal Engineers Journal. Sir Charles Paley . Lieut.-Col. P. H. Keay 77 Maintenance of Landing Grounds . A. Lewis-Dale, Esq. 598 The Combined Display, Royal Tournament, 1930 Bt. Lieut.-Col. N. T. Fitzpatrik 618 Restoration of Whitby Water Supply . Lieut. C. E. Montagu 624 Notes on the Engineers in the U.S. Army . "Ponocrates" 629 A Subaltern in the Indian Mutiny, Part I . Bt. CoL C. B. Thackeray 683 The Kelantan Section of the East Coast Railway, F.M.S.R. Lieut. Ll. Wansbrough-Jones 647 The Reconstruction of Tidworth Bridge by the 17th Field Company, R.E., in April, 1930 . Lient. W. B. Sallitt 657 The Abor Military and Political Mission, 1912-13. Part m. Capt. P. G. Huddlestcn 667 Engineer Units of the Officers' Training Corps . Major D. Portway 676 Some Out-of-the-Way Places .Lieut.-CoL L. E. Hopkins 680 " Pinking" . Capt. K. A. Lindsay 684 Office Organization in a Small Unit . Lieut. A. J. Knott 691 The L.G.O.C. 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