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Royal Engineers Journal The Royal Engineers Journal. Mechanicalization of the Army . Captain H. P. W. Hutson 1 The Influence of Intelligence upon the Tannenburg Campaign Brevet-Major B. C. Dening 35 The 20th (Field) Company, Royal Bombay Sappers and Miners, 1914-18 Major H. W. R. Hamilton 41 Divisional Engineers of the Future-their Duties and Equipment Major-General G. Walker 63 The Disembarkation at Alhucemas Bay Lieut.-Colonel R. E. M. Russsell 68 Waziri Ways . Brigadier-General H. H. Austin 75 Battle Honours of Royal Engineer Units . .. 87 An Unofficial History of the Signal Service with the British Salonika Force, 1915.18 . Captain C. C. S. White 97 M. G. O. E.. Colonel D. M. F. Hoysted 109 The Coal Problem and Low Temperature Distillation Captain G. MacLeod Ross 117 The Stereoscopic Examination of Air Photographs . Lieut. M. Hotine 125 "Ilex" in the Ocean Race . By one of the Crew 145 Memoir. Major-General Beresford Lovett . 155 Books. Magazines. Correspondence . .157 VOL. XLI. 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