Messines
a village in Belgian Flanders. It was occupied by the Germans when they overran Belgium in the summer of 1914, and constantly under fire during the fighting around Ypres.
In the battle of MESSINES RIDGE (q.v.) the village was captured by the Rifle Brigade of the New Zealand Division.
The Germans had orders to hold the place at all costs and the fighting was intense in cellars and dugouts before the New Zealanders gained possession.
On MESSINES RIDGE (Belgium). te, June 7, 1917, General Plumer's Second British Army attacked Messines Ridge , occupied by German troops, after twenty mines, the work of months, had been exploded. It was a one day's battle in which the British won high ground that commanded the country around for nine miles in the direction of Ypres. The British by this operation gained a position that had long threatened their lines tion that had long threatened their lines into British hands, including 145 officers. 67 guns, some of large caliber, were captured, as well as 294 machine guns and 94 trench mortars. The British losses were about 16,000. The Germans recap- 67 guns, some of large caliber, were cap- tured, as well as 294 machine guns and 94 trench mortars. The British losses 1918, but lost it when the allied armies began their great offensive in the summer of that year. tured Messines Ridge in the spring of 1918, but lost it when the allied armies began their great offensive in the summixed origin in countries where Spanish Europeans have settled and intermingled with the natives, as in the Philippines.
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E. range of the Andes, about 40 miles S. those having com- METABOLA (-tab'o-lä), a sub-class of insects, containing those h plete metamorphosis. The larva, pupa, and imago are all very different in apflowing a general E. N. E. course into stitute three quite distinct phases of life. The larva is known as a maggot, a grub, river; length, about 500 miles. pearance, and these several states constitute three quite distinct phases of life. or a caterpillar. The pupa, which is always quiescent, is sometimes called a chrysalis. Dallas divides it into two sections: Mandibulata, containing the orders Coleoptera, Hymenoptera, structure of the palm of the hand, be- tween the wrist and the fingers; it comprises five shafted bones. niptera.
The larva is known as a maggot, a grub, a, and Neu- METACARPUS (-kar'pus), the bony prises five shafted bones. structure of the palm of the hand, besection of the vertical line passing through the center of gravity of a float- ing body in equilibrio, and a vertical line