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diff --git a/18333.txt b/18333.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..8fba2b1 --- /dev/null +++ b/18333.txt @@ -0,0 +1,1859 @@ +The Project Gutenberg EBook of The Illustrated War News, Number 15, Nov. +18, 1914, by Various + +This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with +almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or +re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included +with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org + + +Title: The Illustrated War News, Number 15, Nov. 18, 1914 + +Author: Various + +Release Date: May 7, 2006 [EBook #18333] + +Language: English + +Character set encoding: ASCII + +*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE ILLUSTRATED WAR NEWS *** + + + + +Produced by Juliet Sutherland, David Garcia and the Online +Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net + + + + + + + + + + + +THE ILLUSTRATED WAR NEWS EACH NUMBER NOVEMBER 18, 1914 + COMPLETE IN ITSELF +__________________________________________________________________________ + +[Illustration: THE ILLUSTRATED WAR NEWS PART 15] + + PRICE SIXPENCE: PUBLISHING OFFICE: + BY INLAND POST, 172, STRAND, + SIXPENCE HALFPENNY. 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There are + thousands of Regulars and Territorials awaiting orders and in sending + a present now you are assured of reaching your man. + + Supplies may be obtained from the usual trade sources and we shall be + glad to furnish any information on application. + + + TROOPS AT THE FRONT (Duty Free) + + John Player & Sons, Nottingham, will (through the Proprietors for + Export, The British-American Tobacco Co., Ltd.) be pleased to arrange + for supplies of these world-renowned Brands to be forwarded to the + Front at Duty Free Rates. + + JOHN PLAYER & SONS, + + Castle Tobacco Factory, Nottingham. + + P.438 Branch of The Imperial Tobacco Co. (of Gt. Britain & Ireland), Ltd. + + ======================================================================== + + + + +__________________________________________________________________________ + THE ILLUSTRATED WAR NEWS, NOV. 18, 1914--1 + + +The Illustrated War News. + + +[Illustration: AS USED IN THE GERMAN TRENCHES: A GERMAN BAND PLAYING ON +THE MARCH DURING THE WAR. + +Photo. Alfieri.] + + + + +__________________________________________________________________________ +2--THE ILLUSTRATED WAR NEWS, NOV. 18, 1914. + + +THE GREAT WAR. + + * * * * * + +Our gracious Sovereign--more so even than his deceased father, who had +also a conspicuous gift that way--has ever shown a singular felicity in +voicing the sentiments of his people, but never more so than when he sent +this message to Sir John French: "The splendid pluck, spirit, and +endurance shown by my troops in the desperate fighting which has continued +for so many days against vastly superior forces fills me with admiration." +That sovereign message to his heroic soldiers--such as his ancestor Henry +V. might have addressed to his 10,000 long-enduring conquerors on the +night of Agincourt--was nobly supplemented by this passage from the +following day's Speech from the Throne: "My Navy and Army continue, +throughout the area of conflict, to maintain in full measure their +glorious traditions. We watch and follow their steadfastness and valour +with thankfulness and pride, and there is, throughout my Empire, a fixed +determination to secure, at whatever sacrifice, the triumph of our arms +and the vindication of our cause." + + +[Illustration: COMMANDER OF THE BRITISH CRUISER WHICH "IMPRISONED" THE +"KOeNIGSBERG": CAPTAIN SIDNEY R. DRURY-LOWE, R.N.] + +The Admiralty stated on Nov. 11, "This search resulted on Oct. 30 in the +'Koenigsberg' being discovered by H.M.S. 'Chatham' (Captain Sidney R. +Drury-Lowe, R.N.) hiding in shoal water about six miles up the Rufigi +Ritter.... (German East Africa) ... She is now imprisoned, and unable to +do any further harm."--[Photo. by Elliott and Fry.] + + +[Illustration: COMMANDER OF THE AUSTRALIAN CRUISER WHICH DESTROYED THE +"EMDEN": CAPTAIN JOHN C.T. GLOSSOP, R.N.] + +Captain Glossop received the following message from the First Lord of +the Admiralty: "Warmest congratulations on the brilliant entry of the +Australian Navy into the war, and the signal service rendered to the +Allied cause and to peaceful commerce by the destruction of the 'Emden.'" + +Photograph by Lafayette. + + +[Illustration: ONE OF THE VESSELS CONCERNED IN "THE LARGE COMBINED +OPERATION" AGAINST THE "EMDEN" H.M.A.S. "MELBOURNE."] + +While it fell to H.M.A.S. "Sydney" to bring the "Emden" to action, another +vessel of the Australian Navy, the "Melbourne," also joined in the +pursuit. The Admiralty stated that a "large combined operation by fast +cruisers against the 'Emden' has been for some time in progress. In this +search, which covered an immense area, the British cruisers have been +aided by French, Russian, and Japanese vessels working in harmony. +H.M.A.S. 'Melbourne' and 'Sydney' were also included in these movements." + +Photograph by Sport and General. + +At whatever sacrifice! And that promises to be terrible. For what will be +the sacrifice entailed by two years of war--to put its duration at a +moderate estimate--if our casualties in life and limb alone (compared with +which our millions of money are as nothing) amounted, according to an +official statement in Parliament, to about 57,000 of all ranks up to the +end of October, and it is believed that 10,000 at least must be added for +the first ten days of November? Of course, by far the larger portion of +those casualties are "wounded," of whom, according to one of the Netley +authorities, nine in ten at least ought to recover; while those casualties +also include "missing," or "prisoners," of whom the Germans claim to have +now more than 16,000 in their keeping. In the Boer War our "wounded" +amounted to 22,829, of which only 2018 proved fatal cases; while our total +casualties for over two and a-half years of warfare, including 13,250 +deaths from disease--which, in every campaign, is always far more fatal +than lead or steel--figured up to 52,204, as compared with 57,000 in +France and Belgium for only three months, or considerably more than twice +the number of men (26,000) whom we landed in the Crimea; while the purely +British contingent of Wellington's "Allies" at Waterloo was returned at +something like 24,000. + +[Continued overleaf. + + + + +__________________________________________________________________________ + THE ILLUSTRATED WAR NEWS, NOV. 18, 1914--3 + + +[Illustration: SYBARITISM IN THE TRENCHES! A HOT SHOWER-BATH +ESTABLISHMENT INSTALLED BY AN INGENIOUS FRENCH ENGINEER.] + +Much has been said of the elaborate character of the German entrenchments, +and of the British genius for comfort developed in our own lines, but it +is doubtful whether anything done by either side in that direction has +surpassed the chef-d'oeuvre of an ingenious French engineer shown in our +illustration. At one point in the French trenches not seven hundred yards +from those of the enemy, and within two miles of the German artillery, he +constructed an up-to-date bathing establishment, with a heating apparatus +and a shower-bath! The apartment was fitted with a stove, benches, +clothes-pegs, and curtains; and adjoining the salle de douches, or +shower-bath room, was fitted up a salle de coiffure. There was even talk +of enlivening the bathing hour with music and a topical revue. + + + + +__________________________________________________________________________ +4--THE ILLUSTRATED WAR NEWS, NOV. 18, 1914. + + +[Illustration: SIMILAR TO THE KAISER'S AERIAL BODYGUARD: A ZEPPELIN WITH +A GUN ON TOP FIRING AT HOSTILE AEROPLANES--A GERMAN PICTURE.] + +It was stated recently that two Zeppelins, armed with machine-guns, circle +continually on guard above the Kaiser's private apartments in his +headquarters at Coblentz. + +It must be remembered, too, that the casualties referred to--being +confined to "the western area of the war"--do not include our losses at +sea, which comprise few "wounded" and no "missing." At sea it is either +neck or nothing, sink or swim: a modern battle-ship, if holed and +exploded, like the Good Hope and the Monmouth off the coast of Chile, +going to the bottom, and most of her crew with her, like Kempenfelt's +oaken Royal George-- + + Brave Kempenfelt is gone, + His victories are o'er; + And he and his eight hundred + Will plough the waves no more. + + +Thus if our casualties at sea, which are mainly of one kind only, be added +up, they will probably be found to exceed our deaths on land, which +are always much less numerous than other kinds of losses; yet the +mortality of our battlefields has been mournful enough, especially among +officers--where the death percentage has been higher than in any other war +we ever waged. + +On the other hand, the Germans have had to pay a fearful price for +the death-toll they have exacted of us and our Allies, seeing that, +according to their own official admission, their casualties to the end of +September amounted to over 500,000 for the Prussian army alone, while the +corresponding figures for Bavaria, Wuertemberg, Baden, and other States +have to be added; so that the estimate of Mr. Hilaire Belloc that the +total losses of the Germans up to date must be somewhere near a million +and three-quarters men would appear to be not very far out. + +Well now, supposing that the war were to last for two years, it follows +that, at the same rate of loss, the German casualties would amount to +12,250,000, which is almost unthinkable. Its very destructiveness should +tend to shorten the duration of this terrible war. As Mr. Asquith said at +the opening of Parliament, in a curiously cryptic and significant passage: +"The war may last long. I doubt myself if it will last as long as many +people originally predicted." God grant that this may be so! + +But in the meantime there are no signs of any abatement of fury on the +part of the Imperial Hun of Berlin, who stamps, and struts, and rages like +Pistol on the field of Agincourt; and "Bid him prepare, for I will cut his +throat!" is ever the burden of his objurgations. How different from the +calm, serene, dignified utterances of our own gracious Sovereign and the +despatches of his Generals are the minatory rantings of the Kaiser, his +von Klucks, and his Crown Princes of Bavaria, with their vicious appeals +to the worst passions of their soldiers against the English as the most +bitterly hated of all their foes! + +[Continued overleaf. + + + + +__________________________________________________________________________ + THE ILLUSTRATED WAR NEWS, NOV. 18, 1914--5 + + +[Illustration: HE WAS A MAN: FIELD-MARSHALL EARL ROBERTS, THE +WORLD-FAMOUS SOLDIER, WHO DIED AT SIR JOHN FRENCH'S HEADQUARTERS.] + +Full of years and honours, Lord Roberts has met death upon the Field of +Honour as surely as though he had died fighting at the head of the brave +soldiers whom he loved so well. To enumerate his qualities: indomitable +courage, keen intelligence, broad humanity, is to gild refined gold. At +the call of duty he visited the Army and the Indian soldiers in France, +despite his eighty-two years; there he caught a chill and passed +peacefully away. The message to Lady Roberts by Field-Marshall Sir John +French will find universal echo: "...Your grief is shared by us who mourn +the loss of a much-loved chief ... It seems a fitter ending to the life of +so great a soldier that he should have passed away in the midst of the +troops he loved so well and within the sound of the guns." + + + + +__________________________________________________________________________ +6--THE ILLUSTRATED WAR NEWS, NOV. 18, 1914. + + +[Illustration: THE "NIGER'S" CAPTAIN, WHO STAYED ON THE BRIDGE TO THE +LAST THOUGH BADLY WOUNDED: LIEUT.-COMMANDER A.P. MUIR.] + +When the "Niger" was torpedoed, Captain Muir was on the bridge and was +severely injured by the explosion, but remained at his post till every +officer and man had left the ship. He was taken ashore at Deal in a boat +and had to be at once placed in hospital.--[Photo. by Russell.] + +Most bitterly hated, but at the same time most formidable--as the Germans +themselves now generally admit, and hence all those tears of rage--hinc +illae lacrymae. Even when the Prussian Guards--not to speak of the vaunted +Brandenburgers and Bavarians--can make no impression on the British lines +in Belgium, it should at last break in upon the German General Staff that +they are somewhat out in their calculations. The word "contemptible" is +never used now in relation to Sir John French's army, and it will be used +still less when this army shall have been reinforced by the million of men +apart altogether from the Territorials which are now under training to +supplement it, while a further million has now, in turn, been asked for +and will be cheerfully raised, with the help of the additional vote of +credit for L250,000,000--which was just about the cost of the Boer War, +and L25,000,000 more than the French indemnity of 1870--which will be +willingly granted by Parliament for the conduct of a war that is said to +be costing us about L7,000,000 a week. When a young man throws all his +soul into his training and ardently wants to become a soldier, his +progress will be at least three times as quick as that of the dull, driven +conscript; and that is why Lord Kitchener has told us that the new +million-man'd army which popularly bears his name, though it might just as +well be called after the King--has already been making a wonderful advance +towards field-efficiency. + + +[Illustration: SUNK BY A GERMAN SUBMARINE IN THE DOWNS: H.M.S. "NIGER."] + +The "Niger," a torpedo-gunboat of 810 tons, built in 1892, was torpedoed +by a German submarine while lying off Deal about noon on the 11th, and +foundered. The Admiralty stated: "All the officers and 77 of the men were +saved; two of the men are severely and two slightly injured. It is thought +there was no loss of life."--[Photo. by L.N.A.] + +The English writer of one of the many war-books now before the +public--"The German Army From Within," by one who has served in it as an +officer, tells us that he calculates one of our "Tommies" to be at least +equal to three "Hans Wursts"; and when the personal equation is taken into +account--the value of individual character and initiative--the estimate +will not seem to be exaggerated. In fact, it has been proved to be correct +by the opinion of all our best judges in the field itself, as well as by +the results of the fighting when the odds against us have been invariably +three to one, in spite of which we have always managed, not only to +maintain our ground, but also to encroach on that of our antagonists. + +Hence it follows that a so-called "Kitchener" army of a million men ought +to have for us a military value of at least three millions as against the +Germans--the more so since their best first-line troops have already been +used up, and replaced with beardless boys and most corpulent greybeards. +This is not a fanciful description; it corresponds with the reports sent +home by "Eye-Witness" at Headquarters and other reliable observers; while +there is an absolute consensus of statement that our soldiers enjoy a +commissariat system which is at once the admiration of their French +friends and the sheer envy and despair of their German foes. The fact +alone that our men are better found and better fed than the enemy gives +them an advantage over and above their three-to-one equivalent of the +individual kind. + +[Continued overleaf. + + + + +__________________________________________________________________________ + THE ILLUSTRATED WAR NEWS, NOV. 18, 1914--7 + + +[Illustration: A WAIST-DEEP SHELL-HOLE IN A BELGIAN STREET: IN A +WAR-WRECKED WEST FLANDERS TOWNSHIP.] + +The devastating effect of shell-fire on human habitations is brought out +with appealing effect by the photograph which we give above of the scene +in one of the ill-fated Belgian townships on the frontier of West +Flanders. Wrecked and ruined houses with their walls leaning over and +tottering, about to fall in ruin, and the heaps of littered debris in the +street tell a fearful tale of what the havoc from a bombardment by heavy +projectiles means for the hapless inhabitants of the place. The tremendous +force of the impact with which the shells crash down is shown at the same +time by the man seen in the foreground of the photograph standing up to +the waist in one of the gaping cavities in the ground that the shells make +where they strike. In some of the houses they smash through from roof to +cellar.--[Photo. by Illus. Bureau.] + + + + +__________________________________________________________________________ +8--THE ILLUSTRATED WAR NEWS, NOV. 18, 1914. + + +[Illustration: TOURING IN GERMANY WITH THE PRINCE OF WALES: THE LATE +MAJOR CADOGAN, THE PRINCE'S EQUERRY, WHO HAS BEEN KILLED IN ACTION.] + +Major the Hon. William Cadogan, son of Earl Cadogan, and Equerry to the +Prince of Wales, was killed while commanding the 10th Hussars in place of +the Colonel, who had been wounded. Major Cadogan had been sharing in the +work of the infantry in the trenches. He served in South Africa, +and last year accompanied the Prince of Wales, who travelled as the +"Earl of Chester," on a visit to Germany, where our photograph was +taken.--[Photograph by Illus. Bureau.] + +Besides, they have sources of inspiration--have our "Tommies"--denied to +their Teutonic antagonists. General von Kluck, Commander of the First +German Army, has described a visit of the dread War Lord to the line of +the Aisne "behind the line of fire"; and the "Hochs" with which he was +greeted by a Prussian Grenadier regiment. But what are those guttural +"Hochs" compared with the ringing cheers which were evoked by the +presence of Lord Roberts on the occasion of his last visit to his old +comrades-in-arms of the Indian Army, now confronting those Prussian +Grenadiers on the line of the Yser? When Lord Roberts was made a Peer, +after his march from Cabul to Candahar, he chose as his heraldic +supporters a Gurkha and a Gordon Highlander, who had done so much to help +him on to victory; and it is pretty certain that he would have desired no +more congenial and appropriate manner of death than he has found, at the +age of eighty-two, as an inspiring visitor to the lines of the gallant +troops of all kinds whom he himself had so often led to victory. It has +been said that no man can be called happy until his death, and certainly +no one was ever more felicitous in the manner of his end than the veteran +hero, the blameless "Bayard" of the British Army, who has well been called +one of Ireland's greatest Englishmen. + +Yet his name will continue to serve as an inspiration to the Army which +adored him; and doubtless his last moments were soothed by the thought +that the soldiers whom he so fervently loved had just added to their +laurels by the brave repulse on the Yser of two Brigades, or a Division, +of the boasted Prussian Guards, forming the very flower and kernel of the +Kaiser's army. And news also must have reached the conqueror of Paardeburg +and Pretoria that the German-prompted and German-paid rebellion against +the Union of which he had laid the foundation-stone--not with the trowel +of an architect, but with the sword of a soldier--was collapsing under the +well-directed blows of such an Imperial patriot and statesman as General +Botha, proud to wear the uniform of the hero of Candahar. + +Thus the last hours of our veteran Field-Marshal must have been consoled +with the reflection that, in spite of the fact of all his warnings and his +exhortations having fallen on deaf ears, victory was gilding our arms, as +well as those of our Allies, all round; and that the loss of two of our +cruisers off the coast of Chile had been more than offsetted by the +destruction of the notorious commerce-destroyer Emden in the seas of +Sumatra and the cornering of the equally elusive Koenigsberg among the +palm-trees of an East African lagoon--fit incident for the pages of +Captain Marryat or Mr. George Henty, beloved of the boy-devourers of +stirring adventure books. + +During the last week two rivers have again formed the main scenes of +action in the far-extended theatre of war--one the Yser, in Belgium, where +the advance of the Germans on Calais has been "stone-walled" by the +Allies; and the other on the Vistula, in Poland, where the Russians, by +sheer force of numbers and superior strategy, made very considerate +progress in their march on Berlin; so that, on the whole, the horoscope +remained most favourable to the Allies and the ultimate attainment of +their Common object. + + + + +__________________________________________________________________________ + THE ILLUSTRATED WAR NEWS, NOV. 18, 1914--9 + + +[Illustration: THE VICTORIOUS RUSSIAN CAVALRY IN ACTION: A CHARGE BY THE +GALLANT FORCE WHICH CROSSED THE CARPATHIANS INTO HUNGARY.] + +In the recent victorious operations of the Russian Army the cavalry have +taken a conspicuous part. The Headquarters announcement from Petrograd of +November 10 said: "To the east of Neidenburg near the station of Muschaken +(in East Prussia, about two miles from the frontier), Russian cavalry +defeated a German detachment which was guarding the railway, captured +transport, and blew up two bridges over the railway. On the 8th inst. our +cavalry forced one of the enemy's cavalry divisions, which was supported +by a battalion of rifles, to retreat towards Kalisz (near the border of +German Poland)." The above drawing shows an engagement in Hungary between +an Austro-Hungarian force and a body of Russian cavalry who had crossed +the Carpathians from Galicia. + + + + +__________________________________________________________________________ +10--THE ILLUSTRATED WAR NEWS, NOV. 18, 1914. + + +[Illustration: IN CAPTURED DIXMUDE: THE CHURCH OF ST. JEAN AFTER +BOMBARDMENT.] + +[Illustration: WRECKED BY GERMAN SHELL-FIRE: THE CHURCH OF ST. JEAN, +DIXMUDE.] + +Dixmude, after a comparative lull since it was first bombarded by the +Germans, recently became once more the objective of a fierce attack and +fell into the enemy's hands. The afternoon communique issued in Paris on +November 11 said: "At the end of the day (i.e., the 10th) the Germans had +succeeded in taking possession of Dixmude. We are still holding on to the +outskirts of this village, on the canal from Nieuport to Ypres, which has +been strongly occupied. The struggle has been very fierce at these +points." The late French communique issued the same night said: "The enemy +throughout the day continued his effort of yesterday without achieving any +fresh results.... He made vain attempts to debouch from Dixmude on the +left bank of the Yser."--[Photo. by Newspaper Illustrations.] + + + + +__________________________________________________________________________ + THE ILLUSTRATED WAR NEWS, NOV. 18, 1914--11 + + +[Illustration: THE LITTLE BELGIAN TOWN TAKEN BY THE GERMANS AFTER THREE +WEEKS: DIXMUDE--THE HOTEL DE VILLE AND CHURCH TOWER.] + +Although the Germans undoubtedly scored a slight success by their +occupation of Dixmude, they did so at enormous cost. It was reported from +Amsterdam on the 11th that 4000 Germans severely wounded in the fighting +round Dixmude had reached Liege. Dixmude was for three weeks gallantly +defended by French Marines. The town is now little more than a heap of +ruins. As our photographs show, the fine old church of St. Jean has been +almost completely wrecked, and the Hotel de Ville has suffered great +damage. It has been pointed out that the military value of Dixmude to the +Germans is not very great, as it does not form part of the Allies' +defensive line, but was held as a bridge-head on the east bank of the +Yser.--[Photo. by Newspaper Illustrations.] + + + + +__________________________________________________________________________ +12--THE ILLUSTRATED WAR NEWS, NOV. 18, 1914. + + +[Illustration: AFTER BOMBARDMENT BY "AN INFURIATED GERMAN ARMY CORPS": +THE RUINS OF THE MAIN STREET OF DIXMUDE.] + +Dixmude, on the Yser, suffered terribly during the earlier stages of the +great battle in West Flanders. It was stated on October 27 that French +Marines holding the town had withstood a continuous attack lasting forty +hours, at the end of which the place was in ruins. Mr. E. Ashmead +Bartlett, who visited Dixmude on October 21, wrote (in the "Telegraph"): +"The town is not very big, and what it looked like before the bombardment +I cannot say.... An infuriated German army corps were concentrating the +fire of all the field guns and heavy howitzers on it at the same time. +There was not an inch that was not being swept by shells. There was not a +house, as far as I could see, which had escaped destruction."--[Photo. by +Newspaper Illustrations.] + + + + +__________________________________________________________________________ + THE ILLUSTRATED WAR NEWS, NOV. 18, 1914--13 + + +[Illustration: WRECKED IN THE MODERN, AND GREATER, BATTLE OF THE DUNES: +IN THE RUINS OF THE FIFTEENTH-CENTURY CHURCH AT NIEUPORT.] + +Some idea of the destruction wrought by German shells in Nieuport may be +gathered from this photograph of the interior of the church, another +example of the fact, pointed out under a drawing on another page, that the +German gunners do not respect the House of God. The church at Nieuport, +which dated from the fifteenth century, was restored in 1903, and its +massive baroque tower, visible from afar, could be easily avoided by +artillerymen capable of accurate aim and desirous of sparing a sacred +building. Nieuport has at least twice before in history been the scene of +conflict. In 1489 it made a stubborn resistance to an attack by the +French, and near it, in July 1660, was fought the Battle of the Dunes +between the Dutch and the Spaniards.--[Photo. by Newspaper Illustrations.] + + + + +__________________________________________________________________________ +14--THE ILLUSTRATED WAR NEWS, NOV. 18, 1914. + + +[Illustration: BURSTING SHRAPNEL MARKING THE GERMAN "DOVE'S" TRACK: +SHELLING A TAUBE.] + +The bursting shrapnel marking the line of flight of that dread "steel +dove," the Taube, comes from a new kind of anti-aircraft gun at the front. +This weapon, generally used to fire a stream of shrapnel, also fires +shells containing a composition for setting aircraft on fire, and its +range-finder marks both the height of an aeroplane and its speed.--[Drawn +by A. Forestier from a Sketch by H.C. Seppings Wright.] + + +[Illustration: BIPLANE FIGHTS BIPLANE: THE FATE OF A VANQUISHED GERMAN +"AVIATIK."] + +We see here the finale of a fierce air-fight near Rheims. A German +"Aviatik" biplane passed overhead and a French biplane with a machine-gun +went at it, There was a hot contest until suddenly a French shot +struck the "Aviatik's" motor. Taking fire instantly, the German craft +fell blazing to the ground, where it burned to a cinder with its +airmen.--[Drawn by Georges Scott from an Eye Witness's Sketch.] + + + + +__________________________________________________________________________ + THE ILLUSTRATED WAR NEWS, NOV. 18, 1914--15 + + +[Illustration: "MISSING AND WOUNDED," AT BRUGES: STRICKEN BELGIANS IN +CHARGE OF GERMAN RED CROSS MEN.] + +The German base hospital for the troops in the coast battles and at Ypres +was stationed at Bruges when our photograph was taken. The illustration +shows two wounded Belgians--one who has just been lifted out from an +ambulance-wagon is on a stretcher; the other stands, a grimly picturesque, +overcoated and "hooded" figure, in the centre. Among the group of soldiers +are sailor-garbed men of the Marine brigade, brought to Flanders to aid +in garrisoning Antwerp and hold the coast batteries near Ostend and +Zeebruggen. For the time being the entire city of Bruges, it is stated, +has been converted into one immense hospital owing to the crowds of German +wounded almost hourly arriving there, while trains with wounded soldiers +are continually leaving for Germany.--[Photo. by Record Press.] + + + + +__________________________________________________________________________ +16--THE ILLUSTRATED WAR NEWS, NOV. 18, 1914. + + +[Illustration: NOT EVEN THE DEAD LEFT IN PEACE! GERMAN SHELLS UNEARTH +GRAVES AND SCATTER THEIR CONTENTS IN A VILLAGE CHURCHYARD.] + +In our last issue we gave a photograph of a Galician town bombarded by the +Russians, proving that they carefully avoid the destruction of churches. +The German gunners, on the contrary, show no respect for the House of God, +although their Emperor so often claims Divine approval. The havoc wrought +by German shells in French and Belgian churches and cathedrals stands +recorded in countless photographs and other illustrations, to form a +permanent Indictment of Germany's methods of warfare that will make her +name execrated by posterity. In the present instance not only the church +itself was destroyed, but the very graves were torn open, and the +bodies and bones of the desecrated dead flung from their places of +rest--[Facsimile Drawing by H.C. Seppings Weight Special War Artist.] + + + + +__________________________________________________________________________ + THE ILLUSTRATED WAR NEWS, NOV. 18, 1914--17 + + +[Illustration: A GERMAN SAW-EDGE BAYONET IN ACTUAL USE IN THE WAR: WHEN +THE GERMAN FLAG WAS PLANTED ON A CAPTURED POSITION.] + +It has been pointed out by a Naval correspondent that the German bayonet +of which one edge is a saw is not really quite the barbarous weapon it +seems, but is similiar to that carried by pioneers in British naval +landing-parties, for use in sawing wood. The toothed edge, he mentions, is +so far from the point that only by the rarest chance could it enter the +body of an enemy. It would be interesting to know whether the two bayonets +British and German--are exactly similar. Another account of the German +weapon states that the saw-edge begins only six inches from the point, +quite near enough thereto, one would imagine, to "enter the body of an +enemy." Inset is an enlargement of the German saw-bayonet--[Photo. by +L.N.A.] + + + + +__________________________________________________________________________ +18--THE ILLUSTRATED WAR NEWS, NOV. 18, 1914. + + +[Illustration: WHERE FRENCH SAILORS FOUGHT AT DIXMUDE: NAVAL-BRIGADE +DEFENCES.] + +[Illustration: WHERE FRENCH SAILORS FOUGHT AT DIXMUDE: THE NAVAL +DEFENCES--FRONT VIEW.] + +Dixmude, the name of which little West Flanders town on the Yser all the +world knows now, after being heroically defended against persistent +night-and-day attacks and bombardments at all hours, was taken by the +reinforced Germans after a forty-hours renewed attack on November 11. The +defenders, however, held out in the outskirts of the town, and could not +be dislodged. The post is not part of the Allied main line, but rather of +value as a bridge-head over the river. The French naval officer who sent +the photographs shown above was one of the defenders until he had to +withdraw wounded. When he was there Dixmude had been defended by 6000 +French sailors, reinforced at the end of October by 1500 Algerian +soldiers. + + + + +__________________________________________________________________________ + THE ILLUSTRATED WAR NEWS, NOV. 18, 1914--19 + + +[Illustration: THE COWHERDS OF WAR: ARMED GERMAN MARINES ROUNDING UP +CATTLE FOR FOOD FOR THE ARMY IN THE FIELD.] + +One of War's "little ironies" finds illustration in our photograph. A +great conflict such as that now being waged is full of contrasts: grins, +pathetic, sometimes not without a suggestion of humour. That the German +Marine should be told off in a pretty rural district to round up cattle +for food for the German troops is a case in point. The sleek and shapely +kine which these sturdy fellows are commandeering plod peacefully along in +happy ignorance of the fact that they are prisoners of war being led to +their doom by an armed guard. If it were not for the significance of the +weapons borne by the Marines, the scene would be as purely pastoral +as that immortalised by Gray. It suggests the "lowing herd"--with a +difference.--[Photo. by Photopress.] + + + + +__________________________________________________________________________ +20--THE ILLUSTRATED WAR NEWS, NOV. 18, 1914. + + +[Illustration: THE ATTACK ON THE "PEGASUS" BY THE "KOeNIGSBERG" (NOW +"IMPRISONED"): TRANSHIPPING WOUNDED TO THE HOSPITAL-SHIP "GASCON."] + +The "Pegasus," an old and small cruiser, was attacked and disabled by the +German cruiser "Koenigsberg" (recently trapped by the "Chatham" in an East +African river), a modern ship of larger size and much heavier metal, at +daybreak on September 20, while anchored in Zanzibar harbour to clean +boilers. The "Koenigsberg" stole up during the night, sheltered behind an +island off the shore and, easily outranging the guns of the "Pegasus," +shelled her helpless opponent. After that the German ship drew off, +leaving the "Pegasus" in a sinking condition and with 26 men killed and 53 +wounded. Our photograph, which has just been received here, shows the +"Pegasus'" wounded being transhipped to the Union Castle liner "Gascon," +serving as a hospital-ship to take the injured to the Cape. + + + + +__________________________________________________________________________ + THE ILLUSTRATED WAR NEWS, NOV. 18, 1914--21 + + +[Illustration: THE DUEL OF THE ARMED LINERS: THE SHATTERED BRIDGE OF THE +"CARMANIA" AFTER HER VICTORY OVER THE "CAP TRAFALGAR."] + +The armed liner "Carmania," in her hour and a-half's fight of September 14 +with the German armed liner "Cap Trafalgar," was hit by 73 of her +opponent's shells, the splinters making, it is stated, some 380 holes all +over the vessel. Offering so large a target to gun-fire as did the +"Carmania"--a ship of great length, standing 60 feet out of the water--she +was saved from suffering more damage by the seamanship of Captain +Noel Grant, R.N., her Captain, who kept her end-on to the enemy. +Our photograph of the navigating bridge of the "Carmania," with the +engine-room telegraphs wrecked and fragments of metal strewn about, will +give an idea of what those on board went through. It has just reached this +country.--[Photo. by Farringdon Co.] + + + + +__________________________________________________________________________ +22--THE ILLUSTRATED WAR NEWS, NOV. 18, 1914. + + +[Illustration: THE GERMAN SCIENCE OF ARSON: INCENDIARY DISKS CARRIED BY +THE KAISER'S SOLDIERS--A SPECIMEN BEFORE AND DURING IGNITION.] + +It is clear that the German incendiary outrages in Belgium and France were +premeditated, and German scientists devised special apparatus for setting +fire to buildings. Our informant, who bought some incendiary disks from a +German soldier near Antwerp, states that every man carries twenty bags, +each containing about 300 disks. Mr. Bertram Blount, the analyst, found +the disks consist of nitro-cellulose, or gun-cotton. They may be lit, even +when wet, with a match or cigarette-end, and burn for eleven or twelve +seconds, emitting a strong five-inch flame, and entirely consuming +themselves. The Germans throw them alight into houses. The photographs +show (1) a bag of disks as supplied to German soldiers; (2) a disk +burning; and (3) a disk, actual size, before being used. + + + + +__________________________________________________________________________ + THE ILLUSTRATED WAR NEWS, NOV. 18, 1914--23 + + +[Illustration: "BLACK MARIA'S" LITTLE BROTHER: ONE OF THE GERMAN +15-CENTIMETRE HEAVY POSITION-GUNS IN THE ACT OF FIRING.] + +The German heavy "batteries of position" are for the most part armed-with +the 15 cm., or 6-inch howitzer, throwing a shell of 90 lb. with an +approximate range of 6650 yards. The howitzer type of mobile heavy gun is +much favoured for defensive work in both the German and the Austrian +armies. The howitzer is capable of elevation up to 65 deg., the idea of +this high elevation being, it is stated, to obtain a steep angle of +descent for the shells at comparatively short ranges, in combination with +a high remaining velocity so as to ensure the penetration of overhead +cover. These howitzers are also employed in siege and fortress defence +warfare. They have been used along the Aisne positions as auxiliaries to +the giant Krupp siege-howitzers. + + + + +__________________________________________________________________________ +24--THE ILLUSTRATED WAR NEWS, NOV. 18, 1914. + + +[Illustration: CHARGING ON FOOT WITH THE LANCE: BENGAL LANCERS ATTACK +GERMAN TRENCHES.--From the Painting by R. Caton Woodville. (left half)] + +Cavalry engaged in the Belgian frontier battles are fighting in +all sorts of ways: repeatedly, for example, as infantrymen in the +trenches. On occasion, also, they have even charged on foot, with +bayonet or with their lances. The Life Guards, according to a letter +from the front, charged the German trenches the other day with +bayonets. A squadron of French dragoons dismounted and crept through a +wood on foot, surprising a German infantry company and overpowering +them in close-quarter fight with lances and clubbed carbines. With + + + + +__________________________________________________________________________ + THE ILLUSTRATED WAR NEWS, NOV. 18, 1914--25 + + +[Illustration: CHARGING ON FOOT WITH THE LANCE: BENGAL LANCERS ATTACK +GERMAN TRENCHES.--From the Painting by R. Caton Woodville. (right half)] + +lances, also, as our illustration shows, some of our Bengal cavalry, in +action on foot, on October 24, at Ramscapelle, near the Yser, recaptured +the village from the Germans. Dismounting near by, they charged the enemy +lance in hand, driving him from his trenches. Following up their success, +they then forced their way into the village, smashing in doors and windows +and storming house after house in spite of fierce resistance until, +assisted by other troops, they forced the enemy out, capturing guns and +many prisoners. The action was particularly notable. + + + + +__________________________________________________________________________ +26--THE ILLUSTRATED WAR NEWS, NOV. 18, 1914. + + +[Illustration: FOR GALLANTRY ON THE FIELD OF HONOUR: A FRENCH OFFICER +RECEIVES THE ACCOLADE.] + +[Illustration: THE MUCH-DISCUSSED IRON CROSS: A GERMAN OFFICER +DECORATED] + +"Who gives quickly gives twice." That paraphrase of one of Napoleon's war +maxims in regard to the conferring of distinctions won in battle as +speedily as possible after the event, has been adopted by the nations +engaged in the world-war. Recommendations for the "V.C." have been +announced as having been laid before our authorities, many grants of the +"D.S.O." and "D.C.M." have already been garetted; and our French Allies +have awarded the Legion of Honour to several officers and men. Our first +photograph shows a French General publicly bestowing the accolade on a +newly made Chevalier of the Legion of Honour. Our second shows a German +Commander adorning a German officer with one of the innumerable Iron +Crosses the Kaiser is sending round.--[Photos. by Alfieri.] + + + + +__________________________________________________________________________ + THE ILLUSTRATED WAR NEWS, NOV. 18, 1914--27 + + +[Illustration: A HOLLOW SQUARE OF WRECKAGE: THE REMAINS OF A GERMAN +MOTOR-TRANSPORT CONVOY GROUPED ROUND THE SOLDIERS' GRAVE.] + +There is something gruesomely appropriate in this photograph of the +wreckage of a destroyed German motor-transport wagon train, or convoy, +grouped in a sort of hollow square about the graves of the officers and +men involved in the destruction of their charge. The place is in the +Argonne district, the tract of rough country, between the sources of +the Aisne and the Meuse, through which the high road from Paris to +Verdun passes. How catastrophe befell this particular German convoy we +can guess. More than one of the enemy's transport trains, moving in +this part of the country, are recorded to have fallen victims to +long-range bombardments by the French artillery as the result of aeroplane +reconnoitring activity--[Photo. by Alfieri.] + + + + +__________________________________________________________________________ +28--THE ILLUSTRATED WAR NEWS, NOV. 18, 1914. + + +[Illustration: TELLING THE TALE IN GERMANY!--PRINCE EITEL FRITZ AS A +DRUMMER.] + +Like his father and brothers, Prince Eitel Fritz, the Kaiser's second son, +has received the Iron Cross. It has not been made known over here how the +Prince won it. Our illustration, reproducing a picture from a German +paper, may solve the difficulty. Says the legend: "The Prince seized the +drum of a fallen soldier and led his troops, beating the charge." + +[Illustration: TELLING THE TALE IN GERMANY!--SEARCHING FOR THE BRITISH +FLEET.] + +One of the curious fictions about England now going round in Germany is +one that Sir John Jellicoe's fleet keeps in hiding lest it should meet the +German fleet. German war-ships, indeed, scour the North Sea at all hours +to give the Grand Fleet battle! Our illustration, from a serious painting +published in a German paper, shows them at it. + + + + +__________________________________________________________________________ + THE ILLUSTRATED WAR NEWS, NOV. 18, 1914--29 + + +[Illustration: TELLING THE TALE IN GERMANY!--A GERMAN BATTLE-PICTURE +SHOWING PRINCE HEINRICH OF BAVARIA LEADING A CAVALRY ASSAULT.] + +Early in the war, the Kaiser commissioned various painters to produce +battle-pictures of German prowess. The royal house of Bavaria has +apparently followed suit. More recently the Kaiser expressed a wish that +the British might meet the Bavarians "just once" and his wish was +gratified. In depicting a Bavarian cavalry fight with French dragoons, the +Bavarian artist naturally represents the enemy as going down like +nine-pins. Prince Heinrich, who figures in the drawing, is the only son of +the late Prince Francis Joseph of Bavaria, first cousin of Prince +Rupprecht, the Bavarian Crown Prince, who recently exhorted his troops to +conquer "our most hated foe." He also highly extolled the Bavarian +cavalry, who, he said, have fought "with the greatest fearlessness and +extraordinary dash." + + + + +__________________________________________________________________________ +30--THE ILLUSTRATED WAR NEWS, NOV. 18, 1914. + + +[Illustration: GERMANY'S EASTERN STRONGHOLD WHICH SUFFERED THE FATE OF +LIEGE AND ANTWERP: MEN OF THE GERMAN GARRISON AT TSING-TAU.] + +It is said that the German garrison at Tsing-tau, which surrendered to the +Japanese and British on November 7, included five battalions of infantry, +fire battalions of marine artillery, one battalion of mechanics, and about +2500 reservists. After the surrender of the garrison a number of German +soldiers are said to have escaped in native boats, but were recaptured. +The defences were under naval control. Tsing-tau was strongly fortified +and had about 600 Krupp guns of various calibre. The photographs show men +of the Third Sea Battalion. (1) On the march in Tsing-tau; (2) and +(3) Entrenched with a machine-gun. Our correspondent states that the +photographs were taken since the siege began; otherwise the dark band +round the helmet-covers might be taken for a manoeuvres badge. + + + + +__________________________________________________________________________ + THE ILLUSTRATED WAR NEWS, NOV. 18, 1914--31 + + +[Illustration: SOME OF THE 2500 GERMANS CAPTURED AT TSING-TAU: MEN OF +THE THIRD SEA BATTALION WITH A MACHINE-GUN DURING THE SIEGE.] + +At midnight on November 6--seven hours before the German garrison of +Tsing-tau surrendered, the central fort was captured by the Japanese, who +took 200 prisoners. The Germans had made great efforts to repair their +batteries, but the shell-fire from the Japanese guns was too heavy. After +the central fort had fallen the Japanese captured at the point of the +bayonet other forts and the strong field-works connecting them. It +was stated that some 2300 German prisoners were taken when Tsing-tau +surrendered. The German garrison, it is said, included four companies of +seaman gunners, an equal force of Marines, some cavalry and field gunners, +and a company of sappers. Probably the garrison increased after the war +began, as Germans from all parts of China gathered at Tsing-tau for +protection. + + + + +__________________________________________________________________________ +32--THE ILLUSTRATED WAR NEWS, NOV. 18, 1914. + + +[Illustration: A ZEPPELIN BROUGHT DOWN: REMAINS OF ONE OF THE +MUCH-DISCUSSED GERMAN AIR-SHIPS HIT AND DESTROYED NEAR BELFORT.] + +Considering the amount of discussion--not to say, in some quarters, +apprehension--to which the Zeppelins have given rise, singularly little +has been heard of them so far during the war, and, apart from the Antwerp +exploits, they have done practically no damage. On the other hand, several +have been destroyed: the number has been variously estimated from two to +six. One, said to be the "LZ10," was brought down in October at +Grandvilliers, ten miles from Belfort. Our photographs show: (1) debris of +the shattered framework; and (2) wreckage of the cars. Another Zeppelin +was destroyed in October by the fire of Russian batteries near Warsaw, and +its broken remains were taken to Petrograd to be examined. The British +air-raid on Duesseldorf also accounted for one or possibly two. + + + + +__________________________________________________________________________ + THE ILLUSTRATED WAR NEWS, NOV. 18, 1914--33 + + +[Illustration: BRITISH SOLDIERS AS CAVE-DWELLERS: THE UNDERGROUND, +SHELL-PROOF QUARTERS OF "A CERTAIN HIGHLAND REGIMENT" AT THE FRONT.] + +The ground occupied by the British troops on the banks of the Aisne +consisted, in many places, of steep hill-sides or cliffs penetrated like a +rabbit-warren with the workings of old stone-quarries. The officer who +sends us the above interesting sketch writes: "This cave afforded shelter +both from rain and 'Jack Johnsons' for several weeks to ----, a certain +Highland regiment. The cave consisted of three long passages capable of +holding a whole battalion. It had two entrances, one of which is shown in +the sketch. It was dark and dirty, but with plenty of straw on the ground +it made a fairly comfortable refuge. The sketch shows the part of the cave +occupied by the officers and headquarters."--[Facsimile Sketch by a +British Officer.] + + + + +__________________________________________________________________________ +34--THE ILLUSTRATED WAR NEWS, NOV. 18, 1914. + + +[Illustration: MEN OF "THE GALLANT ARMY AND NAVY OF JAPAN" WHO CAPTURED +TSING-TAU: JAPANESE TROOPS LANDING IN LAO-SHAN BAY.] + +After the fall of Tsing-tau on November 7 the Admiralty cabled to the +Japanese Minister of Marine: "The Board of Admiralty send their heartiest +congratulations to the gallant Army and Navy of Japan on the prosperous +and brilliant issue of the operations which have resulted in the fall of +Tsing-tau." The Japanese began the blockade on August 27, occupying some +neighbouring islands as a base. Mine-sweeping was the first task, and +then, on September 18, the Japanese troops landed safely at Lao-shan Bay. +They fought with great valour and suffered considerable losses. Their +casualties up to November 6 were given as 200 killed and 878 wounded. In +the final assault they had 14 officers wounded and 426 men killed and +wounded. The number of Germans captured was 2300.--[Photo. by C.N.] + + + + +__________________________________________________________________________ + THE ILLUSTRATED WAR NEWS, NOV. 18, 1914--35 + + +[Illustration: WATCHED WITH INTEREST BY THEIR "GALLANT JAPANESE +COMRADES": BRITISH TROOPS LANDED TO CO-OPERATE AGAINST TSING-TAU.] + +In his telegram to the Japanese Minister of War after the capture of +Tsing-tau, Lord Kitchener said: "Please accept my warmest congratulations +on the success of the operations against Tsing-tau. Will you be so kind as +to express my felicitations to the Japanese forces engaged? The British +Army is proud to have been associated with its gallant Japanese comrades +in this enterprise." The British force, under Brigadier-General N. +Barnardiston, Commanding the Forces in North China, landed in Lao-shan Bay +on September 24. Some Indian troops also took part in the fighting. The +Emperor of Japan sent a message to the British force saying that he +"deeply appreciates the brilliant deeds of the British Army and Navy +co-operating with the Japanese."--[Photo. by C.N.] + + + + +__________________________________________________________________________ +36--THE ILLUSTRATED WAR NEWS, NOV. 18, 1914. + + +[Illustration: THE CHIEF GERMAN COMMERCE-RAIDER DESTROYED: WHERE THE +"EMDEN" MET HER FATE; THE CRUISER; AND HER CAPTAIN.] + +Our first photograph shows where the "Emden" met her fate after landing a +party to destroy the wireless station, the pole of which is seen to the +left centre of the photograph. The Cocos group are a British possession, +and lie in the Indian Ocean, south-west of Sumatra. Our second photograph +shows the "Emden," whose depredations have cost nearly two and a quarter +millions sterling. She was a light cruiser of 3350 tons and 25 knots +speed, carrying ten 41-inch guns. Captain Karl von Mueller, the "Emden's" +Captain, who carried out his enterprises with a fine spirit of chivalry +and daring which we acknowledge, was a native of Blankenburg, in +Brunswick, and was formerly a captain in the Hansa Line. He is a prisoner, +unwounded, and keeps his sword. + + + + +__________________________________________________________________________ + THE ILLUSTRATED WAR NEWS, NOV. 18, 1914--37 + + +[Illustration: THE DESTRUCTION OF THE "EMDEN" AND THE BOTTLING-UP OF THE +"KOeNIGSBERG": H.M.A.S. "SYDNEY" AND H.M.S. "CHATHAM."] + +H.M.S. "Sydney" (No. 1) caught the commerce-raiding "Emden" at Keeling +Cocos Island and forced a sharp action upon her, with the result that the +German ship was driven ashore and burnt. The "Chatham" (No. 2) found the +"Koenigsberg," the ship, it will be recalled, which attacked the "Pegasus," +hiding in shoal water up the Rufigi River, German East Africa, with part +of her crew entrenched on the banks. Unable to get at her, she bottled up +the "Koenigsberg" by sinking colliers in the only navigable channel. The +"Sydney" is a light cruiser of 5600 tons, launched, as was the "Chatham," +in 1911. The "Chatham" was practically a sister ship of the "Sydney," but +rather smaller, displacing 5400 tons, The "Emden" was of 3650 tons; the +"Koenigsberg" displaced 3400 tons.--[Photos. by Symonds.] + + + + +__________________________________________________________________________ +38--THE ILLUSTRATED WAR NEWS, NOV. 18, 1914. + + +[Illustration: THE GERMAN TRENCH-MORTAR JUST INTRODUCED TO THE BRITISH: +A WEAPON WHICH THROWS A 187-LB. MINE-SHELL.] + +"In this quarter," says Eye-Witness of the fighting near Ypres on October +29, "we experienced ... the action of the 'minenwerfer,' or trench-mortar. +This piece, though light enough to be wheeled by two men, throws a shell +weighing 187 lbs. The spherical shell has a loose stem which is loaded +into the bore and drops out in flight. It ranges about 350 yards at 45 +deg. elevation. The shell is a thin-walled mine-shell containing a large +charge and is intended to act with explosive effect, not splinter-effect." +The diagram on the left shows one of the shells and its stem in their most +up-to-date form; in the centre is the trench-mortar (its wheels off) with +a shell in place; below this are three shells without their stems; on the +right is a shell and its stem. + + + + +__________________________________________________________________________ + THE ILLUSTRATED WAR NEWS, NOV. 18, 1914--39 + + +[Illustration: WHERE ANTI-AIRCRAFT GUNS ARE NOT: GERMAN MACHINE-GUNS, ON +TEMPORARY MOUNTINGS, FOR USE AGAINST WAR-PLANES.] + +The Germans, according to paragraphs from their newspapers reprinted here, +sneer at the way London is guarding against hostile aircraft by mounting +quick-firing guns and searchlights and putting out many street lamps. They +are doing much the same themselves, however, in the cities nearest their +western frontier. At Cologne, ever since August, there has been constant +nervousness as to possible air-raids, and searchlights from elevated +points in the city have swept the sky nightly, and machine-guns have been +set up on tall buildings. At Duesseldorf when our airmen destroyed a +Zeppelin, the aviators were fired at by machine-guns from all over the +city. Our illustration shows German machine-guns in temporary use as +anti-aircraft guns.--[Photo. by Photopress.] + + + + +__________________________________________________________________________ +40--THE ILLUSTRATED WAR NEWS, NOV. 18, 1914. + + +[Illustration: FRENCH COLONIAL TROOPS WHOSE DARK COMPLEXIONS MAKE THEM +"INVISIBLE" IN NIGHT ATTACKS! SENEGALESE ON THE DEFENSIVE AT PERVYSE.] + +Among the French Colonial troops, the Senegalese have done excellent work, +both on the Aisne and, more recently, in Belgium. Our photograph was taken +near Pervyse, a village on the railway between Dixmunde and Nieuport, +which has been the scene of many fierce encounters. In the Battle of the +Aisne, when much night fighting took place, the Senegalese, it was +reported, whose dark complexions rendered their faces less visible, proved +very useful, and showed extraordinary daring. A favourite ruse was to send +them forward at night, and when they had crawled near to the German lines, +to turn powerful searchlights on the enemy, who, blinded by the glare, +could not see whence the attack came. The Senegalese would then charge +with the bayonet--[Photo. by Newspaper Illustrations.] + + + + +__________________________________________________________________________ + THE ILLUSTRATED WAR NEWS, NOV. 18, 1914--41 + + +[Illustration: MARTIAL LAW IN EGYPT: EXAMINING PASSPORTS AT PORT SAID +SINCE TURKEY FORMALLY DECLARED WAR.] + +Martial Law was officially proclaimed by the British authorities in Egypt +on November 2, as the first and immediate result of the outbreak +of hostilities with Turkey. For some time before that, however, the +authorities had been taking precautionary measures in consequence of the +ubiquity and restless activity of the horde of German secret agents and +spies known to be busily at work, seeking to spread sedition and +disaffection among the natives. To prevent the transmission of military +and other intelligence to Constantinople by their emissaries, severe +restrictions have had to be imposed along the land-frontiers and in +particular at ports such as Alexandria, Port Said and Suez on all persons +entering or leaving the country. All passports and credentials are +subjected to a close scrutiny.--[Photo. by C.N.] + + + + +__________________________________________________________________________ +42--THE ILLUSTRATED WAR NEWS, NOV. 18, 1914. + + +[Illustration: KING ALBERT'S FETE-DAY: THE ROYAL BELGIAN CHILDREN AT +WESTMINSTER CATHEDRAL FOR THE SOLEMN MASS.] + +On Sunday, November 15, that brave soldier Albert King of the Belgians was +thirty-nine, and a solemn Mass was celebrated at Westminster Cathedral. +Cardinal Bourne assisted at the service, and the ceremonial was of a most +impressive and ornate character, gorgeous vestments, beautiful music, and +the gleam of many lights combining to make a tout ensemble that suggested +some great occasion of national thanksgiving, as, indeed, it was. +Scarlet and green were the brilliant colour-notes of the function. The +celebrant of the Mass was Mgr. Canon Moyes, other dignitaries taking part +in the service. Amongst the congregation were the children of the +King of the Belgians--Prince Leopold, Duc de Brabant; Prince Charles, +Comte de Flandre; and Princess Marie-Jose, of all of whom we give +portraits.--[Photo. by C.N.] + + + + +__________________________________________________________________________ + THE ILLUSTRATED WAR NEWS, NOV. 18, 1914--43 + + +[Illustration: THE KING AS GIVER OF WAR-MASCOTS: THE GOAT PRESENTED BY +HIS MAJESTY TO THE 7TH ROYAL WELSH FUSILIERS.] + +The King recently presented the white goat shown in the above photograph +to the 7th Battalion (Reserve) Royal Welsh Fusiliers, who, since they were +raised, have been in training at Newtown, Montgomeryshire. The Welsh +Fusiliers have always had a white goat as a mascot, drawn from the famous +herd of Cashmere goats which also supplied the King's gift. The animal +given by his Majesty to the new battalion was taken from Windsor to +Newtown under escort, and was received at the station by two men of the +7th Royal Welsh Fusiliers, who stood with fixed bayonets. On the left in +the photograph are Lady Magdalen Herbert, sister of the Earl of Powis, and +the Earl's young daughter, Lady Hermione Herbert. On the right are +Captains J.H. Addie and Oswald Davies.--[Photo. by Griffiths.] + + + + +__________________________________________________________________________ +44--THE ILLUSTRATED WAR NEWS, NOV. 18, 1914. + + +[Illustration: "SIX GERMAN SHELLS TO EVERY FRENCH SOLDIER"--SHRAPNEL AND +HIGH-EXPLOSIVE BOMBS BURSTING IN THE OPEN: A PANORAMIC PHOTOGRAPH TAKEN +DURING A BATTLE IN THE ARGONNE. (left half)] + +Nothing could give a better idea of shell-fire than the remarkable +photograph here reproduced. It is a panoramic view of a German artillery +bombardment of advancing infantry, and was taken in three sections, well +within a hundred and fifty yards of some of the bursting shells. The +locality of the battle is in the Argonne country between the Upper +Aisne and the Meuse, where the French are having continuous and stiff +fighting. Men of the French infantry keeping under cover in one of their +advanced trenches are seen in the left foreground of the picture. The +object of the actual fighting on the occasion was to keep apart +the Third German army as it fell back towards prepared positions +near the Meuse and a force of reinforcing troops coming up from the +direction of Metz. "To impede the persistent advance of our ---- corps." + + + + +__________________________________________________________________________ + THE ILLUSTRATED WAR NEWS, NOV. 18, 1914--45 + + +[Illustration: "SIX GERMAN SHELLS TO EVERY FRENCH SOLDIER"--SHRAPNEL AND +HIGH-EXPLOSIVE BOMBS BURSTING IN THE OPEN: A PANORAMIC PHOTOGRAPH TAKEN +DURING A BATTLE IN THE ARGONNE. (right half)] + +writes a French correspondent on the spot, the enemy resisted vigorously +and with his heavy artillery. He treated us to shells with a veritable +prodigality, but without causing us very serious losses. In the forward +movement, led by the ---- infantry regiment, on an important position that +had to be taken, practically every soldier engaged was saluted by six +shells. There was, though, no 'shyness' among our men. They laughed and +joked with one another as they quitted the trenches to move forward over +the open. By the evening the enemy's position had been taken." Both +ordinary shrapnel and high-explosive 15-c.m. shells from the German heavy +position-batteries of howitzers, which weapons the Germans prefer for such +work, although they also use guns of the same calibre, are seen bursting +in front of the French troops. + + + + +__________________________________________________________________________ +46--THE ILLUSTRATED WAR NEWS, NOV. 18, 1914. + + +[Illustration: HOME AFTER A GERMAN VISITATION: A ROOM IN A HOUSE AT +NIEUPORT AFTER A SHELL HAD BURST.] + +Nieuport has been badly damaged by the German bombardment, and it is said +that half the houses in it appear to have been struck by shells, yet that +it has not been so utterly ruined as some of the surrounding villages. The +worst loss as regards buildings at Nieuport has been the destruction of +the church, which, as many photographs show well, has been almost +completely demolished. It was a fine specimen of one of the few stone +churches found in that part of the country, with twelfth-century Gothic +windows. The walls and pillars stand bare, the roof has gone, and half the +tower, whose bells lie buried on the ground amid the wreckage. Desultory +fighting continued at Nieuport after the main German attack shifted south +to Ypres.--[Photo. by C.N.] + + + + +__________________________________________________________________________ + THE ILLUSTRATED WAR NEWS, NOV. 18, 1914--47 + + +[Illustration: WHAT IT MEANS TO VILLAGERS TO HAVE GERMANS BILLETED UPON +THEM: MOTOR-CORPS OFFICERS ASLEEP IN A COTTAGE.] + +The inhabitants of those parts of France and Belgium which are still +groaning under the German incubus are greatly to be pitied. Beyond the +terrible agony inflicted by the invaders upon defenceless populations, in +the form of executions and house-burnings and various forms of outrage, +there is a great mass of less drastic but still intolerable misery to be +borne by those unfortunate householders who are compelled to house and +feed the soldiers of the enemy. Some idea of the nature of the infliction +to which they are subjected can be gathered from such a drawing as that +here reproduced. It shows some officers of the motor-corps of the +Nineteenth German Army Corps asleep in a house upon which they have been +billeted. The drawing is by a German artist. + + + + +__________________________________________________________________________ +48--THE ILLUSTRATED WAR NEWS, NOV. 18, 1914. + + +[Illustration: AT YPRES, WITH THE BRITISH: THE FRENCH NAVAL BRIGADE +CHARGING.] + +Much hard fighting on the Yser and elsewhere in West Flanders has fallen +to the lot of the French bluejackets of the Naval Brigade, a strong force +of whom were brought up from Brest to reinforce the Belgians in their +defensive battles near the coast after the retreat from Antwerp. Attacking +side by side with the British, they retook Ypres on October 13, and after +that held Dixmude for weeks. + + +[Illustration: NEWS FROM THE FRONT: THE KAISER'S BAD QUARTER OF AN +HOUR.] + +"The Kaiser," according to an American who was recently permitted to visit +the Imperial headquarters in a "small city" on the Meuse, is a good deal +altered in his appearance. 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