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diff --git a/18334-8.txt b/18334-8.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..dcebcce --- /dev/null +++ b/18334-8.txt @@ -0,0 +1,1913 @@ +The Project Gutenberg EBook of The Illustrated War News, Number 21, Dec. +30, 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 21, Dec. 30, 1914 + +Author: Various + +Release Date: May 7, 2006 [EBook #18334] + +Language: English + +Character set encoding: ISO-8859-1 + +*** 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 + + + + + + + + + + + +N.B.--REMOVE INSETTED LEAFLET EACH NUMBER THE ILLUSTRATED WAR NEWS. +BEFORE POSTING THIS ISSUE. 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First of all, then, we may now be said to +have completed our conquest of the German Cameroon country by taking +possession of the whole of the railway which runs northward from Bonabari, +and is now in the hands of our troops. A similar fate is reserved, at no +distant date, for German South Africa, against which General Botha--a man +no less brave and dashing as a soldier than sagacious as a statesman--is +preparing to lead a conquering force. Having stamped out the rebellion +within the Union itself--crushing it literally like a beetle--he is now +addressing himself to the task--a harder one, perhaps, but still certain +of achievement--of making an end of the bad neighbourhood of the Germans +in the vast region forming the Hinterland of Lüderitz Bay, which is +already in our possession, and rendering it impossible for them in the +future to intrigue from that quarter against the peace and stability of +the Union. The court-martialling and prompt execution at Pretoria of +the rebel leader, Captain Fourie, shows what the Union Government is +minded to do _pour décourager les autres_. The rebellion was promptly +and energetically suppressed--though not without a Union loss of 334, +including more than 100 deaths; while in German South Africa, the +casualties had also risen to a total of some 370. The rebels had more than +170 killed, over 300 wounded, and 5500 prisoners--which was thus a very +creditable bit of work, as brilliant as it was brief, in the rounding-up +of rebels against the unity of the Empire. + +[Illustration: SPOKESMAN OF FRENCH DETERMINATION: M. VIVIANI, PREMIER OF +FRANCE. + +At the opening of the French Chamber on the 22nd, M. Viviani, the Premier, +expressed the national resolve to continue the war till the cause of the +Allies is won.--[_Photo. Topical._]] + +[Illustration: APPOINTED COMMANDER-IN-CHIEF AT THE NORE: ADMIRAL +CALLAGHAN. + +Admiral Sir George Callaghan was Commander-in-Chief of the Home Fleet from +1911 till the war began. He has since been on the War Staff at the +Admiralty.--[_Photo. Heath._]] + +Quite of a piece with the doing of this job in South Africa was the +disposal of another overt enemy against our authority at the other +extremity of the Dark Continent--in the person of the Khedive, Abbas II., +who has now been replaced by Prince Hussein Kamel Pasha as the nominal +Sultan of Egypt--under our protection and power. No change of the kind was +ever brought about with so much statesmanlike wisdom and such little +friction, or with so much hearty approval from all sides--except, of +course, that of the Turks and their German backers, for whom the change of +regime, effected as it was by a simple stroke of Sir Edward Grey's +masterly pen, was a most painful slap. The exchange of messages between +King George and Prince Hussein--one promising unfailing support, and +the other unfailing allegiance--completed the transaction, one of the +greatest triumphs of British statesmanship, compared with which the recent +statecraft of the Germans is mere amateur bungling. Marshal von der Goltz +Pasha, who has now exchanged his Governorship of Belgium for the position +of chief military counsellor on the Bosphorus, will find it harder than +ever--with his rabble army under Djemal Pasha--to "liberate" from the +British yoke the people of Egypt, who have already shown that they no more +yearn for such emancipation than our loyal fellow-subjects in India. At +Constantinople it was given out that the _Messudiyeh_, sunk by one + +(_Continued overleaf._) + +[Illustration: GERMAN PRAISE OF THE BRITISH SOLDIER: GENERAL VON +HEERINGEN. + +Interviewed recently, General von Heeringen said: "The English first-line +troops are splendid soldiers, experienced and very tough, especially on +the defensive."--[_Photo. Bain._]] + + + + +__________________________________________________________________________ + THE ILLUSTRATED WAR NEWS, DEC. 30, 1914--[Part 21]--3 + + +[Illustration: CHRISTMAS DECORATIONS ON A BRITISH WAR-SHIP: EVERGREENS +FOR THE MASTHEAD.] + +[Illustration: THE COMMANDER-IN-CHIEF OF THE GRAND FLEET AT SEA: ADMIRAL +JELLICOE.] + +Christmas celebrations in the Navy were naturally curtailed this year, but +even in time of war the festival is observed to some extent, under the +limitations caused by the necessity of being ready for immediate action. +That the Navy did not allow Christmas festivities to interfere with duty +is shown by the brilliant air-raid on Cuxhaven on Christmas morning. The +Grand Fleet which keeps its silent watch on the seas, under Admiral +Jellicoe, did not, we may be sure, relax any of its vigilance. One of the +Christmas customs in the Navy is to decorate the mastheads with holly, +mistletoe, or evergreens. The mess-room tables are also decorated, and the +officers walk in procession through the messes, the Captain sampling the +fare.--[_Photos. by Newspaper Illustrations and Alfieri._] + + + + +__________________________________________________________________________ +4--THE ILLUSTRATED WAR NEWS, DEC. 30, 1914.--[Part 21] + + +of our submarines in the Dardanelles, had simply been the victim of a +"leak"; but so serious was this little "rift within the lute" that its +author, Lieut.-Commander Holbrook, R.N., was awarded a V.C. for his +splendid deed of daring--a very different kind of act from the German +bombardment of undefended towns on our East Coast, which caused our First +Lord of the Admiralty to write to the Mayor of Scarborough--and his words +deserve to be here repeated and recorded--that "nothing proves more +plainly the effectiveness of British naval pressure than the frenzy of +hatred aroused against us in the breasts of the enemy.... Their hate is +the measure of their fear.... Whatever feats of arms the German Navy may +hereafter perform, the stigma of the baby-killers of Scarborough will +brand its officers and men while sailors sail the seas." + +[Illustration: A GERMAN ISLAND ADDED TO THE EMPIRE BY THE AUSTRALIAN +FORCES: READING THE BRITISH PROCLAMATION AT RABAUL, NEU POMMERN. + +The Australian Squadron arrived at Herbertshöhe, Neu Pommern, on September +11. After some fighting, the Germans surrendered, and, two days later, the +Union Jack was hoisted at Rabaul, the German capital. The proclamation was +read by Major Francis Heritage (facing Colonel W. Holmes, the central +figure in the photograph). For the benefit of the natives an address was +given in amusing "pidgin" English (see the "Times," November 16). Neu +Pommern (formerly New Britain) is just east of New Guinea.] + +Other attempts at "frightful frightfulness" on the part of these +"baby-killers" were a couple of aeroplane raids--of which the base +was probably Ostend--carried out on Christmas Eve and Christmas Day +respectively--against Dover and Sheerness. It must be owned that they were +decidedly daring, yet in the nature of damp-squib affairs, as it turned +out. In the case of Dover, the bomb dropped was probably intended for the +Castle--a pretty conspicuous target, though all it did was to disturb the +soil of a cabbage-garden, and excite the pursuit of several of our own +air-craft, which lost their seaward-soaring quarry in the fog brooding +over the Channel; while in the case of the Sheerness invader, on Christmas +Day, which made its appearance just as the visitors at Southend over the +water were about to sit down to their turkey and plum-pudding--little +dreaming of the extra dish of enjoyment which was thus to be added to +their menu--it was at once tackled, as at Dover, by some of our own airmen +and pelted with shot, being hit three or four times; though this aerial +intruder also managed, in the mist, to show a clean pair of heels, or +wings, and make off eastward. These were the German replies to our +bomb-dropping raids on Düsseldorf and Friedrichs-hafen, and intended to be +a foretaste of what we may expect in the shape of German "frightfulness" +as prompted by the "insensate hatred" referred to by Mr. Churchill. + +Daring enough in themselves, those German visitations seemed insignificant +by comparison with the raids which were being carried out almost +simultaneously on the other side of the sea by our own naval airmen. For +while the German aeroplanist was helping to dig a cabbage garden at Dover, +one of our Squadron-Commanders--R.B. Davies, R.N.--from a Maurice-Farman +biplane was much more profitably engaged in dropping a dozen bombs +on a Zeppelin shed at Brussels--causing "clouds of smoke" to arise +therefrom--most probably from the flames of the incendiarised air-ship. + + + + +__________________________________________________________________________ + THE ILLUSTRATED WAR NEWS, DEC. 30, 1914--[Part 21]--5 + +[Illustration: THE AIR-RAID ON GERMAN WAR-SHIPS OFF CUXHAVEN: BRITISH +SEA-PLANES, SISTERS TO THOSE WHICH TOOK PART IN THE BRILLIANT EXPLOIT.] + +The sea-planes came into great prominence, for the first time during the +war, on Christmas Day, when seven of them attacked German war-ships lying +in Schillig Roads, off Cuxhaven. The attack started from a point in the +vicinity of Heligoland, and the air-craft were escorted by a light-cruiser +and destroyer force, together with submarines. The enemy put up a fight by +means of two Zeppelins, three or four bomb-dropping sea-planes, and +several submarines. Six out of the seven pilots returned safely--three +were re-embarked by our ships, and three were picked up by British +submarines. Flight-Commander Francis E.T. Hewlett, R.N., was reported +missing. In our first photograph a sea-plane is being conveyed to her +parent ship; in the second and third, sea-planes are being hoisted +aboard.--[_Photos. by S. and G._] + + + + +__________________________________________________________________________ +6--THE ILLUSTRATED WAR NEWS, DEC. 30, 1914.--[Part 21] + + +But that was nothing to the Christmas Day feat of seven of our +sea-planes--one for every day of the week--which, accompanied by light +cruisers and destroyers, with several submarines, made a daring and +unparalleled attack on Cuxhaven, at the mouth of the Elbe, and several +war-ships lying at anchor there--unparalleled, by reason of the fact +that this was the first "combined assault of all arms" known to the +sea--namely, from the air, the water, and from under the water. Both at +Yarmouth and Scarborough the German bombarding cruisers were so nervously +afraid of being caught in the act that they may almost be said to have +only fired their guns and then run away again. But our triple flotilla at +the mouth of the Elbe spent a deliberate three hours in the performance of +its task, and then calmly withdrew with only one of the daring pilots +missing. So far, it was the most thrilling episode of the war, and must +give our enemies "furiously to think," in addition to furnishing them with +much more for the nourishment of their hate. Of this insensate hatred +against us in the hearts of the German people--and all because we have +"queered their pitch," or crossed their long-cherished schemes for the +destruction of our Empire--the most furious exponent is the _Kölnische +Zeitung_, or _Cologne Gazette_, as we generally call it--which may +be described, on the whole, as the most authoritative organ of the +Fatherland--or the _Times_ of Germany, but always with a difference. The +curious anomaly is that the seat of this powerful journal should be so far +away from the capital--at Cologne. There is an old story--known to +tourists who read their guide-books--about the "Three Kings of Cologne," +but now this story has just received a pendant which gives anything but +satisfaction at Cologne itself or anywhere else in Germany. + +[Illustration: MUCH USED AGAINST SOUTH AFRICAN REBELS: A TRUCK OF AN +ARMOURED TRAIN, AT BLOEMFONTEIN. + +Armoured trains worked by the South African Engineer Corps have done +useful service in the operations against the rebels. The truck in the +photograph, it will be seen, is loop-holed.] + +This was the recent meeting, not at Cologne, but at Malmö, of the three +Kings of Scandinavia--Denmark, Sweden, and Norway--who lunched, and dined, +and debated together for several days, when it was at last announced to +the world at large (and Germany in particular) that "their deliberations +had not only consolidated the good relations between the three Northern + +[Illustration: MEN WHO UNDERGO GREAT HARDSHIPS IN THEIR PURSUIT OF +REBELS: A BIVOUAC OF SOUTH AFRICAN LOYALISTS. + +Our correspondent writes: "After a long chase they find themselves very +often forty miles from the convoy, nothing to eat for man or beast, and in +a country destitute of food."] + +[Illustration: WHERE "REGIMENTS HAD BEEN RAISED AS IF BY A WIZARD'S +WAND": GENERAL SMUTS SPEAKING AT JOHANNESBURG. + +General Smuts, South African Minister of Defence, said recently that there +had been a magnificent response to the call to arms. On the Rand regiments +had been raised as if by a magician's wand.] + + + + +__________________________________________________________________________ + THE ILLUSTRATED WAR NEWS, DEC. 30, 1914--[Part 21]--7 + + +[Illustration: AMENITIES OF MOLE WARFARE SATIRISED: A FRENCH +CARICATURIST'S SKIT ON THE "LUXURIES" OF LIFE IN THE TRENCHES.] + +Both the French and British troops have made the best of things in the +siege-warfare of the trenches, and out of an initial condition of misery +have managed to evolve a considerable amount of comfort in many parts of +the front. Ingenious French engineers, for example, have constructed warm +shower-baths, hair-dressing saloons, and similar conveniences, while the +British "Eye-Witness" was able to write recently of our own lines: "The +trenches themselves are heated by braziers and stoves and floored with +straw, bricks and boards. Behind them are shelters and dug-outs of every +description most ingeniously contrived." The above French cartoon, which +is from "La Vie Parisienne," is headed "La Guerre des Taubes et des +Taupes" (moles). + + + + +__________________________________________________________________________ +8--THE ILLUSTRATED WAR NEWS, DEC. 30, 1914.--[Part 21] + + +kingdoms, but that an agreement had also been reached concerning the +special questions raised"--a result which must have been anything but +agreeable to the War-Lord of Potsdam, who had been thirsting for +_Weltmacht_, or world-dominion, and casting about to pave the way for this +result by absorbing the minor States of Northern Europe--as a shark would +open its voracious jaws to swallow down a shoal of minnows, or other small +fry. That this was a prominent plank in the platform of German policy must +be clear to all who have read the diplomatic revelations of the last few +months; but now the "Three Kings of Scandinavia," going one better than +their storied colleagues of Cologne, have shown that they are as obtuse to +the blandishments of Berlin as the journalists of New York and Chicago. + +[Illustration: TYPICAL OF THOSE USED BY GERMAN AIR-CRAFT DURING THE WAR: +A BOMB RECENTLY DROPPED FROM AN AEROPLANE INTO WARSAW. + +German air-craft have lately been active in the neighbourhood of Warsaw, +the great objective of the German Eastern Armies. Our photograph shows a +bomb after it had fallen into the city. + +_Photograph by Illus. Bureau._] + +According to all accounts, the Allied position in the west, especially the +British section thereof, is as "safe as the Bank of England," to use the +words of one of our officers already quoted; and though the Kaiser, +recovered from his illness, has again returned to the front--or, at least. +the distant rear of the front--he does not seem to have much refreshed the +offensive spirit of his armies. Nevertheless, the French _communiqués_ +have suffered from no great diminution in the daily records of sporadic +trench-fighting all along the Allied line--fighting of a fluctuating, if +on the whole favourable, kind for the strategic plans of General Joffre, +as to whom, one German officer in Belgium said that he wished to God his +country had such a War Lord, seeing that, apart from Marshal Hindenburg, +all their Generals were only worthy of disdain. + +In a telegram to his aunt, the Dowager Grand Duchess of Baden, only +daughter of the old Emperor William, the Kaiser gave "God alone the glory" +for a grand victory which was supposed to have been achieved by Hindenburg +over the Russians in front of Warsaw--a victory which caused Berlin to +burst out into bunting and braying and comparisons to Salamis and Leipzig +in its momentous results. But this acknowledgment of the Kaiser to the +Lord of Hosts, "our old ally of Rossbach"--which must surely have +inspired Hindenburg himself with a feeling of jealousy and sense of +soreness--turned out to have been altogether premature, and of the nature +of shouting before they were out of the wood. + +For a fortnight or so the fighting in Poland continued to be of a very +confused kind, the telegrams from both sides being most contradictory, but +on the whole the advantage seemed to remain with the Russians, who +recorded their victories in very striking figures of killed and captured +during their defence of several rivers tributary to the Vistula on its +left bank. Hindenburg the redoubtable--the only General worth a rap (or a +"damn," as Wellington would have said), according to the German officer +already quoted--promised to let the Kaiser have Warsaw as a Christmas +present; but, according to all present appearances, he is no nearer the +capital of Russian Poland than his comrade von Kluck (who is now said to +have been superseded) was to Paris on the day of his being tumbled back +from the Marne. + +<sc>London: December 28, 1914.</sc> + +[Illustration: A PRINCELY INDIAN GIFT: MOTOR-AMBULANCES PRESENTED TO THE +KING FOR THE FORCES BY THE MAHARAJA SCINDIA OF GWALIOR. + +The Maharaja Scindia's munificent Christmas gift for the soldiers +and sailors consists of 41 ambulance-cars, 4 cars for officers, 5 +motor-lorries and repair-wagons, and 10 motor-cycles.--[_Photo. Illus. +Bureau._] + + + + +__________________________________________________________________________ + THE ILLUSTRATED WAR NEWS, DEC. 30, 1914--[Part 21]--9 + + +[Illustration: SHELLED, BURNED OUT, AND FINALLY TAKEN BY STORM: ALL THAT +REMAINS OF THE FAMOUS CHÂTEAU OF VERMELLES.] + +Less than three months ago a charming French country mansion amidst its +beautiful gardens and park, all that remained at Christmas of the Château +of Vermelles is the shell here shown. Fate made the Château, with the +small adjoining village, for upwards of eight weeks a disputed tactical +point between the Germans and the Allies, a narrow strip of only 150 yards +of ground intervening between the trenches. The Germans held Vermelles +from October 16 until early in December, fortifying the Château and +grounds. They had to be shelled out By October 21, the Château was only +smouldering walls, and French engineers were mining approaches to it. Then +an English heavy battery bombarded Vermelles. Finally the French "in a +very brilliant attack," stormed and took Vermelles, village and château. + + + + +__________________________________________________________________________ +10--THE ILLUSTRATED WAR NEWS, DEC. 30, 1914.--[Part 21] + + +[Illustration: RULER OF EGYPT, THE BRITISH PROTECTORATE: SULTAN HUSSEIN I.] + +The new Sultan of Egypt, Prince Hussein Kamel, is sixty years of age and +the eldest living Prince of the family of Mehemet Ali, the historic +liberator of Egypt from Turkish domination. For years past, as head of +various administrative departments in Egypt, he devoted his energies to +improving the lot of the natives, by whom he is called "the Father of the +Fellaheen." + +[Illustration: THE ROUTED AUSTRIAN COMMANDER-IN-CHIEF: FIELD-MARSHAL +POTIOREK.] + +General Oscar Potiorek commanded the Austrian Army invading Serbia. Elated +at occupying Belgrade without firing a shot, he promised his Imperial +master at Vienna that in a fortnight Serbia would be conquered. A +Field-Marshal's baton and the highest Austrian military decoration were +bestowed on him. Within a week Potiorek's army were fugitives. The +Field-Marshal is to be court-martialled. + + + + +__________________________________________________________________________ + THE ILLUSTRATED WAR NEWS, DEC. 30, 1914--[Part 21]--11 + + +[Illustration: THE ACCUSATIONS OF OUTRAGE AND BREACHES OF THE LAWS OF +WAR BY GERMANY: THE BRITISH COMMITTEE OF INQUIRY.] + +On September 15, the Prime Minister announced in the House of Commons that +he had asked the Home Secretary and the Attorney-General to take such +steps as seemed best adapted to provide for the investigation, from +evidence obtainable in this country, of accusations of outrage and +breaches of the laws of war on the part of Germany, This Committee +is constituted of the Right Hon. Viscount Bryce, O.M. Chairman; the +Right Hon. Sir Frederick Pollock, Professor of Jurisprudence; the Right +Hon. Sir Edward Clarke; Sir Alfred Hopkinson, Vice-Chancellor of the +Victoria University, Manchester, 1900-1913; Professor H.A.L. Fisher, +Vice-Chancellor of Sheffield University; and Mr. Harold Cox, Editor of the +"Edinburgh Review."--[_Photos. by Beresford, Russell, Winter, and Elliott +and Fry._] + + + + +__________________________________________________________________________ +12--THE ILLUSTRATED WAR NEWS, DEC. 30, 1914.--[Part 21] + + +[Illustration: "DRIVEN ASHORE AND BURNT": THE "EMDEN" BEACHED ON NORTH +KEELING ISLAND, AND A BOATLOAD OF PRISONERS COMING AWAY.] + +An officer of H.M.A.S. "Sydney," which destroyed the German cruiser +"Emden" off the Cocos Islands on November 9, has given a vivid +account of the event in a private letter recently published in the +"Times." After describing the earlier part of the action, he writes: +"By now her three funnels and her foremast had been shot away, +and she was on fire aft. We turned again, and after giving her a +salvo or two with the starboard guns, saw her run ashore on North +Keeling Island. So at 11.20 a.m. we ceased firing, the action having +lasted one hour forty minutes." Later, the writer of the letter was +sent in a cutter to the "Emden" to arrange for the surrender and +taking off the wounded. "From the number of men we rescued--_i.e._, +150," he continues, "we have been able to reckon their losses. + + [_Continued opposite._ + + + + +__________________________________________________________________________ + THE ILLUSTRATED WAR NEWS, DEC. 30, 1914--[Part 21]--13 + + +[Illustration: BEFORE THEY ESCAPED IN "A LEAKING SHIP": THE "EMDEN'S" +LANDING-PARTY, WHO SAW THEIR SHIP DESTROYED (ON COCOS ISLANDS).] + +_Continued._] + +We know the number of men who landed at Cocos and got away.... They +cannot have lost less than 180 men killed, with 20 men badly wounded, +and about the same number slightly." As regards the fate of the +German landing-party, he says: "Early in the morning we made for the +cable-station, to find that the party landed by the Germans to destroy the +station had seized a schooner and departed. The poor devils aren't likely +to go far with a leaking ship and the leathers removed from all the +pumps." It may be that the vessel seen on the right in the right-hand +photograph is the one in which they escaped. They had broken up all the +instruments at the Eastern Telegraph Cable Station, but those in charge of +it had a duplicate set concealed.--[_Photos. by Illustrations Bureau._] + + + + +__________________________________________________________________________ +14--THE ILLUSTRATED WAR NEWS, DEC. 30, 1914.--[Part 21] + + +[Illustration: SUBMARINE LAMPS AS PILOTS: HARBOUR CHANNELS OUTLINED IN +UNDER-WATER LIGHTS.] + +We illustrate here a system of submerged lamps for guiding vessels into +port, invented by M. Léon Dion. It consists of a chain of electric lamps +laid under water to mark the navigable channel, connected by an electric +cable controlled from the shore. In time of war, of course, the light +would be switched on only when a friendly vessel was signalled.--[_By +Courtesy of the "Scientific American."_] + +[Illustration: COMPRESSED AIR FOR "PLUGGING" HOLED SHIPS: AN INTERESTING +NAVAL EXPERIMENT.] + +This method of stopping the inrush of water was tested on the U.S. +battle-ship "North Carolina." An American naval officer wrote: "Its use +will permit us to repair from inside all holes made beneath the +water-line. Strong pressure is exerted in the holed compartment; slighter +pressure, graduated, in those adjacent (shaded darker)."--[_By Courtesy of +"Popular Mechanics" Magazine, Chicago._] + + + + +__________________________________________________________________________ + THE ILLUSTRATED WAR NEWS, DEC. 30, 1914--[Part 21]--15 + + +[Illustration: CHRISTMAS DAY ON BOARD SHIP IN THE NORTH SEA: THE CAPTAIN +GOING ROUND THE MESSES "TASTING THE MEN'S DINNER."] + +By time-honoured naval usage, on Christmas Day, after Divine Service, on +board every ship, the officers, headed by the Captain, visit the men at +dinner in their messes, which are always gay with seasonable decorations. +At the end of each table stands the cook of the mess, to offer the Captain +samples of the dinner he has prepared. These are tasted by the officers, +and, with a hearty exchange of good wishes, the procession passes from +table to table. It is stated that the officers of the Grand Fleet +collectively subscribed to provide Christmas dinners at home for the +children of their men. It is certain that friends at home provided +Christmas fare for the crews in the North Sea. Never was there a year when +seasonable goodwill and seasonable good cheer were more desirable.--[_From +a Drawing by S. Begg._] + + + + +__________________________________________________________________________ +16--THE ILLUSTRATED WAR NEWS, DEC. 30, 1914.--[Part 21] + + +[Illustration: BLINDFOLDED BY A SACK: A SUSPECT BROUGHT THROUGH THE +FRENCH LINES.] + +Much has been heard of the plague of German spies at the front, and for +excellent reason: they have been as daring as they have been ubiquitous. +Here we see a suspect being brought through the French lines after having +been found in a suspicious position near our Allies' artillery. He is +blindfolded, by means of a sack placed over his head, so that he may gain +no information en route.--[_Photo. by C.N._] + +[Illustration: SPORT AT THE FRONT: BRITISH OFFICERS WITH A "BAG" OF +PARTRIDGE AND HARE.] + +The British officer, who is once more showing what a magnificent sportsman +and fighter he is in the field, is not altogether neglecting sport as he +knows it at home while he is at the front. Already we have heard of hare +and partridge shooting near the firing-line; and a pack of fox-hounds have +joined the forces, for the benefit of the Battle Hunt Club.--[_Photo. by +Photopress._] + + + + +__________________________________________________________________________ + THE ILLUSTRATED WAR NEWS, DEC. 30, 1914--[Part 21]--17 + + +[Illustration: AT FRANCIS JOSEPH'S FEET FOR LESS THAN A FORTNIGHT: +BELGRADE (SINCE RETAKEN BY THE SERBIANS) ENTERED BY THE AUSTRIANS.] + +This drawing by a German artist shows General Liborius von Frank (riding +in front of the standard-bearer) entering Belgrade at the head of the +Fifth Austrian Army on December 2. As the troops passed the Konak, the +building in the background with a cupola, they sang the Austrian national +anthem. General Frank sent the following message to the Emperor Francis +Joseph: "On the occasion of the sixty-sixth anniversary of your Majesty's +accession permit me to lay at your feet the information that Belgrade was +to-day occupied by the troops of the Fifth Army." Belgrade remained in +Austrian hands less than a fortnight. The Serbians recaptured it after a +desperate battle. At Belgrade they placed 60,000 Austrians _hors de +combat_, and from December 3 to 15 had captured 274 officers and 46,000 +men. + + + + +__________________________________________________________________________ +18--THE ILLUSTRATED WAR NEWS, DEC. 30, 1914.--[Part 21] + + +[Illustration: A GERMAN DREAM OF EMPIRE ENDS IN SMOKE: TSING-TAU SET ON +FIRE BY SHELLS FROM JAPANESE HEAVY ARTILLERY.] + +This impressive photograph was taken during the bombardment of Tsing-tau, +Germany's cherished possession in the Far East, which fell to the Japanese +and British arms on November 7. In the distance the smoke of her burning +is seen going up to heaven. The blockade of Tsing-tau began on August 27. +The Japanese troops landed in Lao-shan Bay on September 18, the small +British force on the 24th. On the 28th they carried the high ground 2-1/2 +miles from the main German position, and fire was opened on the fortress +during the first week in October. The general bombardment began on October +31 and lasted till the night of November 6, when the Japanese stormed the +central fort. We illustrate on another page one of the Japanese heavy +siege-guns used at Tsing-tau.--[_Photo. by Record Press._] + + + + +__________________________________________________________________________ + THE ILLUSTRATED WAR NEWS, DEC. 30, 1914--[Part 21]--19 + + +[Illustration: IN THE BATTERIES AGAINST TSING-TAU: A JAPANESE SIEGE-GUN +GETTING THE ORDER BY TELEPHONE TO OPEN FIRE.] + +We see here one of the heavy siege-guns which the Japanese brought up for +the bombardment of Tsing-tau when about to open fire on the German +fortress. The gun-team of artillerymen are standing in rear of the +piece, and in the foreground, to the right, is one of the detachment +receiving orders by telephone from the battery-commandant at his post of +observation. Profiting by their experiences in siege-warfare at Port +Arthur, the Japanese were fully prepared with a very large and efficient +siege-gun train to undertake the attack on Tsing-tau immediately war was +declared. The Japanese employed 140 guns in the bombardment, including +28-centimetre howitzers and 21 and 15 cm. siege-guns, firing respectively, +11.2-inch, 8.4-inch, and 6-inch shells.--[_Photo. by Record Press._] + + + + +__________________________________________________________________________ +20--THE ILLUSTRATED WAR NEWS, DEC. 30, 1914.--[Part 21] + + +[Illustration: HAND-GRENADES SHOT FROM A GUN!--THE AARSEN GRENADE-GUN +BEING LOADED.] + +One of the features of the present war which have been drawn attention to +by "Eye-Witness" in his letters from the Front, is the resuscitation of +fighting with hand-grenades on both sides. Particularly has this been the +case during the battles in Northern France and Flanders, wherever the +trenches approached one another within flinging distance. There also, on +occasion, where the troops facing one another were further apart, and +beyond reach of a throw by hand, an improvised catapult of the classic +type has been devised by our men for slinging hand-bombs; utilising a +metal spring bent back and held fast in a notch, to be released on the +lighting of the fuse. An illustration of a catapult appeared in the +"Illustrated War News" of December 23. + + + + +__________________________________________________________________________ + THE ILLUSTRATED WAR NEWS, DEC. 30, 1914--[Part 21]--21 + + +[Illustration: HAND-GRENADES SHOT FROM A GUN!--AARSEN GRENADES BURSTING +IN THE OPEN.] + +On the page opposite we give a photograph of a Danish experimental gun, +designed at Copenhagen, for firing Aarsen hand-grenades. The grenades are +shown in the act of being introduced into the breech of the weapons, and +the apparatus for holding each grenade in the hand is clearly shown. In +the photograph above the shells are seen bursting at a certain distance +from the firing-point. Our soldiers in the trenches in Flanders, according +to "Eye-Witness," have made improvised hand-grenades for themselves, +utilising empty jam-tins. These are charged with gun-cotton and fused, and +on being lighted are flung across among the Germans in their trenches. +What the jam-tin hand-grenades look like the "War News" illustration +referred to shows, and how they are used with catapults. + + + + +__________________________________________________________________________ +22--THE ILLUSTRATED WAR NEWS, DEC. 30, 1914.--[Part 21] + + +[Illustration: READY FOR THE TURKISH ARMY SENT "TO DELIVER EGYPT"! A +BRITISH ENTRENCHED CAMP ON THE SUEZ CANAL.] + +It was stated on December 23 that the "Frankfürter Zeitung" had learned +from Constantinople that the Turkish Army sent "to deliver Egypt" began +its forward march to the Suez Canal on the 21st. The Canal is securely +held along its hundred miles of length. Our illustration shows one of the +several British advanced-camps on the eastern bank (the Asiatic or +Sinaitic Peninsula side), placed there to prevent a surprise attack. In +all cases, our positions are well fortified, and, with the desert in +front, present a formidable barrier to the enemy. In support of the +entrenched camps, movable pontoon-bridges have been constructed at certain +points. These, with the permanent railway along the western bank, will +enable reinforcements to be thrown across the waterways speedily.] + + + + +__________________________________________________________________________ + THE ILLUSTRATED WAR NEWS, DEC. 30, 1914--[Part 21]--23 + + +[Illustration: THE MOST POPULAR FRENCH HEROINE OF '70: JULIETTE DODU +(WHO DIED THE OTHER DAY) PARDONED FOR HER GREAT BRAVERY.] + +There has just died upon her little farm at Clarens, Switzerland, +"La demoiselle Juliette Dodu of Pithiviers," forty-four years ago a +telegraphist who outwitted the German invaders, was taken prisoner, +threatened with death, treated chivalrously by the "Red Prince" Friedrich +Karl, released on the proclamation of peace, decorated with the Cross of +the Legion of Honour, and retired to the little farm, where she ended her +days. The spirit of this romance of the Franco-German War of 1870-71 lives +in the picture by E.J. Delahaye. Chivalry was not then dead, and the "Red +Prince," father of our popular Duchess of Connaught, although Juliette +Dodu had hindered the German advance on Paris, shook her by the hand and +said that it was "an honour to meet so brave a woman." + + + + +__________________________________________________________________________ +24--THE ILLUSTRATED WAR NEWS, DEC. 30, 1914.--[Part 21] + + +[Illustration: THE AUSTRIAN DÉBÂCLE: A DISASTROUS MARCH UNDER CONTINUAL +SHELL-FIRE FROM SERBIAN ARTILLERY.--<sc>From the Painting by Frédèric de +Haenen.</sc>] (left half) + +The retreat of the Austrians after the recent great victory gained +over them by the Serbians has been described as one of the most +disastrous in history. It was stated unofficially in a report from +Budapest that the southern Austro-Hungarian Army had lost over 60,000 men +killed and wounded during the rear-guard actions and the flight, and +about 35,000 prisoners, together with a large amount of guns and war +material. Of the actual retreat it was said that the Austrian troops +were on the march continually for a whole week, while the Serbian + + + + +__________________________________________________________________________ + THE ILLUSTRATED WAR NEWS, DEC. 30, 1914--[Part 21]--25 + + +[Illustration: THE AUSTRIAN DÉBÂCLE: A DISASTROUS MARCH UNDER CONTINUAL +SHELL-FIRE FROM SERBIAN ARTILLERY.--<sc>From the Painting by Frédèric de +Haenen.</sc>] (right half) + +artillery in pursuit shelled them without cessation. Many of the Austrian +soldiers, it is said, dropped by the way from fatigue and weakness, as +they had had neither food nor rest, and several of the officers did the +same. It was impossible for some parts of the army to make a stand, as +their artillery had been obliged to remain behind owing to the exhaustion +of the horses. Only those of the Austrian regiments which had their +supply-wagons with them were able to reach the Bosnian frontier. + + + + +__________________________________________________________________________ +26--THE ILLUSTRATED WAR NEWS, DEC. 30, 1914.--[Part 21] + + +[Illustration: A GERMAN POSSESSION ADDED TO THE BRITISH EMPIRE BY THE +AUSTRALIAN FORCES: THE OCCUPATION OF NEU POMMERN (NEW BRITAIN).] + +The Admiralty announced on September 13 that the Australian Squadron had +occupied, on the 11th, "the town of Herbertshöhe, in the island of +Neu Pommern (late New Britain), which is an island in the Bismarck +Archipelago; this island lies due east from German New Guinea." At Rabaul, +New Britain, on the 13th, a British Proclamation was read, with a special +one in "pidgin" English for the natives. The German Acting-Governor, Dr. +Haber, surrendered on the 21st. Our photographs show: (1) German troops +marching into Herbertshöhe to surrender; (2) A German building at +Friedrich Wilhelmshafen, now garrison headquarters; (3) The Australian +Naval Brigade marching through Rabaul; and (4) Dr. Haber, followed by the +German Commander, riding into Herbertshöhe to surrender. + + + + +__________________________________________________________________________ + THE ILLUSTRATED WAR NEWS, DEC. 30, 1914--[Part 21]--27 + + +[Illustration: THE NEUTRALITY OF THE SCANDINAVIAN POWERS: THE KINGS OF +NORWAY, SWEDEN, AND DENMARK, WHO MET IN CONFERENCE AT MALMO.] + +The three Northern Monarchs whose portraits are given above are: (1) King +Haakon of Norway; (2) King Gustav of Sweden; (3) King Christian of +Denmark. King Gustav was the convener of the meeting, the object of which +was to arrive at an understanding by means of which the Scandinavian +countries might be able to draw closer together in view of the interests +common to them all as neutrals. The motive was to maintain the neutrality +and independence of the three peoples, and at the same time to mitigate as +far as possible the serious inconveniences which all the three Northern +States have suffered in regard to the supplies of the necessaries of life +and in their general economic condition in consequence of the existence of +a state of war in Europe.--[_Photos. by Russell, Florman, and Bieber._] + + + + +__________________________________________________________________________ +28--THE ILLUSTRATED WAR NEWS, DEC. 30, 1914.--[Part 21] + + +[Illustration: THE ENEMY AS PORTRAYED BY HIMSELF ON CHALK: THE GERMAN +SOLDIER-CAVEMAN AS ARTIST IN THE AISNE QUARRIES.] + +In more ways than one, the German soldier would seem on occasion to +represent, as it were, a reverting to primitive type: to the barbaric +European of centuries back in the world's history. The "reversion" +takes many shapes, and we have seen instances of it during the war +in various ways. It is surely readily recognisable, for example, in +that spirit of sheer ruthlessness which inspired the perpetration +of the inhuman outrages that have laid Belgium waste, and of the +killing of harmless women and children by naval shells at the peaceful +watering-place of Scarborough. Another and more innocuous form of +going back to the habits and methods typical of primitive man, is, +perhaps, traceable in the illustrations given above. They are some +of the handiwork of the twentieth-century German military cavemen of + + [_Continued opposite._ + + + + +__________________________________________________________________________ + THE ILLUSTRATED WAR NEWS, DEC. 30, 1914--[Part 21]--29 + + +[Illustration: THE ENEMY AS PORTRAYED BY HIMSELF ON CHALK: THE GERMAN +SOLDIER-CAVEMAN AS ARTIST IN THE AISNE QUARRIES.] + +_Continued._] + +the Aisne battlefield, while making use of the cover of the quarries and +natural excavations of the district along the northern side of the river. +In very much the same way, as modern exploration has brought to light, the +primaeval cave-dwelling inhabitants of Europe in prehistoric times left +rudimentary traces of their presence in certain places in the shape of +carvings and roughly painted "portraits" of themselves, of the creatures +they hunted for food and fought with, and of the implements they +used. According to the German newspaper from which we reproduce the +illustrations given here, they are the work of a German artist who has had +to go to the Front as a conscript and serve in the ranks of an infantry +battalion. + + + + +__________________________________________________________________________ +30--THE ILLUSTRATED WAR NEWS, DEC. 30, 1914.--[Part 21] + + +[Illustration: AS LEFT BY THE TRAITOR, DE WET: THE UNION JACK THE REBEL +LEADER TORE AND TRAMPLED UPON AT WINBURG.] + +De Wet committed his first open act of rebellion at Vrede, on October 28. +There, with a hastily raised commando at his heels, he forcibly seized the +place and, after submitting the local officials to brutal ill-treatment, +in a wild, incendiary speech called on the Dutch of South Africa to rise +in arms against the British Government. It was at Winburg that De Wet +performed, as it is stated, the theatrical and unworthy outrage of +trampling on and tearing the Union Jack. The identical flag which suffered +the maltreatment is shown in our photograph, in the state in which it was +after De Wet's puerile act of defiance had been committed. Reparation and +atonement are to come, as we shall learn when De Wet faces his +court-martial, probably at an early date. + + + + +__________________________________________________________________________ + THE ILLUSTRATED WAR NEWS, DEC. 30, 1914--[Part 21]--31 + + +[Illustration: "GLORY TO THOSE WHO HAVE FALLEN!" MEN OF THE HEROIC +FRENCH ARMY WHO HAVE DIED FOR EUROPEAN FREEDOM.] + +This tragic photograph, showing the fatal effects of a German shell among +some French soldiers, brings home to the mind what "death on the field of +honour" means. The Premier of France, M. Viviani, in his great speech at +the opening of the Chambers, paid an eloquent tribute to the French Army. +"We have," he said, "the certainty of success. We owe this certainty ... +to our Army, whose heroism in numerous combats has been guided by their +incomparable chiefs from the victory on the Marne to the victory in +Flanders.... Let us do honour to all these heroes. Glory to those who have +fallen before the victory, and to those also who through it will avenge +them to-morrow! A nation which can arouse such enthusiasm can never +perish."--[_Photo. by Alfieri._] + + + + +__________________________________________________________________________ +32--THE ILLUSTRATED WAR NEWS, DEC. 30, 1914.--[Part 21] + + +[Illustration: DEFENDING OUR EAST COAST FROM INVADERS: ENTRENCHMENTS OF +THE TYPE USED AT THE FRONT, ON THE CLIFFS.] + +The entrenchment of the East Coast is not only a wise precaution, but the +work of digging and fitting up the trenches is excellent practice for the +troops who may later on be called upon to do similar work abroad. It will +be seen from our photographs that the trenches on the East Coast +are constructed on the latest pattern as developed in the war, with +deep passage-ways, roofed sections, traverses, and zigzags to avoid an +enfilading fire from the flank. They are, indeed, to judge by the +photograph, remarkably similar to those constructed at the front in France +and Flanders. Even if occasion should not arise to use them against +the enemy, the labour of making them has not by any means been in +vain.--[_Photo. by Newspaper Illustrations._] + + + + +__________________________________________________________________________ + THE ILLUSTRATED WAR NEWS, DEC. 30, 1914--[Part 21]--33 + + +[Illustration: CHRISTMAS WITH THE GERMAN ARMY, ACCORDING TO A GERMAN +PAPER; THE ARRIVAL FROM HOME OF GIFTS FOR THE TROOPS.] + +Full early, the popular German illustrated papers gave pictures of +Christmas on the field of battle, and it was very evident that our enemies +anticipated a joyous day or two: this, probably, thanks to the idea that +at Christmas-time all the Armies might call something of a halt, although +it was understood they were not in the least likely to do so officially. +It was also anticipated that the conditions of the Christmas spent by the +Germans at the front would, like those experienced by our own men +and those of the Allied Armies, be ameliorated by the reception and +distribution of gifts from home. For a considerable while Germany's +women-folk, especially, collected gifts for fathers and brothers at the +front; and it is certain that their efforts were much appreciated. + + + + +__________________________________________________________________________ +34--THE ILLUSTRATED WAR NEWS, DEC. 30, 1914.--[Part 21] + + +[Illustration: UNDERGROUND, WITH GRAMOPHONE, WHITE TABLE-COVER, AND +FLOWERS: FRENCH SOLDIERS IN A "HOME-LIKE" BOMB-PROOF TRENCH.] + +Our photograph reproduces a snapshot, by a French artillery officer, in +the trenches to the east of the Aisne. It shows how some of the French are +making the best of things, regardless of weather and the enemy. They +hollowed out the trench at one point (describes the officer), and roofed +it over with planks and earth, forming a bomb-proof. A seat was cut at the +sides and a table got from a village near. A roll of sheet-iron found in +the village was made a chimney for a fire with a cosy chimney-corner +beside it. With some wire, also, a sort of candelabra was constructed. The +flowers on the table are in a German shell for vase, and the gramophone +was another village "find." It is evident that the war may develop a race +of military troglodytes. + + + + +__________________________________________________________________________ + THE ILLUSTRATED WAR NEWS, DEC. 30, 1914--[Part 21]--35 + + +[Illustration: HEADQUARTERS UNDERGROUND: THE BRAIN OF THE BRITISH ARMY +WORKING IN A SUBTERRANEAN ROOM, SAFE FROM SHELL-FIRE.] + +Our illustration shows how and why the motive-power of the Expeditionary +Force, the brain of the Army, is often to be found below-ground. Mr. John +Dakin, writing of this drawing, made by him from a sketch which he made at +the Front, says: "Throughout the war, the enemy has displayed considerable +skill in locating and shelling any buildings selected for occupation by +our Staff. Various methods of countering these tactics have been devised. +On at least one occasion, headquarters was established in a subterranean +apartment, which was not merely bomb-proof, but a comfortable retreat from +the weather. Here, by lamplight, plans were worked out; scraps of +information pieced together with the aid of maps without risk of +interruption from the enemy."--[_Drawn by John Dakin from his Sketch made +on the Spot._] + + + + +__________________________________________________________________________ +36--THE ILLUSTRATED WAR NEWS, DEC. 30, 1914.--[Part 21] + + +[Illustration: AFTER THE ENEMY HAD BEEN ALLOWED TO COME WITHIN +POINT-BLANK RANGE OF THEIR SILENT FOE:] + +Determined night-onslaughts by infantry have been, according to a letter +from Petrograd, a notable feature of the German tactics in the battles on +the Vistula, particularly in the fighting that has been taking place +between Lowicz and the river. By day, the Germans, we are told, were +persistently aggressive, continuously launching attacks against various +points of the Russian lines, while the Russians remained on the defensive. +With the coming of darkness, however, regularly, night after night, the +Germans redoubled their efforts everywhere, taking advantage of the +obscurity to fling forward dense swarms and columns of men in massed +formation, to storm the entrenched Russian position, apparently at any +cost. They failed every time, it would appear, beaten back after literally +a massacre. The Russian tactics, it is interesting to recall, were + + + + +__________________________________________________________________________ + THE ILLUSTRATED WAR NEWS, DEC. 30, 1914--[Part 21]--37 + + +[Illustration: RUSSIAN INFANTRY SMASHING A GERMAN NIGHT-ATTACK IN MASSED +COLUMNS, IN A BATTLE ON THE VISTULA.] + +exactly the same as those with which, as our own officers and men have +described in letters home, Sir John French's battalions in every case so +effectively shattered the German efforts at breaking through the British +during the retreat after Mons. The Russians, it is stated, invariably +allowed the Germans to come in to well within point-blank range, remaining +silent, holding their fire and not showing a light meanwhile. Then, as the +enemy got within point-blank range, searchlights were suddenly switched on +and a ceaseless fusillade of Maxim and rifle-fire from the Russians +literally mowed the Germans down by hundreds, breaking up their masses and +paralysing the attack. Our illustration shows one of the combats just at +the critical moment.--[_Drawn by Frédèric de Haenen._] + + + + +__________________________________________________________________________ +38--THE ILLUSTRATED WAR NEWS, DEC. 30, 1914.--[Part 21] + + +[Illustration: SHIPS THE BRITISH NAVY MIGHT HAVE HAD! FREAKS OF MARINE +ARCHITECTURE THAT HAVE NOT BEEN OFFICIALLY ADOPTED.] + +We illustrate here and on the page opposite some curious designs for +war-ships by various inventors. No. 1 is McDougal's Armoured Whale-back, +with conning-towers, a design of 1892 for converting whalebacks into +war-vessels. No. 2 is an American design of 1892, Commodore Folger's +Dynamite Ram, cigar-shaped, with two guns throwing masses of dynamite or +aerial torpedoes. No. 3 is a design by the Earl of Mayo in 1894 and called +"Aries the Ram," built round an immense beam of steel terminating in a +sharp point, No. 4 is Gathmann's boat for a heavy gun forward, designed in +1900. She was to be of great speed, and the forward gun was to throw 600 +lb. of gun-cotton at the rate of 2000 feet per second. A formidable Armada +this, had it been practicable. + + + + +__________________________________________________________________________ + THE ILLUSTRATED WAR NEWS, DEC. 30, 1914--[Part 21]--39 + + +[Illustration: SHIPS THE BRITISH, AND THE GERMAN, NAVY MIGHT HAVE HAD! +DESIGNS BY THE KAISER AND OTHER NAVAL THEORISTS.] + +The first illustration on this page is a design for a battle-ship made by +the Kaiser in 1893, to replace the old "Preussen," then out of date. The +vessel was to carry four large barbettes and a huge umbrella-like +fighting-top. Illustration No. 2 is an Immersible Ironclad, designed by a +French engineer named Le Grand, in 1862. In action the vessel was to be +partly submerged, so that only her three turrets and the top of the +armoured glacis would be visible. No. 3 is Admiral Elliott's "Ram," of +1884. The ship was to carry a "crinoline" of stanchions along her +water-line, practically a fixed torpedo-net. No. 4 is Thomas Cornish's +Invulnerable Ironclad, of 1885. She was to have two separate parallel +hulls under water; above she was of turtle-back shape. + + + + +__________________________________________________________________________ +40--THE ILLUSTRATED WAR NEWS, DEC. 30, 1914.--[Part 21] + + +[Illustration: EXPERTS IN CLOSE-QUARTER FIGHTING: SIBERIAN INFANTRYMEN +IN THEIR FIELD-SERVICE EQUIPMENT AT WARSAW.] + +Our illustration shows a halt in one of the squares of Warsaw of one of +the regiments of Siberian infantry, whose magnificent fighting qualities +in all the battles of the war in the eastern theatre of operations in +which they have taken part have gained for them, as the accounts of the +different actions sent to London from Petrograd testify, the outspoken +admiration of the whole Russian Army. Particularly singled out for praise +has been their audacious expertness in close-quarter combats. They supply +both infantry and artillery, and are recruited all over Siberia, forming +ordinarily two separate commands, the East Siberian and the West Siberian +troops, which garrison the fortresses and districts between Vladisvostock +and the Ural Mountains, the dividing range between European and Asiatic +Russia. + + + + +__________________________________________________________________________ + THE ILLUSTRATED WAR NEWS, DEC. 30, 1914--[Part 21]--41 + + +[Illustration: THE LETTER HOME: A BRITISH SOLDIER WRITING IN A LOFT OVER +A COW-SHED "SOMEWHERE NEAR THE FRONT."] + +One of the happiest features of the Great War, and one of its most +favourable omens, is the optimistic spirit in which our troops, officers +and men alike, are making the best of things, in spite of the trying +conditions in which they have to live and carry out their arduous work. +They are as proof against physical discomfort or hardships, and as +determined to be "jolly," as was Mark Tapley himself. Our illustration +shows one of our soldiers writing home from the loft over a cow-shed, his +only shelter "somewhere near the front." A shaft of sunlight relieves the +gloom of his rough surroundings, and no doubt is reflected in the messages +he is sending to his friends at home. It is this wholesome spirit, in +small matters and in great, which makes for success.--[_Photo. by +Newspaper Illus._] + + + + +__________________________________________________________________________ +42--THE ILLUSTRATED WAR NEWS, DEC. 30, 1914.--[Part 21] + + +[Illustration: SERBIA'S GREAT TRIUMPH: AUSTRIAN PRISONERS; HONOURING THE +DEAD: AND SERBIAN WOMEN HELPING WITH THE GUNS.] + +It has fallen to the Serbians to furnish the most complete and +overwhelming triumph yet achieved in the war--the smashing victory over +the Austrian Army on the River Drina during the first ten days of +December. Our photographs were taken on and near the battlefield. +No. 1 on the first page represents a preliminary incident. It shows +an Austrian patrol captured while pressing forward with the rash +assurance that characterised the Austrian headlong advance. No. 2 is a +battlefield scene, on December 3, when the Serbians suddenly attacked +the Austrians and broke up their positions at all points at the +outset, making whole regiments, scattered and isolated among ravines +and valleys, in many instances, surrender at discretion. One corps +of disarmed Austrian prisoners is seen while being marched to the + + [_Continued opposite._ + + + + +__________________________________________________________________________ + THE ILLUSTRATED WAR NEWS, DEC. 30, 1914--[Part 21]--43 + + +[Illustration: SERBIAN WOMEN IN THE FIELD WITH THEIR MEN: PEASANTS +BRINGING A WOUNDED SOLDIER TO THE DRESSING-TENT.] + +_Continued._] + +rear. No. 3 shows Serbian villagers placing wreaths on the graves of +fallen countrymen. Photograph No. 4 lets us realise something of the +heroic part the women villagers took in helping to achieve the triumph. As +the battle took shape they came forward and cheered the men-folk on, +calling out "Napréd, braco, Napréd," "Forward, brothers, forward," also +helping (as our photograph shows) to push the cannon and ease the worn-out +horses. Yet another instance of the work the Serbian women did is shown in +our page photograph. Owing to the lack of Red Cross men attendants, the +peasant women took on themselves to serve as stretcher-bearers, bringing +in the wounded, as these fell in fight, to the dressing-tents in the +villages and the churches, which were used as hospitals.--[_Photos. by +Topical._] + + + + +__________________________________________________________________________ +44--THE ILLUSTRATED WAR NEWS, DEC. 30, 1914.--[Part 21] + + +[Illustration: WITH "SPIT" HELD BY RIFLES, A SPADE, AND A COUPLE OF +STICKS: COOKING THE CHRISTMAS GEESE AT THE FRONT.] + +There was no Christmas truce at the front. The grim realities of the war +over-rode all considerations of sentiment, and the hope which was, for a +while, common to both sides had to be left unfulfilled. None the less, the +Season was not without its little luxuries, and, thanks to the excellent +work of the Army Service Corps and the thoughtfulness of sympathetic +friends at home, there was no dearth of substantial necessaries and +comforts, as well as tobacco and cigarettes galore. Our illustration shows +a group of soldiers cooking their Christmas geese in the open, and as +intent upon their task as though such conditions were quite orthodox +and even such minor alarums as "spasmodic artillery duels, and local +fusillades" were things unheard of.--[_Photo. by L.N.A._] + + + + +__________________________________________________________________________ + THE ILLUSTRATED WAR NEWS, DEC. 30, 1914--[Part 21]--45 + + +[Illustration: CHRISTMAS AT THE FRONT: BRITISH SOLDIERS BRINGING IN +MISTLETOE.] + +It is pleasant to think that, with all the dangers and anxieties of the +war, our soldiers at the front paid tribute to the season of goodwill. It +is a reassuring picture, this of the two men in khaki, rifle on shoulder, +but swinging from the deadly barrels berried mistletoe, so rich in +suggestion of the happiness of Christmases when the scourge of war was not +upon the nations.--[_Photograph by L.N.A._] + + +[Illustration: TRYING A BRITISH DAINTY! A FRENCH SOLDIER EATING +CHRISTMAS PUDDING.] + +The conditions under which tens of thousands of soldiers spent their +Christmas were memorably abnormal, but, none the less, the season was not +passed without such observance of old customs, and such care for all +available good cheer, as were possible. Our illustration shows a French +soldier obviously enjoying his Christmas dinner despite the fact that he +has to eat it by the wayside.--[_Photo. by Alfieri._] + + + + +__________________________________________________________________________ +46--THE ILLUSTRATED WAR NEWS, DEC. 30, 1914.--[Part 21] + + +[Illustration: A MISSING LONDONER! AN ENGLISH M.E.T. MOTOR-'BUS IN THE +HANDS OF THE GERMANS AND PUT TO USE BY THEM.] + +As with our London soldiers at the front, the fortune of war has levied +its toll on other Londoners. Our photograph depicts the unfortunate fate +that has befallen a once well-known object in the streets of London--one +of the motor-'buses shipped across to France to serve in transporting +British troops to the front, now in the hands of the enemy. Not many of +them have had such bad luck, from all accounts, but accidents cannot be +helped, and a victim has been claimed now and again, mostly at places +where some raiding Uhlan patrol has managed to cut in and ambush one on +some outlying road near the line of communications between the front and +an army base, catching the 'bus while returning after discharging its +soldier "fares." + + + + +__________________________________________________________________________ + THE ILLUSTRATED WAR NEWS, DEC. 30, 1914--[Part 21]--47 + + +[Illustration: WEAPONS OF GREY "MOLES," AT TSING-TAU: A LAND-MINE AND +EMERGENCY HAND-GRENADES CAPTURED FROM THE GERMANS.] + +The Germans made use of land-mines in the defence of Tsing-tau, and a few +days after the town's surrender, on Nov. 7, several exploded while they +were being removed by the Japanese, causing much loss of life. It was +stated that the explosions killed two officers and eight men, while +one officer and fifty-six men were injured. The Germans also used +hand-grenades, as shown in our photograph. These appear to have been of +the improvised "jam-tin" type such as has been employed in the trenches in +Flanders "Eye-Witness" wrote recently: "Mines have not played such an +important part in this mole-work as might have been supposed. We have +heard the enemy mining and we have tried it ourselves, but one strikes +water in this country between seven and eight feet down."--[_Photo. by +C.N._] + + + + +__________________________________________________________________________ +48--THE ILLUSTRATED WAR NEWS, DEC. 30, 1914.--[Part 21] + + +[Illustration: IN SHELTERS SUGGESTING A ROW OF MINIATURE RAILWAY-ARCHES! +GERMANS IN THEIR "RABBIT-WARRENS" IN THE ARGONNE.] + +"In the Argonne we beat back the enemy's attacks and preserved our +front." That is a typical announcement one constantly sees in the Paris +_communiqués_ recording events in the district where the photograph given +above was taken. Special interest being taken in the fighting in Flanders, +one rather overlooks the give-and-take warfare being carried on further +east, where siege-trench fighting like that on the Aisne still goes on. +There the Germans occupy deeply dug lines which are largely made up of +underground galleries partly natural, partly artificial, in character, +as our photograph shows. When the French artillery fire is severe, +the Germans scuttle like rabbits into their burrows, coming out to +man the trenches in front immediately the French infantry begin to +approach.--[_Photo. by C.N._] + +========================================================================== + +London: Published Weekly at the Office, 172, Strand, in the Parish of St. +Clement Danes, in the county of London, by <sc>The Illustrated London +News and Sketch, Ltd.</sc>, 172, Strand, aforesaid; and Printed by +<sc>The Illustrated London News and Sketch, Ltd.</sc>, Milford Lane, +W.C.--<sc>Wednesday, Dec. 30, 1914.</sc> + + + + +__________________________________________________________________________ + + ======================================================================== + To ensure a regular supply of the following papers, the Publisher would + be glad if you would sign the order (or orders) below and send to your + Railway Bookstall or Local Newsagent. + ======================================================================== + : + : _To Messrs._ _____________________ + _To Messrs._ _____________________ : + : __________________________________ + : + __________________________________ : _Please supply me each week with a + : copy of_ THE SKETCH. + _Please supply me each week with : __________________________________ + a copy of_ THE ILLUSTRATED LONDON : + NEWS. : __________________________________ + __________________________________ :.................................... + : + : _To Messrs._ _____________________ + __________________________________ : + : __________________________________ + : + __________________________________ : _Please supply me each week during + : the War with a copy of_ + : THE ILLUSTRATED WAR NEWS. + __________________________________ : __________________________________ + : + : __________________________________ + ...................................:.................................... + + _To Messrs._ _____________________ __________________________________ + + _Please supply me with a copy of each of the + above =3= papers every week._ + __________________________________ __________________________________ + ======================================================================== + + + + +__________________________________________________________________________ +N.B.--This Leaflet must be Removed before Posting this Number of "The +Illustrated War News." + + +[Illustration: _Photo. 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