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Title: The Illustrated War News, Number 15, Nov. 18, 1914
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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.]
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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
"KÖNIGSBERG": CAPTAIN SIDNEY R. DRURY-LOWE, R.N.]
The Admiralty stated on Nov. 11, "This search resulted on Oct. 30 in the
'Königsberg' 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.
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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.
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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, Würtemberg, 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.
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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."
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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 £250,000,000--which was just about the cost of the Boer War,
and £25,000,000 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 £7,000,000 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.
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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 débris 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.]
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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 Königsberg 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.
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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.
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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 communiqué 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 communiqué 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.]
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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 Liége. 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.]
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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.]
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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.]
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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.]
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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.]
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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.]
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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.]
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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.
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[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.]
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20--THE ILLUSTRATED WAR NEWS, NOV. 18, 1914.
[Illustration: THE ATTACK ON THE "PEGASUS" BY THE "KÖNIGSBERG" (NOW
"IMPRISONED"): TRANSHIPPING WOUNDED TO THE HOSPITAL-SHIP "GASCON."]
The "Pegasus," an old and small cruiser, was attacked and disabled by the
German cruiser "Königsberg" (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 "Königsberg" 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.
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[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.]
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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.
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[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.
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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
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[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.
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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.]
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[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.]
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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.
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[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."
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30--THE ILLUSTRATED WAR NEWS, NOV. 18, 1914.
[Illustration: GERMANY'S EASTERN STRONGHOLD WHICH SUFFERED THE FATE OF
LIÉGE 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.
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[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.
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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 Düsseldorf also accounted for one or possibly two.
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[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.]
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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.]
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[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.]
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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 Müller, 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.
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[Illustration: THE DESTRUCTION OF THE "EMDEN" AND THE BOTTLING-UP OF THE
"KÖNIGSBERG": 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
"Königsberg," 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 "Königsberg" 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
"Königsberg" displaced 3400 tons.--[Photos. by Symonds.]
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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.
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[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 Düsseldorf 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.]
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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.]
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[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.]
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42--THE ILLUSTRATED WAR NEWS, NOV. 18, 1914.
[Illustration: KING ALBERT'S FÊTE-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-José, of all of whom we give
portraits.--[Photo. by C.N.]
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[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.]
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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."
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[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.
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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.]
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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.
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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. "He wears a dirty green-grey uniform, and has
an intense earnestness of expression that seemed to mirror the sternness
of the times." He "lives in a little red-brick house such as one would
rent in a London suburb for £50."
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THE ILLUSTRATED WAR NEWS, NOV. 18, 1914--III
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THE ILLUSTRATED WAR NEWS, NOV. 18, 1914--IV
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