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THE ILLUSTRATED WAR NEWS, DEC. 30, 1914--[Part 21]--1
The Illustrated War News.
[Illustration: _Photo. Cribb_
ONE OF THE BRITISH SHIPS WHICH SANK VON SPEE'S SQUADRON OFF THE
FALKLANDS: THE BATTLE-CRUISER "INVINCIBLE"]
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2--THE ILLUSTRATED WAR NEWS, DEC. 30, 1914.--[Part 21]
THE GREAT WAR.
In reviewing the events of the last week throughout the world-wide area of
war, let us begin with the Dark Continent, where everything went in our
favour--very brilliantly so. 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._]]
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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._]
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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.
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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._]
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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.]
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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).
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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.
London: December 28, 1914.
[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._]
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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.
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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.
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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._]
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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._
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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._]
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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._]
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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._]
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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._]
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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.
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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._]
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[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._]
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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.
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[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.
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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.]
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[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."
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24--THE ILLUSTRATED WAR NEWS, DEC. 30, 1914.--[Part 21]
[Illustration: THE AUSTRIAN DÉBÂCLE: A DISASTROUS MARCH UNDER CONTINUAL
SHELL-FIRE FROM SERBIAN ARTILLERY.--From the Painting by Frédèric de
Haenen. ] (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
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[Illustration: THE AUSTRIAN DÉBÂCLE: A DISASTROUS MARCH UNDER CONTINUAL
SHELL-FIRE FROM SERBIAN ARTILLERY.--From the Painting by Frédèric de
Haenen. ] (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.
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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.
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[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._]
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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._
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[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.
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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.
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[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._]
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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._]
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[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.
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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.
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[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._]
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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
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[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._]
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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.
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[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.
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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.
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[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._]
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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._
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[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._]
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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._]
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[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._]
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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."
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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._]
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[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._]
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