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Illustrated War

A PETER-PAN-LIKE " DUG-OUT " : A FRENCH SOLDIER NEAR MONASTIR READING A LETTER

French Official Photograph.

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THE ILLUSTRATED WAR NEWS.

Feb. 21. 1917

IT seems to me that the feature of the week's
news that should be particularised is the

interview given by Sir Douglas Haig to French

journalists. The Field-Marshal's candid, adequate,

and authoritative statement is the best summary

of the military position the nation could have. It

gives an official imprimatur to much one has

heard both publicly and privately from experts.

It crystallises the general opinion, and it sets out

this general opinion

most clearly.

The general weight

of good opinion for

months past has de-
veloped on the line

that all circumstances

lead us to believe this

war will receive its

final stroke in 1917,

and that that stroke

will be dealt by the

Allies (probably the

British) in the West.

This final stroke may

not mean that the

war will be over in
1917, though logical

probabilities lead us

to feel that it will

be ; but it will mean

that the fighting
which is to bring
about the defeat of
Germany will be ac-
complished in 1917.
It is possible that
the war may drag
on, it is possible that
Germany might fight
stubbornly on the
defensive through
months (and if she
does, the possibilities
have already been
foreseen) ; but,
whether she fights on
or not, Germany will

be a beaten nation before 1917 is out, and she will
have been emphatically beaten in the field. This is
the general attitude of men who have a first-hand
acquaintance with the situation. They consider
the coming clash will be decisive. The next big
" Push " is likely to make the Somme battles look
inadequate affairs, and, as Sir Douglas Haig says,
the fronts of the next attack have no need to be
as narrow and restricted as those of the Somme
and Ancre. The German line is likely to be
assaulted at many points, as the British Com-
mander points out, and each of those points may
lead to a break through (also at each of those
points we are now ready for success if we break
through), while any and all of these breaks may

By W. DOUGLAS NEWTON.

prove fatal to the German defence. It is felt that
we have the preponderance in power which will
give success. In none of the opinions I have
heard is there any tendency to belittle the German
power of resistance. On the contrary, our own
plans are based upon the assumption that the
Germans will be strong. The success of the blow
or blows we mean to deliver rests not on German
weakness, but on oir own strength. We have

made Germany a foot-

_^__^^___^__^_ unit in strength, and

have laboured to ex-
ceed that unit. To
that end we have
matched our accumu-
lations of man power
(both in line and in
reserve), of gun and
munition power, and
we have gained, we
think, something that
is likely to give a
crushing superiority.
Perhaps this is only
theory. For in de-
ciding whether our
strength can do more
than the German
strength has done,
we have nothing to
help us. Germany
has done many things,
because she has al-
ways maintained a
full average of power ;
until now we have
never really worked
to full power. At the
same time, what Ger-
many has done we
can do, and do better ;
and what we have
done with something
less than our full
ability at the Somme
we should do better
when we get going

next time. Although the war of the next few
months will attain its decisions through military
rather than through political, economic, financial,
or " battle weariness " channels, there do appear a
number of indications supporting the assumption
that, both from the military and other points of
view, the people of Germany themselves regard
1917 as the year of decision. The German Com-
mand has adopted the entirely reckless air of a
gambler making his last throw. The submarine
extra-frightfulness, the callousness toward neutral
opinion, the hint of large armies gathered for a
desperate " break out " of the ring (an assault
that is anticipated, and will undoubtedly prove
useful as a means of attrition by the Allies), the

THE BELGIAN ARMY'S NEW COMMANDER-IN-CHIEF, IN PLACE

OF THE LATE GENERAL WIELEMANS : GENERAL RUQUOY.

Belgian Official Photograph.

Feb. 21. 1917

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l_New SenesJ~3

general tone of desperation to be perceived in all
German threats and rhetoric, seem to indicate
that, with Germany, this is the year of " win or
lose." I think it might be safe to assume that
nearly the whole of Germany is ready to win or
lose — that is, the hope of victory is a desperate
hope, the hope of a drawn war thought to be
unrealisable, and the thought of defeat seen to

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A WINTER WAR SILHOUETTE FROM THE WESTERN FRONT : AN ARTILLERY

COLUMN ON THE MARCH IN THE SNOW ALONG A TREE-LINED MAIN ROAD

IN THE OISE DISTRICT.— [French Official Pliotogrnp/i.]

be inevitable unless, by the greatest good luck,
chance favours Germany. If Germany does not
win this year, then the Germans will agree that
they have had enough of it. They will make
their last attempts, they will try and knock away
the keystone of the Allied strength by starving out
Britain, and, if that fails, they
will agree that their case is
hopeless — they will have done.
This is, of course, speculation ;
but at the same time it is
speculation based on what cir-
cumstantial evidence one can
obtain. The voice of Germany,
never particularly reticent,
seems to be speaking steadily
along these lines.

The strangle-hold on Great
Britain does not yet hold out
any rosy promise to Germany.
Our position, naturally, must
be taken seriously ; but as yet
there are no valid grounds for
congratulating the enemy. A
number of ships have been
sunk, some of big tonnage, but
the number does not seem to be
dangerously out of proportion —
it does not, for instance, com-
pare alarmingly with the number
sunk by German submarines in the early stages of
the war. Naturally, the British Navy has been
playing a part in the matter, and we have it on
authority that the methods for quashing the
attack are meeting with an appreciable amount of
success, and that the number of German sub-

mersibles made permanently submarine is satis-
factory. The Navy has shown in this type of
warfare a worthy flexibility, and has adapted its
tactics to the change of types and method of
enemy craft with consistent success. We are now
laying our plans to protect neutrals and safeguard
our shipping lanes, as we have done before, and
our ports still remain open. The American
situation as I write is, per-
haps, a little less tense,
though the future depends
on what the enemy may do
to American shipping, which
is once again sailing to Eu-
rope. There is a suggestion,
too, that German agents are
fomenting trouble in Cuba
and Mexico, in the hope of
pinning the attention and
activity of the United States
to points not painful to Ger-
many. Elements of danger-
ous irritation might well de-
velop from those quarters.
The future of the whole neu-
tral attitude is, however, still
in the scales, as Germany is
talking unequivocally, but
she may be ready with
apologies once more.

The actions on the fronts
show a considerable virility.
There has been activity along the whole of
our line in the West from the Ypres salient to
St. Pierre Vaast. The raiding and patrol work of
our men is unceasing, and not only are we learning
much about the enemy's dispositions every day,
but we are keeping him thoroughly excited at all

IN

ON THE WESTERN FRONT UNDER SNOW : MOTOR - CARS IN THE MAIN STREET
THE TOWN OF MONTDIDIER, ON THE SOMME.— \FmKh Official Photograph.]

points. Some of these raids have been notable
events in themselves ; that at Arras, for instance,
drove its way through three lines of trenches and
did much practical and spiritual damage before
our men were satisfied. Some of the work, too,
has been rather more than raiding, for, again on

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Feb. 21. 1917

the Somme-Ancre sector, we have been snatching
points of vantage from the Germans. \Ve have
won good ground at Serre Hill, a point that has
shown itself difficult from the first, and we are
worming our way towards the advantage of the
high ground by I'uisieux-au-Mont. The ground
here has the same commanding nature as the
cresi s of Thiepval. and to take it from the Germans
will be to give us all
the dominance we
now hold from Beau-
mont-Ham el t o
Sailly. In the Grand-
court area we have
advanced again, and
taken further strong-
holds. Indeed, the
fighting on these
fronts has been ex-
ceedingly brisk, and,
without being — yet —
a great advance, it is
important enough in
its general tendencies
to merit the closest
attention.

In the East there
has been the usual
amount of indetermi-
nate fighting. The
Germans attempted
an action in the

for a rather ambitious assault delivered by
the Austrians against the Italian line east of
Gorizia. The attack gained a foothold, but
counter-efforts immediately straightened and
made good the dent.

The Kut campaign continues with excellent
success. General Maude's troops are making con-
sistent headway against the Turks, in spite df

strong resistance. By
fighting on both sides
of the river, the
whole of the Kut
bend has been
hemmed in save on
the land side ; and
by the capture of
the Liquorice Factory
and the strong works
making its defences,
the Turks have been
jammed into the
Dahra bend of the
Tigris west of Kut —
that is, between Kut
and Bagdad. This
success would seem
to give i.s a com-
mand of Kut town,
and it perhaps bars
the river route be-
tween Krt and Bag-
dad. The stroke may

FRANCE'S NAPOLEONIC EMBLEM OF VICTORY : AN EAGLE

AT SALONIKA, CAUGHT BY FRENCH SOLDIERS AND GIVEN

TO THE GREEK PATRIOT.

Photograph by Pliotopress.

Halicz area, and won some outposts by flinging bring about the fall of Kut without any grer-.t

four companies across the frozen Dniester. These' output of energy, for the Turks should find it

were in their turn repulsed. At the Bukovina- better policy to reorganise a new defence bc-

Roumanian knuckle the Austro-Germans, real-' tween us and Bagdad, 150 miles away, rather

ising the value of the Russian success on the than allow a force to be cut off in the small

Jacobeny

road, attacked

in force,

and with suc-

cess. The

Russians

were driven

from two

heights, and

two thousand

men were

captured.

The fight was

a fierce one,

but it is not

likelv to de-

velop more
than local
value. On
the Monastir
front the
enemy also
seems in-
cjined to at-
tack. A mass
e ff o r t w a s
sent out

FROM INTERNMENT IN

GERMANY: INDIAN PRISONERS OF WAR (AND ONE
BRITISH PRISONER) AT CHATEAU D'OEX, SWITZERLAND.

Reading from right to left, the names are : Sohar Singh (Punjabis) ; Sergt Cox (Lincoln
Reg,.) ; Dalbahadar Thapa JGurkta) ; Harkuman Libu (Gurkhasi ; Ahmet Khan , Pun™ S°mme

Sadak Khan (Sikhs) ; Margulat Khan (Punjabis).— [Photo, by S. and G.]

igainst the Italian lines to the east of the town,
and at the first .mpact some works were lost.

peninsula.
The news
makes very
brave read-
i n ^ , and,
again allows
us to see how
well we are'
working to
hold reserves
from Europe.
At t.he
time of writ-
ing, the Ger-
man s an-
nounce a suc-
cess in Cham-
pagne. The
enemy claim
to' ha v e
stormed the
lines at Ri-
pont, near
Tahure and

on a front of
2200 yards,

taking 20 machine guns and 858 prisoners. The
French say that after exploding mines the enemv
These were regamed. The same story holds good entered a salient, but only at a heavy cost.

LONDON : FRB. 17, 1017.

Keb. 21. 1917

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(• Part 37 1.
LNew series J °

Hftcr Snow, JMud Hgain in the TTrcnches.

HOW A MUD-FILLED TRENCH IS KEPT PASSABLE : A WOODEN GANGWAY IN A FRENCH TRENCH.

With the melting of tht snow, the trenches And their surroundings
onct mnre become a set of mud, and communications become
diffi. .,.• In order to keep the floor of the trenches comparatively
nun! and more easily passable, a wooden paring is laid

clea<

along it in sections, as shown In the above photograph, taken in a
communication-trench at Soy'-court, a village behind the French

lines south of the Somme, a few miles south-west of Pcronnc.
Writing from the French front during the frosty weather, Mr. K.
Warner Allen said : " The cold has had the great advantage of
freefing the moisture in the ground, and the ironbound toil is
certainly loss prejudicial to the health of troops, properly equipped
and clothed, than the irud, their worst enemy."— {Photo, by t'.-V.i

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Feb. 21. 19)7

on the Battlefield, facing the enemy.

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BAYONET-FIGHTING IN GAS-MASKS : RECRUITS BEING TAUGHT PRACTICALLY AT A TRAINING-CAMP.

While the call of the Army for more, and ever more, men is being
complied with by a general "comb-out" of mtn of military age
hith*rt > i -i .ined on other work at home, thote ilremdy enrolled
and call") up, but not yet tent to the front, tre ceaselessly umler-
instruttioa *t training-centres All OTer the country. A* has
the rule ever since the war began, only actual battlefield

methods tre t*ught. In the upper illustration, a squad is seen
practising bayonet-fighting in two opposing lines. Their fixed
bayonets are sheathed as a precaution against accidents, and the
men are ell wearing gas-masks. In the lower ilh.fc^'.ion an
instructor, with a rod bearing a ring, is giving a rec:...: i lesson
in straight thrusting.- [Phctos. by C.K.\

K«b. 21. 1*17

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Feb. 21, 1917

tlbe feeding of our Western-front Hrmies.

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PROCEEDING HOURLY : STORE-SHIPS LANDING PROVISIONS ; MOTOR-LORRIE* LOADING AT A RAIL-HEAD.

When, after the War, as will no doubt be the case, * Parliamentary
Paper is Issued on the subject of the commissariat shipping, or
store-ship service specially connected with the carrying of food
•torn for the British armies in the Field, the figures shown will
'probably be staggering for most people. The upper illustration here,
a photograph on a normal day, at only one of the ports at which

British comtiMssariat bases are established, it suggestive in that
regard. Not cnly are ships seen packed side by side along the
quay, but the masts and funnels of yet others loom through the
winter mist. Train*, as the lower illustration show- Mkc the stores
from the quays to the railheads, whence motor-lorries convey them
to the field-depots, — [Official Photographs.}

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TTbe feeding of our Slestcrn-front Hrmies.

COMMISSARIAT ORDER AND EFFICIENCY : INTERIOR OF A STOREHOUSE ; YEAST-SACKS STACKED.

Completeness in detail* of organisation and practically designed
working regulations bated on war-experience, coupled with incessant
activity and effect iv trained supervision, are the guiding features
and lading cltar-. . i tics of the system employed for the pro-
vinonmf of th? B.'-.-n Army or, rather, of course, aimies— on
the W.-fc'nn t- <•.-..'. vith which war sphtre, in particular, the illus-

trations here have to do. Very similar methods in essentials
hold for the food-supply service in other war-areas. An instructive
interior glimpse inside one of our gr;at army storehouses at *
commissariat base is afforded in the upper illustration. The lower
illustration shows a storage place for sacks of yea*i while en route
to the Army bakehouses. — [Official PhotoRraf)lt\.

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21. 1917

THE BEGINNINGS OF WAR - MACHINES : MILITARY BICYCLES.

ONE of the earliest single-track vehicles, carry-
ing a man and propelled by man po\v
which we have any record is the two-wheeled
" hobby-horse " which was shown in Paris in 1808.
The wheels of this machine were connected l>y a
top bar, or frame, carved to resemble a horse ; the
rider, sitting on this bar, propelled the vehicle by

thrusting back-
wards with his
toes on the
ground. A
similar machine
(Fig. i) was
made by Baron
von Drais at
Mannheim in
1818; and
another (Fig. 2)
was introduced
in Fngland in
the same year
by Dennis
Johnson, a
coach - builder
of Long Acre.
It is said that
a speed of ten

FIG. II.— FRENCH MILITARY BICYCLE
FOLDED FOR CARRYING.

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miles an hour was attained by this machine on
level ground.

Fig. 3 shows one of Johnson's machines of
1819. in which the steering was controlled by a
curved rod attached to the front wheel-fork and
extending backwards to the rider's hand. The
last-named machines were provided with trans-
verse arm-rests, designed to assist in balancing
them. In 1839, a Scotsman named Kirkpatrick
Macmillan constructed the first bicycle propelled
by treadles and cranks. Macmillan 's machine had
wooden wheels with iron tyres, the axles running
in brass bearings. The rear wheel acted as the
driver, cranks, keyed to its axle-ends, being con-
nected by rods with swinging levers pivotted near
the steering-head. These levers carried wooden
treadles at their lower ends. A machine, arranged
on similar lines (Fig. 4), was the invention of
another Scotsman, Garvin Dalziel, in the year
1846. The disadvantages inseparable from a com-
plicated system of levers, such as that adopted in
the two last-named machines, were eliminated by
M. Lallemont in his 1866 bicycle (Fig. 5), in which .
he employed a drive, effected by pedal cranks
keved on the ends of the front-wheel axle. Balance
weights, attached to the lower faces of the pedals
themselves, were designed to keep their upper
surfaces always horizontal, and in that way in a
convenient position to engage the rider's feet.
The so-called " bone-shaker " (whose period was
1865 to 1869— Fig. 6) is exactly the same in
general principle as the high, 01 " ordinary,"
bicycle which followed it and universally held the
field until superseded by the rear-driven " safety "
bicycle of to-day. This change took place about
the year 1888. Fig. ^ shows one of the " ordinary "

bicycles ridden by a French soldier in 1866, a time
\vhen this fvpe of machine was still in general use.
The rapid advance in popularity of the " safety "
bicycle since 1888 has been largely due to the
introduction in that year of the pneumatic tyre,
an invention which, it is notorious, has revolution-
ised road transport of all kinds.

In 1830 country postmen in some parts of
France were provided with " Dandy-horses " such
as that illustrated in Fig. 3, but little success
attended the venture. The weather and roads
were such as effectually to prevent it. Military
Cyclist Corps are capable of good work in countries
where suitable roads are available, rapid and silent
movements of large bodies of such troops being
easily attained. The fact also that the mounts
take care of themselves whilst the riders are
actually fighting enables the C.O. of such units to
employ all his men to the best advantage. Small
bodies of cyclists prove very useful when required
for surprise raids, or to destroy bridges, rail-
ways, etc. ; but their chief utility, perhaps, lies in
despatch-carrying. For that particular duty a
skilful rider on a motor-bicycle is without doubt
the most rapid and reliable agent in existence,
when the road conditions are practicable.

The introduction of the military cyclist appears
to date from 1875.
Italy first em-
ployed them during
the manoeuvres of
that year for carry-
ing messages. Ten
years later, in 1885,
armed cyclists
were employed by
Colonel Tamplin as
scouts during the
Easter manoeuvres
in England. Fig. 8
shows an English
military cycle with
rifle in position for
transport. The
whole outfit, in-
cluding the rifle,
weighed about
5&lb. Fig. 7
shows the French
military despatch-
rider of 1886.

The Austrians
in 1896 and the
French military au-
thorities in i 898
carried the development of the military cycle a
step further by introducing a machine which
could be folded and carried on its rider's back on
emergency. Figs. 9, 10, n, and 12 illustrate such
machines, the weight of the folding bicycle being
about 28 Ib. But little use was made of the
military cyclist during the Boer War (1899-1902),
nor during the Russo-Japanese War of 1904.

FIG. 12. — FRENCH MILITARY

CYCLIST WITH HIS FOLDED

MACHINE ON HIS BACK.

K.t>. 21. 1911

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"Che Beginnings of Cttar Machines : Military Bicycles

DXVMDY- MOKSku
(DENN1& UOHNMON )
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OANr.iY MORSE
(BARON VON DRAIS) 1818

HOBBY OR DANDY-HORSE
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FOKKRUNNKRo OF THE BICYCLE.

DALZIEL/S BICYCLE: 16.

ONESHAKER"cI869.

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AUSTRIAN CYCLUST SKIKMISHINCJ ISOfo

FORERUNNERS OF THE MODERN MILITARY BICYCLE: CONTINUOUS EVOLUTIONARY STAGES.

Since the termination of the Russo-Japanese War, until the out-
break of the present world-wide conflict, the military bicycle was
not called upon to show its capabilities in campaigning on any
notable scale. It was used to some extent with the Bulgarian,
Serbian, and Greek Armie* which took the field during the Balkan
Wars againiit Turkey of 1912 and 1 91 3, but the nature of the

terrain and the general course of the operations did not lend them-
serves to any notable performances in bicycle work. The .notary
bicycle was also in evidence to some extent during the Italian
campaign against the Tu.-ks in the hinterland of Tripoli. In both
these wars motor-dtiren military bicycles were used, and proved
their adaptability in meeting the demands of modern warfare.

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Feb. 21. »*17

feeding of our Cdestern-front Hrmies.

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VEGETABLES AND MEAT RATIONS : SACKING

Onions form a universal stand-by in thr composition of the soldiers'
field-ration, and a> a regulation article of diet. Vegetable! of all
kinds a> part of the food supply on service are, of course, of the
utmost Talue from a health point of view. Al fait as onion-loads
come in, they are collected in the commissariat store - build -
ings, shot down loose on the floor inside, and then, as teen in the

upper illustration, shovelled into sacks for the railways to take
forward. The second illustration is a port view of the arrival of
a meat-ship for the Western Front troops. The canvas-covered
" carcases " are trucked from the quays forthwith to empty meat-
Tan trains in waiting to start for the front. The familiar Napoleonic
axiom is never forgotten. — [Official Photograph^.}

J

K.b 21. 1917

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CPart SJ ~l ,
Nev. Serin l~>

TTbe feeding of our destem-front Hrmies*

BREAD RATIONS : FLOUR CARGO-SHIPS

The tuppljr of the >oldieri'
krpt up with continuous and
With the immense multitude
its organisation it on a C'l*n
probably more supply-ships c
than any other kind of T«we

read-rations at the Front ha* to be
lock work regularity whatever happens,
of our men on the Western Front,

c scale. If one may hazard a gu*M,

rryirif bread-stuffs cross the Channel

Some are always crossing day and

UNLADING IN PORT ; AN ARMY BAKERY DEPOT.

nifht. The upper illustration shows the buslnets way in which

flour cargoes are dealt with as the ships arrive alongside thr quay!
at the ports of destination The sacks are whipped up from below,
lowered to the men waiting, and trundled off to the railway trucks.
In the lowei illustration, men of an Army bakery staff are seen, with
dough loaves ready for the oven*, — {Official

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Feb. 21. 1917

ROMANCES OF THE REGIMENTS: XXXVII. -THE ROYAL MARINES.

A CUE OF WALTER SCOTTS.

A CORPS, the traditions of which are to-day
incorporated with 'ie Royal Marine Light
Infantry, had for its Lieutenant-Colonel during
the '45 the celebrated Clarke Whitefoord, an Ayr-
shire man, whose career was to supply Sir Walter
Scott with the central incident upon which ths
whole plot of " Waverley " turns. It was not,
strictly speaking, a regimental affair, for the
5th Marines were not actively engaged in putting
down the Rebellion, and it was only bv an
accident that Colonel Whitefoord played the
notable part he did on the field of Prestonpans.
When the rising under Prince Charlie began he
happened to be visiting his kinsfolk in Scotland,
and at first he looked upon the movement as a

looked after the artillery. He fired all the
guns discharged on that occasion ; stayed,
after he was deserted by all his immediate
followers, till he had expended all his powder ;
killed an Ensign, and knocked down the
Jacobite standard.

Finally, Whitefoord's battery of four
pieces was stormed and carried by the Camerons
and the Stewarts of Appin. Sword in hand and
alone, he faced his enemies, who were led by
Alexander Stewart of Invernahyle. Stewart called
upon the Colonel to surrender, and for answer
received a thrust which he caught on his target,
thereby disarming the Hanoverian. While he
stood defenceless, a gigantic Highlander, the miller

TO KEEP TOUCH WITH AEROPLANE OBSERVERS AND TAKE IN MESSAGES FROM INTERMEDIATE STATIONS
AND BASES: SETTING UP A FRONT-LINE "WIRELESS" STATION CLOSE BEHIND THE WESTERN BATTLE - FRONT.

French Official Photograph.

very slight affair. He believed it would end in
smoke, and to that effect he wrote to a friend.
For all that, being far from his own corps, he at
once volunteered for service under Sir John Cope
in Scotland, and refused to be Adjutant-General
or Aide-de-Camp with pay, " thinking it his duty
to serve His Majesty to the utmost without any
private view." As Commissary, Whitefoord did
a great deal of useful routine work, of which
the official records are preserved. His transport
services were most valuable, and he refused *to
charge even his personal expenses in that
connection,

At Prestonpans " he acted, though unqualified,
,i< Engineer," which seems to mean that he

of Invernahyle, raised his Lochaber axe and
in another moment would have dashed out
Whitefoord's brains. But Stewart intervened,
and prevailed upon the Colonel to yield. He
took his prisoner under his own protection,
looked after his property, and obtained his
release on parole.

Captor and captive became extremely
friendly, and later in the struggle, when
Invernahyle returned to the Highlands to raise
fresh recruits, he broke his journey in Ayr^
to pay the Whitefoord family a visit. \v
and Jacobite passed the time together as
pleasantly and as good -humou redly as if all
had been at peace around them, tcauaa^,/ ,-,

.• i i»n

THE ILLUSTRATED WAR NEWS.

r Part 37

Ol.tb the HUics on the dcstcrn Balkan front.

THE MACEDONIAN WAR-ZONE : IN KADZA

The sort of country across which the Allies on the western winf
- Salonika Army are operating;, in and beyond the Monastir
tficn, n veil shown h-re. The locality, u named in the caption
thr phxtofraph. i> the T*ll*y at the Kadn Oere, one of the
l' ri»er», MMPT amonf the outlying spurs of the Balkans, which
r*r«ri< Western Macedonia. The lirer is seen in the nearer

DERE

VALLEY A STONE-BREAKING MACHINE.

Beyond, the rallry is dotted with »n>(: of the
Allies. On this side of the river is shown a military matl <*^de by
the Allies (where none existed b»f"t*> running ptrsllel to the river,
and in the fore(round s str,n--breal'ini; m-.diine far r>"itldin; road
metal, a mechanical wsr-*uxi!iary, inTented for civil . life pin poses,
imported by the Allies. - \frntk O/ficul

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K.b. 21.

1

Thore the Romantic Muse of Fact might
have been content to leave the story, to be
rounded off by the Muse of Fiction. But this
time she went one better, and herself supplied
the complete and satisfying sequel, where the
situation is entirely reversed and the beneficiary
becomes the benefactor, as should be in any
well-devised fable.

When the Jacobite cause went wrong
at Culloden, Mr. Alexander Stewart be-
came an outlaw and a fugitive. Wounded
and in great pain, he lay for many days
hidden in a cave on his own estate, within
ear-shot of a party of English sentinels.
So near was he that he cor Id hear their
daily roll-call. His little daughter, eight
years old, brought him his food, mana-
ging her difficult mission with extraordinary
common - sense and cunning. The small
person made friends with the soldiers,
played about their camp, and watched her
chance to approach her father's hiding-
.place and lay down the provisions.

News of Mr. Stewart's proscription
having reached Colonel Whitefoord, he
lost no time in using his influence with
the authorities in his friend's favour. But
he found it an uphill task at a moment
when noble Highland heads were falling
under the executioner's axe. To the Lord
Justice Clerk and the Lord Advocate he

in the highest quarters would serve his turn
So he applied to the Duke of Cumberland—
not very hopefully, perhaps, for the Butcher was
the last man in the world to be moved by sen-
timent. And so it turned out. Cumberland gave
a positive refusal.

Still persistent, Whitefoord tried, if he

TRENCH KIT AND NECESSARIES — WINTER CAMPAIGNING

STYLE- TWO "PALS" STOP WHILE PASSING BETWEEN

THE LINES TO EXCHANGE OPINIONS.

Official Photograph.

went in vain, and thence to all the officers
of State. It was the same in every case. They
produced to him a list in which Stewart's name
was ' marked with the sign of the beast." For
such there could be no pardon.

A REPRESENTATIVE OF OUR FAR-EASTERN ALLY ON THE WESTERN FRONT:

A JAPANESE COLONEL (LEFT) ABOUT TO MAKE AN AEROPLANE FLIGHT

WITH A FRENCH PILOT OVER THE SOMME BATTLE-AREA.

Frtti:Ji Official

Whitefoord's consideration with the House of
Hanover, was more than considerable, and he
was determined not to be. defeated, if application

could not get his ell, to get at least an inch,
and thereby keep the door open. If the
Duke could not consider the case of the
chief offender, would he grant a protection
to the outlaw's house, wife, children, and
property ? To this plan
Cumberland was as to the
other.

The refusal spurred White-
foord to the last and most
magnanimous act of this
little drama of chivalry.
Taking out his commission,
he laid it on the table before
his Royal Highness, and,
with deep emotion, asked per-
mission to retire from the
service of a Sovereign who
did not know how to spare
a vanquished enemy.

Whitefoord's skilful allu-
sion to the merciful treat-
ment he had received from
Stewart pierced even the thick
hide of Cumberland. He was
struck, and even affected.
Bidding the Colonel take up
his commission, he granted
the required favour. It was
issued just in time to s:i\«:
the ho»^» corn, and cattle ;-,(
Invernahyle, already given over to plundoi
Stewart was pardoned under the. Act of In
demnity.

.-J

Feb. 21. 1917

THE ILLUSTRATED WAR NEWS

dorks of piety and Mercy at the front*

WITH THE RUSSIANS FIGHTING IN FRANCE : A HOSPITAL AND A CHURCH.

The unmistakable vein of ttrong religious feeling which is tn« of
the moct conspicuous feature* of the war is nowhere more evident
than in the ranks of the Russian Army. Throufhout all the
Allied Annie* the religious spirit, often amounting to fervour, has
twcn manifested in many ways ; aa, too, has the devotion of the
"of all denominations." With the Russians, with whom

religion is an instinct, this feeling has prompted much good woik,
of which our photographs are two examples. No. i shows tlit
Hospital at the Russian camp on the Mam* ; the second, a chat •
on the French front built by Russians fighting in that war-aie*
It is a plain building, but the cupola and the Creek ciou
Its sacred purpose.— [Frtnck Official Photographs.]

!i

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THE ILLUSTRATED WAR NEWS.

Feb. 21. 1917

rrencb Life Hbove and Under Ground.

ON THE SOMME AND CHAMPAGNE FRONTS : RECONNOITRING AMID WIRE ; A FRENCH OFFICERS' DUG-OUT.

There is a sharp contrast between these two photographs, taken in
different setf'irs of the French front. In the upper one a French
•oldirr ii «wn crawling on his stomach in the snow amid a net-
work of barbed-wire entanglements, to reconnoitre the enemy's
position. This photograph was taken in the Somme district, near
E«reex. Tbr other one, taken at Tahure, in Champagne, shows

some French officers reading and writing in a cosy dug-out a gi?ud
many feet underground. A fox terrier, it will be seen, is ? popular
member of the party. A French official communique oi T+r* •'. j-y 14
stated, with regard to operations in this part of t)u iront :
"During the night there were patrol encounters in the irgron of
Soiuons «nd in Champagne near Tahure." — [Piatto*. bv T./V.1

Fob. 21. 1917

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f tin s; -I , ,

I New Srrie,J-l*

"The princess," with a Difference: H Serbian 7eanne d'flrc.

TFNNYSON, TRANSFORMED BY EVENTS : SERGEANT-MAJOR FLORA SANDES WEARING HER DECORATION.

'" "The Printers," Tennyson laid dewn a rate of life which the
conditions of war hare ruthlessly bioken. "Man lor the Held and
woinan lot the hearth, Man lor the iword and lor the needle »h«."
lo-lay. the war h«i called into the rankt of actual workers
mifliooa •>! womra, and here §i,.l there may be iound a woinan
m Un raoka ol the combatanU. One of these, who has recorded

her experiences as a Serbian soldier, is Miss Flora Saudes. who
went as a nurse to Serbia, but carried a rifle » a Strgeant-Mnjor.
She was wounded by a Bulgarian hand-grenade, and decorated with
the Cross of Kara-George "for brarery in the field." Our photo-
graph shows her taking her Arst walk as a convalescent in th<-
streets ol Salonika.— [Official

20 - 1 ,£?£*) - THE ILLUSTRATED

. .

Brave JVlcn who have fought &o Gatlantl

•HIS MAJESTY VISITING AN AUSTRALIAN CONTINGENT ON

F.b. 21.

>e King's Hppreciation of Overseas tlroops.

PLAIN : INSPECTING THE RANKS IN OPEN ORDER.

.1 the Opening o. Parliament, when wounded Wldi*. of the Dominion, at his

al G.llerylo L the State proc,»ion, and the word, of greetmg •***»*. ° «h«m m the ,

i who h*». fought »o gallantly for m« «nd my country. ^c **"

i \

[N^'"s5,~J-THE ILLUSTRATED WAR NEWS.. K.b. 21. 1917

Shore training of

Gunners for the f lecti

L

WHERE BLUEJACKETS LEARN BY MANUAL PRACTICE ON LAND HOW TO USE THEIR WE

Whale Island, Portsmouth Harbour, has for years been the main gunnery school establishment of the Navy. It takes its ni
from a reclaimed mud-bank, the shape of which had a fancied resemblance to a whale lying at the surface. Embanked, draii
and consolidated into firm ground, a regular town of buildings for the use of the gunnery establishment now covers the *

THE ILLUSTRATED WAR NEWS, K.b. 21. HI7-[NJ?HLJ-»I

Guns and Currcts with (florking Mechanism.

,Y AS IN

1 men

ACTION AT SEA : WHALE ISLAND BATTLE-SHIP TURRETS AND GUNS.

through gunnery courses, training in sheds equipped as casemated batteries, and turrets _«nd_l^"_r.bett«_^*^d **h

- through gunnery courses, training in sheds equipped as casematea Dane les, ana s

,.f gun used at sea and detail of machinery as on board ship. Two dummy turrets are seen here, showing wood,
made with real breech-mechanism and mount.ng. and loaded by hydraulic power or eUctricity.- IP*<*>. by N^pap* /««*««,o»,.l

THE ILLUSTRATED WAR NEWS.

Feb. 21.

Briagc-OTorh, Transport and Sbell-fiavoc in the Balkans*

ON THE BALKAN FRONT : INDIAN TRANSPORT ON A SAND-BAG BRIDGE ; A CAPTURED VILLAGE.

The importance of the bridge- building work of the Royal Engineers
in the Balkans wai evident from General Milne's last Salonika
despatch. Thus he writes that on one occasion ' ' a sudden rise
of three feet in the Struma interfered with the bridging operations";
and later : "The river itself formed a potential danger, owing to
the rapidity with which its waters ris* after heavy rain in the

mountains, but by the night of September 29, sufficient bridges
had been constructed by the Royal Engineers for the passage of
all arms." In the upper photograph we see a bridge of timh*.r
and sandbags built across flood-water, with Indian transport mule-
carts passing Jver it. The lower shows aome British officers amid
the ruins of a captured village in Macedonia.— [Official Pfotv.rnpks.}

K«b 21. 1917

THE ILLUSTRATED WAR NEWS

t P.irU7 T ,
I Nr« S«ri«isJ~*

t:hc Ravoc of Cttar in Balkan Villages.

SCENES LIKE THOSE OF THE SOMME : A CAPTURED VILLAGE ON THE BRITISH BALKAN FRONT.

Villages on the Balkan front hare inevitably suffered from thrll.
(Ire, in the lame way at those of Northern France and Flanders
which hare fallen under the devastating blight of war. At the
<• "c.fnt of writing, the mott recent newt from the Salonika front
u (iren in a French comrnuniqui'-, which lajri : "The weather
harin( intproved a little, operation! hare become more actire.

There wu artillery fighting on the Strurna and the Vardar. British
raids on Palmit and in the refion of Doiran roulted in the capture
of some prisoners. Between the Tcherna and Lake Prespa the
bombardment is especially violent." In the lower photograph three
British officers are seen exploring the ruins of a captured village
-{Official Photograph.}

THE ILLUSTRATED WAX NEWS.

K«b. 21. 1911

FOOTNOTES TO ARMAGEDDON: XXVIII. - MOSSOP.

MOSSOP was a large, fat man vitiated by
mildness. He was five-foot-eleven. and his
chest was forty-nine expanded ; but he would
almost say " Thank you " when detailed for
" grub " fatigue. Also he was thought to be

CONVALESCENT SOLDIERS HAVING A "JOY RIDE" NEAR LONDON

WITH SNOW ON THE GROUND: COMRADES ON A MOTOR -CYCLE

GIVING A SLEIGH TRIO A FAST RUN IN TOW.

Photograph by C.N.

entirely incapable of saying "bo" to a lance-
corporal.

Mossop wasn't a fool. He was not always
grinning, and on the whole he wasn't dense. He
was just serene. If Buddha came
again to earth, he would probably
be just such a man as Mossop.
He would go his way calmly, un-
gingered by sergeants, unhurried by
anything, and he would be a most
uncongenial man to quarrel with.
It takes two to make a quarrel, and
enjoy it. Mossop would never be
the other one. It was not that he
was too dull to take fire at anger :
he just didn't 'notice. He hadn't
the fire or the devil or the requisite
explosive force in him, it was agreed.
He was — we come to it again — too
mild, too serene and gentle forpassion.

The instructors used to look .at
his magnificent torso, crow with de-
light (as instructors will), and men-
tion aloud that " a fine big lad like
you '11 make a clinkin' infantry-
man." That was before the in-
structors had tried their wills on
Mossop. After a spell of Mossop,
they told the Platoon Commander
that the only job that would fit the

It may not be thought so, but the Army is not
so much a machine as a corporation in which
everyone and everything is, by the slow and
gradual processes of adaptation, gradually settled
into his (or its) natural nick. The Army fully
recognises that some men, a few
men out of every several thousand,
are entirely unfitted for fighting.
" The Army acts according." Mos-
sop was recognised as one of these
rare birds. Mossop became the
assistant of the Quartermaster.
The job suited him. Where his
unmistakable mildness and lack of
devil simply beggared up all his
work as a fighting private, his easi-
ness and calmness enabled him to
weather the tornadoes of the " store "
with an unwilting serenity. He had
dropped into the right 'slot. He
was too hopelessly mild as a soldier ;
as a storekeeper he was perfection
unruffled.

He went to France, and con-
tinued his excellence with gentle
zeal. He wasn't a coward — it
mustn't be thought that mildness
is cowardice — but he was simply in-
capable of fighting. Once he was
up in the trenches when a raid went
out. To test theories, Mossop was sent out with
the party. He foozled. He simply stood about
and nearly got himself killed. He could have
killed the German who did his best to extinguish

MECHANICAL TRACTION IN THE "SNOW BROTH" AND WINTER MUD
OF THE WESTERN FRONT: A "CATERPILLAR" ENDLESS - CHAIN
TRACTOR CHURNING ITS WAY OVER STIFF GROUND

French Official Photograph.

large, mild man would be the Orderly Room or
permanent " cook-house," or a batman's job.
Mossop and decent, vigorous, slaughterous soldier-

ing were not compatible.

him, but someone else had to do it. He couldn't
use a bayonet, or fire a rifle, or fling a bomb.
He was merely a large, palpitating kindness of
heart, as the outraged raiding officer reported.

-'.< ,

F«b. 21. 1917

THE ILLUSTRATED WAR NEWS.

H Somme Battlefield in its

SNOW ON THE SOMME FRONT: A BATTLEFIELD NEAR CL§RY ; AND AN ARTILLERY 4< O. PIP."

Just *s time has power "to make old bareness picturesque, " so
thr mantle of snow which recently orerspiead the Somme battle-
fields lent a touch of beauty to scenes of havoc. But the pic-
tuicMjueness of snow is shortlived, and the lait state of a landscape
which it paints in transient white is generally worse than the first.
In the** photograph* the power* of destruction are jrimry eridcnt

under the canopy of innocence. Wrecked buildings and shattered
timbers Indicate that the (uns have been at work here. Cltry, it
may be noted, is a village on the Somme a little north-west of
Pcronne, and between that town and Combles, s region where the
British front was lately extended. Artillery activity there was
mentioned in recent communiques. — [PJtolox. by C.\M

THE ILLUSTRATED WAR NEWS.

Feb. 21, 1917

Mossop, without any great sign of being shaken,
went back to " store " again.

When the front got well ahead, and the far-
flung first line was located somewhere vaguely in
that vast jumble of works where Hun posts were
mixed up with ours, Mossop was sent forwaid once
more. What the reason was doesn't matter.
What matters was that he went forward to where
the first line of his own regiment should have
beer, got lost, and found himself in an empty _
trench.

In the empty trench a rather curious thing
happened. It is curious because there is no
explanation, and there is no reason for its
happening. There was no ugly deed to start
a fire in the heart of Mossop, there was no
death to avenge, nor honour to be requited —
nor, on the whole, was his life in danger.

shooting. When the rifle was empty, he picked
up another. It was not loaded at all, and only
clicked as he pulled trigger. The Germans
thought this the right moment to rush him.
Mossop bayoneted the first man who rushed. He
missed the second with the steel, but frightened
him badly ; and the whole bunch began to run.
Mossop, possibly as calm as ever, ran after the
bunch. He picked up rifles where he could and
fired, or did not fire, as the case may be. He
picked up bombs too, and some of these went off,
though most did not ; but, whether .he used rifle
or bayonet or bomb, he certainly went after the
Germans. He chased them all down that traverse,
and all down another. The bunch (what was left
of them) switched into a communication-trench,
and Mossop chased them down that. A good
distance along the traverse the way was blocked

RESEMBLING THE BASEMENT FOUNDATION-WORKS FOR A BIG PUBLIC INSTITUTION IN COURSE OF ERECTION:
A SOLDIER'S DUG-OUT CANTONMENT ON THE UPPER MARNE FRONT.

French Official Photograph.

What .happened was this. Mossop found
himself in an inexplicable trench, and rather
lonely-. It was scattered all over with discarded
rifles, bombs, and the like ; but there were no
men, either British or Hun. Mossop walked with
his usual serenity along the trench, looking for his
regiment.

He walked the length of it, and came to a
traverse. He walked round the traverse and
found himself facing a body of twelve Germans.

It was an entire surprise. The Germans were
fully armed ; but they were, at first, too startled
to use their arms on Mossop. They merely stood
and gaped. Mossop stared at them. Then he
bent down, picked up a rifle, and began firing.

The rifle (a German one), luckily for Mossop,
had a full clip in it, so that when he had shot the
first man, he was also able to shoot the second.
The rest backed away, and Mossop walked on,

by a shell-burst ; the remnant of the German
group, a little timid of going above ground, turned
and tried to stand. Mossop had a rifle with a
full clip in his hand at the time, and, alter he'
had fired into the brown, the three that remained
out of the remnant five decided that anything
would be better than Mossop. They scrambled
up the earth, and began to run along the level.
Luckily for them, they ran full tilt into a handful
of our men (not of Mossop's battalion) and saved
themselves by surrender.

Mossop, having fired away his clip, threw away
the rifle, and climbed up to the level. He saw
what had happened, and smiled mildly. • He
walked up to the British and said that he thought
it was hot, and he asked the way to his battalion.

When he was told he walked on, quite serenely,
not even throwing a look at the captured Ger-
mans, w. DOUGLAS NEWTON.

L

i-.b. 21. 1917

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^ "Not Dissatisfied" with the Hnti-Submarine Measures.

THE FIRST SEA LORD AT A MANSION HOUSE MEETING : ADMIRAL JELLICOE ; WITH LORD DERBY.

Sincf he exchanged the command of the Grand Fleet for the
position of First Sea Lord, Admiral Jellicoe has retained the nation's
entire confidence. In the recent debate in the Lords on the sub-
a arine question, the most reassuring statement was the allusion to
his virw -if the position. Lord Curcon said that "Admiral Jellicoe
*nd those who acted with him were not dissatisfied with what

they had done in the put fortnight. They were not dissatisfied,
either, with the number of German subnu,un-» which would nrver
return again to their own shores." Our ;•? "toi--.\i'h shows Admiial
Jellicoe, between Lord Derby and the Lord M.i . - v »h* meeting
of the Women's United Services League at the M«>~ut. House on
February 14. — \l'hi>tr>. by Illustration* Hurcnu

THE ILLUSTRATED WAR NEWS.

Feb. 21. 1917

Hir "Liaison" Service on the Western front.

"WIRELESS" VAN: TRANSMITTING
Motor-vehicles, specially framed and fitted, and completely equipped
with apparatus as travelling wireless "stations," are in con-
tinuom rraployment all along the (ront. They are proving indis-
pensable (or maintaining communication with aircraft and for
passing messages alone, as well as for receiving and transmitting
messages at intermediate points, besides serving a number of other

A MESSAGE; RECEIVING AND RECORDING.

emitting . mMM([e. Tht ,„
ding a message.— (Fmuk Official Photographs.}

h«b. 21. 1917

THE ILLUSTRATED WAR NEWS.

I New Series!

Overseas forces on the Western front.

SOUTH AFRICAN GAS ALARM-POST TRENCH SENTRY: STRIKING THE BELL TO GIVE WARNING.

Gas-attacks by the enemy are expected by our men at any time,
whenerer the *iud blows from a likely quarter. Nowadays,
however, we Ukc »a--ttucks aa being "all in the day's work,"
to to speak, snd pirrunanons to defeat them are made as a
mailer of routine. E»ery soldier carries hia gat-malk on him ;
adequate medical antidotea ar. at hand ; while, to enturt due warn-

ing being grren of the letting-off of a gaa-cloud, the instant th«
greenish-yellow rapour i» aeen riaing abore the enemy'a front
trenche., alirm-bells are clanged which giv,- lime for the taking of
precautions. A gas-bell trench alarm-post, with a sentry of the
South African Contingent pulling the clapper to (ire warning, is
shown in the illustration.— IQffci.il Photograph.)

«"J5«,] -THE ILLUSTRATED WAR NEWS. Feb. 21. 1917

tTbc HUice' Command of the Sea in S

FRENCH NAVAL DOCKYARD PORT OF TOULON: MEDITERRANEAN SHI,
JUlon, France s Mediterranean Portsmouth, serves for the war as a head c f Air

landlocked expanse of T«.,I«., u—i .." "" 1* ° . . sea act'T'*y- There uit both naval ai

repa'inKlhipi- refitting-b"ins'

' etc-

.11 equipped with every dockyard facility for building ai
>ers, torpedo-craft, submarines, mine-sweepers, and numero

THE ILLUSTRATED WAR NEWS, Fd> .21. l»17-[N«'"'s^«]- 33

the U^Boat Menace —an ObjectsLeeson.

) ALONGSIDE ON THE GREAT HARBOUR'S ALWAYS CROWDED WHARVES.

. lood and cargo vessels, and mail ihips, use Toulon Harbour, and iti docks (a corner of which it shown above) hare always
It alongside the wharves. According to M. Marcel Hutm, in the " Echo de Parit." on one day (February 12) after the German
effort had been a fortnight at work, no fewer than lit vessels entered the French port*.— [Frtiuli Official Photograph.)

THE ILLUSTRATED WAR NEWS.

b. 21. I»I7

WOMEN AND THE WAR.

\XTOMEN*S work is so much a matter of course
these days that there is a danger some-
times of the needs of individual societies being
overlooked ; and the Empire Fair held at the
Savoy last week, besides helping to swell the
exchequer of the
Women's Auxili-
ary Force, served
as a reminder of
the splendid work
being accom-
plished by that
rather unique or-
ganisation.

A society of
women banded
together for pur-
poses of war work,
is, of course, no
novelty in these
days of ubiquit-
ous woman. But
the Women's
Auxiliary Force
has a rather
special claim to
distinction, for
its members are
recruited almost
entirely from the

WAR-WORKERS' RECREATION— KEEPING FIT INDOORS WHILE THE

WINTER WEATHER MAKES OUT-OF-DOOR EXERCISE DIFFICULT:

A MIDDLESEX HOSPITAL RED CROSS NURSE SCULLING WITH

MECHANICAL APPARATUS.-[PAi>to«ra/>* by Alficri.}

their country ; and, in the second place, to utilise
to the best advantage the services of those who,
with only limited leisure hours at their disposal,
were ready and anxious to " do their bit." Like
most organisations, the W.A.F. arranges classes

for its members,
all of whom are
expected to take
a course of train-
ing in First Aid
and Nursing.
Those with super-
abundant energy
can, if they like,
study cooking,
sewing, knitting,
signalling, scout-
ing, cycling, fire-
drill, and other
subjects; for
these are progres-
sive days, and one
never knows in
what new and un-
accustomed direc-
tion we may be
asked to break
out. Due atten-
tion, too, is paid

ranks of working women— shop-assistants, superior
factory-workers, and the like : so that all the work
accomplished has to be done during the members'
free time, which
implies, as every-
one will readily
understand, no
small amount of
self-sacrifice on
their part.

The " Force"
was founded in
May 1915, by
which time the
war was in full
swing, and a
large number of
women's organ-
isations were al-
ready "going
concerns." It
therefore started
at an advantage,
for the promoters,
profiting by the
experience of
others, were able
to guide the ener-
gies of members in directions where they were
likely to be of the greatest service. The main
idea was to train women and girls in useful sub-
jects, putting before them the duty vof serving

WAR-WORKERS' RECREATION— KEEPING FIT INDOORS WHILE THE
WINTER WEATHER MAKES OUT-OF-DOOR EXERCISE DIFFICULT-
MIDDLESEX HOSPITAL RED CROSS NURSES HAVING A BOUT WITH

THE FOILS.—

to physical con-
siderations, and a
special point is made of infantry drill and gym-
nastic exercises. People who are young and " fit"
become " military " members, and as such are

entitled to wear
a simple, incon-
spicuous, and —
most important
point — inexpen-
sive navy - blue
uniform with a
brown leather
belt. They are
expected to de-
vote at least two
hours a week to
the work of the
" Force," a pro-
viso which shows
that the " powers
that be " have a
sympathetic ap-
preciation of the
special circum-
stances of the
Corps members.
Older women,
and those who
through ill-health
or home ties are

by A/fieri.}

unsuited to the more active side of the
work, are enlisted as " civilian " members
and wear, in lie,, of uniform, a distinctive
badge.

Kob. 21. 1817

THE ILLUSTRATED WAR NEWS.

Valuable dorh by Cdomen : H Roman's Hmbulance Service

WAR-STEP

THE L.C.C. : THE

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A WISE

Owing to the shortage of male labour, the London County Council
hu eitablkbed > Woman'l Ambulance Serrke upon thoroughly
pnctical and u«-!ul lina. The worh is done »cluti»ely by women,
who, in addilion to being fully qmlified in " Fir»t Aid," »re also
competent molot-diiren, cle«nrn, and rep«ir«il. Our flrit picture
thowi iome of the Corpi, with the Ambulance, ouuide the faiafc.

WOMAN'S AMBULANCE SERVICE AT WORK.

Our jecond ahow» memberi of the Corps finding the location of
a "call," bj means of the L.C C. Sectiona' Mop and Dir«-loijr,
the place of call being indicated by a number in the book which,
on reference, givn the exact location on the map, by m-MJ>» ol
which a turn-out c»n be made within a few tetond. of it;, -all
being receired.— [Photos. l>y Sf»<rt and GiMtrul?.

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Feb. 21. 1917

Pew and short as are their leisure hours, the
members of the W.A.F. have already supplied
large quantities of " comforts " for the troops
on the various fronts, and are, in addition, en-
gaged in other and more active forms of war-work.
One is the running of canteens, coffee-stalls, and
clubs for soldiers training in England. Several
of these have already been started, and a grateful

the Corps is nothing if not progressive, and,
despite a limited income, is hoping that, as fresh
members join, work will be further extended.

Societies are so numerous these days that
there is always a danger of " overlapping." To
do away with the possibility of anything of the
kind, the W.A.F. co-operates with as many other
organisations as possible. It is, for
instance, affiliated to the British
Women's Patriotic League, and
amongst the members serving on its
Committee are prominent V.A.D.
and League of Honour Workers. In
addition, it works with the Federa-
tion of Working Girls' Clubs, and
the National .Political League, while
a member of the Force serves on
the kindred Societies Committee of
the Girl Guides.

•

A BRANCH OF WOMEN'S WINTER WAR-WORK IN LONDON-SUPPLE-
MENTING THE DEFICIT IN MAN-LABOUR: " GOALIES" OF THE
"WOMEN'S LEGION" LOADING COAL AT A RAILWAY DEPOT TO
TAKE ROUND ON A MOTOR-LORRY.— [Photograph by L.N.A.]

army has not been slow to appreciate these efforts
made on its behalf. More, the work has been
carried on so successfully that no less a body
than the Army Council has thanked
the Corps for its services in this di-
, rection, a distinction of which the
Force is naturally not a little proud.
Further, the W.A.F. arranges enter-
tainments— really amusing ones —
for those soldiers whole and well,
and concerts and other diversions
to enliven the weary hours of con-
valescence of those who have fought
and suffered in the field. They used
to help with recruiting, and muni-
cipal authorities know that they can
reckon on the help of the local branch
of the Force when street collections
and other forms of charitable enter-
prise have to be undertaken.

Then, too, there are the Ambul-
ance Companies, who were, and still
are, ready to help in Zeppelin raids
and other emergencies ; and in this
connection one unit " somewhere in
London " is especially proud of the
fact that on every " raid " night
since its formation it has been
officially warned by the authorities
to " stand by " in case of necessity,
the Corps works, whenever possible, with and
under the local authorities, whom it is always
ready to help in any way that is feasible. For

But the Force hopes to carry on
long after the war that called it into
being is a thing of the past. When
peace comes it hopes to play a use-
ful part in the many difficulties that
will arise in adjusting the position
of women in the labour market, in
the general "clearing up" process,
and in other ways. There are plenty
of young women, who do not care
to join the ordinary girls' clubs, to
whom its drills and classes provide
an opportunity for healthy recrea-
tion ; and, peace or war, its members can continue
their work for their municipality and their country.
Last of all, if anyone wishes to become a patron of

A CANADIAN RED CROSS WAR - INDUSTRY RUN BY WOMEN— THE
TORONTO DOMESTIC REFUSE-COLLECTING DEPARTMENT: AN AUTO-
MOBILE FOR WASTE PAPER, ETC., WITH ITS
In January the Toronto Red Cross organised a " Four Days' Campaign
several million dollars. -[Photograph by S. and G.]

ATTENDANTS.

to raise

In general.

the organisation— it costs ^10— or to send a dona-
tion to assist in its work, they have only to write
to the Treasurer of the Women's Auxiliary Force
at 82, Victoria Street. S.W. CLAUDINE CLEVE

Feb. 21. 1917

THE ILLUSTRATED WAR NEWS.

P Part 37 1 „.
LNewSeriesJ-37

Cdintcr Rations for British droops in the T>enches,

BRITISH COMMISSARIAT METHODS : A RATION PARTY GOING TO THE TRENCHES ; SERVING STEW.

One of the modern method* of supplying hot food to the men in
the trenches is shown in the upper photograph, where the men are
seen carrying metal vessels slung between poles, scm;what after
the manner of stretchers, but resting on the shoulders. Sir Douglas
Haig, in his Somme despatch, praised highly the excellent work
done by the Army Service Corps and all concerned in the supply

of food to the troops. ' ' The maintenance of large armies, ' ' he
writes, " in a great battle under modern conditions is a colossal
task. Though bad weather often added very considerably to the
difficulties of transport, the troops never wanted for food, ammuni-
tion, or any of the varied requirements for supply of which these
Services and Departments are responsible." — [Official Photograph.}

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(_N>w Series J

==== I

]S[ot flamesprojectors, though Like ^bernj SouP

THE SUPPLY OF HOT SOUP TO BRITISH TROOPS AT THE FRONT : A RATION PA

The vessels used for carrying soup to the British trenches on the Western Front resemble to some extent in appearance the
flame-projectors introduced into modern warfare by the Germans. The likeness is increased by the fact that they are similarly
carried strapped on to the back. In the recent wintry weather a plentiful supply of hot soup must hare been exceedingly

THE ILLUSTRATED WAR NEWS. Feb. 21.

ontainers Carried on the Back for the 'Crencbee.

\s

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TING FOR THE TRENCHES, WITH SOUP-CONTAINERS STRAPPED TO THEIR BACKS.

:eptable to the men on duty in the trenches. The photograph affords evidence not only that our troops at the Front are
11 fed, but also well clad to withstand the rigours of winter. The men are wearing fur-lined tunics and, in most cases,
ollen gloves. On the left is a field-kitchen from which the supply of soup has been drawn.— [Official Photo^rapli.]

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THE ILLUSTRATED WAR NEWS.

Feb. 21. 1911

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Cdith the British Gunners on the Balkan front.

OBSERVATION DUTY: ON LOOK-OUT HIGH UP; PEEP-HOLE WATCHING AND TELEPHONE REPORTING.

Provided a place gives a sufficient view of the terrain on which
their guns fire, artillery observation officers are not particular about
where they establish themselves. Two contrasting kinds of observa-
tion-stations are shown above ; both on the Balkan Front. In
the upper illustration, a British observer and assistant watch from
a sort of belvedere, or the upper verandah of a house. One

watches through the telescope, the other checks off the places
mentioned on a staff map. In the lower illustration the observa-
tion-post is low down, apparently on the ground floor of a hillside
building, in darkness under fallen masonry ot the upper storey.
One officer notes the firing through a peep-hole, his companion
telephones the results of the shooting.- -[Official Photoffraph*.]

.Entered as Second-Class Matter at the Ne«t York (N.y.) Post Office, ,9,6.

The /llu*tratfd War Newt. Feb. 28, 19l7.-Part 38, New Series.

Illustrated War

IN THE TRENCHES ON THE MONASTIR FRONT : A FRENCH SENTRY'S POST IN THE ADVANCED LINE.

French Official Photograph.

THE ILLUSTRATED WAR NEWS.

Feb. 28. 1917

By W. DOUGLAS NEWTON.

U-BOAT DOINGS -40 FOUGHT IN 18 DAYS-ANCRE RAIDS- KUT SUCCESSES.

AN expert Fiench commentator has expressed
his opinion that the present phase of the
war must be considered one of meditation. In a
sense it is, and though the meditation is, on
occasion, so vigorous as to be indistinguishable
from powerful action, it is obviously true that the
whole scope of present developments is concerned
more with what is going to happen in a month or
two rather than what is happening now. This is
to be observed in all fields — not merely in the
military arenas of the West, East, South-West,
and Asia, but on the sea, and even in neutral
matters. On the sea it is obvious that the
Germans are playing not for a dramatic climax
now, but are out to whittle our carrying power
down, so that the grip of starvation must be felt
by us later. With the neutrals — especially with
the most powerful of the neutrals, the United
States — it is obvious that the period of " medita-
tion " occupying the leaders is one that may
develop — and, it seems, is developing — steadily
towards a very powerful climax that may soon
arrive to Germany's extieme disadvantage.

On the sea the period of meditation is con-
cerned with the battle of the U-boats and our
Navy ; the U-boats have as their aim the thinning
out our merchant fleets, so that we may be
starved out — not now, for we have supplies for

fair success. We have not finished with it by any
means ; but, as Sir Edward Carson has made us
understand, we have so far met it and fought it
that the balance of success is very usefully in our
favour. It is not helpful at all to be blind to the

THE HERO AND HELMET OF THE HOUR: "THE TIN
HAT," A FINE BUST IN BRONZE AT EPSTEIN'S EXHI-
BITION, AT THE LEICESTER GALLERIES.— [Photograph by C.N.]

some months, but later, when supplies have
dwindled and we mi'st renew them. It can be
justly said that we are meeting this menace with

LEADER OF THE DARING AND ADVENTUROUS MARCH
OF A BRITISH COLUMN ACROSS WESTERN PERSIA FROM
BUNDER ABBAS TO ISPAHAN AND TEHERAN : BRIGADIER-
GENERAL SIR PERCY SYKES, K.C.I.E.

When, at the close of the war, the full story of Sir Percy Sykes'
thousand-miles' march can be told in detail, it may prove, hinted
Lord Curzon in the House of Lords, as notable and useful an exploit
as any that has been achieved. — [Photograph by Elliott and Fry.}

fact that the Germans have had a greater measure
of success than they have had before ; but it is
only fair to balance this with the knowledge that
they have made a greater effort than before. On
Sir Edward Carson's figures, it seems to me that
the success the enemy has attained is small in
comparison to theii effort, and it is small when
compared with Germany's jubilation. This jubila-
tion is consciously and consistently extravagant.
In one item alone, for instance, we can gauge its
true value. This is the 'German declaration that
they have not lost one submarine in the new
campaign. This is proved untrue with ridiculous
ease. Quite apart from anything else that may
have happened to the forty submarines attacked
by our ships in eighteen days, we have captured
at least one crew of a damaged German sub-
marine, and the boat was sunk. Sir E. Carson
tells us there have been 6076 arrivals and 5873
departures at our ports during the time when our

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Feb. 28. 1917

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f Part 3S 1 ,
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seas were " swept clean." Well considered, care-
fully planned, and dangerous as is Germany's
intention under the sea, Germany has not de-
veloped the winning hand yet. Again, we must
all see that the situation is grave enough, but it is
by no means as grave for us as Germany thinks.
And the indications are very determinedly set
against its affecting the land war (as the Germans
hope it will) in any way in the future.

It may, indeed, affect the war as a whole in a
way uncom-
fortable to j_
Germany — I
that is, it will
affect the
neutrals more
than it will
affect us, and
through the
neutrals, both
directly and
indi^JJct ly,
Germany will
suffer. It is
more than
possible that
G ermany's
'unrestricted'
action has
simplified our
task in the
matter of the
new Order for
blockade.

Germany, with her usual ingenuousness, permitted
several free lanes of sea commerce for the use of
neutrals — lanes, it can be easily understood, which
not only served these neutrals, but would also
serve Ger-
many through
them. The
new British
Order aims to
close these
lanes effectu-
a 1 1 y, not
against the
neutrals, but
against Ger-
many. 'It or-
dains that
vessels sailing
to and from
countries
having access
to enemy
countries
must put in-
t o" British
ports (in spite

ONE OF GUYNEMER'S LATEST SUCCESSES : WRECKAGE OF A GERMAN AERO-
PLANE BROUGHT DOWN BY FRANCE'S "STAR" AIRMAN.

Although the latest return of Guynemer's aerial successes has not yet been officially made
public, it is stated that he has upwards of thirty enemy craft to his credit.- [Photograph by ("..V.j

itself felt in the States all
at any time now the critical
arrive. Geimany expects it,
will not relish it when it

THE U-BOAT PIRATES IN THE MEDITERRANEAN : A RECENT ITALIAN CAPTURE,

" U.C. 12," TAKEN FROM THE AUSTRIANS, BEING REFITTED FOR THE ITALIAN

SERVICE.— [Photograph by C.N.]

of Germany's

declaration

that our ports are blockaded) for examination,

or else run the risk of capture for examination

or Prize proceedings. This is a tightening up of

our blockade, and though it is a firm measure, it

in no wise departs from our usual rule. Its

stringency results from Germany's lawlessness on
the seas, and,., it might be said, has been made
reasonable by Germany's lawlessness. Obviously,
if Germany is to dictate, we must protect our-
selves by a like insistence. The Order should
prevent much leakage into enemy countries.

This is obviously one way in which Germany's
" unrestricted warfare " has hit back. An even
more practical disadvantage seems to be coming
from America. America is quiet, but it can be

seen that she

is woiking to
be ready for
any break.
Congress has
already given
PresidentWil-
son authority
to employ
armed force ;
measures have
been passed
to deal with
spies and any
other internal
enemies ; and
an a t m o s-
phere of readi-
ness is every-
where appar-
ent. The ten-
sion is not so
obvious, but
it is making
the same, and
moment may
but certainly
comes.

On the
Western front
there has
been the same
steady occur-
rence of move-
ment observ-
able in the
past few
weeks. This
has been,
again, nearly
all to the
credit of the
Allies, for the
attack in the
Champagne —
which had
the look, at
first, of a big
attempt
launched with
big intention
— wilted and
died under the admirable counter-fire of the
French. As a quid pro quo, the British did some
admirable work on both sides of the Ancre. They
drove the Germans out of excellent and highly
useful works before Miraumont and Petit

THE ILLUSTRATED WAR NEWS.

Feb. 28. 1917

Miraumont, taking a mile and a half of trenches
ti> a depth of 1000 yards. A mile south-west nf
this gain, another successful invasion of German
ground was made at Haillcscourt Fatm, where
another thousand yards of line were captured.

FOR COUNTERACTING THE GAS THEY THEMSELVE ,
INTRODUCED IN THE WAR : THE NEWEST PATTERN
OF GERMAN GAS-MASK.— [From a German Pap*.', .

The Germans, on their side, have been able to
drive a way into a small salient at Le Transloy,
and apparently keep the ground they won ; how-
ever, some excellent raiding all along the fronts
from Ypres downward more than balances
this small success, and the one small episode
is b.ut a very little way to the attainment
of German initiative on this front. In pass-
ing, it might be said that the Get mans
themselves are looking foiward to " the
bitterest phase of the war " here ; and there
are many signs that they intend to fight
with great fierceness and power against us.
They realise, as all realise now, that the
crucial battle will be fought in this Western
zone, and will' be fought .this year. They
are accumulating all their energies — but
only because we have accumulated ours.
The French have been active in gunnery
work and raiding, and have had successes,
particularly in Alsace.

There has been a general sense of move-
ment along the Eastern line also/ On the
Dvinsk front the Germans have attempted
movement once more, since their failure on
the Aa cannot have been palatable. The
attempt on this occasion proved a failure
too. There appears to be a good deal of
gunnery work going on at different parts
of this front — where weather and ground
conditions are said to be growing more

favourable — and in the Podhaice sector (south-
ucst of Tarnopol) there has been infantry action,
the Germans attacking, to be driven back. On
the Roumanian front there also seems to be a
growing movement, which on the whole favours
the Allies. The Russians, for instance, have been
able to attack with success and capture a position
of good strategic value near Ocna, between the
Gyimes and Oitoz Passes ; while along the Sereth .
there is a good deal of activity, with several
indeterminate engagements resulting: In Mace-
donia there are reports of movement, both on the
part of the British at Lake Doiran and on the part
ot the I'rench and Italians. There is, however,
nothing very definite to be said here, the fighting
probably being mainly the result of patrol and
reconnaissance work.

The advance at Kut is favourable, but it is .
haying its difficulties. General Maude was able
to clear the Dahra Bend of the Tigris to such
good purpose that the Turks gave in with some- •
thing of a panic, and surrendered by thousands.
At the same time, the old nut which defied us
before* — the strong Sanna-i-Yat position east of
Kut — has again proved obdurate, though we made
ground in our attack on this point. Still, our work
done here is having its reflex, for already there
are reports that the Turks are growing anxious
about Bagdad, and are lamenting the divisions
they sent to Europe to aid their friends. In
the Sinai Desert our forces have again been
at work, and have cleared the Turks from two
posts they had re-established between Suez and
Akaba. -Both affairs were as bloodless as they
were successful ; we captured those of the
enemy who did not run. a field -gun, and some
booty. They were small affairs, but the accu-
rmilation of them will, in time, place us in a big
position for winning big things. We are medi-
tating most powerfully. LONDON: FEB. 24. 1917.

FOR DETECTING THE DISTANT APPROACH OF INVISIBLE AIR-
CRAFT : THE MEGAPHONE - LIKE LISTENING EAR - TRUMPET
APPARATUS IN USE BY GERMAN ANTI-AIRCRAFT DETACHMENTS.
Fr-vn 11 (rerui'.fii /'<I/»IT.

K.b. 28, 1917

THE ILLUSTRATED WAR NEWS.

[Pan Ml.
N«w Sorie»J— •

OTintcr Days in the British Lines on the Somme.

WORK AND LEISURE : CARRYING " BATH MATS " FOR PAVINO TRENCHES i A BIG GUN'S TEAM.

continuum tun on the reierre ttorii def>0»t. »htr« the wooden
plank-]>n|thi uitd for trench " pavement* " ar» krpt. A fatlgu*
party cioitin( th« let with a load of llitM " luth nuti " I* H*n
In tht upper ilhutrttion. In the lowrr illuitration it ihown •
p.Tlr of Britnh artillirymen ofl duty round th«lr ch«lk-l«h«lltd
fun, with thrM French comradn iutt4.— (U]fl(M

Trcnch-makinf or mtndinf, or the re-makinf of captured trenchM
taken dum the enemy, goef on inceauntly alon( the front In the
tunic area. At thla time of year, when the (round it aodden with
•lu<u and snow everywhere wherever work of that kind it In hand,
attfnti'm tiai to be paid to keeping the feet of the men occupying
the tranche* u clear of the wet aa pouible. That reaulta In a

-THi, ILLUSTRATED WAR NEWS, F«b. 28. 1917

Oe 6rip of

WAITING FOR DRINKING-TROUGHS TO BB CLB

THF IMIISTRATED WAR NEWS, FA. 28. 1917- -

the (lies tern front.

ft)

HORSES AT A WATERING STATION.

e men's drinking-water storage-tanks are, and also at the open-air places for watering the horses of the transport,
nd cavalry. One of these stations by the roadside near a camp, as it appeared one winter morning recently, is shown
a number of horses waiting for the drinking-trough to be cleared of ice, and the inflow ducts thawed.-[0jfci<ii Photograph]

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THE ILLUSTRATED WAR NEWS.

Feb. 28. 1917

Cutting timber for Cttar purposes in Surrey.

THE CANADIAN FORESTERS' BATTALION AT WORK: A TREE PALLING j PLYING SAW AND ADZE.

The Canadian Foresters' Battalion, recruited from the lumbermen
of the forests of British Columbia and the Canadian North-Western
territories, art In evidence just now in various parti of Great
Britain, through their handiwork with their felling - axes. Their
labours are incessint. As fast as they clear one area, they are
on th« more to another district Here we •« some of them at

work among the familiar plnewoods of the Home Counties, in a
corner of Surrey. In the upper illustration a well-grown ftr or
pine is seen coming down Just after the fellers have stood clear.
In the lower, men are at work, chopping a cleft In the trunk on
the side the tree h to fall, and sawinf through the trunk on the
other.— [Wo/os. by S. and G.\

K.b. 28. It IT

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CPa
New

Royal thought for the Wounded and their purses.

IN THE GIFT HOUSE AT THE ROYAL MEWS ; AND THE CORY WARD AT HAMPTON COURT.

The unfailing thoufhtfulnesi and consideration for the wounded
»hown by their Maje«ii-i the King and Queen hare been instinct
always with that personal touch which adds immeasurably to their
value. An instance of this is shown in our photographs. The
King has lent one of his houses belonging to Hampton Court
Palace for the use of the nurses of the adjacent Military Auxiliary

Hospital, and our photograph shows the nurses' sitting-room, where
they rest when oN duty. Our second photograph shows the Cory
Ward at the Hospital, which was formerly the Hampton Court
Hotel. Their Majesties are untiring in their teal for knowing all
the rarlous efforts nude on behalf of the wounded, and for assisting
them where potaibla. — [Photograph by Sport and Gtneral.]

THE ILLUSTRATED WAR NEWS.

F.b. 2t.

THE BEGINNINGS OF WAR - MACHINES : HAND - GRENADES.

A MONGST the numerous types of weapon used
/\ in the present war the hand-j,renade holds
a special position as being one of the old devices
reintroduced after a period of disuse. Its name
" grenade " is said to have been derived trom its
resemblance to the " Punic apple," or pome-
granate, which
is, as every-
body knows, a
spherical fruit
containing
within its rind
a vast num-
ber of seeds.
Baked eaith-
enware vessels
con ta i n ing
quicklime (Fig.
i), poisonous
juices, putrefy-
ing animal mat-
ter, and similar
noxious sub-
stances, were

FIG. 18.— "RING BOMB" OR GREN-
ADE—NINETEENTH CENTURY (AFTER
"LA NATURE").

The diameter was fin inchet. Inside was
a circular (law tube surrounded by an
explosive substance. The (Ian, when
broken by the ihock of impact, freed a
liquid which ifnited the explosire.

apparently the
earliest sort of
hand-grenades,
as employed
iu war among
the ancients. We hear of explosive hand-gren-
ades for the first time at the siege of St. Boni-
facio in 1421, and afterwards again at the siege
of Aries in 1536.

Fire-balls (Fig. 6) and a " fiery wheel " (Fig. 7)
designed to adhere to the clothing on contact were
made in the sixteenth century. An interesting
description of these " fiery wheels " by Nathaniel
Nye, the " Master Gunner of the City of Wor-
cester," ends with this expression of opinion as
to their efficacy : " Their falling upon any man
he cannot choose but be much astonished with
such a fearful element and put his company in
great disorder." It would appear that these
pyrotechnic wheels and garlands were devised at
this period to take the place of the bomb on
occasion : " because every souldier would not
meddle with hand grenadoes, the use of them
being somewhat .'angerots." Vessels of glass or
earthenware (Fig. 8) containing 3$ to 7$ oz. of
powder are of sixteenth-century design. Several
sixteenth - century hand - grenades of a coarse
glass, almost slag, from Rhodes, may be seen
in the Rotunda Museum at Woolwich. They
hold from 3-4 oz. to 7-4 oz. of powder, and
are about 3-6 in. in diameter. Six are of a
red glass, two of light - green, four a dark-
green. Figs. 2, 3, and 4 show various incen-
diary devices intended to be thrown by means
of cord slings after being ignited. Hand-
grenades are still thrown by means of the
sling (see Illustrated War News, Dec. 9, 1914).
The earliest historical notice of the sling dates
about B.C. 1406 (see Judges, xx., 16). Fig. 5

illustrates a staff sling for propelling a similar
grenade missile.

In Fig. 12 we see a part section of a " per-
cussion " or " blind " grenade, as it was then
called. The device was provided with a friction
firing tube holding a leaden ball attached to the
firing plug. Sprigs of box-leaves formed a tail,
designed so as to cause the grenade to travel and
fall in such a position that, on its motion being
arrested suddenly, the momentum of the leaden
ball carried the ball along the tube. That caused
it to explode the bomb by pulling the firing plug
to which it was attached.

Another " blind " bomb (Fig. 10) was provided
with a firing device consisting of a perforated
metal tube (Fig. 10 — a), rough on its inner surface,
which passed through the centre of the sphere
and was attached to it. A sliding rod (Fig. id — b),
the upper end of which was situated within the
tube, carried a pair of flint igniters (Fig. 10 — c c)
having their lower ends secured to a circular foot
(as in Fig. 10). Sling loops- opposite the foot
acted as a tail, and the weapon was exploded
by sparks stnick between the flints and the
tube when the foot came into contact with
the ground or target. A " stationary " bomb,
or portable mine, is seen at Fig. n. It con-
sisted of a hollow metal sphere containing a
bursting charge fired by a slow match. The
match passed through a perforated tube pro-
vided for the
purpose.

The fore-
runner of the
rifle -grenade
of to-day was,
in the seven-
teenth century,
fired by means
of a grenade
cup (Figs. 16
and 17). In
that manner
spherical gren-
ades were pro-
pelled from
muskets. Louis
XIV. of France
was the first
E i: i o p e a n
Sovereign to
enrol grenade-
throwers, or
grenadiers, as
a distinct unit
in his army.
A number of
picked men of
tall stature
and stalwart

FIG. 10.— THE ORSINI GRENADE-
NINETEENTH CENTURY (AFTER "LA

NATURE ").

The sphere of brittle iron wu two inches

in diameter, and filled with ezploslre.

The hollow nipples studding the missile

bore percussion-caps.

physique were specially trained in the service
and attached by companies to infantry regi-
ments in 1667. v.,,,^,,^.

F.b. 28. 1917

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f Part M

I N«« Setk

The Beginnings of OTar Machines: Rand-Grenades.

STAFF Si-ING
FOB HURi-INCJ

F1ERV WHEEL.

CEISTV

' 6

Flf?E BALLS
THROWNE OUT OF MENS
HANDS" I6^CENTURY.

VESSELS OF GLASS OR TERRA
COTTA '^-^

A.

E
C3A.RL.AISE>

"STATIONARY
*" BOMB
I7*CBNTV

BLIND
GF?E^4>VDE

HAND- GRENADE (IN PART

SECTION) WITH SPRIGS OF
BOX. 17*CENTUR.V,

13

GRENAOE
(DETAILS^

IT^CrTNTUKY.

10 .

END OF

FU3IL, WITH CUR

PRO. n.f vriNC
GRENADKiD
LATE IT'*1 CENTURY,

HAND- MORTAR
FOR THROWING GRENADES
EARL.V 17* CENTURY.

STATION ARV"
WOODEN BOMB WITH
SPIRAL, rOATCH

MUSKET WITH GRENADE CUP.
FLINT LOCK. \774 . (<n>y*t

FORERUNNERS OF THE " GREAT WAR " HAND-GRENADE : FORMER-DAY TYPES OF EXPLOSIVE MISSILES.

The BritUh Arrar adopted the same courw tlertn 7<*n later. It
ww not until 181-, >li«t the Grenadier Cuard« were to ityled, and
that (or an tzceptionil rruou. At one time, aUo, a troop of
HOTM Grenadieri was attached lo each of the original troops of
the Life Guard*. Hand-grenades iFigi. il and 19) were used by
both side* in Paris In the insurrection of the Commune. It may

be added In conclusion, that grenades and bombs were t)uut»n in
rarioui ways : the smaller types by hand, sling, or musket . the
larger by means of trench-mcrtan, such ai the Cohorn of 1690.
These methods are used to some extent to-day. The Orsinl grenade
(Fif. 19) was an assassination bomb of the pattern employed by Orsini,
the would-be assassin of Napoleon III. in Paris la 1*58.

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Feb. 28. 1S17

Che Searchlight in Crench-Cdarfare.

SEARCHLIGHTS ON THE MARNE FRONT : FIXING A PROJECT EUR, AND A LESSON IN WORKING IT.

Searchlights are now a familiar feature of warfare both on land
and sea. On board war-ships, of courie, an.! in coaat defences,
they are used constantly. In land campaigns they are often
mounted on motor-cars. Many people know them well in con-
nection with Zeppelin raids/— that is, they are accustomed to the
appearance of the great shafts of light that sweep across thr iky,

though ignorant, u a rule, of the mechanism by which the light
is produced. Our illuitrationi ihow a searchlight apparatus, or
projicttur, as the French call it, as used in the trenchea on the
Marne front. In the upper photograph preparations for fixing
It are teen ; while in the lower a group of men are being instructed
In the working of the machine.— {French Official PHotogrnpks.]

Feb. 28. 1917

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Hcrial photography hi (Oar: Hn Hirman'a Camera,

THE FRENCH ARMY : APPARATUS FOR TAKING PHOTOGRAPHS FROM AEROPLANES.

EFFICIENCY IN

The mitTflloui retulu obtained by the French Army'i
photographer! in mapping enemy petition* would, * few ye«ri ago,
h»re keen deemed little ihort of miraculou*. After TUitinf *
French ari^tiin camp, Mr. Liurence jerrold wrlta : "The »ri»tor
carries »>)tc.al cameraa. The photofrapht are dereloped and the
lin« of trenchea are reproJueed on a map. The map U printed

by band to the recjuilite number of coplea by » delightfi.il* smart
procew. Copiea of the map reach each commanding offitfr con-
cerned. The perfection which hai been attained in the taking ol
photogrtphl, the reading of them, the reproduction and the
printing oH by hand of the mipe, turpaasea anything which could
be imagined. ... It l« one great, perfect machine."

14-CNe^sA.J

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FA. it. 1917

ROMANCES OF THE REGIMENTS: XXXVIII. -THE 56TH.

AFTER the peace of 1815, a naval surgeon's
mate found himself at a very loose end in

London. He had just been discharged from

seven years' imprisonment at Verdun, and was

dancing attendance at Somerset House in order

to recover his arrears of pay. This occupied him

for three weeks, and until he received his money

he took part in many merry escapades in town.
The London of that period was a roaring,

racketting,

hearty, and

not altogether

unkindly place

for discharged

prisoners, who

swarmed

about town.

Our surgeon's

mate, whose

name was

Roberts, went

one evening

into the Blue

Posts Tavern,

and, being

penniless,

threw himself

upon the gen-
erosity of the

landlord. That

worthy did

not respond
genially, but
several gay
young men,
who heard
Robert s's
story and the
laridlord's re-
buff, took the
sailor under
their wing, lent
him money,
invited him to
make a night
of it with
them, abused
the host, and
declared that
they would
leave the inn
with their
prote'ge' imme-
diately after
breakfast on
the following
morning. This they did, and the party cruised
about London enjoying the giddiest of times.
Koberts's adventures, he declared long after-
wards, were indescribable. The loss is ours.

At last Somerset House moved, and Roberts
received his cash, with which he hastened down
to his native Cheshire, only to learn that his near

A RECRUIT FROM THE NAVY.

relations were dead or estranged. His rascally
brother-in-law borrowed Roberts's little fortune,
and then failed. Almost penniless, the poor
surgeon's mate returned to London and applied
to the Admiralty for employment. But all he
got was disappointment, and one day, in a fit of
temper, he played the fool before the Board.
Refused a post once more, he grew theatrical,
tore up his commission, stamped upon it, and

spoke bitter

AS WAS DONE IN THE WAR DAYS OF THE GRAND MONARQUE AND
NAPOLEON: THE OFFICIAL COMMEMORATIVE MEDAL RECENTLY STRUCK

FOR THE FIRST BATTLE OF THE YSER.

Obverse— Wreathed Medallion portr«it» of General Foch and Admin! Ronarch. Reverse—
The Spirit of Franc* defying the Invader.— fPkotagrapk by Topical]

AS WAS DONE IN THE WAR DAYS OF THE GRAND MONARQUE AND
NAPOLEON: THE OFFICIAL COMMEMORATIVE MEDAL RECENTLY STRUCK

FOR THE VICTORY OF THE MARNE.

head, of Manna! Joffre and General* Petaln and Galllenl. Reverse-
i Spirit of France leading the Soldiers to Victory .— [Photograph by Topical.}

words about
refusing to
apply again to
an ungrateful
country. The
Board was not
impressed.
Roberts
passed out in-
to the street
a ruined man.
For a time
he was in de-
spair, but he
reflected that
there was al-
ways the Army.
A tempting
placard held
out hopes for
smart young
men in the
56th Regi-
ment. It
offered a large
douceur in ad-
dition to the
usual bounty.
Roberts there-
fore made his
way to the
Roebuck in
Red Lion
Street, where
smart young
men could take
the King's
shilling.

As he went
along, some-
one seized
Roberts by
the arm. It
was one of his
forrm.-r rack-
etty acquaint-

ances, lately a subaltern in a foot regiment, but
now somewhat out at elbows and down to his
last half-crown. He had been cashictrd for debt
and neglect of duty ; he was ready for anything.
He thought enlistment would suit Inm too.

Together they went to the Roebuck, where, ihc
Jandlord, who acted as recruiting oHker. n-iu.->ed

Feb. 28, 1917

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CPait 3« T .
Ne. series J— >

On the Cttestern front before the februarv "Chaw.

THE DAILY ROUND : GUNNERS SHELL-CARRYING IN THE SNOW ; SEARCHING FOR WATER-HOLES.

The apparently permanent break-up of the frost which throughout
January and a great part of February held the Western Front
with a grip of iron, if in some ways it adds temporarily to the
difficulties of movement for large bodies of troops, will, at the
same tune, relieve the men at the camps of a number of extra
fatigue duties. Owing to the deep snow also, a great deal of

labour fell on the men that ordinarily might have been

by other means. The upper illustration shows gunners

in the snow carrying shells on their shoulders between th« nKigazmes

and ammunition-dumps and the batteries. The lower thuwi a sapper,

R.E., searching for wjtcr hole* in the if in t stream running

under a light railway rond-culvctt. — {.Official Hn-to^rafK- '

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H.b. 21. KIT

to believe they were in earnest, for they still
looked a cut above the average candidate for the
ranks. But at length, persuaded that the two
unfortunates meant business, he gave them the
shilling, hastily examined theii legs and arms,
and, believing them to be gentlemen, left them
free to go and come as they chose. They went

DIPPING FOR WATER FOR A WASH AT A HOLE IN THE ICE:

WINTER WAR -DOMESTICITIES NEAR A CAMP ON THE WESTERN

FRONT.— [Official Photograph.}

out for a walk, and returned faithfully ; but here
the ex-subaltern's heart failed him. He left the
Roebuck, saying he would come back in an instant,
and was seen no more. London had engulfed
another broken recruit in oblivion.

But Roberts was of better stuff.
He waited to be drafted to Tilbury,
where he found the drill severe, though
not altogether intolerable. He was
glad, however, to be transferred to the
Isle of Wight, where life went more
easily. He had not been there two
months when he was ordered, with
twenty-five other men of the 56th, to
proceed to New South Wales as guard
on board a convict-ship.

The convicts numbered 229, some
of them desperate ruffians ; yet the
captain, with strange carelessness, gave
them the freedom of the deck at all
hours. The guard's quarters were so
cramped that they had to take all their
meals on deck, and were armed only
with cutlasses, their firelocks and
bayonets being left below in charge of
a sentry. Sailors and soldiers messed
together, and at meal-times the con-
victs had»the whole of the 'tween-decks
to themselves, without supervision.

One morning, at breakfast time,
the convicts were enjoying this free-
dom. One of them, called Murphy, a tall, stout
man, was shaving his companions whose turn it
was to receive that attention. Murphy was the
recognised barber, and every morning had a case
of razors served out to him. These he returned

after use. That morning the guard noticed, but
without any suspicion, that several times Murphy
put his head down the companion scuttle and
shouted, " Go to your work, boys ; I am at mine."
Suddenly a convict called Malone, who for his
good conduct had been appointed constable,
sprang up the companion ladder and pushed past
the sentry who was posted at the cabin
door. Into the cabin he rushed, closing
the door behind him. The next mo-
ment out leaped the captain, the sur-
geon, and the officer in command of
the detachment of the 56th.

The order came short and sharp :
"Guard, stand to your arms 1 Turn
the convicts down 1 "

The men of the 56th sprang to arms
and secured the convicts. Murphy
flung down his razor and exclaimed,
in a tone of disappointed rage, " It 's
all over."

Laxity had bred its own results.
That morning Murphy intended to
head a mutiny, for which the plans
had been carefully prepared. But an
undei -constable had got wind of the
affair, and came to Malone, the chief
constable, not a moment too soon.
They were to overpower the sentry
below, seize the muskets, come upon
the guard while they were -at break-
fast, tie the soldiers two and two
heave them overboard, murder the

together,

officers, and then steer for South America.

Poor Roberts saw a good deal of foreign service,
none of it active, and came home invalided in

SCOTLAND'S NATIONAL WINTER PASTIME ON THE WESTERN FRONT:

OFFICERS CURLING ON A FROZEN CANAL WITH ICE-BLOCKS FOR

STONES.— [Official Photograph)

1821. Knowing his uncertain temper, he had
always refused promotion, and on his discharge in
1825 ne had no prospects. But Chelsea opened
her doors to his old age, and until his death he
lived there in great contentment.

Fab. 28. 1917

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f Pare :
l_Ne» S

On One of the fronts in east Hfrica.

CAMPAIGNERS: " K.A.R. " MANNING A TRENCH; NAVAL GUN WITH OX-TEAM; " K.A.R. " MARCHING.

The firit and third photogr.phi hare to do with • bttUUon of
the < derated " K.A.R.," or King '• African Riflei, to .fill out the
initial*, wbos* skiltulnets and adaptability in buih fighting hare
fm many occaaioni brought about diicomnture to the bat of tb«ir
Ctrnun " oppoaite numben," the Aakaria, or native Grtm.n-
olneer»d regular regiments, o» the enemy. The K.A.R. recruit in

Uganda and all over the Britiib East Africa Protectorate and tl><
Southern Soudan. Before the war, the battalions girrponri] the
country as civil guard under the Foreign Office, with British
officers seconded from the Army at large on special service, as
company and battalion leaders. One of the long-range gum uatd
by the Naval Brigade is teen in the second photograph.

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Fob. 28, 1917

frcnch daterways Clsed in the Olar— Ice Clearance.

WINTER RIVER WORK: SHATTERING A FLOE WITH DYNAMITE, TO CLEAR THE BROKEN-OP

L_

After the war, it may be, somebody may write a book about the

•<• «-rn.-h the gceat rirers of Northern France, and the canal

waterway, between the Seine and the Belgian frontier, have been put

in connection with the military operation.. Such a volume should

ie least interesting in the ever-growing Great War library.

The rivars and can»ls have proved invaluable arteries of communi-

FLOE.

cation, and during the late terere fro«t their being blockeo r-.t
placei by floe ice has necessitated the taking of drastic me..ur«
c keep them clear for traffic. In the upper illusiiation an ice-
bwrler on the Seine ii shown being shattered by means of dynamite
trldgea. In the lower, men are seen preparm,- to clear loose
c« after a dynamite explosion.— [Photos, by Topical.]

ret. 28. 1»17

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CP«rt :<t "I .
New Scriei |— I*

frencb Olaterways deed in the Cttar— Ice Clearance.

AFTER A DYNAMITE EXPLOSION : DISINTEGRATING A LOOSENED FLOE ; SAWING A SHEET IN TWO.

For the breaking up of the let-pick on the Stint, which jammed
•nd became frown into »olid floes right across the stream from
bank to bank at bends of the river, and where the current flowed
•lowly, regular gang* of men had to be employed. In place*, the
congested maw of ice was too thick for clearance by ordinary
meant abort of the employment of a Russian Baltic port iteam

!c«-brtaker, and dynamite cartridges were had recourse to. The
explosions loosened and detached wide sheets of Ice, and the men
were turned on to the disintegration of these with ice . saws and
poles, Anally sending them adrift -downstream, or pushing them
alongside the bank, and grounding them on shelving shallows clear
of th« traffic fairway.— {Photos, by Topical.]

ILLUSTRATE!

Military Ceremonial in the theatre of

* _
/

^--Cx

HONOURING THE BRAVE NEAR THE FIELD OF BATTLE : GENERAL MAZILIER PASSI)

Recognition of merit ii as much valued by the soldier as it ii in other professions, and the prompt reward of valour
distinguished service, by a public bestowal of decorations before the assembled troops, tends greatly to increase their esprit de c
The French military authorities wisely arrange to hold ceremonies of this kind from time to time near the rear of the a

EWS, F«b. 28.

frencb Decoration parade on the Oiee front.

T

LINES AT A REVIEW HELD ON THE OISE FRONT FOR BESTOWING DECORATIONS.

cid. Th»t here illustrated took place recently on the Oi« front. A French communique of the aoth mentioned " somewhat
artillery actioni between the Oi»e and the Aiine." A few dayt earlier it was announced thnt " between the Oise and
t we carried out a coup de main on the enemy trenches in the Puiialeine district."— [frttuk Official Photograph.}

FHE ILLUSTRATED WAR NEWS.

F.b. 28. 1917

frencb Sheila Used HUhc on Land and Sea.

IN TOULON ARSENAL : FINISHED PROJECTILES AFTER " PASSING THE DOCTOR " ; THE NECESSARY WASH.

In the upper illustration a batch of big-gun shells, of a size used
both on board ship in the French Nary and by French heavy
batter iri in acliun on the Scnu-ir front and elsewhere, at the
Germans know, is shown going tluough the final workshop examin-
ation at Toulon Arsenal. Each shell is separately Inspected for
possible defects or flaws, either in make or metal, with sound tests,

much as railway carriage-wheels are tested, and >>> means <>i special
instrument*. The scrutiny is as careful as that a life-policy applicant
undergoes. Another detail of the thoroughness of arsenal mi mods
is seen in the second illustration showing shells being waslud to
remove every spsck of grit- both inside in the cavity for the ex-
ploaive, and outside.- [French Official

F.b. 28. 1917

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frencb Shells deed Hlihe on Land and Sea.

JULON ARSENAL: STAMPING PROJECTILES FOR " 75'S " INTENDED FOR SALONIKA; VARNISHING.

B-fore being ,,nt out, ihelli .re itamped with the manufacturing
.' nn'k .,nd d»te of completion. Thm, in cue of officUl

inqu,;y in . onnectiot. wilb them, their "record" c*n be traced

i»uint e.ub!i»l.ment. ThOM xen in the upper illuttr.tion

75 " ihelU being Humped by women munftion-workeri at

Toulon Arienil before «hipment to Salonika. In the lecond ll!u»-

tration, ahellt are being Tarnuhed, treatment they undergo both
Inalde, In the explore chamber, and ouuide. Inlfrior vainiihtaf
prerenu dangeroua friction being ict up in traniporting loaded ihelb.
A workman Tarniihing the interior with a cloth at the end of a
rod Is teen in the left foreground One Tarnishing the exterior is
•e«n to the right centre.— [French Official

*4-[N«"s£«]-THE ILLUSTRATED WAR NEWS, F.b. 2». 1917

On the Belgian (fleetern

WHERE THE BELGIAN INFANTRY PRACTISE DAILY : A SQUAD UNDERGO

At its western end, the Belgian Front — which extends from near Ypres as its eastern extremity— comes right down to the sea-
coast, close to the French frontier, a few miles north of Dunkirk. As elsewhere, the Belgian front line, at the place where it
comes down to the sea-shore, is entrenched and fortified with a wide barrier-belt of barbed-wire entanglements. The beach-

THE ILLUSTRATED WAR NEWS, F.k. 28.

raining Ground of Belgian Recruits.

W

CTION IN FIRING RIFLE-GRENADES ACROSS THE SAND-DUNES.

th« wire protection it teen to the right in the pnotograph, which shows recruits at practice with rifle-grenades. The
> range of sand-dunes along the tea, in rear of the wire entanglement!, ii daily a scent of busy activity for the Belgians, who
use of the open expanse of dry sand-hills as an exercising and training ground for recruits.— [Frnick Official Pliolopapli.}

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F.b. 28. 1917

FOOTNOTES TO ARMAGEDDON: XXIX. -"FLO!"

BEN was doing his luridest to show how he
and Douglas Haig were winning the war in
the West, but it was recognised that, as a thriller,
he wasn't clicking. This was not altogether his
fault. Not all regiments have taken Thiepval and
Combles on the same day, or helped the Tanks, or
bagged a thousand prisoners. Ben's regiment had
done good work, but it had been dull. Also, any-
thing in the thrill line Ben had by him had pre-
viously been outshone by the visit of Ginger
Grainger on leave. Ginger Grainger does not
figure here save as a wet blanket gone before.
Ginger had, by undeniable pluck, won the M.C.
He had also been in the thick of it. He could
also talk. Ben, who had none of these things
to his credit, fell a trifle flat after Ginger.

be prompted. A dull supper it was. All the
other boys and girls talking as much as Ben about
the war — whereas, of course, Ben was the only
one who should have talked about the war.

A thin girl said she 'ad 'er young man in the
Sessex. Bin out there some time. Sometimes she
didn't 'ear from 'im for weeks, but they were to
be married as soon as the war was over, if it 'd ever
be over. A stock-size girl explained she 'ad three
blokes out there, but she wasn't going to tie herself
up yet ; catch 'er ; she wanted to see how things
would go. A girl — just a girl — said she had heard
from her husband that the war would be over
soon. Her husband had it on the very finest
authority. It was like this . . .

Ben butted in stolidly.

AXEMEN

BEVOND SEAS IN ENGLAND: ENROLLED AND UNARMED CANAD.AN LUMBERMEN
WHO ARE CLEAR,NG T.MBER AT V.RG.NIA WATER^f**^ *

It was vexing, not so much to Ben, but to

Ben's family. Ben's family had issued invitations

to a galaxy of friends, acquaintances, and other

persons of renown, to come to supper to meet

Ben— hero." Ben was a sort of family star.

should have shone, and he did not. This was

galling. It is the duty of heroes back from the

root to provide sensations and excitements In

the district where Ben lived it gave social '(clot

Ben wasn't Mating. He could only prose on

about the food they had, and the mud they waded

through, and the noise of the gunnery, which was

fierce," and the presence of unfriendly insects

in the camps of the brave. Very dull was Ben

Ben 's mother and Ben 's sisters sighed. For the

benefit of the company they tried to prompt his

tiow rmnd to memories of thrill. Ben wasn't to

" The Sessex, someone said. We took over
the Sessex trenches a day or so before I come 'ome
on leaf."

" A short feller, my feller," said the thin girl
bnghtly. " Bit bandy in puttees. Fair 'air 'e 'as
Did you see 'im ? "

" Couldn't see nuthin'," admitted Ben. " Dark
when we took over, you see. An' muddy. But I
remember them trenches "—Ben looked carefully
at the thin girl—" 'ad a bad time, the Sessex 'ad,
I recken.

" In 'is laist letter 'e said they 'ad been shelled
crool. Everythin' mucked up . . ."

Shore," agreed Ben. "The work we 'ad

ting straight, my word. I sharn't forget in no
urry. But wot I mean to say, I got a prett-
soovener from them trenches."

r«b. IS. 1917

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Pan 3»

Cttitb the Canadians on the Western front.

AT ONB OF THE CAMPS : A BATTALION BAND ON PARADE ; A GAS-MASK INSPECTION.

Some of the Canadian battalions on the Western Front have brought
their bandt with them, and in the upper Illustration on< is stcn at
a irjimtntal inspection. Tht music has been much appreciated,
alike at parades and inspections, and to; social purposes during the
winter t>suw in activity on a large scsle It was remarked during
the first year ol the war that many German regiments had brought

their bands Into the field, and some of them, Indeed, actually
played the men into action under fire. The British Army regu-
lations before the war deprecated the taking of bands on campaign,
and advocated the employment of tunrlsmen as helpers with the
ambulance service. The second illustration snows Canadian suldiert
fallen in for a gas-mask inspection.— [Official I'hmwupli:.

-[„

"-*

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Feb. 28, 1»17

The waning interest of the company con-
centrated in flickering manner on Ben. Not very
much hope, but still

" It wasn't really a soovener, as you would call
it. Nothing great. I got it from one of the
Sessex — oh, 'e was dead, you see. We wos
digging the trenches where they 'ad fallen in.
Orful sweat, digging like that, you know. An' as

REGULATION ARMY MUSIC IN THE FIELD: THE MASSED BANDS OF TWO

CANADIAN BATTALIONS ON PARADE ON THE WESTERN FRONT.

Official Pk<>tograpk.

we dug my spade 'it a foot. ' 'Ullo,; I ses,
'ere 's a foot. I shouldn't be surprised if
someone 'ad bin an' got buried when this part
of the trench fell in.' We dug away fer
a hour, and I was right. Someone 'ad been
buried when the trench was blown in. I ex-
pects a big rum-jar come erlong an' blew the
whole thing in, and the feller on the fire-step
'adn't 'ad time to nip clear. Enny'ow, there
'e was, buried. 'E was crool bashed about . . ."

" Don't tell us about
that, Ben," said Ben's
mother. " We don't
want no 'errors. We 've
got enough at 'ome, wot
with this coal business,
and all that."

" Well, 'e was badly
bashed about. All we
could find out about
'im was that 'e was the
Sessex. O' course, they
buried 'im proper, an' all
that, but I wasn't there.
I come away just then,
you see. But it was
queer."

" Wot about the

pretty little thing. Quaint. A little Chinese
sort o' . .• ."

" 'Ave yer got it on yer, Ben ? " demanded
another impatient sister.

Ben began to delve in his pockets.
" It 's in me pocket. ... A little Chinese
sort o1 locket with a sort of secret spring to it ...
it must be in me other .pocket ... I couldn't
find the spring until I got
into the leaf train. But
I found it. When you
pressed the spring the
thing opened, and there
was a lock o' 'air in
the inside. An' some
writing. The writing
said, ' Your Flo, for
ever.' "

The thin girl stood
up.

" Flo I " she shrilled.
" Yes, Flo. ... Oh,
it 's in me cardigan
pocket, I remember."

" Flo ! " shrilled the
thin girl again. They
all stared at the thin
girl. She was, it seemed,
both red and pale.

She was breathing desperately. The company
was thrilled. It was conscious that Ben had
brought tragedy.

' 'Ere it is," said Ben, unnoticing. "Funny,
ain't it ? — an' rather pretty, I calls it."

" Flo I " gasped the thin girl again, in a
strangled voice.

Ben looked up slowly. At last he connected
up. " Cripes ! " he cried. " This is your locket,
eh ? Cripes ! "

sooveneer ? " insisted an
impatient sister.

" I was coming to
that," said Ben solemnly,
'is pockets, o' course, only this was in
'and. Funny to think o' that. 'E must 'ave
been looking at it when 'e was buried. It
was a pretty little thing. Seeing as 'e would
'ave no more use for it, I thought I might
as well 'ave it. So I took it. It was a

ON PARADE ON THE WESTERN FRONT: A CANADIAN BATTALION.
Official Photograph.

We went through
is

" It 's mine ! " choked the girl, snatching the
locket. " It 's mine ! "

Then that feller — I say, I 'm sorry . . ."
" The beast — the under'and 'ound I Flo I No
wonder 'e didn't write I Flo . . .1"
The thin girl's name was Emily.

W. DOUGLAS NEWTON.

K«b 21. 1917

THE ILLUSTRATED WAR NEWS.

CP«rt M ]_.
New S«tksJ *

OUter and ttline for the frencb Hrmy,

FRENCH COMMISSARIAT SCENES : WATER-CARTS ON THE MARNE, AND BARRELS OF WINE AT CETTE.

In France lifht wint ii much mort the beverage of the people
than it it in this country, as it ii produced there, and is, of course,
cht.-.p-r. An allowance of wine forms part of the ordinary rations
of the French Midler. Here we •«« incidents in the supply both
of wine and water to the troops. The upper photofraph shows
men in charge of carts on the Marne front, bringing water to the

lifht railways, of which there is a network behind the front for
carrying up supplies and munitions. In the lower photograph is
seen an imposing array of wine " in the wood," destined for the
French troops, lying on the quay* at Cette, on the Gulf of Lions
Wine if imported thither from Spain for mixing with French
brand*.— [F«nf* Official Photographs.}

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F.b. 28. 1817

On the Balkan Oketern front-in JMonastir.

DURING THE ALLIED OCCUPATION : MARKS OF

II for aomt lira' comparatively little hu appeared In the paper,
of the doingi of i he Allied forces on the Monaatir front, that alienee
hu been mainly, if not entirely, due to the compulsory inictrrity
that the severity of the winter weather hu enforced practically all
along the Balkan Iront. In a roadleu country hemmed in by mountain
ranges, the passes acroaa which are blocked with anow, military more-

THE LAST BULGAR BOMBARDMENT ; A STREET.

menu in winter are a (tanditill. Meanwhile, the recaptured capital,
Monutlr, hu remained in the Allies' occupation, and in fugitive
Inhabitant! hare returned. Marka of the bombardment which the
Bulgarian rear-guard Inflicted are aeen in the upper illustration. In
the lower la aeen one of the smaller atrecta sacked by the Bulgarians
bafore their evacuation.— [French Official Photograph* j

-.b 28. 1917

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r Part M T_ , ,
\_titw Series J~ 3 '

On the Balkan Western front— near JVIonaatir.

NOW IN SAFETY WITHIN THE ALLIED LINES : AT A MONASTERY WRECKED BY THE BULGARIANS.

Mon«iterlM — mostly tm«ll — belonging to certain religious orders
of the Greek Church abound ill over Western Macedonia. In
particular are they numerous in the region of the city of Monastir
itself, which takes its Turkish name from t very large one standing
on hi(h (round and .unlocking the neighbourhood. The Turks
themscl.es (are the city the name of Monastir ; to the Serbians It

is known as Bitolj — the " Dwelling Place." The Turks, durine thn'r
long occupation of Macedonia, showed tolerance to the religious com-
munities, who fared during the German-Bulgarian occupation of last
year far worse than in the centuries when the Crescent flag flew
over Macedonia and the citadel of Monastir. The monastery seen is
now within the Allied Unit. -[French Official Pliolografk.}

M-CN.TA.]

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Feb. 28. 1917

france's Mediterranean Submarine Service.

DOCKYARD: SUBMARINES AT

A. the principal dockyard of Franc. In th. Mediterranean, Toulon
w u th. headquarter, ot th. large fleet, or flotilla, o( tub.
marlnn, which »re contlnuou«ljr on crultlng nrrlce in that Quarter
and ilu further afield. There are, of courie, other French euk^
marlne-bam and ttatloru in the Mediterranean u well, which are
prorlng u*e(ul In the war, orfanjaed and completely equipped for

ORDERS; GOING INTO DOCK.

the nibmarlne wrrice ; but Toulon U the main tt.tion, and fouaut
r facility for docking and repairing underwater craft a. an
ntegral part of the- ar.enal and dockyard eetabli,hn:ent The upper
utration .how. » number of French wbmartat. lying ., thtlt
wring.. The .econd illurtration .how. a French wbmarine pro-
c^din, into an mner " baain •• for ovwhaul-tF««A OfficM Photo,.)

F»b. 28. 1917

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Ct.S. Hmbassador to Germany Returning Rome.

IN PARIS : DOCUMENTS ARRIVING AT THE EMBASSY ; MR. GERARD AT THE RAILWAY STATION.

Mr. Gerard, the former American Ambaeaador to Germany, tofether
with the SUH of the Bmbaaiy, hiring, after tome apparent delay,
obtained the paaeportt demanded from the German CoTernment,
left Berlin without ipecial Incident. The party took the train for
Switzerland. After a brief real there rn route, Mr. Gerard pro-
ceeded to Parla, whence he la proc«edin» to a aeaport on the

Atlantic to tike ship (or America. In tht upper illustration,
packafea of Embaaajr document! are eeen belnj taken from a taai
at the American Bmbaiajr In Parla. In the lower ilhuUation,
Mr. Gerard ii teen on arrival at the railway elation in Paria.
Mr. Sharp, the American Ambaaaador to France, la ahown. as well
a> leadlni Americana in Parla.— [Pholoi. by Illustrations hormu.]

S«n«J

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Feb. 28. 1917

WOMEN AND THE WAR.

" \A7HEN WivCS get to«ether theX converse
VV freely," said Sir John Jellicoe, speaking
at a meeting held at the Mansion House a week
or two ago. Talking has usually been accounted
an essentially feminine vice. Nobody was ever
rude enough to say so, perhaps, but slightly to alter
the poet's words, " Woman for words " and " Man
for action " probably represents pretty accurately
the view held by a good many people till the war
came to scatter theories and bring us face to face
with facts. But though no one is any longer
surprised at the woman who does things feminine,
human nature still appreciates the luxury of a
" good talk " as a relief to overburdened feel-
ings and a stimulus to fresh effort and increased
cheerfulness.

That deeds, not words, count in war is some-
thing that
everyone now
knows. On
the other
hand, the
value of the
"word in
8 e a s o n,"
whether sym-
pathetic, in-
structive, or
merely frivol-
ous, is some-
thing which

this war has

very clearly

emphasised,

and it was

the realisation

of this fact

that led to

the opening

of the various

"Women's

War Clubs,"

"Tipperary

Room a,"

"Women's

Patrio t i c

Clubs," and

kindred insti-
tutions, which

are a popular

and promin-

*OM REVELLING TO THE RED CROSS: THE TRANSFORMATION OF A

PARIS PLEASURE-RESORT.

The *« ha brourht .bout nuny rem.rk.bl. ch.nge,, not.bly In Parti where tor

hWrted ""*• the Ak'"r d>«* <*"-"„', ""he
-""I"*"1 wlth th» «*»*»nt «"°* which th,y .r, doir* for

the French wound.d.-[PA<*,.

ent feature of women's war-work to-day. They
are dotted about all over the country, and the
object of their existence is to enable the wives of
soldiers and sailors to enjoy some sort of rest
and recreation for a few hours each day and
incidentally, to forget, if possible, for a' time
their loneliness, and to give them an opportunity
of reading the war news and writing abroad
than that, they help to bring together those
ocn who have common anxieties and losses
u.ul by arranging various classes for their mem-

bers, serve a really useful national purpose. Like
all new movements, the " War Clubs " came
in for a certain amount of hostile criticism
when the idea of founding them was first mooted.
One heard a good deal of the folly of setting up
recreation-rooms that would merely take women
out of their homes — where they ought to be
usefully employed in cooking and in looking after
the children — and give them opportunities for
wasting time in idle gossip. As for the women
themselves, they, too, were a little doubtful of
friendly overtures made by people who had never
before shown the slightest interest in their
welfare. But they soon made the discovery that
sympathy, not patronage, was the motive under-
lying the new departure, and the clubs, by helping
to sweep away class distinctions, have brought,
to quote Lord Derby, " into the lives of many a

perception
with regard
to the lives
of others
which had
never entered
into their
purview be-
fore."

Recreation,
however, is
not the sole
object for
which the
clubs were
formed. By
means of
classes and
lectures the
members are
educated in
ho u s e h o 1 d
and other
practical
ways, so that
their homes
and children
may be pro-
perly cared
for in the
absence of
their men-
folk, and that
money may be saved instead of being spent in
unnecessary ways. Many of them have nourish-
ing thnft clubs, boot clubs, coal clubs and
clothing clubs, and quite an appreciable sum
saved by the wives of soldiers and sailors went
to swell the greatest War Loan ever known.

Cookery is another subject in which instruc-
tion is given, and now that the importance of
economy m food is being daily and hourly im-
pressed upon us, the classes make for national
t as well as domestic bliss. Other courses

[Continued evertea/.

F.b. 28. 1*17

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[Ban M ]
flew Serioi.l — 35

H famous Novelist's Daughter Trends Hrmy fiorses.

THE DAUGHTER OF "JOHN STRANGE WINTER" IN CHARGE OF ARMY HORSES: MISS STANNARD.

There li something not altogether inapt In the fact that Miu
Stannatd. daughi-i of the writer of that Inimitable story, "Booties'
Bab*.' • <•- late Mr>. Arthur Stannard, should be derotinf her time
to an utiuBuil branch of war-work for women. The Army autho-
rities «it purchuini horsea In large numbers, and tuch of them
aa are out of condition are billeted out to be made fit for their

arduous work. Our photograph shows Mlsa Stannard saddling
one of her charges before taking it our t» nerctae. She has a
number of horses under her care, and gives up the whole of her
time to them, often working more than twelre hours a day. Lika
her late mother, Miss Stannard has a genius for hard work, and a
humanity and tact InTaiuabla In her task.— [Phi*,, by C.N.]

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arranged include home nursing, and dress-
making ; and, in order to encourage the work,
a shield, to be competed for by the various
clubs, has been given by the Women's United
Services League, an organisation the object of
which is to co-ordinate and register all work
done by war clubs throughout
the Kingdom.

Indirectly, too, the clubs are
fulfilling a national work, and
one that has quite a direct bear-
ing on the war. Speaking at a
meeting in support of the Women's
United Services League the other
day, the First Sea Lord laid
rather special emphasis on the
wider aspects of the work done by
women's war clubs.

At first sight there seems
very little connection between
an organisation in some poorer
suburb of greater London, and
one of his Majesty's Dread-
noughts keeping watch on the
sea. But the link is there all
the same. Many of the men
serving with the Fleet have been
separated fiom their wives and
families for two and a-half years,
and it is an immense relief to
them to know that those near and dear to
them are being looked after in their absence,
relieves them of anxiety and leaves them free

appreciation the men fighting abroad feel for
the clubs, there is told the story of a wounded
Tommy who, immediately on arrival in London,
went straight to the institution of which his
wife was a member, to express his own gratitude
to all concerned for the kindness shown her,

COMFORT FOR WOMEN-WORKERS: IN THE T.O.T. STAFF- WOMEN'S

CLUB-THE RECREATION - ROOM.

Both tha Inmates and the room itselt seen in our photograph aflord convincing evidence
of tha comfort of tha new T.O.T. Stal-Women's Club, established lor tha worker! by
tha Underground Railway group at Eari'a Cour, Station.
Fli'/lngrapli by Topical.

and the thanks of others of his fellow-fighters.
No one would dispute the value of the work
done by the clubs during the war, and, indeed,
the results of the workings of these
institutions during the first year
of their existence have proved
their utility up to the hilt. The
idea now is that the woik BO
well begun in war-time should
be carried on when peace is
restored once more. To ensure
that the work shall be canied
on on a sound basis, and that
clubs may be started and main-
tained under the best . condi-
tions, is one of the reasons
why the Women's United Ser-

H vices League, with Lady Jellicoe
and Lady French as presidents,
was formed.

COMFORT FOR WOMEN- WORKERS : THE T.O.T. STAFF- WOMEN'S CLUB.
A new luncheon and social club for the women staff of the Underground Railway group
ha« been opened by Sir Albert Stanley. It li entered from Earl's Court Station, and can
•upply two hundred meals dally, being fitted with the latest electrically equipped
apparatus. There are rest and club rooms, a llbriry, .and every comfoit. Our photo-
graph shows the electrically equipped kitchen.
Photograpli by Topical.

to devote their minds to the work that lies
before them. The soldier benefits in just the
same way; and as an instance of the

The second was to ensure the
provision of funds and gifts in
kind, lecturers, and helpers, to
those clubs unable to start or
carry on without assistance, and
funds are being asked for to
enable the work to be put on
a financially sound basis. Sym-
pathisers with these objects should write to
the Secretary, at the Westminster Palace
Hotel, S.W. CLAUDINE CLEVE.

Feb. 28. 1917

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'

On the Western front: dith Belgians and frencb.

CLOSE TO THE ENEMY : A BIG GUN IN

in the upper illustration, a heavy-gun position at a certain point
in the Belgian lines in West Flanders is shown, the locality being
" somewhere " not far from the sea coast, as is indicated by the
sand-dune ridges amidst which the big-gun's dug-out is constructed.
As seen, the gun is well screened for direct view in front, also
well below the surface-level of the surrounding tfrraitt. At the same

ITS DUG-OUT ;

time, it is adequately shielded against overhead attack from bomb-
dropping aeroplanes, by means of several rows of protective sand-
bags, laid over stout horizontal beams. In the lower illustration
is seen a railway watching post on one of the main lines on the
Somme front. The men are employed both on guard duty and
as train-signallers.— [French Official Photographs.]

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Feb. 28. 1917

Olomcn «Lir-«lorhers in a South Downs Countv.

IN A HAMPSHIRE CHALK-QUARRY: CLIMBING DOWN TO WORK; "PICKING" THE SOLID CHALK

As Stiff and trvinir a <-»„:„ _* — * ,t * ^*»"*-rw.

As stiff and trying a species of out-of-doors war-work, probably
as any that women are taking up, to relieve the national needs ol
r in regard to men for military service, is the sort of toil
of which we give illustrations on this and another page. Quarrying
>f any kind is certainly one of the last forms ol manual labour
that one would expect women to undertake. The upper illus-

tration shows a woman worker in Hampshire, engaged in a chalk
quarry m the neighbourhood of Winchester, clambering down the
dder by which access to the quarry is gained, to join others
seen already below. The way in which the chalk is excavated
means of a pick, is shown in the lower illustration'
lUugratiaiK Bureau.}

Feb. 23. 1917

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| Part 38 "I --
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Cdomen «Lir-«lorkers in a South Downs County.

^,"-£*

• ~ .-•'•~r.- "Jt* <*^*v-^'

•fr-

IN A HAMPSHIRE CHALK-QUARRY : LOADING A TRUCK ; SHOVING THE DEAD WEIGHT ALONG.

The Hampshire quarry -women as, indeed, they could hardly avoid
doing— hare discarded skirts and petticoats while at work. They
work trousered, and wearing heavy boots as the quarrymen did.
Stout-soled quarry-boots have to be worn by workers in the South
Down Chalk districts, where quarne* and chalk-pits are, in winter
time, particularly trying. The fatigue of working in the sticky

chalk-mud of wet weather is severe. These two illustrations show
something of the muscular strain and toil that quarrying work
entails. In the upper illustration, a truck is shown being loaded
by women. In the lower illustration, two workers are shoving by
main force one of the heavy, lumbering vehicles along the quarry
tram-line rails. — [Photos, by Illustrations Bureau.}

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Feb. 28. 1917

On the Western front : Hrencb-Digging by JMachinery.

MAKING A FRENCH TRENCH ; THE EXCAVATOR

A trench mechanical excavator for war purposes, designed for digging
or scooping out lines of battlefield shelter-trenches, was originally
Invented and adopted by the Germans some years before the war. It
was at first secretly experimented with. Then, on the fact of its existence
and details becoming known to Russia and France, its capabilities
were shown openly by the Germans and made use of at their

CLEARING

NEAR VIEW.

A DEEP SECTION ; A

field-manoeuvres. The machine shown in this pair of photographs
has been considerably improved by the French, who are here seen
using it. Designed originally for cutting shallow shelter-trenches,
a foot or eighteen inches deep, of the universal pattern in vogue
before the war, the present-day machine is used in making the
several-feet-deep type of trench.— [Ftench Official Photographs.}

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By W. DOUGLAS NEWTON.

THE ANCRE BREAK THROUGH - POSSIBILITIES ; THE MASTERSTROKE AT KUT.

OBVIOUSLY it was not a very grateful task
for a writer to discuss, last week-end, the
big new movement then beginning on the Ancre,
for the very plain reason that that movement
was going ahead almost faster than military critics
could form
final opinions.
Even this
week - end I
do not feel
the situation
is any more
comfortable
for the note-
writer ; for
though we
have been
able to see
something of
t h e scope,
dipth, and
manner of the
German re-
treat on both
banks of the
Ancre, we
have yet to
find definite
signs of the
mo vem en t
running down,
and, what is
more impor-
tant, the Ger-

MISS OLWEW LLOYD GEORGE AS AUCTIONEER ON WELSH FLAG DAY :

SELLING ARTICLES OF VALUE GIVEN BY FRIENDS, IN THE FLORAL HALL,

COVENT GARDEN MARKET.— [Photograph by Topical.}

mans have yet to give some indication of their
final halting-place, the dispositions of their
new works of defence, and the strength of that
organisation for resistance.

The retreat, discussed in a broad sense, how-
ever, has some very precise and optimistic truths
attached to it, though, also, it suggests disadvan-
tages and drags in its wake all manner of specula-
tions, most of them concerned with the dark and
Prussian tricks Hindenburg may have up his
military sleeve. The main points of the matter
are that, after being rather badly handled at their
centre — at the Miraumonts — and after having lost
and vainly tried to recover those capital positions,
the Gerthans began a stealthy evacuation on an
eleven-mile front running from beneath Gomme-

court to a point east of Gueudecourt. The reason
given for this night-flitting was that the mud was
too abominable for words — an excellent German
reason, no doubt. The retirement, on the whole,
seems to have been carried out well, and without

dangerous en-
gagement,
though the
French ex-
perts suggest
that the con-
ditions were
rather more
exacting for
the enemy
than British
communiques
imply. Small
groups of
machine-gun-
ners and
snipers were
left at strong
posts, with
the order to
defend them-
selves to the
last. They
surrendered
themselves at
the last, after,
it must be
said, putting
up good fights
at points. The rendezvous of the retreating troops
appears to have been in lines on the circlet of hills
barring our way to Bapaume and the open country
beyond Bapaume, a'ridge of hills rather lower than
the Thiepval-Beaumont-Hamel heights, but giving
better scope than the disadvantageous ground that
has been the German lot since the Somme. What-
ever the German intention as regards this new line
may have been, and may still be, the plans do not
seem to have worked out as automatically and
sweetly as a good German General would wish.
In spite of the abrupt extension of our zone — and
the communications feeding it — our troops appear
to have been a trifle too precipitate for the
Germans, and it was necessary for them to fight
very stiffly at such critical joints of their line as

March 7. 1917

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Revealed Commands in the Grand fleet.

BEATTY'S SECOND IN COMMAND ; THE BATTLE-CRUISERS' CHIEF ! ADMIRALS MADDEN AND PAKENHAM.

It transpired • lew days afO, when the Canadian W»r Records
authorities released for publication certain naral photographs, that
Admiral Sir Charlti Madden (Men on the left abort) ii now
Second in Command of the Grand Fleet, while Rear-Admiral Sir
William Pakenham ii in command of the Battle-Cruiser Fleet.
It will be recalled that Sir John Jellicoe, on becoming First Sea

Lord, relinquished the command of the Grand Fleet to Sir DavM
Butty at the end of NoTember, Sir Charles Madden was Admiral
Jellicoe's Chief of the Staff on board the "Iron Duke." Sir
William Pakenham was Admiral Beatty's Second in Command in the
Battle-Cruiser Fleet. At the Battle of Jutland he flew his flif ID
the "New Zealand."— [Canadian War Rtairdi. Copyri»kl

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»"~| New Senc*J *

Our Seaplanes' Daily Cruteing_8^mce_l

ABOUT TO LAND: THE CURVING WAKE OF FOAM AS
type

s an a.op.an,, of

THE ILLUSTRATED WAK NtWS. Murch T. 1917- -^^"^ (-7

Coast, on the Glatcb for a s Boats,

AGHTING ON THE SURFACE, MAKES FOR ITS JETTY.

(, on reaching ground, " taxis " in a curve while slowing down to the entrance of Its shed, by propelling itself over

-face round to the landing-stage. The illustration (a photograph in mid-air from another aircraft) shows the curving wake

" seaplane as it bends its course towards one of the jetties where men, waiting to haul the plane up, are visible as dots.

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March 7. 1917

COUnter Sporto for Britiob prteoncro in Switzerland*

INTERNED BRITISH SOLDIERS AT CHATEAU D'OEX :

The exchanged British prisonen of war from Germany interned at
Chateau d'Oex, not far from the eastern end of the Lake of
Genera, have been trcited with the utmost kindness by the Swiss
Government and people. As the photographs on these two pages
ihow, they hare lately been enjoying the delights of winter sport
ia ideal surroundings. In the lower photograph on the- left-hand

AN ICE-HOCKEY MATCH AND A LUGE RACE.

page ts Lieut. Minton Good, R.F.C., taking part in a luge race. The
upper photograph shows ail ice-hockey mitch between teams from
Chateau d'Oex and Gstand, a place some six miles away. Ch.Meau
d'Oex woo by 5 goals to 1. Th« lower photograph on the right-
hand page shows the Gstaad team. In the upper group, of the
ChiUeau d'Oex team, the names are : (seated in front) Private

M.rch 7. 1917

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British prisoners Interned in "an earthly paradise."

ICE-HOCKEY FOR BRITISH PRISONERS : (i) THE CHATEAU D'OEX TEAM j (a) THE GSTAAD TEAM.

Trlmihaw, 4th Can.dUn Mounted RMei ; (Handing, left to right)
Lieut. H. W. Mirdonnell, P.P.C.L.I. ; M. Vuillemin, of Chateau
d'Oex ; M. Arbittre ; PrirMe J. Lyoni, 7th Canadian! ; Lt. O'Gr«dy,
tth Cuudiuu ; Prixte Murphj, 48th Cintdiaru ; Prirtte Speckinf ,
D.L.I. Of the wonderful kindneu ihown to our men in Switzerland
Lord Northcliffe wrote : " Nothing can be too (ood for our

»o!dier>, and at Mdrren, and al»o at Chateau d'Oex, the but that
modern hoteli-de-luxe can glre It given them. . . . When they
8r« arrived they could with difficulty bring themtelret to beliere
that they were free. ... All were now enjoying the fint tut* of
liberty, and liberty In the nearest approach to an etrthly piradlw
that can be found in Europe."— [PAotos. by Sport and Central.}

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March 7. 1917

On the frencb and Belgian fronts in the Blest.

PASSING NOTES : BUILDING A LIGHT-RAILWAY EMBANKMENT ; A BELGIAN DOG-DRAWN MAXIM.

A railhead scene in Northern France, during the construction of
one of the light railways (or supplying the fighting - line troops at
the extreme front with stores and munitions, forms the subject of
the upper illustration. An embankment to c«rry the railway track
ts seen in the making. The party at work are building the
embankment by running light carts, such at quarry men use, along

the metals on the completed portion as far as rails ar« laid. Then
the swivel-hung bodies of the vehicles are tipped over sideways,
upsetting the earth rubble inside to heap up and form a con-
tinuous mound. The lower illustration shows that dogs still do
draught work for Belgian machine-gun sections, as during the
August and September campaign, 1914.— [French Official Photographs.}

March 7. 1917

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f fat 3» T. .

(.New i,fri«ij~'1

frcnch Care for dounctcd Moroccan Soldiers.

FRENCHMEN AND THEIR MOSLEM COMRADES FRATERNISE : MOROCCAN PATIENTS AT THE H6PITAL COCHIN.

These photographs Afford sufficient proof, if proof were needed,
that France is grateful to her Moslem subjects who hare fought
and bled in her service, and treits them with the utmost sympathy
aad solicitude. The upper illustration shows a group of Moroccan
patients it the Hcpital Cochin, in Paris, enjoying indoor recreation
in tht form of music. It will be noted how carefully an Eastern

atmosphere has been produced by the wall decorations and carpets.
In the group will be noted French officers and surgeons. In the
lower photograph French soldiers are fraternising with their Moroccan
comrades. Far from feeling any prejudice against Africans and
Asiatics, the Frenchman appreciates their generous participation, and
is on the best of terms with thjm. — [French Official Photographs.]

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Mirth 7. 1917

Che Greek patriot force ^^J1^

ON THE LINE OF

MARCH: A VENIZELIST BATTALION ON ITS WAY TO THE FRONT.

L

<* cour.., ha. been mad, public .» to the strengt., ^and
composition of the Greek Patriot Force serving with the AIU«
the B.lk«n Front. There »re, however, .ome tattalions o< them
compriied of enrolled Veniwlirt Tolunteen, a large proport.on o
whom «m. to Salonika by .teamer from the Uland. of the Aej.an
in order v«ially to join th« rank.. Th. landing of on* large

party was illustrated in a previom issue, and we have .llustrated
the presentation oi colours to certain formed units. The 1
Government took their organisation, training, and equipment
hand. Our illustrations show how, in externals, they closely r«
French linesmen in regard to trench-helmets, uniforms, acco.
menu and marching-order kit.— [F««» Official Photographs.}

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CHart IS 1 ,-,
Now Series J~13

t:be "Cransport-OIorhcrs' Battalions Service.

KHAKI DOCK SOLDIERS STOWING A LONDON SHIP : LOWERING A CRANE-LOAD ; IN THE HOLD.

Orel four thouund ships entered and cleared from British ports
during the tut week of February In spite of the enemy U-boat
menace. Meanwhile work at the docks in loading and unloadin..
all comers is being satisfactorily carried out, in many instances
by the aid of soldlet-dockers of the Transport Workers' battalions.
Men from one of the enrolled corps are seen here, in khaki, engaged

at the Royal Albert Docks, London, in handling a cargo of rice
and flour on board a ship. The photographs wt". taken by special
leare of the Admiralty. The men shown helonj to the York
and Lancaster Regiment's Transport Workers' battalion, and mostly
hail from the North of England. They are billeted near the
docks, and are paid at trade-union rates. — ,1'k-i.,.. by L N.A.]

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March 7. 1917

ROMANCES OF THE REGIMENTS: XXXIX.-THE BREADALBANES.

HIQHLAND HONOUR

THK Breadalbane Kencibles, incorporated in
i 7<M. were reduced fix e years later, and it
is now diliiriilt to say wli.it Highland regiment
carries on their traditions ; but they are worthy
to be claimed by
the bra\ c-.t, nut so
much for prowess
in the field, which
was not put to the
test, but for a
single circumstance
where Highland
honour was brilli-
antly vindicated.

In 1 7')> when
the Pemibles were
stationed in Glas-
gow . a serious dis-
turbance occurred
in the barracks.
Several men li.ul
bn-ii placed umlei
arrest for some
oftence and wen:

TYPES 01=- THE LAND AND WATER TRANSPORT SERVICE IN

ROUMANIA: -OX -DRAWN COUNTRY CARTS, AND MODERN

DANUBE RIVER- STEAMERS.

thieateiu-d with
corporal punish-
ment, to the tfrt.it

irritation of their v

comrade,. whovbroke into the guard house and
forcibly released the prisoners. The mutiny arose
from no disrespect to the officers of the regiment,
among whom were several members of the Bread-
albane family,
but merely
from Highland
sensitiveness
on the point
of flogging.
The men con-
sidered that
its infliction
on any mem-
ber of the
corps dis-
graced and
degraded per-
sonally the
whole regi-
ment. The
young men
who formed
these emerg-
ency Highland
r e g i m e n t s
were usually
of good

family, and. if not actually of noble birth, were
sprung from the substantial yeornan class, in
itself an aristocracy. Their feelings were there
for those of gentlemen, who resented the infliction
of the lash upon any of their comrades. They
acted, like true Celt's, upon impulse ; and on
rf:fle.<tiun saw that their protest had been made

quite in the wrong way. When they cooled down,
they gave a remarkable proof at once of their
regret and of their real respect for discipline.
In the confusion of the outbreak it had been

impossible to iden
tify the ringleaders,
and the case might
have collapsed for
want of evidence.
As a matter of fact,
the affair might
very well have been
passed over, be-
cause, apart from
the mere act of
release, no violence
had been used and
no one had been
hurt. Hut the au-
thorities persisted
in taking a very
grave view of the
matter, and insisted
upon making an
example. The ques-
tion, however, was
" Whom to pun-
ish ? " It was im-
possible to make certain of the right culprits.
Thereupon the Breadalbane Fencibles showed
themselves worthy of the name of Campbell.
Several men voluntarily gave themselves up,

to suffer the
sentence of
the law as an
atonement for
the act of the
regiment.

Four weie
chosen as
scapegoats,
and were sent
to Edinburgh
for trial. They
were to march
under an
officer and a
guard to the
capital. The
journey.some-
thing under
forty miles,
was at the
close of the
eight een th

AMONG THE SAND-DUNES BY THE SEA IN WEST FLANDERS: A MACHINE-
GUN PARTY. WITH GUNS AND AMMUNITION ON MULE-DRAWN WAGONS.

ky lofiinl.

century an

undertaking of a day or two, and the road was
none of the best. The party, four of whom saw
no prospect of return, set out and made the best
of their not verycheeiful errand. The ollicei in
command was Major -Colin Campbell of Glenfalloch
(a branch of the Breadalbane family), who died in
1806. Campbell, a humane officer, understood his

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March 7. 1917

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Cl'arl S9 I , c
New S,-nesJ~15

Ht Opposite ends of the HUies' Buropcan Battle-front,

ARTISTIC GLIMPSES IN THE WAR-AREA : BY A SOMME CANAL ; A LONE SENTRY-POST.

A winter day's scene Amid typical " Low Country " BUT rounding*,
•uch u an old Dutch master might have painted, is shown in the
upper illustration. The locality is in the Somme district not far
from the fighting. The canal seen, icebound and with a froxen-tn
barge by the bank, is, when ice-free, one of the waterways of
Northern France utilised in the war. So the depflt vehicles, laid

up at the temporarily disused canal-side station show. In the
second illustration U another Artistic scene : a background of wooded
ridge and heidUnd. and, In the foreground, a helmeted French
sentry, silhouetted against the surf of a wave breaking on the
beach The promontory of Mount Athoj, on the Chftlcidice Penin-
sula of Macedonia, is the locale, — [French Official Pkotographt.}

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7. I»1T

men. and was therefore not unwilling to listen
when M:., MMi-lin. one of the prisoners, came to
him -ith an unusual and and somewhat astound-
ing request.

This was nothing more nor less than leave ol

absence I

" Major Campbell," said the prisoner, "

AFRICA-AT TABORA, THE CAPTURED GERMAN INLAND
AND RAILWAY CENTRE: REFIXING THE WHEELS ON

CRANE.

of the Belgian Congo forces, the

IN EAST
CAPITAL

A TRAVELLING

Before evacuating Tabora on th« approach

Germain. unable to remove their railway roiling stock In time, dismantled >\\
v«hicb» by taking off and hiding the wheel*. These have been found and refitted.

well what my fate will be, and lor my own part I

am fully prepared to meet it. But I have left

business of the utmost importance with a friend

in Glasgow. For myself, the

settlement matters nothing ;

but, with regard to my friend, I

cannot die in peace unless the

affair is arranged. If you will

suffer me to return to Glasgow,

a few hours there will be suffi-

cient. I will join you before you

reach Edinburgh, and march as

a prisoner."

Major Campbell understood
perfectly well what a risk he was
taking, but he also knew Mac-
martin's character. He there-
fore granted the request, and
the prisoner turned back alone,
with no other guard than his
pledged word. He reached Glas-
gow after nightfall, settled his
business with his friend, and,
leaving the city before day-
break, once more took the road
to Edinburgh. Fearing, how-
ever, that he might be arrested
as a deserter, he followed an un-
frequented route through woods
and over hills, which greatly lengthened his journey.

Meanwhile, Major Campbell had taken things
very easily, in order to give Macmartin every
chance to overtake him. 'But he could not pro-

long the march indefinitely, and at length, to his
dismay, he found himself in Right of Edinburgh
and no sign of the prisoner. Campbell's state of
mind was now entirely unenviable. He saw
nothing but disgrace ahead of him. Lingering
until the last possible moment, he was at last
forced to proceed, come what might. Heavy-
footed, therefore, and heavy-hearted,
the little party passed up the
High Street and across the parade
ground to the grim gateway under the
shadow of the Half-Moon Battery.
The guard turned out, the usual
formalities were gone through, and the
party were directed to the Command-
ing Officer or his deputy appointed to
JV receive the prisoners. A moment more,

and Major Campbell would have been
explaining why he was a man short.
He began to make over the prisoners,
when hurried footsteps sounded upon
the drawbridge, echoed under the arch-
way, and clattered over the rough
causeway of the courtyard. Macmartin
stood with his fellows in trouble.
Major Campbell's tally of prisoners
answered to his papers. Highland hon-
our and military discipline were safe.

All four were condemned to death.
Macmartin and two others were re-
prieved ; but the fourth, Alexander
Sutherland, was shot on Musselburgh
Sands. Some wished that Macmartin's
punctilious honour had been taken as
full atonement. General Stewart of
Garth put forward the plea when he told the story,
and he suggested that, as the trouble arose from
racial feeling and principle, a discipline somewhat

T'

IN NIGHTLY USE ON THE WESTERN FRONT: A GIANT SEARCHLIGHT-
PROJECTOR ON ITS TRAVELLING CARRIAGE (IN THE BACKGROUND), WITH

THE MOTOR-CAR FOR TOWING IT FROM POINT TO POINT.
The tearchlight attendant! and working gear travel in the motor-car. —[Photograph by Topical.]

different from the usual mode might be applied
to soldiers of that class. He hints that there may
be two views of Major Campbell's conduct, but it
is easy to see that he entirely approved of it.

7.

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i:he Bcloxv-COatcr "Business end" of a COar-Ship.

FOR SPEED AND STEERING : THE PROPELLERS AND RUDDER, AS SEEN WHEN IN DOCK.

AH ships' propellers look — leaYinf out palpable difference! in tat—
tery much »!ike to the layman's ere. in refard to what ooe may
call the eurres and twitu ol the bUdei — the "pitch " of the «crr»
TTjere fa, howe»er, a wide ranfe ol diflerencet, u ihip-builder«, »ne
muwof.wu builder* in particular, alwayi learn ifrnh from trial
ruaa at n«. A few r*ari afo, for instance, for months a certain

claat o( bif cruiMf built for extreme speed failed to COM* op M
the desifned speed. No fault was to be found with the " Hncs '
of the ships. The defect was remedied 07 means o( repeated •«
perimenti with dirlerent-shaped propellers, until ftnalrr, with an
improvised model, called the " crooked - pennies, aO
raniahed.— (CaikatUM War Rtv*4t.

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€hc Htlied JSfaval Base at Salonik,

ALONGSIDE A FLOATING WORKSHOP : A SHIP UH1

The engineering and dockyard capabilities of the Allied naval bass at Salonika, when in due course after the war it may be
permissible to i elate the story of what has been done and is being done there, will undoubtedly surprise a good many people.
One nf the achievements of the naval authorities at Salonika, incidentally also showing the completeness of equipment for

THE IU.USTKVTED WAR NEWS, M.«h 7.

d its Dockyard Huxiliary Gquipment,

AFTER HAVING BEEN DAMAGED IN COLLISION.

e* at the port, is illustrated above. The illustration shows the staff of a floating workshop — i.e., a ship fitted up
anical appliances for repairing purposes so as to be rrally a miniature movable dockyard — artificers, rivetters, divers, etc.,
on the side of a vcgsel which came inlo harbour after a collision. — [Of-cial Photograph.]

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March 7. 1817

Plaiting for the enemy to Come Out,

ON BOARD SHIP IN ONE OF OUR FLEETS : PAINTING THE TURRETS ; SCRUBBING DECKS.

The men of the battle-ship and cruiser fleets at sea are, we are
told, " spoiling for a fight " with the Germans ibove water.
Meanwhile, they have to occupy themselves with the ordinary, so
to speak, household duties of sea life. Whether in port or cruising,
" the trivial round, the common task" on board ship, as in time of
pence, has to be attended to. The work is done with the tradi-

tional cheeriness of the British teaman at all times. One war-
service detail, painting ship --ordinarily a piece of work for the
dockyard— is shown, in the upper illustration, being carried out at
s«a. In the lower illustration, a cheerful set of srrubbers are seen
cleaning up decks after coaling.— [Catuifhau War Rtconls. Copyright
Kfsfrved.}

M.rch 7. 191-.

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Rave Ole'll fiotdf"

A ^

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TYPIFYING THE SPIRIT OF HIS MASTERS: " BRINDLE BOY," THE BULL-DOG MASCOT OF THE "LION."

" Br indie Boy," the bull-dog mascot of the biUle-cruls«r "Lion,"
hat b«en in the ship for the past nin» months He was bought
for £100 at the Caledonian Mark t Fair on h^*...U "f the Wounded
Allies' Fund, and presented to Admiral Beatty for his flag-ship.
A tea life suits him, and he is always very fit. He is jpok-n of
«* b«inf a high-spirited dog with none of the lethargy characteristic

of the bull-dog br?*d about him, also very peaceable and friendly,
which makes him a universal farourite. His OIK- dislike is the
niinx of the Runs and the consequent concussion. He is shown
here wearing his winter -warm coat, which, however, he finds irk-
some and always wants to get rid ol. His rating is " Ship's Dog —
First Clans." — [Canadian War Records. Copyright Reserved.]

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On the Hncre : British bounded Com

LIGHT RAILWAYS FOR THE WOUNDED: R.A.M.C. MEN BRINGING CASU

I v,gl°Un? ?"*, Whu;h1.our Alm'" have advanced has been blasted into a chaotic waste. Over the pitted ground an
trench-board track, and light railways have been laid, and are kept to by the wise. Tht railways are most useful I
carrying ration! and ammunition to the Front, and for the transport of wounded to aid-posts behind the firin<r-line Woun r

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after a fight in cbc Snow,

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CESS1NG-STAT10N AFTER A BRITISH ATTACK ON THE WEST FRONT.

•Hding on th- light tram or trolley route. Along the trench-board track, or duck-boards, just beyond the rails, one ot
'w<mg wounded" ii being helped along. All are bound for the dressing-station and the motor-ambulances to ta<se them
We. In the left foreground is a shell-smashed trolley.— i IM»™ by H. W. Kockkack /r..m Material •.^fpluJ by OB hyt-Wilw .

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Mwcb 7. 1917

FOOTNOTES TO ARMAGEDDON: XXX.-THE HABIT OF HIS KIND.

T~*HE large man, walking like Agag, tame
1 towards the prettily screened Heavy Battery.
The rain was M> pestilenti.il that the Captain only
sa\\ he was an officer when he. was a few yards
away. The man came up,
shook water from himself,
and asked in an injured
voice —

" Is this PQ. — Heavy
Battery ? "

The Captain admitted
the fact.

" Well, I 'm glad you
•wore above earth," said the
other. " 1 might have
walked another inilu in this.
You 're almost too well
hidden for comfort."

The Captain agreed that
screening had its disad-
vantages as well as its
advantages. He asked, "Do
you want to see us par-
ticularly ? "

" I would like to see
the Colonel," said the other.
" t 'm from the Broadshires.
We 've just ' taken over '
in front of you — but you
know that."

" Oh, rather," said the
i .iptain. He hadn't thought
much of the Broadshires
really, save that they were
a new lot and
given to fre-
quent calling
up and de-
manding bat-
tery fire, as is
the way with
new b a t-
talions. He
was, however,
polite. " Oh,
rather." he
said. " But
it 's rather
hard luck.
The Colonel
and the Major
have taken
advantage, of
the weather.
They 've gone
to H.Q. for a
pow."

The stran-
ger emitted a

DECORATED WITH THE G.C.M.G. BY COM-
MAND OF THE KING: GENERAL MISHITCH,
OF THE SERBIAN ARMY, WHO WON DIS-
TINCTION AT THE RETAKING OF MON-
ASTIR. WEARING THE RIBBON AND STAR
OF HIS BRITISH ORDER.
Official

THE DOG-MASCOT OF H.M.S. "CANADA": CAPTAIN JAMES C. LEY OF THE

"CANADA" (RIGHT). AND A LIEUTENANT. POSING THE SHIP'S PET KOR A

PHOTOGRAPH TO BE TAKEN ONE SNOWY WINTER'S MORNING.

Canadian War Records. Copyright reserved.

noise thai sounded like " Damn," or even worse.
Hi- said, angrily, " Confound it ! I 'vc walked
through this for nothing."

Tin- Captain grinned in svmpathy.

" Omte a shame," he said. " But it alw;u.s

doe* happen like that. But don't call it ' nothing '
exactly. The mess is quite close handy, and we
have some very mellow—

" Oh, please," cried the stranger. " Let us
find the mess."

They walked towards the
mess. The stranger was
pleasantly affable. He was
appreciative of their disposi-
tions. He certainly knew
his business as a soldier, for
his praise was acute and
just. He complimented the
battery on the way it had
used the hillside as a screen.
" No wonder the Bodies
can't get you," he laughed.
Going into the dug-out
his he.id hit a canvas shel-
ter, and some of its de-
posited water vs ent over his
neck and back. He swore
fluently again. " This is the
limit," he snarled.

" Filthy climate, ain't
it ? " said the Captain.

" Woman's weather —
beastly ! " growled the other.
The Captain, said." Oli —
• ih :,'h;istly !

Tln:y unit into com-
parative drvness. where a
man could slake a thirst.
Two Siibv were in the
dug-out. They
began to laugh
at the wet
men, but they
stopped laugh-
i n g. T h e
stranger was
peeling on his
mac. to
at liis neck.
It was seen he
was a Major.
The Cap-
tain produced
whisky in its
varieties.

"Which
do you take,

Major ? "

" Osserily,"
answered the
Major. " Irish,
please."

The Cap-
t ain filled
glasses all round, but hesitated over his own.

" If you don't mind," he said, " I '11 have tea.
I prefer tea when it rains like the devil." He
walked out of the dug out. They heard him
talk to his servant. In a minute Vie was

March 7. 1917

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r Putiss -i__

l_New ScriesJ * '

H frencb TTrencb-JVIortar in its dinter Den.

GUN-PIT AND LIVING QUARTERS COMBINED : FRENCH ARTILLERYMEN AWAITING ORDERS.

At one point in the West, towards the coast of Flanders, a section
of the French trench-hne adjoin* at its extreme end the Belgian
tector of the mai.i Allied Wwtrrn Front. It is in that vicinity
that the French trench-gunner •' comforUble-looking combination
of gun-pit and living quai terj, illustrated here, » tituated. The
mortar, it wilt be noticed, ha* betid* it, as se«n, an air-torpedo

placed rendy to be picked up quickly and adjusted reidy for firing
at the muwle of the mortar. As appnrg through the opening
overhead through which the mortar fires, snow lies all over the
ground. The artillerymen round their brazier have their quarters
furnished with chain and a table, probably from some abandoned
house in a neighbouring Tillage.— {French Official Photograph.]

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March 7, 1917

inside, and in five minutes he had his tea, and
all were fiiendly.

Major Osserily was good company. He was
just out, and had a fair amount of news about
home. He rather amused them all by the way he
described the antics of his battalion under their
first fire. They had been indifferent in the

AMERICAN RED CROSS HELP IN FRANCE: A NEW PATTERN FIELD-AMBU

LANCE-WAGON CAPABLE OF BOTH TRAVELLING AND STATIONARY SERVICE.

The wagon can cany four. Used as a stationary ambulance, a tent-awning is stretched

over it, and the sides are let down outwards as shown above.

beginning, but, when they found that shells did

more than look like fireworks, they had developed

a sense of injury. They were now all extremely

anxious to go over the top and wipe up the whole

Hun army. It was an amiable little encounter.

The Major had just begun to develop talk about

the moral quality of gun-support, when " Signals "

sent in a memo, to the Captain. The Captain read

the memo, carefully, put it

away, and then went on with w^^__^_

the moral support of guns.

It was very pleasant. It was

with reluctance, it seemed,

that the Major decided he

must go.

At that moment, however,
the Captain pulled out his re-
volver and thrust it under the
Major's nose. He demanded
" Hands up " instanter.

The Major's hands rose,
but he spluttered with rage.
He was understood to demand
the meaning of this adjec-
tival outrage.

" The meaning is," said
the Captain, " that Major
Ossfiily is not known in the
JJrorwlshircs, and he isn't
known at H.Q., either. No,
don't splutter — it 's a fact.
You probably didn't count
on my using the -telephone
to get facts of an ordinary
everyday visitor. I have
been using the telephone, all the same."
The Major erupted rage.
" Say all you have to say at H.Q.," said the

Captain. " You 're going there now — under
guard. But I guess we '11 search you first.
Cunly — •

The Major made a wild movement with his
right hand. It darted towards his mouth.
Cunly, rather an athletic person, collared the
hand, and, with a sharp twist, had both secured
it and opened the fingers. In
the palm of the hand was a
tiny pad. On the pad were a
number of the weirdest signs.
The Captain looked at them.
" Shorthand, I should say.
But I know shorthand — the
English variety, that is, and
this isn't it. Must be the Ger-
man breed." He annexed the
pad, and they went through the
Major's clothes. They found
nothing more. All the same,
the Major was shot soon after.
The weird designs on the pad
were shorthand, German and
incriminating.

Cunly asked the Captain
how he performed miracles.

" I should never have
guessed what the fellow was.
His kit was absolutely it, and .
his face, and the way he
spoke — you couldn't tell he wasn't British."

" No," said the Captain. " I should never
have found out — only it was raining."
" That means ? "

" When a Biitisher wishes to express his
extreme loathsomeness of weather, he says it 's
filthy, or that it isn't fit to send a dog out ir>.
The German expresses himself after the habit ol

I DIRECTOR OF THE COMEDIE FRANCAISE AND HIS WIFE IN THE
FRENCH RED CROSS SERVICE: COLONEL CARRE AND MME. CARRE MEET-
ING AT A RAILWAY HALTING-PLACE.

Colonel Carre, at the outbreak of the war, was Director of the Comedie Francaise. Joining
» Army, he is now administrative officer in the ambulance train service. His wife, Mme
CarnS, a well-known operatic singer, joined the Red Cross, and is
railway ambulance service.

head nuree in the

his cutious kind. Bad weather, to him, is some-
thing even too bad foi his dog — it is just ' woman's
W. DOUGLAS NEWTON.

weather.'

March 7, 1917

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C
Ne

Cttomen Olar-Olorhers on the Land

EAST AND SOUTH : FEN WOMEN " RIDDLING "
Theac are glimpses of women war-time farm-workers' occupations.
The upper illustration, an Eastern Counties scene, shows women
•fiddlers" sorting potatoes into sires for sending to the London
market. The lower illustration is from a Home County, Surrey, on
a farm near Rei».-ite. Mrs. Douglas, the owner's wife, i> seen
ploughing with a new pattern motor-tractor. Only a few minutes

POTATOES ; A FARMER'S WIFE TRACTOR-PLOUGHING.

instruction sufficed. The machine is a l6-h.p. tractor, working
on paraffin, and specially built for war-time agriculture. It is well
adapted for working in narrow places, with a cap»bility of ploughing
fiTe acres a day. It can work an elerator, haul a five-ton load,
do hardest-field cutting up to »5 acres daily, and also dri»e a hill.
sized threshing machine. — [Photon, by C.N.]

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M»«h 7, 1911

OTbere the Union lack flics Hgain : Kut-ct-Hmara.

>*&«,

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RECAPTURED BY GENERAL MAUDE : KUT-EL-AMARA— THE SQUARE ; AND A VIEW FROM THE TIGRIS.

The recapture of Kut by General Sir Stanley Maude was announced
on February 27. In our upper photograph is seen the town square,
with some buildings whose antiquity contrasts with the apparatus
of modern warfare as represented by the wireless mast to the left.
The lower photograph shows Kut as it appears from the Tigris,
the height of whose banks at this point makes the place a bulwark

against floods. Reporting operations after the retaking of Knt, Genera)
Maude said : " On the morning of February 25 our gun-boats, cavalry,
and infantry moved westwards in pursuit of the retreating enemy.
Strong Turkish rear - guards, supported by artillery, were found to
be occupying entrenched positions 15 miles west-north-west of Kut-
el-Amara."— [Photos, bv Topical.}

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Our Victorious Comtnandcr-in-Chicf in JMesopotamia

RECAPTOR OF KUT AND ORGANISER OF THE ADVANCE: MAJOR-GENERAL SIR F. STANLEY MAUDE.

On February rj, the War Office announced that reports had be«l
receded (torn Sir Stanley Maude, Comroander-in-Chief in Meso-
potamia, notifying that " the whole of the enemy'i poiitioni from
Sanna-i-Yat to Kut-el-Amara have been lecured. Kul lt»«lf,jj
added the communiqut, "passes automatically into our hands."
General Maude, who wai preriously CMC. and D.S.O., was

knighted last December. He took command of the Army
Mesopotamia two months previously. Entering the Army in 1884,
he saw actiit service first under Lord Wolseley in the Soudan,
and later, under Lord Roberts and Lord Kitchener in South Africt,
where he won his D.S.O. Sir Stanley Maude has b««n five times
mentioned in despatches.— {Photo, by MauU find Fox.}

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H Cdestern front Incident: Our ]Sortbern Hll

I

FOOTBALL ON THE SNOW-COVERED SURFACE OF A FROZEN I

This illustration shows Russian soldiers, of one of the contingents of the troops of our Northern ally on the Western Fri

in France, playing our British winter game during an off-duty interval. The football " ground " is the level surface of

snow-covered space across a frozen sheet of water. That football should find favour with Russians, who, like ourselves, i

THE ILLUSTRATED WAR NEWS, March 7,

I Great Britain '9 National Winter Game.

SOLDIERS OF A CONTINGENT IN FRANCE AT PLAY.

•> Northern race, is, perhaps, not so very unnatural. It will, »t any rate, b« interesting to see what happens in regard

[I Russia after the war. It may well be that experimental football at tht winter camps of the Russian contingents in

iy lead to the general introduction oi the game in Russia as a popular pastim*.-- [Ptmtn. by Unittrwod and Vmttrmoit.]

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NUr.L 7. 1917

WOMEN AND THE WAR.

"And I shall be a soldier in

The King's Armee." .

THE creation of a woman's department of
National Service has been quickly followed
by another to deal with the question of sub-
stituting women for men as far as possible in the
Army, in order that more men may be released
to take their places in the lighting line. There
is quite a military flavour about the announce-
ment that training and " kit " are to be provided,
as well as adequate wages; and as the Department
comes under tue Adjutant-General s brand), and
Colonel Leigh Wood is to be one of the " heads,"
Mrs. Chalmers Watson, M.D., being the other,
this military note is sustained all through. Two

volunteer for the Land Army at home to take
their share in milking, weeding, sowing, hoeing,
and any of the procer-ses connected with farming
and agricultural work will be doing work fully
equal in importance to those who later " join up
in the ranks of the Women's Aimy for Fiance.

For those who cannot volunteer for work on
the land at home, or in some other direction
abroad, there is plenty of occupation in England ;
and amongst the infinite forms of existing " war
work," none is more interesting than that for
which the County Folk Visitation Society is
responsible. There are any number of wounded
soldiers who, when they are sent to London

ROYALTY AT WALTHAMSTOW : H.R.H. PRINCESS ARTHUR OF CONNAUCHT OPENS A NEW AMBULANCE STATION.

u /jfJ!' h°nCUr °f "UrSeS f°rn"d *" interestinS f'»'«" of 'h* opsninr. of the new Ambul.mce Sta'icn a* VU'.lham-tow by
H.R.H. Princess Arthur of Connaueht, Duchess of Fife, en February 2k. He.- Rc.y,-,! H.ghnra is shown in our pto-ograph
the guard after performing the ope-iin? ceremony. — : l'ant,»,».if;i liy <' \ .

years ago, or even less, the bare suggestion of
including women in the ranks of the Army would
have raised a storm of protest. But women have
done, and are doing, so many forms of work for
which they used to be considered unfitted, and
doing them so satisfactorily, that the latest develop-
ment has been accepted as a matter of course.

The idea of replacing a man in the Army is an
exciting one, and many women will be called
upon to do it. But first in importance is the
necessity of helping in the food -production of the
country. Sir Edward Carson, and Mr. Lloyd
George after him, emphasised the gravity of the
submarine menace, as it affects the feeding of
England, and each of the 100,000 women who

hospitals, find themselves practically cut off from
friends and relations owing to the distance that
divides them from home. Now, hospital life, at
the best, is a rather wearying existence, and
when there is no chance of an outside visitor
coming to relieve the monotony of the daily
routine, it becomes even more so. It is to pre-
vent our men from having to endure dullness such
as this that the County Folk Visitation Society
was formed, with Mrs. Rose Eastman, 27, York
Terrace, Regent's Park, N.W., as its Honorary
Secretary, in January 1916.

The County Folk Visitation works under the
auspices of the English County Societies' Con-
ference, and has the Hon. Arthur Stanley for

March 7. 1917

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CPart S) "I _
New SerieJ-35

<Klork for Cdomen with A Knowledge of fiorses.

AFTER A PRACTICE RUN WITH A MAIL-VAN : A WOMAN DRIVER WATERING HER HORSES.

The value of the work of women Accustomed to deal with hor.vs
11 more width/ recognised every day, and their services are being
enlisted in many forma of work hitherto the monopoly of the
other sex. They are, (or instance, being ipecUlly trained to
become Tan-drivers in the service of Messrs. Macnamara, contractors
to the General Poet Office, under the direction of Mr. Ward, of

Tatters*,)!'* (who has taught many members of the Coaching Club),
and Mr. Palmer, the animal-artut and one of the finest whips in
the country. A number of sporting women who hare given up their
horses have applied for various posts. Our photograph shows one
of them tending her horses after a trial run with a mail - van. —
\Photo. fry Alfrri.]

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President, and Colonel E. T. Clifford, V.D., for
Chairman ; and, briefly summarised, its main
function is to act as a sort of clearing-house for
the cards of identity of wounded men in London.
Hitherto as each fresh convoy came to the
hospital, the matron collected the names and
addresses of the men, and ascertained if they
would like to see visitors. These particulars
having been sent to the Headquarters of the
C.F.V., they were for-
warded to the various

County Associations in
.London with which the
new Society co - oper-
ates, or to other organ-
isations which collabo-
rate with it. But there
are several counties — -
Bedfordshire, Berkshire,
Buckinghamshire, Here-
fordshire, Hertfordshire,
Huntingdonshire,
• Leicestershire, Middle-
sex, and Oxfordshire —
which, having no socie-
ties of their own, are
unrepresented in Lon-
don. To meet the case
of the men who belong
to these counties, small
committees of ladies
have been formed in
London to see that the
country soldiers are not

That, however, is not all. Matrons of hos-
pitals are busy people, and it has recently been
decided, with the consent of the War Office —
which has always shown a sympathetic interest
in the objects of County Folk Visitation — that
the work of identifying the men shall be done
by " Commissioners " of the Society, who have
been granted permission to visit military
hospitals for the purpose. The work itself is
by no means an ardu-
ous task. Hospital
" visiting " days are
generally limited to
two afternoons in the
week, and it is not
necessary for each
visitor to undertake
duty on both unless
she prefers to do so.
As for the men them-
selves, their gratitude
for any small service
done is great.

"THE PLOUGH IS OUR HOPE": A DEVONSHIRE

GIRL AS WAR-HELPER.

Mr. Lloyd George has declared that " the plough is our hope,"
and women-workers on tho farms are increasing in number every
day. Our photograph shows Miss Alexandra Smith, who, though
still in her early 'teens, .can do most kinds of farm-work and
holds many prizes, including the champion prize against all comers,
won at agricultural demonstrations. — [Photograph by C.N.]

overlooked ; and, apart

from those already mentioned, there are any
number of counties almost entirely unrepresented.
The result is that the C.F.V. is trying to foim
new committees in order that every lonely man in
hospital may be visited during his stay in London
by someone who will make him her especial charge
and look after his interests while he is being
nursed back to health; and anyone who would
like to help in this way is asked to write to Mrs.
Eastman, whose address has already been given.

Those who cannot
help in peison can still
assist in the carrying-
out of the scheme by
sending gifts of cigars
and cigarettes, or money
to buy them, to the
Honorary Secretary; and
offers of drives, or the
wherewithal to pay for

them, for parties, would be another delicate
attention greatly appreciated. It is anticipated
that the numbers of wounded this year will be
very great, and the C.F.V. is particularly anxious
that the work should be done thoroughly and
well. But if this desire is to be fulfilled, many
more visitors will be required ; and as the need is
a really urgent one, it is hoped that those who
can spare the time will place it at the disposal
of the Society. CLAUDINB CLEVE.

THE CANADIAN RED CROSS SOCIETY IN PARIS: LADY AMBULANCE DRIVERS.
The Canadian' Red Cross Society, splendidly equipped and admirably managed, is doing valuable work in Paris. — [Photo, by Topical.]

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H Winter's Day Glimpse of Sc

AT A NORTHERN ANCHORAGE : SHIPS OF ONE OF THE SQUA

Ships of a squadron of the Grand Fleet are seen here at one of the anchorages which vessels of Sir David Beatty's cornm;
use when not on a cruise. War-ships of several types are seer. — battle-ships, cruisers, and various small craft. The view
taken from on board a battle-ship, the heavy barbette guns and turrets of which show in the foreground. The two gun-muz;

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the Vessels in the Grand fleet.

IG UNDER SIR DAVID BEATTY'S FLAG AWAITING ORDERS.

i in the upper part of the illustration *re those of the pair of guns mounted in the upper turret. We look out
He roof of the lower turret in advance, with its pair of guns, over which in chasing the enemy the upper turret guns
I concentrated discharge bringing four heavy shells on the target at once. — [Canadian It'ar Records. Copyright Reserved.]

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March 7. 1917

German Hir-Raids in the Balkans: H Captured Machine.

BROUGHT DOWN BY THE ITALIAN TROOPS NEAR MON ASTIR : A CAPTURED GERMAN BIPLANE.

An interesting point about this German biplane is the revolving
seat for the observer, which was furnished with a machine-gun
besides that controlled by the pilot in front. Writing from
Salonika on February 27, Mr. G. Ward Price said : " The Germans
have been malting aeroplane-raids on a larger scale these last few
rtays than for some time pest. Janesh and the Karasuli villages

near the front have been bombed, and this afternoon 15 Albatrosses,
profiting by a haze . . . appeared over the Allied camps around
Salonika and .dropped large bombs. . . . The raiders paid the toll
of their exploit,- one of their machines being brought down by an
Allied airman at Gumendje on the way back to the frontier. The
Gerrrnn officer piloting it was t^ken prisoner." — \Plioto.by PhQtOpHtSS]

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KILLED BY A SHELL WHILE ON HOSPITAL DUTY AT MONASTIR : MRS. HARLEY, SISTER OF LORD FRENCH

From a Photograph bv Bassano.

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WAR.

By W. DOUGLAS NEWTON.

HAS THE RETREAT STOPPED ? WHAT OUR TACTICS MEAN. -SUPREMACY OF THE AIR.

FROM the main tendencies of the week's news
it may seem that there should be a scramble
among the prophets lor the use of the fence, and
thst there might be some among the military
seers anxious
to recall the
winged words
let loose by
happy tongues
amid the
excitements
of the big ad-
vance. For
the period
during which
our armies
moved with a
great surge
along the
twelve - mile
front of the
German evac-
uation seems
to have
dwindled, at
least as far
as large and
d r'a m a t ic
movement is
concerned,
and there is
an apparent
state of things
that might lead those who held that the Bapaume
Ridge would be the next standing-place of the
enemy, to say: " I told you so." Curiously, the
prophets who seem to need retrenchment are to
be found, not in England, but in France. That
is, the nation which is new to military matters
appears to have been sounder than the nation
which has made a great study of them. It was
the Frenchman who made the most of the vic-
tory, and pointed out visions of the future.
Practically every Englishman said the Germans
were retreating, before he mentioned the British
were advancing. In the same way the British
seem ready to assume the retreat has stopped,
sooner than they are ready to see that perhaps
it is still going on.

DURING AN ARTILLERY DUEL ON A FRENCH SECTOR ON THE SOMME FRONT :
GERMAN SHELLS BURSTING.— [French Official Photograph.}

It is quite possible that the new German line
is going to hold before Bapaume. Indeed, by
following the map it would appear that this was a
planned intention. For, if we look at the map

at that ten-
derest portion
of the enemy
front, the
front between
Gom|mecourt
and Puisieux,
it is easy to
see that, after
their thought-
ful manner,
the Germans
made up
their mind to
hold on to
the highest
ground, that
running in
line with
Point 147
east of Gom-
mecourt and
Point 142 be-
low Bucquoy.
They bent
their front
fluently from
heretoAchiet-

le-Petit, and

that line follows affectionately the ridges of the
high ground to Bapaume, and on to Gueudecourt.
A stand then, on the ridges, seems to have been
scheduled, and with the slackening off of our ad-
vance, and the renewed obstinacy of the fighting,
it seems likely that we shall have to fight for
Bapaume, not chase the Germans through it.
This, apparently, gives the death-blow to those
who saw ths German line reconstructed on a front
pivoting on Arras and centring on Cambrai, as it
does to those who saw the British Army thrust-
ing deeply and fatally into the vital communica-
tions east of Cambrai.

In fact, the Bapaume Ridge may be a death-
blow to optimistic theories; but it is just as well
to remember that the death-blow has not yet

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[New Series

been struck. It is well to remember that those

who think the Germans may shorten their line in

drastic fashion have not been proved wrong until

the battle is finished, and it is proved beyond a

doubt that the Germans are sitting firm. For it

is obvious the Germans, in spite of the apparent

quietness of the fronts, are

even more unsettled at the

present time than they were

when events looked large,

and they were on the move.

This is not an exaggeration.

Their retreat was a thing of

science and order. They

made their plans to go back

to a definite line, that is

certain (even if we are not

certain of the exact locality

of that line), and their part

has been fulfilled. They

reached that line, but now

they have to hold on — and

that is a problem unsettled

enough in all conscience.

For now something more

than good Staffing will have

to come into play, and that

is the ability to hold the

British away from the line

they have chosen.

That ability must needs
be great. More than that,
it must be an ability greater
than any yet shown on this
front. When the battles of
the Somme dwindled in
November, the Germans were
in very much the same posi-
tion as they are now. They had come to
a new line and their business was to hold on.
Because of the British tactics they were unable

A FRENCH FLYING OFFICER RECENTLY
DECORATED WITH THE BRITISH MILITARY
CROSS : SUB-LIEUTENANT PIERRE DUCAS.

Sub-Lieut. Ducas won the Military Cross for bril-
liantly daring nights at the Dardanelles, and on
the Salonika Front. He received also a special
letter of congratulation from Admiral de Robeck.
He has been four times named in French " Ordres
de Jour " for aerial single-combats, bold reconnais-
sances, and bomb-dropping on enemy positions under
fire. — [Photograph by Henri Manuel.]

heights. Again, the Beaumont heights gone,
the Germans were once more in the position
they are now. They held a line from Serre to
Grandcourt, and they tried to hold on. Last
week we saw how they could not do it. And here,
again, in the Bapaume heights is the old situation,
and we are hammering at it
with the old tactics.

These tactics, which we
have employed all through
the winter months, have
been concerned with man-
oeuvres which outflanked,
cut off, and captured nodal
points in the defence — points
like Beaumont, Grandcourt,
the works of Miraumont,
and the like. We have come
to see that with these posi-
tions commanding valley ap-
proaches (in a region of val-
leys) and the flanks of
German dispositions taken,
we have turned and ren-
dered feeble enemy defences.
We have been, as it were,
creating flanks in a war
where flanking movements
have been ruled as dead.
It is because we have been
creating them so successfully
that the Germans went back.
What we did at Grandcourt
and Miraumont we appear
to be doing now.

The work of the week
seems to give the truth to
this. There has been steady
fighting cast of Gommecourt and south of
Bucquoy, and this fighting has given us ground.
It would seem to give us ground on the lower

AMID WINTER RURAL SURROUNDINGS CLOSE BEHIND THE OISE FRONT : ON THE OUTSKIRTS OF AN ARTILLERY

CANTONMENT.— [French Official Photograph.]

to do this. In addition to the steady encroach- levels on the flank and rear of Point 147,

ment before Bapaume, we were able to force and up the road towards Bucquoy, which

a front stronger than the one they hold now— means we are working round Point 142 (as

that is, we forced our way over the Beaumont, well as the Achiet-le-Petit hills) in the same

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March 14. 1917

manner. We are working steadily, and our
aim is undoubtedly to force the strong points
as we forced other strong points. If we can do
this, then the Germans will make excuses about
the mud once more, and we will hear of further
retirements. This habit of driving wedges into
the German front in order to break it up, if only

READY FOR SERVICE EITHER ON LAND OR AT SEA : HEAVY-GUN

SHELLS READY TO LFAVE A FINISHING WORKSHOP AT A FRENCH ARSENAL.

French Official Photograph.

locally, is not new. These tactics gave us all the
strong works about Combles and Thiepval, and
they have been giving us strongholds ever
since. They have been brought
to bear on the Sailly-Saillisel- «J^«B^^^
Bouchavesnes area (south-east of
Bapaume) this week, and have
given us success. We have taken
the highest ridge at Sailly, and
this, with our advance at Boucha-
vesnes, is giving us a grip on the
Valley of the Tortille that may,
in time, break the defence of the
St. Pierre Vaast Wood. It is slow

going, of course ; but slow going

is a habit of ours, and it usually

gets there.

Of the general situation of the

West, including imminent strokes

from Hindenburg, there is nothing

very emphatic to report. There

has been a certain intensity along

the line. Verdun has again lured

on the German, but the footing

he gained in Caurieres Wood, north

of the town, has not been held

very long, and its cost to Hinden-
burg's strategic reserves does not

seem to have made the attack profitable.

some excellent bombing raids to their credit this
week — one into Germany, east of Strassburg — but
on the part of the enemy. He appears to have
made a sudden and startling effort to regain the
mastery of the air, and has unexpectedly crowded
a great number of fighting machines into action.
This attempt to drive the Allied, and particularly
the British, aviators off the scene
•^•^^•^ has resulted in an extraordinary
number of aerial fights, as many
as fifty-six machines being sent
down in two days — thirty - three
of these, the Germans assert,
casualties to the Allies. This sud-
den aerial dash is surprising, ard,
of course, it has meaning. It is
undoubtedly .a German effort to
gain the vision of the future for
themselves. There are two ways
of examining the tactic. Either
the Germans wish to blind us, so
that our imminent offensive will
be robbed of striking power, or else
they wish to cover and make sure
an offensive of their own, as we
did when we drove the Germans
out of the air at the opening of
^J the Somme battles. Both these
points will be solved by the
future — the future which will bring
Hindenburg 's offensive, or the
future which will show that our
aviators are not at all the fellows to knuckle
under in the matter of supremacy. That
we have lost the mastery of the air is a

AT A FRENCH BLUEJACKETS' BATTERY ON THE UPPER MARNE FRONT :

A NAVAL GUN IN ITS DUG-OUT, WITH THREE OF THE SEAMEN GUNNERS.

French Official Photograph.

other points there is a hint of gunnery effort
rather larger than usual, but until that de-
velops into action we cannot gauge its mean-
ing. However, with this gunnery there has
come a curious burst of aerial activity, not
merely on the part of the Allies, who have

At foolish assertion to

make just now, just as
it was a foolish statement to make when
the well - advertised Fokker appeared on the
scene. The mastery of the air is not won
in one assault, or in one week of assault. He
is master of the air who wins after the assault

has spent itself. LONDON: MARCH 10. 1017

March 14. 1917

THE ILLUSTRATED WAR NEWS.

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for "JVIost Conspicuous Bravery and Devotion to Duty." ^

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THE VX. FOR THE DEAD CAPTAIN OF THE "SHARK" AT JUTLAND: COMMANDER LOFTUS JONES.

The V.C. was posthumously awarded on March 6 to Commander
Loftui William Jones, of the destroyer "Shirk," for "most con-
spicuous bravery and devotion to duty " at Jutland Battle, " the
full facts baring only now been ascertained," as the Admiralty

full facts baring only

state. The " Shark " led a destroyer division. Her steering-gear

and engine* were disabled, and the forecastle and after-gun* shot

overboard. After trying, though wounded, to repair the steering
gear, Commander Jones, with only two men, fought the ship's only
remaining gun till the " Shark " sank. At the last he ordered
the survivors of his crew to put on life-belts. The "Shark"
was torpedoed immediately afterwards, and Commander Jones went
down with his ahip. — \Pkoto. by Ntwspapcr Illustrations.}

THE ILLUSTRATED WAR NEWS.

March 14. 1917

preparing for the Spring Campaign on the french front.

RECONSTRUCTING A OISE PONTOON BRIDGE : FIRST
In consequence of the d-^erous floating mum of solid ice drifting
down the Oiw, which traverse* the French front on the Aisne to
the .outh-east of St. Quentin and toward, the Ardennes, the pontoon
>r.dges .crow the river had to be removed and the pontoon,
.towed alonplde the river bank for the time. Now that the ice
pack ha. been broken up, partly by dynamite explosion, where the

PONTOONS GOING OUT; BOWS OF A PONTOON.

ice pack had jammed, partly in consequence of milder weather,
only loose ice in small patches remains, and the pontoon bridge.
are being re-ettablished and cross-river communication by that
means restored. We show French soldiers working on the pre-
iminary bridging operations in the pontoon boats employed for
supporting the plank roadway over.— [French Official Photographs.]

March 14. 1917

THE ILLUSTRATED WAR NEWS

preparing for the Spring Campaign on the frcnch front.

RECONSTRUCTING A OISE PONTOON BRIDGE : " RAFTING " SECTIONS INTO POSITION ; INSPECTION.

In the upper illustration section* of the OUe pontoon bridge shown
About to be reconstructed on the precedinf page, are seen while
b*ing connected together in mid-stream. Sections of pontoons,
technically term-d "piers," are put together along the shore and
"rafted/* or rowed, out to meet other sections, and be all linked
In position. The piers are rapidly got in place and made fast,

the bows of each pcntoon heading up-stream. In the lower illus-
tration the completed bridge is seen with the plank roadway down,
ready for the passage of troops of all arms. Each pontoon party
during the final inspection of the bridge by the officer in charge
stands, as seen, u on parade, with oars upright.— [Frtnch Official
Photographs.]

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March 14. 1817

for fioraea at the front.

ARMY HORSES MASKED AGAINST GERMAN POISON-GAS: A CONVOY CARRYING MUNITIONS.

FRENCH

Animals are, of course, « su««pT.ble to the poisonous effects of
asphyxiating gas, w*»«h Germany introduced into the amenities of
warfare, *• »<"* their human masters, and the horses, mules, and
dogs employed for military purposes require the same sort of pro-
tection if exposed to the deadly fumes. The French have provided
for this contingency with their usual scientific skill. Photographs

of French Army dogs wearing masks »nd going through gas-clouds
appeared not Inng ago. The lower photograph on this page shows
a French transport column conveying: ammunition up to some
batteries stopped by a sentry (seen on the left) carrying a placard
inscribed with the words " Attention ! Nappe de gai " (Bewart 1
gas cloud). The men are seen adjusting their own and their

\ConliitHfd offftitf .

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THE ILLUSTRATED WAR NEWS.

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Hn Hnti-Gas "Nose-Bag" for Hrmy fiorses.

LIKE MASTER, LIKE STEED : FRENCH TRANSPORT HORSES AND THEIR RIDERS MASKED.

horses' jii- mi ski. In the upper photograph on the left-hand
page the column is moving off to resume its journey up to the
gun -posit ions, after the gas-masks b<>t • of men and horses hare
been duly affixed. The animils appear to be quite comfortable
and not at all restive in their masks, which they regard, perhaps, as
some peculiar form of nose-bag to be filled later on with something

more appetising than their present contents. The similarity to
nose-bigs is shown more clearly in the photograph* on this right-
hand page. It will be noted that whil* the masks worn by the
men cover the whole* face in the case of the horses the eyes are
left uncovered. Possibly blinkers might make them uneasy, and
it is the throat and nose, of course, that chiefly need protection.

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March 14. 1917

THE BEGINNINGS OF WAR - MACHINES : MESSENGER-PIGEONS.

THE term "Carrier," as applied to pigeons,
was originally employed to signify the
particular breed used for carrying messages. It
now denotes an entirely different variety, the
message-carrying birds being termed " homing "
pigeons. The best strain of " homers " originated
in Belgium, where the training of these birds has
been carried to a very high degree of efficiency.
When the German armies were closing round Paris
in 1870, numbers of messenger or "homing"
pigeons were brought into the city, to be used for
carrying messages out. Pigeons, to the number
of about 360, were sent out in balloons, and did
good work in bringing news from outside, although
only about one-sixth of the total number returned
with messages. The Germans, on their side, did
their best to stop the carrier-pigeon method of
communication by employing hawks which were
trained to kill trie pigeons. The messages sent
were carried by the French pigeons in the form of

carrier-pigeon. On the other hand, the capture
of a messenger-pigeon flying into Ptolemais with
a letter containing news of approaching relief is
said to have resulted in the immediate capitulation
of the place. The besiegers had replaced the
original message with one stating that no outside
help was to be expected. During the siege of
Acre bv Richard I. the Saracen Sultan Saladin is
said to have kept up communication with the city
by means of carrier-pigeons.

The suppression of smuggling between France
and England was assisted by the despatch of
messenger-pigeons from France to the Revenue
authorities at English seaports with information
as to the sailings of smuggling-vessels. So serious
was the interruption to contraband trade in con-
sequence of the use of the pigeons that hawks
were employed by the smugglers for the purpose
of destroying the pigeons, much in the fashion of
the Germans in 1870-71, as related.

MESSENGER-PIGEON SPEEDS AND DISTANCES : AVERAGE RECORDS.

A. Journeys over 50 miles : average speed, 880 yards a minute. />'. Journeys under 50 miles : average speed, 1000 yards a minute.
C. Effects of wind on speed on short journeys (B) : head wind reduces speed to 800 yards a minute. D. Effects of wind on speed
on short journeys (B) : side wind allows speed at 1000 yards a minute. /•- Effects of wind on speed on short journeys (B): tail

wind accelerates speed to 1400 yards a minute.

small scraps of paper covered with writing, or
with printing reduced by photography to minute
characters, which, on arrival at the bird's des-
tination, were thrown on a screen by a magic-
lantern, and by that means enlarged to an easily
legible size. As most convenient, the messages or
despatches, as reproduced on the screens, were read
aloud from the screen by one attendant, whilst
a number of others seated at tables transcribed
them in multiple form for distribution (Fig. 4) or
else copied them direct.

The Chinese of olden times, who are credited
with inventing most things, used messenger
pigeons to carry military despatches. It is said
also that they attached a small reed to the bird in
such a manner that the wind caused it to make a
whistling sound, with the idea of so scaring off
hawks and other birds of prey (Fig. i). The
Egyptians of B.C. 3000 — and, according to Pliny,
the Romans— employed pigeons as despatch-
carriers in war. A historian tells us that Haarlem
was saved by adopting a suggestion contained in
a message brought into the besieged city by a

The scrap of paper on which the message is
written is usually rolled up and passed through a
metal ring worn on the bird's leg. the end being
then folded down and secured by a rubber ring.
If no metal ring is already on the leg, two rubber
rings can be used. Alternatively, the paper is
often rolled up and inserted in a quill, which is
passed over the end of the middle feather of the
tail and secured to it (Fig. 5). Almost incredible
distances are at times covered by '' homing "
pigeons, flights of 1000 miles having been on
occasion accomplished (Fig. 3). In single-day
flights, speeds amounting to sixty or seventy miles
an hour ate not uncommon, but the fact that a
pigeon always roosts when night falls causes a low
average speed when the journey occupies more
than one day.

When an important message has to be trans-
mitted, it is usual to send a number of birds
currying duplicates ; but these should be released
singly and at intervals of five or ten minutes. If
released together, the birds are apt to play about
and waste time I {&«//»««* ,ft^<u.

March 14. 1917

THE ILLUSTRATED WAR NEWS.

Beginnings of Olar Machines : Messenger-p

geons.

CAMERA-CARRYING PIGEON

HOMING

WITH MESSAGES (A -r B)

ESSENGER-PIGEON SERVICE „ WAR: FROM EARLY TIMES TO THE PRESENT.

.

Although, wh« the prettnt war broke out, wir«le« telep.phj had
.t «tir,lT ^p.rK.i.d ,h, pigeon „ . de,p.,ch-c.rrier, the
. <* «.pl«e. h« ,i«n ,he pi<eon M^« Mo,her
We, bird. betn« «rri«l on the fc.pUna ta order to «sist
MAbluhint ouiek communiMtion with H«dqn»rteri, when
For work in war-time there hu been inrvited . tiny

camera which can be a,uch«l to the body of a pigeon. Germany
early recogn-ed the capabilitie. of the W», «d a number of experi-
hare been carried out. The camera i> automatic in action
and take, a photograph at regular interraU. The app»r,tu. i>
made in two form.: in one form it i, a .ingle camera; in
the other, two camera..

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March 14. 1917

Hhe British Thrust forward on the Sommc-

TRENCH DUG-OUT AFTER

FRONTING THE AUSTRALIAN ATTACK : A GERMAN
In tome paru of the German tiench-lme, recently captured in
the stage-by-stage push forward on the Somme and Ancre fronts,
the enemy's positions were found nearly intact, or comparatively
attle broken up by the artillery bombardment, which had not
needed to concentrate on those particular localities. In others,
the former enemy lines were to all intents reduced by our shells

to shapeless heaps and mounds of earth — especially where direct
hits on the dug-outs or trench-galleries had been made, and the
shells had burst aft=r penetrating below the surface. The appear-
ance above ground round an enemy dug-out so dealt with i»
shown here. The half-choked up hole seen in the foreground
was the former entrance. —\A mlKtfiatt Official Photograph.*

March 14, 1917

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TThe British TThrust forward on the Somme.

WITH THE AUSTRALIANS : ALTERING A CAPTURED GERMAN TRENCH TO FRONT THE OPPOSITE WAY.

As the paperi have recorded in recently published letters and
rae*sag«s from the front, the Australians have been well forward
in the fighting on' the Somme during the continuous British advance
of the past month. One of the first things that have to he done,
as fast as we gain ground, is shown in this illustration : the
adaptation of captured enemy trench-lines to our own purposes.

Speaking generally, whit happens is that the German trench-lines,
in whatever state the bombardment hai left them, have to be made
to face the other way. A new crest-line along the former rear
side of the trench mutt he made, a new fire-step cut, fresh dug-
outs excavated, revetments altered — all in reverse positions from
those existing.— [Australian Official Photo'rafh.}

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'March 14, 1917

ROMANCES OF THE REGIMENTS: XL. -THE 21si FOOT.

THE TRAGEDY OF MAJOR CAMPBELL.

ON June 23, 1807, the 2ist Regiment was
inspected at Armagh Barracks by General
Kerr, and thereafter the officers dined together.
About eight o'clock — for our forefathers kept early
hours — all the officers had left the mess except
Major Alexander Campbell (a cousin of Lord
Breadalbane's), Captain Alexander Boyd, a Lieu-
tenant Hale, and Assistant-Surgeon George Adams.
Conversation turned upon the events of the past
field-day, and Major Campbell remarked that
General Kerr had corrected him about a particu-
lar mode of giving a word of command which he,
Campbell, be-
lieved he had •PWMHMMMBBMIMH&
given right. Cap-
tain Boyd replied
that neither Kerr
nor Campbell had
been right accord-
ing to " Dundas "
(the drill-book of
that time), which
was the King's
order. The con-
versation had
hitherto not been
in the least acri-
monious, and
Major Campbell
went on to say,
with perfect good
humour, that his
way of giving the
command might
not be in the
King's order, but
still he conceived
it was not incor-
rect.

Captain Boyd
still insisted that
it was not correct
according to the
King's order, and
the argument con-
tinued for some
time, until Cap-
tain Boyd said he knew it as well as any man.
Major Campbell at this showed some temper,
and said he doubted that much ; whereupon they
wrangled a little longer, with increasing heat.
At length Boyd said he knew the point better
than Major Campbell <?id, and Major Campbell
might take that as he liked.

At this Campbell got up, and, facing Boyd,
inquired, " Then, Captain Boyd, do you say I
am wrong ? "

" I do," replied Boyd ; " I know I am right
according to the King's order."

Thereupon Major Campbell left the room.
Captain Boyd remained for some little time longer,
and then left the room before Lieutenant Hale or

CAMP UFE ON THE EASTERN
MARCHING IN SHIRT-SLEEVES TO
ASSEMBLY

the surgeon. No observation was made upon his
going. Soon after, Lieutenant Hale and Surgeon
Adams went out together and went to a second
mess - room, where Captain Boyd came up to
them and spoke to them. The three then went
out together and called at the quarters of a
Lieutenant Deivaris, where they left Captain
Boyd.

Twenty minutes later, Surgeon Adams was
hastily summoned to visit Captain Boyd, whom
he found suffering from a very dangerous gunshot
wound. He was in great pain, and died eighteen

hours later.
Adams stayed
with Boyd until
he passed away.
The interven-
ing links in the
strange story are
supplied by the
testimony of the
mess-waiter, John
Uvey. On the
night the Cap-
tain received his
wound Uvey was
washing glasses
in a room be-
longing to the
mess. In that
room he saw
Major Campbell,
who went out
and was absent
some ten or
fifteen minutes.
Campbell then
retuined, and as
he was coming
upstairs Captain
Boyd was leaving
the mess-room.
They met on the
stab- - head and
went together
into the mess-
waiter's room, .
where they remained about a quarter of an
hour and then separated. Twenty minutes or
so later, Major Campbell came again to Uvey
and desired him to go to Captain Boyd and
tell him that a gentleman wished to speak to
him, if he pleased. Uvey accordingly went in
search of Captain Boyd, whom he found on the
parade-ground. On receipt of the message Boyd
accompanied the waiter to the mess-room, which
was empty. Uvey indicated a little apartment
off the mess-room as the place where the gentle-
man was to be found. The waiter retired to
the mess-kitchen, and eight of ten minutes later
heard a shot, but thought nothing of it until he
heard another. He then returned to the mess-

EGYPT FRONTIER: A PLATOON
A MUSTER ON THE BATTALION
GROUND.

March 14. 1917

THE ILLUSTRATED WAR NEWS.

Dogs in mar— from Hlasha to Hlsace,

rURESQUE AND USEFUL: HOW ALASKAN

Snow and ice being norm.! ereryday condition, for the dog. of

ic region,, it i. noi ,urpri.ing that they hare been found

l« »'</<•» by the French troop, fighting in the Voages .mid

.tern condition, of wmter, and they hare been uted .. me*.

bearmg letter., and a. trar^port. drawing .ledge,. • Our

'Otogr.ph rtow. a te«n of Ala^n A)g. dr.wing a .ledge

>GS HELP THE FRENCH ARMY IN THE VOSCES.

throujh Kiow-corered countrf. The .econd picture .how. two typical
.pecimen. <,f the breed. Dor. weh a. theM hare been employed in
Urge number, lor keepinj the troop, .upplied with munition; and
More., in aniiting the ambulance Corp., and a. .entile.. Their
intelligence and fidelity are admirable, and many hare been killed
or wounded on duty.— LFwm.* Official Photographs.}

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M.rch 14. 1917

room, where he found Captain Boyd sitting
mortally wounded in a chair. With him were
Lieutenants Hale and Macpherson. Major Camp-
bell was not present, but in a very few minutes
he came into the mess-waiter's room and asked
for candles. Uvey got a pair, and Campbell
brought them into the small room. There Major

ON THE EASTERN EGYPT FRONTIER: THE OUTSKIRTS OF ONE
OF THE BRITISH CAMPS IN THE SINAI DESERT.

Campbell gave Uvey to understand that there had
been a duel. He showed the waiter the corners
of the room where each person stood, and pointed
out the distance between them, as measuring
seven paces.

Lieutenant John Macpherson filled in the rest
of the story as far as it was ever known exactly.'
Going upstairs tcywarcls the mess-
room about nine o'clock he
heard someone, whom he took
to be Major Campbell, saying,
" On the word of a dying man,
is everything fair ? " As he
entered the room, Boyd replied,
" Campbell, you have hurried
me. You are a bad man."
Campbell repeated his appeal,
taking the new-comer to wit-
ness ; but Boyd replied, " Oh,
no, Campbell ; you know I
wanted to wait and have
friends." Campbell still per-
sisted in his appeal. " Good
God ! will you mention before
these gentlemen — was not every-
thing fair ? Did you not say
you were ready ? " Boyd an-
swered, " Yes " ; but a moment
later he repeated, " Campbell,
you are a bad man

am sure you do for me." Campbell then, left
the room.

Was it a duel, properly conducted, or de-
liberate murder ? The verdict of the jury,
one year later, was an uncompromising '' Guilty
of murder." The Judge laid down the law
very clearly as to the distinction between man-
slaughter and murder, but he
was distinctly biassed against
the prisoner. He dwelt with
damning force on Captain
Boyd's dying words, " You
have hurried me," and held
that, if the jury considered
them proved, they did away
with all extenuation. The
' punctilios of the duello," as
the Baron of Bradwardine
would say, had not been ob-
served. Further, a witness was
called to prove that Major
Campbell had had time to cool
after the wrangle, for he went
home, drank tea with his family,
and gave the witness certain
commissions to execute before
the affair took place.

Campbell was condemned to
death, but was respited for
ten days. His wife, a Miss Bowie, daughter
of William Bowie, of Camsiccan, Provost of
Ayr, set off post for Dublin, and, finding
the packet had sailed, crossed the Channel
in an open boat. She hurried to Windsor,
went on her knees to the Queen and the
Princesses, and then posted to Brighton to

ON THE EASTERN EGYPT FRONTIER: IN A REGIMENTAL CAMP
N THE SINAI DESERT— SAND-BAG WALLED TENTS.

Boyd was then helped into the next room,
and Campbell, much agitated, followed, re-
peatedly saying to Captain Boyd that Boyd
was the happier man of the two. " I am,"
he cried, " an unfortunate man, but I hope
not a bad one." He begged Boyd to for-

see the Prince of Wales, who wrote in vain
to the Duke of Portland. Campbell, who
was much pitied, begged to be shot as a
soldier, but the law proved inflexible. On
Aug. 24, 1808, he was publicly hanged . at
Armagh. He was forty-one years of age, and

Boyd stretched out his hand, say- had T^-ed in the ,th and 4/nd° RegimeTt'
ing. I forgrve you. I feel for you-and I before he joined the

Kimreh 14. 1917

THE ILLUSTRATED WAR NEWS.

f Part 40 T
LN«» Srrics I

doman ae electrician— Yet Hnother form of COar Cdorh

11 WEARING THE BREEKS " FOR MEN AT THE WAR : WOMEN IN A LONDON ELECTRIC STATION.

There seems to be no limit to the number <>f civilian occupations
in which women have shown themselves capable of replacing men,
even in those requiring highly technical knowledge, nerve, and
judgment. A staff of women electrician*, for example, ate running
the St. Marylebone Borough Electric Sub-Station, and have proved
most efficient substitutes for their maaculint predecessor*. In

emergencies demanding presence of mind, courage and prompti-
tude—as when on one occasion the telephone wires fused — they
kept cool and took the necessary steps. Those seen in the upper
photograph aie operating the main switchboard and testing the
current wilh a vott-m«ter. The lower photograph shows one at
work on the meter-board for battery-charging. — [Pliota*. by JL.V. ' .",

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Ht Sea with the Grand fleet: On Bo

:

LOOKING DOWN FROM ONE Oh THE SHIP'S~TOPS: PART OF THE CENT

THE ILLUSTRATED WAR NEWS. March 14.

nc of the SupetsOreadnougbt BattUsSbipe.

RUCTURE, TWO TURRETS WITH THEIR GUNS, AND THE QUARTERDECK,
used for mounting light guns in, and 'were called " fighting tops," a term nowadays more or less out of date. Th«
turret nuns are seen pointing as for broadside firing.— (Canadian War Hoards. CofrrieU Reamed.}

»— WTAJ— TH1 ILLUSTRATE!

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H Cruiser of the Grand

TARGET PRACTICE BEING CARRIED OU

the latest-joined cruisers attached to the Grand Fleet is shown here while carrying out her firing exercises at sea Firin
^L?l?it.1.c.!_i0lJL^wl0.™r tl^h^_£ra^d fJi'Lfi' '"dispensable preliminaries that are Rone through at the earliei

WS, March 14, 1917.— [^'1™,]- 21

at Gunnery Gxercise at Sea.

\

.

VAR CONDITIONS : BROADSIDE FIRING.

ent In every detail car* is taken to make the firing practice as like what Kiplin? calls " the real thing " as possible, and
get ready for it practically as for action.— \CamuHen War Retards. Copyright Reserved.}

H-[N£'S&.]-™* ILLUSTRATED WAR NEWS, March 14. 1917

Ht Sea with the Grand fleet: tTahing

A HEAVY PROJECTILE FOR THE " LION'S " MAIN ARMAMENT OF TU

In consequence of the constant firing exercises and target practice which are always going on with one or other of t)
squadrons of the Grand Fleet, in training for the next day of battle, supplies of ammunition for the ships' magazines are beii

THE ILLUSTRATED WAR NEWS, March 14,

Big^Gun Hmmunition on Board the "Lion."

IS COMING ON BOARD : LOWERING THE SHELL ON TO THE DECK.

|-er forwarded to one or other of Sir David Beatty's naval bases. It is our superior gunnery that has told so effectively
every fight. — (Canadian War Records. Copyright Returned.}

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March 14. 1917

<Gtt.th the Grand fleet: Ht One of its Hnchorages.

CAMERA ITEMS : ON BOARD THE " IRON DUKE "-ADMIRAL MADDEN ; HIS STAFF ; A SHIP'S

In the upper illustration, vie ire looking down at one tide of the
super-Dreadnought battle-ship "Iron Duke," on bo«rd which Sir
John Jellicoe flew his Hit while in command of the Grand Fleet.
No modern war-ship has been Tisited by so many eminent per.
sonages as the " Iron Duke " ; from the King, the Archbishop of
York, the Bishop of London, Lord Kitchener, and many distin-

PET.

guished foreigners of our Allies, downwards. A steam picket-boat
and ol her ships' boats are seen lying of? alongside. Admiral
Madden, the newly appointed Second-in-Command of the Grand
Fleet, is shown with his staff in (he lower photograph. The
Admiral is bending forward to notice the pet dog of hi!
flagship. — [Canadian War Records. r<,/>vru*t ;fvnr</.l

March 14. 1917

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Cttith the Grand fleet: koohing Hetern from the

FOLLOWING IN THE WAKE OF HER LEADER IN " LINE AHEAD " : A BATTLE-CRUISER COMING UP.

This illustration show* practically all that one sees, on an everyday
occasion at sra, on board a vessel when two war -ships are pro-
ceeding in the tailing order known as "Line Ahead." The view
is taken from th« deck of the battle -cruiser "Lion," and show*
another of thr battle-crui«frs of the Grand Fleet fallowing aitern.
at a regulation interval, in the wake of the "Lion." The "Lion,"

it is interesting to recall, has been in action in every one of the
principal engagements at sea of the Grand Fleet. As the whole
world knows, the "Lion " was the battle-cruiser flag -ship in the
Heligoland Bight action, and in the Dogger Bank and Jutland
battles of last year, flying the flag of Sir David Beatty.
— [Canadian War Records, Copyright

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Much 14. 1917

FOOTNOTES TO ARMAGEDDON: XXXI. -THE DUMP.

IT was evidently " Archibald's " day to be
bright. Purcel dropped three hundred feet
through the clouds to find out if he was anywhere
near the " dump," and the gunners were on to
him with rude celerity. Purcel had time enough
only to take a photographic look at the ground
beneath before the shells began to split the air
about him. He switched on again, spiralled, and

were possible, he 'd bomb. If not possible, he 'd
find out the place to bomb, circle back, and bomb
it. As he began to dive his plane bumped, and
he felt, rather than heard, a shell burst somewhere
to the left. Ahead a dull patch of flame nickered
and went out. Archibald was certainly brisk.

He came clear of the clouds almost with a
shock. At once the guns began to sling shells

at him with remark-
able industry. He
spiralled, dived, and
zigzagged, to the con-
fusion of gunners ;
but, for all his" tricks,
the shelling was par-
ticularly unhealthy.
And he didn't seem
to bediscovering any-
thing. He saw [the
men on the ground
scattering. He saw
a great number of
lorries standing at
the " dumps." He
saw the little rail-
way-sidings, and the
small clusterings of
huts. But to pick
out the shell " dump "
was like picking out
the first bit of a jig-
saw puzzle. Purcel cursed, swung round, prepared
to climb again for another try — a giant reached
out from heaven and clouted him across the head.
Writers fill up the moments that follow an
incident like this with the sentence, " Then
everything went black." Purcel is willing to
certify that the novelists who say things like that

AN INSTRUCTIVE SAMPLE OF THE BUSINESS-LIKE ORGANISATION METHODS OF THE
FRENCH ARMY: A BIG-SHELL DEPdT BESIDE A BATTLE-FIELD ROAD ON THE

MARNE FRONT.

The wooden crates holding the shells are piled on end in double rows, and each stack Is screened with

brushwood against aeroplane spying. Two columns of ammunition-wagons can be supplied at once, sloping

passages being cut in the roadway bank to facilitate carrying. — [French Official Pkolograptt.]

climbed through the clouds, not liking their foggy
clamminess, but glad of their cover.

He had seen from the familiar landmarks that
he had come to within striking distance ; but he
also saw that, first, the ground was particularly
bristling with anti-aircraft guns (they were wink-
ing fire and spitting smoke all over the shop) ;
second, that he
would have a very
hairy job locating
the " dump." The
ground below him
seemed all " dump."
There was a big sys-
tem of light railways,
a great number of
huts, and an infinite
amount of piles that
might be store dumps
or shell dumps or
anything. What
Purcel was out to
strafe was a shell
dump of capacity
and importance.

" Might as well

CN THE OISE FRONT IN THE WEST: A FRENCH FLYING SQUADRON HEADQUARTERS
STATION AMID WINTER SURROUNDINGS.— [French Official Photograph.}

.sling a bomb at a warren in the hope of killing
one specific rabbit — why do the Brass Hats ask one
to do these things ? " And, since "Archibald "
was a bright boy to-day, the task would have
zest as well as difficulty.

Purcel had a plan. He would swoop low over
the place in the hope of locating the dump. If it

have never been really stunned. There was no
blackness about Parcel's experience. There was
a savage golden blaze, and bands of fire tore
through it. The world was full of light, bitter and
excruciating. And after that Purcel was awake.
He was awake, watching frantic men throwing
tarpaulins over large-calibre shells. The shells

March 14. 1917

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t3hc Hincrican d-Boat Blockade-Runners at Bordeaux.

THE FIRST "CHALLENGE SHIP ': THE "ORLEANS" ENTERING HARBOUR; TO CHEER THE CAPTAIN.

The "Orleans" and "Rochester, ' the "challenge ships," as the letters, her name and American registry port. In the upper illus-

Americans called them, sent from the United Statrs to France, aa tration, the "Orleans" is seen being towed into harbour to the

declared, to dare molestation by German submarines in the "blockade Quai de Bourgogne. She was greeted with siren whistles and a

area," reached Bordeaux within a short time of one another. The display of flags on ships in port. In the lower illustration is

"Orleans" arrived first. Each vessel bore the Stais and Stripes seen the crowd outside the Hotel de Ville waiting to cheer the

painted ftaringly on bows and quarter, and amidships, in bif captain on landing. — [Pkolos. by Branger.]

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Much 14. 1*17

were being passed to lorries. This, Purcel agreed,
was idiotic. What on earth was he doing watch-
ing frantic men covering up, trying to hide, large
shells ? J lc saw that the men were Germans. He
S.LW the shells were outside a mild sort of hut,
tin- sort of hut that only infantry uses for sleep.
And he perceived that this hut was really not
for infantry, but used as a store — a great store,
for great shells. " My hat ! " he thought.
" That 's why I couldn't see 'em." He thought
that was an easy thing to say, too. Because,
after all, he was in his 'plane . . .

He saw that the Germans were rather scared.
They were working frantically, %nd were looking
up at the sky He looked up at the sky — or was
it exactly looking up ? He had a feeling that
everything was on a level for him now — and in the
sky was an aeroplane. This seemed to him to

round. Now take a line from that clump of
trees. . . . Good, you '11 come right over. . ."
The Germans at the shell dump began to run.
The aeroplane — was he in it, or wasn't he ? — came
along at a greased-electric rush. The anti's hadn't
a chance. Going too fast— too fast. ' Now,"
shouted Purcel. " Now, all bombs — and get
clear at a hell of a pace. . . ."

The roaring of the air, the indescribable clamour
of the engine going at full bat, the smashing of
shells about him, the deep bumping of some
heavier, more solemn explosions ... all of this
came out of the golden and savage light. Purcel
opened his eyes. Saw clouds waggling about
before and above him. Felt the choking rush of
wind upon his face . . . heard the bang of burst-
ing shells and the swizz of splinters by his head.
He saw on the altimeter the figures of his height.

A WINTER VIEW ON THE WESTERN FLANDERS BARRIER-LINE HELD BY THE BELGIAN ARMY:
THE FROZEN YSER AND PART OF THE INUNDATION AREA OF THE YSER VALLEY.

French Official Photograph.

be the most idiotic part of the experience, for
obviously that aeroplane in the sky at which the
Boche guns were shooting — that was his aeroplane.
He was really in it. Yet if he was in it ?

It was all very absurd.

He saw the aeroplane with the puffs of smoke
about it, and he saw that it was wobbling. " It '11
nose-dive presently — pull yourself together, my
lad ; get on to the horizontal . . ." Curious,
that. The aeroplane steadied at once ; it seemed
to come under control at once. " Of course,"
agreed Purcel ; " why shouldn't it ? 1 Ve got my
hands on the controls . . ." But then, if he was
at the controls, how was he down here with the Ger-
mans and the shells ? It was rather mad, all of it.

The Germans, he noticed, had stopped work-
ing, were looking up. Their attitudes were easy ;
they were feeling safe. No wonder. The aero-
plane-— he with the aeroplane — was going away.
" Hank left," he snapped. " That 's it ! Right

They showed under a thousand feet. " Good
God ! " he cried, " that was a narrow squeak !
If I 'd been unconscious from that clout another
thirty seconds . . ." And then he wondered.
Had he been unconscious ? Had he ?

As he climbed at his electric speed he glanced
back. Over a group of sheds that looked
like infantry quarters there was piled up an
enormous, greasy-black column of smoke. " H.E.
'dump ' exploded, I '11 bet my hat 1 " he said. As
he looked another giant push of smoke went up.

" My hat ! " he thought again, " somebody
bombed 'em, after all ! " Then he remembered
that he was the only man who could have bombed
'em. And he remembered that perhaps he hadn't
been unconscious.

" My Lord t it couldn't have been me ! " he
gasped. He looked at the bomb-levers.

Every lever was over. All the bombs had
been dropped. W. DOUGLAS NEWTON.

March 14. 1917

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"Che Inventor of "a Sinister Weapon."

INVENTOR OF THE STOKES GUN, THAT FIRES "A HAIL OF BOMBS": MR. WILFRED

STOKES.

The Stakes gun is retarded it the front ai our moat effective
short-range weapon. It fires a hail of bombs which drop on their
objective with deadly precision and devastating effect. Its inventor,
Mr. Wilfred Stokes, of Ockham, Surrey, is head of Messrs.
Ransomes and Rapier, Engineers, of London and Ipswich, Chairman
of the East Anglian Munitions Committes, and a member of the

Munitions Inventions Department. A friend back from France
had remarked that victory would go to the side which produced
the most effective death-dealing machines. "I am a peaceful
man," said Mr. Stokes recently, " and had never wished to invent
a gun that would so much as lift an eyebrow, but this idea just
came to me after what my friend had said."— [Photo. Hugk Cecil.}

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M.reh 14. 1917

OTintcr Hctwty on the Italian Hlpinc front.

HAULING ARTILLERY UP TO COMMANDING POSITIONS : PART OF A GUN-CARRIAGE IN THE SNOW.

Alpine winter conditions, impossible almost as it may se«m to
believe, have, from all accounts, brought about little or no cessation
in the activity of the Italians at most points along their front ; in
particular with the engineers and artillery. As elsewhere, the
difficulties of locomotion in the deep snow have, to some extent,
kept back infantry movements, but the other arms of the service

have been busy. One form of military employment which winter
conditions have not affected is illustrated here — the getting-up of
big guns to commanding positions among the mountains. As far,
indeed, as haulage is concerned, wurk on a smooth snowy surface,
even uphill, ha* advantages over similar traction on ordinary rocky
(round at other seasons. — [Italian Official Photograph.]

March 14. 1917

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Hn Hlpinc Concealment Device on the Italian front.

_

SANDBAGS AND FROZEN SNOW-BLOCKS COMBINED: A WINTER SENTRY-POST 8000 FEET UP.

In the midit of inowy iurroundinji, where the overspreading white overall*. Here ii teen an It«lUn tentry - po«t o( und - bap

blink, »taring whlttnew thowt up everything of a darker colour built up among rocki above the tnow-line, at 8000 feet above tea-

in detail and with ouutanding directnew, artincet of all kind* have level, with intermingled blocki of frozen >now, to rwemble a rnoun-

had to be rnorted to in w»r m order to effect concealment. At tain ledge partially covered with mow patched From there a

wt have previoully illuitrated, on the Eastern Front and in the shajjy.roatf.l ientry watrhtj, practically invUible to the enemy.—

Alpi, Kldieri on outpost duty or reconruuMancc patroU v»ear long [flaliao OfUinl

Ur f*ri 4U ~>
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trhe British Thrust forward on the Hommc.

WITH THE AUSTRALIANS: A DRAG-ROPE PULL ON A LIGHT RAILWAY; A CAPTURED TRENCH.

In the upper illustration the track of one of the battle-front light
railways is shown being utilised in emergency as a means for
getting an Australian artillery wagon and battery munitions rapidly
to a firing point. The entire wagon-body, it will be observed, is
supported on railway trolleys, and the hauiage task of the team
of gunners is expedited considerably by that expedient. Compared

with a drag-rope pull through the winter mud of the ordinary
roads, moving the lumpy mass of dead weight on rails is child's
play. The lower illustration shows the interior of a captured
German trench, out of which the Australians hustled the enemy
so rapidly that they left behind on the fire-steps their grenmd
lAustialian Official Photographs.]

March 14. 1917

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British Thrust forward on the Somtne.

a&s

WITH THE AUSTRALIANS : IN A GERMAN TRENCH AFTER CAPTURE ; OBSERVING ARTILLERY FIRE.

Telling testimony to the irresistible audacity «nd quickness of
approach which, as account! describe, characterised the Australian
attacks on the German line* in the recent general advance on the
Somme, is given by the §t«te of things in one of the German
trenches Men in the upper illustration. It discloses lereral signs
of something approaching ludden panic on the part of the enemy ;

a disorderly abandonment and hurried retreat. As shown, ammuni-
tion-boxes were left lying on the fire-step, trench implements and
so forth were lying about, while the trench itself remained still
easily defensible. The lower illustration shows an Australian trench
observation-party watching artillery fire. The man to the left is
using a range-finder. — (/4i«fi i.'wt Offir'al I'l

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WOMEN AND THE WAR.

" 1V/T ^KE haste slowly " seems to be the motto of
1V1 the organisers of the Women's Department
of National Service, who are still, at the moment
of writing, apparently busy solving preliminary
problems connected with the enrolment of women
in the " National Army." One emphatic piece of
advice has, however, been
given by the authorities at
St. Ermin's Hotel. Every
woman engaged in work of
any kind has been definitely
advised not to vacate her
post without first making
absolutely certain that her
services in some other ca-
pacity are required by the
Government. The " out-of-
works," one gathers, will be
given an opportunity of
serving before those already
occupied are transferred from
their present employment to
new spheres of usefulness.

Meanwhile, the War Office,
with a promptness that sur-
prised a good many people,
have clearly indicated the
types of employment for
which women will be re-
quired, and issued an official
statement summarising the
terms and conditions of ser-
vice attaching to the em-
ployment of women with the
armies in France. Enthusi-
asts, however, were some-
what discon-

DUTCH NURSES FOR THE WESTERN FRONT;
MME. VAN RAPPARD.

On March 3 a party of Dutch nurses passed through
London on their way to the Western Front. Mme.
van Rappard was In charge of them, and their aid will
be very welcome, for beneficence knows no boundaries
even in time of vK.—[PkolograpH by Ctntral Press.]

certed to hear
that the com-
muniqu6 was
" in no sense
an appeal,"
and that the
powers at St.
Ermin's had
no desire to
be " snowed
under " with
letters from
would - be
typists, cooks,
chauffeuses,
telephonists,
and the like.
But women's
work has been
the object of
so much criti-
cism in the
past that one
can't help
sympathising
with the

NURSES DECORATED flY THE KING: LEAVING BUCKINGHAM PALACE

AFTER THE INVESTITURE.

The valuable services rendered by women as military nurses were again recognised by
King on March 3, when his Majesty held an Investiture at Buckingham Palace. Among

sl pTfw f » X *? CrMS' &C°nd ClaSS' W"e thoM ~» '» our Photograph"

Sisters Ethel Ward, Margaret Stevens, Elizabeth Logie, and Margaret Morrison, who are

shown leaving the Palace.-[/>*oto«ra/>* by Sport and Gtnertl.}

caution that prompts the gradual drawing-up of
a scheme, rather than hasty action which might
lead to disorganisation and confusion.

So hundreds and thousands of women are busy
weighing the advantages attaching to employment
as clerks, typists, or short-
hand typists, as against those
which fall to the lot of cooks,
waitresses, or other members
of domestic staffs. If neither
prove sufficiently alluring,
there are still the motor
transport service, and the
telephone and postal services,
in both of which women are
offered posts. Storehouse
women, checkers, and candi-
dates for unskilled labour
are also desired, as well as
volunteers for various mis-
cellaneous branches of work
which do not fall into any
of the classes detailed above.
The proposition is a serious
one, and is addressed only
to genuine workers, for the
period of engagement is one
year, which can be termin-
ated earlier at the discretion
of the Army Council upon a
month's — or, in the case of
incompetence or misconduct,
a week's— notice. It 's cheer-
ing, though, to know that a
year's good work will be re-
warded with a bonus of £5,
provided the
worker, what-
ever her grade,
renews her
agreement
for a second
period.

But there
are limits to
the lengths to
which the War
Office will go,
even in war
time, so the
woman of
forty must re-
sign herself to
the fact that
she is reck-
oned "too
old " to serve
her country
even in the
capacity of a
storekeeper or
clerk, though

March U. 1917

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Canadian Regimental Colours in Olestminster Hbbey.

AN INSPIRATION : KEPT IN FRONT OF WOLFE'S MONUMENT WHILE THE CORPS ARE AT THE FRONT.

General Wolfe, the ciptor of Quebec, the heroic antagonist of
France's no-Ira heroic General, the chivalrous Montcalm, who
sham Wolfe', battlefield monument on the Heights of Abraham,
hai erer been the hero par txcclUrue cf Cinada. By somebody's
happy inspiration, when, earlier in the present war, it became
necessary to lay up the colour! that Canadian battalions brought

with them, before the regiments left their training centre* in
England fur the front, Wolfe's monument in Westminster Abbey
was selected as the place of deposit. Several Canadian colours
hare since been placed there, draped, as seen above, in front of
the monument. The latest addition is the flag of the Calgary
battalion, deposited with religious ceremonial. — [Photo, by S. and G.J

rut « i
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'neither occupation, as a rule, makes unusual
demands on physical strength. It is rather dis-
appointing, for there are so many capable women
of the proscribed age who have proved since war
began that physical energy and fitness are quite
compatible with two score years and something

THE CALL FOR RED CROSS WORKERS IN NEW YORK: MRS. BELMONT

TIFFANY INSTRUCTING VOLUNTEERS.

The ladies of New York have responded eagerly to the call of the Red Cross
for volunteers in the case of war, and our photograph shows Mrs. Belmont
Tiffany, an active member of the Society, instructing volunteers in their duties
in view of the possible outbreak of war. New York is taking up the idea promptly,
and in earnest. — [Photograph supplied by Sport and General.]

over. Exactly where and how workers will be fed
and housed is the subject of investigation by a
special War Office Commission detailed for France
to inquire into the complicated questions con-
nected with the social and welfare side
of the business. But those women who ^
finally enrol will undergo a course of
training in England, including elemen-
tary instruction in hygiene and dis-
cipline. They will be conveyed to and
from France free on appointment to
and termination of their engagement,
and during each year's service will be
entitled to a fortnight's leave. A grant
of £4 for uniform at the beginning of
service, with a further grant of £i at
the end of six months, and similar
grants for the second year of service,
will be allowed ; and, except in the
case of cooks, waitresses, and members
of domestic staffs, storehouse women,
unskilled workers, and employees en-
gaged on miscellaneous activities, 143.
a week will be charged to defray the
cost of board, lodging, and washing
on a regulated scale.

cannot be too often emphasised that women are
wanted for the land army that we must have at
home if we are to eat, and that all those who
enlist in an agricultural capacity are as truly
doing work of the greatest national importance as
those who enrol for service in France.

Government rates of pay hardly err
on the side of over-liberality, and the
present case is no exception to the rule.
Clerical workers and typists are to have
233. to 275. a week, according to effici-
ency ; those employed on higher clerical
or supervisory duties, 28s. to 323. a
week, and shorthand typists are paid at
the same figure. These rates are reck-
oned for a week of 42 working hours,
after which ordinary clerks get 7d., and
clerks of a higher grade gd. an hour for
any " overtime " worked. If your
qualifications entitle you to the position
of head cook or waitress, you can draw
a salary of ^40 a year, that drops to
£26 per annum for the unadjectived
cook, waitress, or housemaid, with an
additional rather inadequate 6d. a week
for personal washing. By comparison,
a superintendent of the first class at
£2 i2s. 6d. a week is a Croesus, and the
one belonging to the second class, with
465. a week, a woman of comparative
wealth, and the weekly £2 of a head
driver is by no means to be despised ;
355. weekly is the salary offered to qualified driver-
mechanics, and £i to washers. For unskilled labour
the pay offered is, of course, on a considerably lower
scale ; but the variety of employments thrown

A SCENE

The question of where to live is to
be solved, as regards France, by the
provision of hostels where workers
will be under the supervision and
care of lady superintendents. Those who enrol
for service are warned that it may be either at
home or abroad, and, if they have a preference,
must state it at the time of enrolment ; but it

IN NEW YORK : RED CROSS WORKERS

BUSILY MAKING BANDAGES.

In view of possibilities, the American Red Cross has made an appeal for volunteers,
and, in response, innumerable ladies have volunteered for work as nurses, stretcher-
bearers, hospital-orderlies, and in similar indispensable capacities. Already, in New
York, branches have been established, and in the case photographed the_ workers
are busy preparing bandages to be used by the Army and Navy in the event of
war. — [Photograph supplied by Sport and General.}

open to women by the scheme suggests the idea
that the military authorities really intend to treat
women's work for the Army as a serious proposi-
tion. CLAUDINE CLEVE.

Mir-h 14. 1917

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The Gentle Hrt of Camouflage in the Vosges.

FRENCH CAMOUFLAGE IN THE SCHLUCHT REGION : SOLDIERS SCREENING A ROAD FROM THE ENEMY.

Camouflage— a word unknown to pre-war dictionaries— has come to
be used as a general term covering all kinds of "protective
coloration " lor military purposes, and other forms of concealment,
such as the screening of exposed sections of road, or the hiding of
gun-positions from aeroplanes by screens of foliage. It is also
applied to the colour of uniforms. Thus Mr. Bernard Shaw,

describing his recent visit to the fr:nt, writes : " I have seen
Ypres t6Jn. This time, though still a superannuated civilian,
I was in khaki, like everybody else, by way of camouflage." The
Schlucht is a pass in the Vosges, between Little Tanneck and
Hohneck, on the frontier of France and Alsace-Lorraine. Before the
war it was a centre for excursions.— {French Official Photograph.}

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WAIFL

By W. DOUGLAS NEWTON.

THE CLOSING KING IN THE MIDDLE EAST THE FRUIT OF BRITISH STRATEGY.

THERE is a brilliant little game of out-
pointing going on in the Middle Hast that is
extraordinarily worth watching. It is well worth
watching because in it we can see more plainly
than elsewhere the
much- maligned
Allied strategy de-
veloping its inevit-
able power. By the
campaign of the
Middle East I do
not mean merely
the campaign which
has seen the superb
return of the Brit-
ish under Sir
Stanley Maude in
Mesopotamia, for I
mean the move-
ment of the Rus-
sians on the Per-
sian border quite
as much as I mean
the movement of
the British on
Bagdad, and I
mean the work of
the British on the
Palestine frontier
as well. It is not
enough to look at
one of these arenas;
we must look at

PROSPECTS OF A FISH ADDITION TO THE RATION MENU : BRITISH

SOLDIERS ON THE TIGRIS WATCHING LOCAL ARABS PREPARE

THEIR NETS.— [Photograph by C.N.]

all. Sir Stanley Maude's victories are emphatic-
ally connected with the Russian successes that
gave them Hamadan on the great Bagdad-
Teheran road, enabled them to drive the Turks

from the dangerous
Assadabad Pass,
and allows them to
converge on Bag-
dad itself through
Kangaver. Each
attack weakened
and confused the
resistance facing
the other ; while
General Murray's
attack beyond
Rafa, inside the
Tvirkish border,
will cause a greater
damage to the
enemy than the
destruction of the
fortified works and
the bombing of rail-
way lines his troops
and aviators
brought off. The
Germans make the
most of their
" pincher " strategy,
but here is evi-
dence of pinchers
closing on Turkey

[Continued oi'crltfif.

RATION DISTRIBUTION AT A COMMISSARIAT UnPOT IN MESOPOTAMIA: BRITISH AND NATIVE REGIMENTAL ORDERLIES

AWAITING THEIR TURN.— [Photograph by C.A'J

March 14, 1917

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*Che Mesopotamia Campaign : On the (flay up the TTigris<

ON AN INDIAN TRANSPORT BARGE : THE MORNING RITUAL BATH ; CO-RELIGIONIST COOKING.

Houseboat life is the' orderl of the day for all troops going up the ] mostly native river craft— barge-like vessels, with light thatched

Tigris. With Indian regiments, where companies are composed of roofs of palm-leaves over parts of the hull. In the upper ,llus-

co-religionists or caste-fellows, men of each faith or caste are tr.tion, sepoys are seen having the complete da,ly wash all over

quartered together in the transports. These are towed up-stream which their religion enjoins as a ritual act. In the lower ,llus-

by steamers, the troops at halting-places being landed for exercise trition a meal is being prepared, w,th co-rehg,omsts only for

drills and returning on board as to barracks. The transports are cooks, under similar ritual ruIes.-[P*otos. by C.N.]

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Mar:S 14. 1917

from llu- south, west, and east. A ring of enemies
now attack on Ottoman soil : Russia is in the
Caucasus, Russia is coming into Mesopotamia
through 1'ersia, the British have driven up to
Bagdad, and tin- Arabs
of Mecca link up the line
from Mesopotamia to the
Palestine border. The
ring may be wide-flung,
and the points of menace
far removed from the
heart of Turkey ; but
the need of parrying the
blows struck on her
every frontier should
exhaust the last vestiges
of Turkey's strength. Of
all these strokes, per-
haps the most important
is that struck by our
forces on the Tigris.
Lieutenant - General Sir
Stanley Maude has
harried the Turks far up-
stream past Lajj and
Ctesiphon, and has now
taken Bagdad itself.
He has captured an im-
mense amount of booty
in his progress. Lajj, it
is worth remembering, is
twenty-seven miles from

as General Townshend took months. This is an

excellent testimony to the efficiency of his force

On the sea, the German submarine practice, it

still something to be out-manoeuvred, pursues a

THE BRITISH ADVANCE ON THE SOMME : CARRYING A ROOF SECTION OF A DUG-OUT
FROM A TRENCH NOW LEFT BEHIND, FOR RE-ERECTION IN OUR NEW LINES.

Official Photograph.

Bagdad. It was General

Townshend's camp prior to his fight at Ctesiphon,
nine miles nearer the City of the Caliphs — and the
menace to Bagdad was evident when the Turks

showed themselves unable to resist there, or even

THE BRITISH ADVANCE ON THE SOMME : BUILDING A DUG-OUT IN OUR NEW LINES
ON GROUND WON FROM THE ENEMY. — [Official Photograph.]

at Ctesiphon. Since they failed to do this, the fall
of Bagdad was practicafly inevitable. General
Maude has covered this ground in as many weeks

rather negligible way : fourteen out of about
5000 possibles (that is, arrivals and departures) is
the full figure of ships to go down before Ger-
man submarines, and twelve British vessels were
attacked unsuccessfully.
At the same time, there
comes the report of the
torpedoing of the French
destroyer Cassini, an act
made ugly by the Ger-
mans, who fired a
machine-gun on French-
men as they struggled in
the water. From America
we still get uncertainty.
President Wilson is
showing firmness, but his
actions are being im-
peded by political
manoeuvres. His hand
has been greatly strength-
ened by the exposure of
the German intrigues
that aimed to bring
Mexico in against
America in the event of
war. ' In our own house
at home, we have this
week considered the facts
put before us by the
Dardanelles Commission.
The opinion I held be-

*.

fore is confirmed ; it shows how sadly one of the
finest strategic conceptions of this war was spoiled

by mistakes. LONDON; MARCH n, 1917.

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Cbe Illustrated War

THE RUSSIAN REVOLUTION : THE GRAND DUKE MICHAEL ALEXANDROVITCH.

The Grand Duke Michael Alexandrovitch, brother of the Emperor
Nicholas, who in abdicating named him as his successor, declared
later that he would only accept the throne if the people, by a
plebiscite, desired him to do so. When the war began, the Grand
Duke was in England, and left to join the Russian Army, sub.
sequently serving with the cavalry in the Caucasus. He formerly

commanded the Tchernigoff Hussars, and later was appointed to
command the Chevalier Guard. This post, however, he never
assumed. Meantime he had married morganatically, fa Vienna,
Natalie Serguievna, daughter of Sergius Scheremetersky, and first
Countess of Brassow. They lived for some time at Knebworth
House, Hertfordshire. — [Photo, by Boissonnai and EggUr.]

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March 21. 1917

By W. DOUGLAS NEWTON.

THE REAL RETREAT-HOW WAR HAS BEEN TRANSFORMED PROMISE OF THE FUTURE.

IT is one thing to start a " strategic movement "
to the rear, but it is quite another to prevent
that movement becoming a very ordinary and
vulgar " retreat " in the end, and no doubt the
Germans are keenly aware

of this at the present ^^^n^^^^^^^^^m
time. Indeed, the more
consistent news of the
week's fighting tends to
bear out the line of argu-
ment I put forward in my
last notes — that is, that
although the Germans
intended to retire to a
certain prepared line
(probably the line of the
Bapaume crests), there
were many signs showing
that, though the enemy
were proposing, it was
the British who were dis-
posing. I mean by this
that it seemed extremely
likely that we were al-
ready hammering at,
damaging, and forcing our
way past the new front
Germany nad fixed as the
limit of her present re-
tirement. The fighting
of last week worked out
this idea in actual fact ;
we were al-
ready en- ^^^^^
croaching
dangerously
ontheGomme-
court-Buc-
quoy-Achiet-
le-Petit front,
and, from the
real earnest-
ness of their
resistance, it
was obvious
that the Ger-
mans were
truly annoyed
at our ad-
vances. The
fighting that
has gone on
in the week
under notice
simply em-
phasises this
point.

As I said in my last notes, it is a fact that the
fighting is steadily gaining in importance, though
the news seems to be dwindling in dramatic

WITH THE BRITISH NAVY IN THE GREAT WAR :
A MARINE RECEIVING ATTENTION IN THE OPER-
ATING-ROOM OF A BATTLE-SHIP.— [Official Photograph]

WITH THE BRITISH

NAVY IN THE GREAT WAR : A
FOR BOYS.— [Official Photograph.}

quality ; and the engagements of this week have
made that saying particularly true — indeed, the
work has been much more significant than any
during the past few weeks. It may in time be
found that the fighting
which has been going on
is on a par with the fight-
ing that went before the
fall of .Combles and Thiep-
val — and it will probably
have the same results.
The circumstances of the
fighting are curiously par-
allel with the fighting for
Combles. Before Combles
the Germans retired to
a strong line because of
the power of the British
gun-fire (though our hand-
ling had made them too
breathless to utter the
blessed words " strategic
evacuation "), and in
that strong line they sat
down to hold us oft.
They did not hold us off,
because the British and
French at once began a
brilliant movement round
the wings of Combles,
and though the Germans
would have given much
to stand on
the Combles
line, they
were driven
back. His-
tory holds to
its proverbial
habit on our
present front.
While the
Germans
made the j oi-
liest of plans
to hold on to
the Bapaume
crests, the
British had
their own
ideas on the
matter. The
wings west
and south-
west began
to pound an
encirc ling
or may not
new scheme

MATHEMATICAL CLASS

line about the town. Irles may
have been a forward post in the
of defence ; but Irles, strong though it was, soon

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ceased to matter, for this week we took it. Again,
whatever the Germans had intended to do at
Irles, there car. be no doubt about their intentions
at Loupart Wood and the village of Grevillers.
These were essential points on the forward ridge,
dangerously near Bapauine and the railway. If
the Germans did not intend to hold these points
then, it would seem they did not intend to hold
Bapaume and its line at all. The quality of their
fighting here, however, suggests that they did
mean to stand, and as they did not we know that
this, at any rate, is a point where their " strategic "
movement became indeed a retreat.

In fact, it would seem certain that the unceasing
pressure of our men and guns on a line from Ligny
to below Essarts is playing unpleasant havoc with
the German plans, for, even if a further and

Germany's. We are coming to see more plainh
that, when the French correspondents hinted it
the beginning of the very effective work of our
guns, they were speaking truly. The work of our
guns appears to be terribly efficient, and the
Germans- are being hammered out of position after
position with a regularity so automatic as to
make our advances things of mechanical certainty.
This viewpoint of our power does not seem to have
captured popular imagination yet, but it seems to
me to be one of the most tremendous things of
the war. When we remember how the German
advances (I mean only those driven forward by
weight of gunnery) were checked at Arras, Albert,
and Verdun, and how our own advances at Neuve
Chapelle, in the Champagne, and at Loos were
checked, we realise that the present advance is

WITH THE BRITISH NAVY IN THE GREAT WAR : A 15-INCH GUN POINTED FOR BROADSIDE FIRING.

Official Photograph.

greater retreat is in the air, we seem to be com-
plicating the movement by our assiduous attention.
Towards Essarts, Bucquoy, and Achiet-le-Petit we
are giving the enemy no rest or space in which to
enjoy a freedom for either defence or retreat. He
cannot either hold us or delay us ; we are pushing
across his flanks in a manner which forces him to
yield ground, and good ground too, almost every
day. He has the advantage of some high ground
between Essarts and Arras, but our hustling
method must be of serious disadvantage to him in
the labour of reorganising his dispositions at so
delicate a point. In fact, the trend of movement
above the Ancre suggests once again that the
German salient below Arras is in quite as much
danger as any other point of the front.

The greatest satisfaction to be gained from the
advance is growing knowledge that, whatever
Germany says, it is mainly our doing and not

beyond ordinary military comparison. To under-
stand what we have done, we must remember how
quickly other " Pushes " on the Western front
were stopped, and then remember that since
July i, 1916, the Anglo-British progress on the
Somme- Ancre fronts has never really halted.
We must remember that we never wanted a
village or point of vantage but we took it, and
that we have never taken a village or point of
vantage save to keep it ; and we have done this in
a bad country, in the face of the strongest defen-
sive systems the world has yet seen, and we have
done it under all conditions of weather. We have
done this because we possess a preponderating
power in artillery, of course ; but there is an even
more important point than that to appreciate, and
that is that, having the preponderance in guns, we
have also solved the problem of getting them into
action swiftly. This fact should be realised more

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than it is. We have transformed war since the
days of Loos. When \ve won the first lines of the
Somme the experts told us not to expect another
big smash for some time yet, since the guns had to
be moved up and the system of reinforcement and

RESCUER AND RESCUED : LEADING STOKER SHAW SHOW-
ING BOY BATTY A GOLD WATCH PRESENTED TO HIM
FOR SAVING BATTY WHEN HE FELL OVERBOARD.
Official Photograph.

supply perfected before we could strike again. We
were actually striking with amazing effect days
only after our first victories. We have gone on
striking right on the heels of every big move. As
it was in the early days of July, so it is now.
When the Germans moved back on the Ancre the
experts considered that some time must elapse
before we got our guns across the boggy ground ;
but within days only our guns were hammering
the enemy out ot Grevillers and Loupart Wood, and
Bapaume fell. I think that when we talk of the
power of our guns we should also talk of the power
of our " working parties " ; both have taken the
enemy by surprise — both have surprised him into
continual defeat.

The work done by men and guns and working
parties seems to be endangering the German
position all along the line. The sense of a large
and impending retirement is again in the air, and
it is a fact that the relentlessness of our attack is
forcing the German to feel the necessity of with-
drawing to a front better suited for defence, where
his troops can be handled in a more compact and
useful manner. The future will show how far
he will go ; but, if he does, it must be recognised
that he will make his moves slowly. To hasten
matters now, with eager armies ready to make use
of every advantage, would be to court disaster.
He will probably fall back from position to
position, fighting hard, and when he gets to his

new front he will fight harder — for the end of the
war will be bound up in that line. Meanwhile, he
may attack ; there is always that possibility,
though the signs are not so propitious now as they
were. Where he will attack is a matter not wise
to prophesy. While he is making his plans the
Allies are giving him the benefit ot as much worry
as they can deal out. His men have been very
roughly handled by the French as they retreat
below the Avre on a twelve mile front, and the gains
he made north of the Butte du Mesnil have been
wrested from him. This latter stroke is a bitter
blow, for he was unwise enough to trumpet his joy
at the capture of Hill 185, " the dominating hill."
However, he does not trumpet his sorrow, though
he has lost the ridge that overlooks the neigh-
bouring country, but he spends a fruitless and
furious time in endeavouring to win it once more.
As the French are holding with certainty here, so
they are holding calmly in the face of attacks
north of Verdun, and have even relaxed them-
selves enough to launch a spirited assault in which
ground of fair value has been taken south of the
St. Michiel loop. The Allies in the West are certainly
full of snap, and ready to hit out with breeziness
and zest on any and every occasion. Hindenburg
has a fine and simple sense of strategy, and any
move he has in his mind must be recognised as
dangerous until it is smashed ; all the same, one
has the feeling that any assault from Hindenburg

WITH THE BRITISH NAVY IN THE GREAT WAR :
SIGNALLING FROM THE FORE-TOP IN THE NORTH SEA.

Official Photograph.

is in for a very rough handling from the moment
it is inaugurated. His retirement, which seems
planned on a front from Arras to the Oise, is a big
manoeuvre; the dangers to the Germans are

big also. LONDON; MARCH 17, 1917.

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OTith the British Navy in the Great Olar.

THE TERRIFIC STRIKING POWER OF THE NAVY : 15-INCH GUNS— SEEN FROM ABOVE AND BELOW.

Throughout the war the terrific striking power of the British Nary
hat been * mighty force held in reserve on the tide of the Allies,
and exercising a silent but powerful influence on the course of
*T«nU. Not that it has remained always in reserve. The Navy
has had some opportunities, though not so many as it would like,
<X using its strength as a great fighting fleet, and on those occasions

we know what the results have been. The splendid gunnsry of
our seamen has been one -of the outstanding feature; of every
naval engagement in which they hare taken part. Our photographs
show some of the monster 15-inch turret-guns which are the
pride of the British Fleet. They can hit their target many miles
away.— [Official Photographs.}

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Searching for the Bncmv at Sea ; Grand f I

ONE ' SIR DAVID BEATTY'S "MAIN BATTLE" SQUADRONS WHILE ENGAGED ON A PERI01I
The forward double-turrets with four 1 5-inch guns, on board one of our super- Dreadnoughts, are seen here pointing to
over the ship s forecastle. The ship is proceeding with consorts in " line ahead," which with all fleets is the normal cruisin
rmation. Each vessel follows in the wake of her immediate leader, keeping a regular interval between herself and the ne>

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bipe in ''Line Hbead," a Cruising formation.

THE FORWARD DOUBLE-TURRETED 15-INCH GUNS OF A SUPER-DREADNOUGHT.

The distance a;..iri one cable (or 200 yardi), two cablet, and to

. , — , „ on, if ordered at the Admiral's, or senior officer's,

Beeping station o the business of the officer of the watch on the bridge. With a sextant he notes the exact distance
: mainmast of the ship ..head, and regulates his own ship's pace by orders to the engine-room. —(Official Photograph.]

srtion

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Olith the British Navy in the Great Star.

AT SEA WITH THE BRITISH FLEET : SHIPS ASTERN ; AND A BUSY SCENE ON DECK.

L

Two aspects of the British Navy Are illustrated in the above photo-
graphs, one as it strikes an observer from a distance ; the other
as he sees it from a closer point of view, on board a war-ship
And among the crew that mans her. In the upper illustration
we have an example of the imposing appearance of our ships as
they move, grim and majestic, through the seas and past the

coasts which they guard so well. The lower picture illustrates the
wonderful cheeriness that animates the men. H«re is a group of
sailors engaged in the common routine task of scrubbing and
holy. stoning th« decks. One gUnce At their laughing faces is
enough to show the spirit of eagerness and good-humour that
prevails in the Fleet. — [Official Phnt-i^raph-:.,

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l_New SeneiJ *

Cdith the British ]Savy in the Great

ON BOARD A BRITISH BATTLE-SHIP : RIFLE DRILL : AND THE REMOVAL OF A COT CASE.

Sailor* occasionally indulge in drill, though not to the same extent,
of course, as their comrades in training for the Army. In the
upper photograph is seen a squad engaged in rifle drill on the decks
of a British battle-ship. The lower photograph, also taken on board
a battle-ship, shows a different phase of work in the Navy — that
connected with the sick bay. The scene here illustrated is the removal

of a "cot case," that is, a man whose wounds or illness are such
that he cannot walk, and must be conveyed on a stretcher or 4
bed. Special apparatus is used for lowering such a case, by means
of pulleys, from the deck of a war-ship, either on to a wharf or
into a vessel lying alongside. In either case it is effected with the
utmost care. — [Official Photographs.}

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On QJestern-f rent Roads after the Brcah-up of the frost.

MOTORS IN THE MUD : TOWING A STUCK-FAST CONSORT
The " Fifth Element "- — mud — as Napoleon spoke of it while cam-
paigning oA the Polish frontier in the winter of 1806-7, became
mor.e than ever in evidence on the Western Front on the thaw
which succeeded the last severe frost becoming general. Two of
it» effects on the highways near the front are strikingly brought
home to one in the photographs on this page. . In the upper illus-

PLUNGING THROUGH THE SWAMP,
tration we get a glimpse of consequences resulting from a car
gelling off the metalled, or paved, centre of the roadway : sinking
axle-deep and sticking' fast in the mud until help can come to haul
the victim out. In the lower illustration a car is seen literally
churning its way through the mud and watery swamp formed at
a slight dip in the road. — (Official Photographs.]

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Cdintcr Despatch-Carrying on the CClestem front.

KOt/TE BY THE STATE OF THE ROADS : PUZZLING OUT AN ALTERNATIVE WAY.

find themselves "held up" »t out-of-the-way points »nd compelled
to pu«le out for themselves from the map that each man carries
some other route to their destination —which, of course, their orders
are to reach in shortest possible time. A motor-cyclist, apparently
forced by road obstacles to diverge from his route, is seen above
trying to work out another way round. — [Official Photograph.]

BLOCKED

The general thaw and break-up of the frost on the Western Front
not only makes the going more difficult than usual for despatch-
riders on motor-cycles, but adds other difficulties which it is im-
possible to foresee in most cases. At places the roads are almost,
if not entirely, 'under water , or have become bogged with deep
mire, and the cyclist orderlies are in consequence liable to

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The British Advance on the Hncrc and Somm<

GETTING READY ON A NEWLY WON BATTLEFIELD FOR THE NEXT MC

The lines of the former German trenches seam the surface of the ground all over the battlefields in the Ancre and Somme
districts now in British occupation. Dug deep and with steep sides, they run mostly at right angles to the line of the British
advance, and present sufficiently awkward obstacles in the way of rapid movement to require bridging at the many points

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Securing our Communications as <He Go forward.

FANTRY WORKING-PARTY BRIDGING

our new roads to the front cross, and at other places where reinforcing troops may need to pass to the front The work

lically taken in h.ind, and bridges of varying widths are bu.lt, from foot-bridges, such as that shown here, just

i infantry to file over, to solid timber itructures for the use of artillery or A.S.C. wagons.— (Offiaal ~

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ROMANCES OF THE REGIMENTS: XLI.-THE DRAGOON GUARDS.

CAPTAIN CREICHTON'S ESCAPE.

/CAPTAIN JOHN CREICHTON, whose curious
V^ autobiography was preserved and edited by
Dean Swift, served in one of those regiments of
Dragoon Guards which were the direct ancestors
of the Dragoon Guards of
the present day. He was
engaged with " bluidy
Dalziel " in hunting down
the Covenanters, and his
name is still held in abhor-
rence in Scotland. " Cruel
Creicbton " certainly en-
joyed his task, to which
he came in a thoroughly
devout spirit, for he was
an earnest and passionate
upholder of Episcopacy.
His attitude of mind, as
reflected in his swashbuck-
ling memoirs, resembles
that of the Highland laird
of 1890, who at a Church
Defence Meeting concluded

a fervent speech with the

words, " But I am deeply

attached to the National

Zipn — yes, bedam ! "
For all his Sauline zeal

as a persecutor, Creichton

see.ns to have been a

genial character to whom

cruelty for its own sake

made no appeal. He was

imaginative too, and a great believer in dreams,

by which he held he had been directed to some

of his best captures of hillside Conventicles.

In the sum-
mer of 1689

Creichton,

happening to

be in Edin-
burgh, went

to pay his

respects to his

Colonel, Lord

D u n m o r e,

who invited

him to dine

at a tavern,

to meet Lieut-

enant-General

D o u g 1 a s

(lately come

from Eng-
land), Lord

Kilsyth, Cap-
tain Living-

WITH THE GRAND FLEET: WATCHING TARGET

PRACTICE FROM THE BRIDGE OF THE " LION.'

Canadian War Records. Copvri^H reserved.

Dunmore talked him over, said he would pawn
his life for the Lieutenant-General's honour and
readiness to declare for King James.

" Whereupon," says the accommodating
Creichton, " I submitted
my scruples to my Colonel's
judgment, and accord-
ingly we met together at
the tavern." There they
received the news that
King James was landed
in Ireland, whereupon
Douglas, taking a beer-
glass and looking round
him, said, " Gentlemen, we
have all ate of his bread,
and here is his health."
He drank the toast on his
knees, and all the com-
pany did the same ; then
Douglas, filling another
bumper, drank damna-
tion to all who would ever
draw a sword against
James Stuart.

A month or two later
the whole tavern party
was denounced to the
Government, and Captain
Creichton was laid by the
heels in Edinburgh Tol-
booth. He suspected Doug-
las as the traitor, but he
was mistaken, for General Mackay says he had
the information from a sergeant who deserted
from Wauchope's regiment. Scott accepts

M a c k a y ' s
\t-rsion ; but,
c u r i o u s I y
enough,
makes no
remark on the
absence of
D o u g 1 a s ' s
name from
the list of the
denounced.

Creichton,
under examin-
ation, denied
all knowledge
of any plot or
plotters. He
was offered
his liberty in
return for in-

stone, Cap-
tain Murray,
and Lieu-
tenant Murray, " all his ain lads," as the Colonel
said. Creichton objected to meet Douglas, whom
ho suspected of favouring William of Orange ; but

ON THE FRENCH FRONT: A 370-MM. GUN IN ACTION.
French Official Photograph.

formation,
and, when
that would
not do, he was
boots " in the

favoured with a sight of the

hangman's hand, but was not actually tortured

Meanwhile, Dundee heard of his plight, and -cut

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Che- Scene of a British "«lalfc-Over" near the Hncre.

IN SERRE, WHENCE THE ENEMY WITHDREW IN A FOG : RUINS OF A FACTORY.

Strre, one ol the elaborately fortified »ilUfei in (he Miraumont on the Ancre, our attacking trooj>« m»de a sharp thru»t at Serre.

district, two miles ham Puisleun, w»t eraauttd 07 the Cermuu Thejr (lined the foot ot th« hill, preptntory to itorming the pl»ce^

in the lut wek ol February. The vill«tr is on it hill 4)0 (eft when, 'mktn( «dr«nt»f« of * fog that came on during the following

high, and was one of the furthest points reached in the openinf
British attack in July. The position was " rushed " by our troops,
but it prored impossible to hold it. Durin| the present advance

nifht, the German garrison stole silentljr away. Our men had only
to walk in next day, amidst the ruins abort ground left by our
preliminary bombardment. — [Official Photograph*,}

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a, mess.ige to the Duke of Hamilton, President of
the Council, that if they touched a hair of
(.'.iptain Crcichton he would cut his prisoners, the
Laird of Pollock and the Laird of Blair, joint
by joint and would send their limbs in hampers
to the Council.

About four months later, the Dukes of Hamil-
ton and Queensberry advised Creichton to bribe
Melville, Secretary for Scotland, to obtain his
release. Creichton had not the means ; but Lord
Kilsyth, grateful for the Captain's sturdy refusal
to incriminate him. Rave him ^500, which Hamilton
and Queensberry conveyed to London and so into
the Secretary's pocket. The result was that King
William sent down an order of release, but the
Council refused to obey it, and kindly explained
to the King that if Captain Creichton had his
liberty he would murder all Scotland in one night !
At length, however, the prisoner got leave to

nightfall, and then sent the sentry, together with
Captain Mair's footman, to Lady Lockhart, who
was married to Mair, to say that her husband
would be home that night with twelve other
fugitive cavaliers, " for so," says Creichton, " in
those days we affected to style ourselves."

Lady Lockhart rose to the occasion. Without
delay, she ordered three or four of her servants to
take the sentry up four pairs of stairs and ply him
well with drink. They kept him drunk for twelve
days and nights together.

On the third day, much- against his friends'
advice, Captain Creichton insisted on returning
" privately " to Edinburgh (he would hardly have
gone publicly) to confer with his bail, the Laird of
Pittencrife, for the Captain was determined that
so generous a person should not be a sufferer on
his account. They met at the alehouse afore-
mentioned, and, " after drinking together for

THE ADVANCE ON THE WESTERN
Brit'*/: Offii

quit the Tolbooth and live in lodgings with his

fa-rily, under the care of one sentry. The

Creichtons were often in great straits, and once

were saved fro:n starvation only by a ti.n.ely gift

of oat '.real and fowls fro n Lady Carnwath.

('n-i'.-hton iin\\- began to tliink of escape, and when

from wliich his -entry was supplied

' to be chnnsed, he bribed the man to

i or.li is w. re to walk

vitli C.ijn.iin Cn-ii-liton to any j).,n of the town
the jin<-on,T ple.iscd. The ruse succeeded. ;md
thenceforward Creichton see na to have done
prett) uvll as he lik.-d.

Two n ontl.s later, Lord Kilsyth was siuhlenly
•p in Edinburgh Castle, and Creichton,
ting Linger, ran with his sentry to a con-
r, where he found twelve Jacobite
rtise .'-M-tr.bled. Thev lav .lose (ill

FRONT: A WELL-CONCEALED TRENCH.

W Photograph.

half-an-hour, he bid me go whither I pleased,
and God's blessing along with me."

The Captain, for his part, returned to Lady
Lockhart's, and wrote to Hamilton and Queens-
berry for advice. They replied that Crcichton
should make his escape to his own country
(Ireland) and there set potatoes till he saw better
tin.es. Mair and his eleven friends set out for
St. Germains, and Creichton also departed. lie
bethought him, however, of the poor sentry ,:,<•••
presumably sober), and asked him whether he
would follow his (Creichton's) foitimc-; or tt-join
and he shot. The man had no difficulty in <-!io<-
Lady Lockhart then kindly hire.-! a tenant s hoi-e
for the henchman, gave (he < ..-.pv.-un a good
charger and ton guineas. ;,:,•! hade her f.u-ts God-
speed. They went carefully to Wkiiehaven and
so to Ireland.

!i

Daily jSeeds of the Hrmy on the ttlestern front*

NECESSARIES OF WAR : A TIMBER-TRAIN IN FRANCE ; COMMISSARIAT RATIONS AT A BASE.

The upper illustration will help some of us in realising why wood
is to scarce and dear all over England. It also goes some way
to suggest and explain why in so many parts of the country timber
is being cut down wholesale by battalions of Canadian and other
lumberers for war purposes. The long train of timber -laden
trucks seen is on its way in France to the Western Front, where

wood is employed for almost every conceivable urpoae, from hut-
building to planking the revetments, or inner containing walls, of
dug-outs and trenches. In the lower illustration in like manner
we have a suggestive picture of what feeding our men at the front
means, and of the Tastness of the task that the commissariat
department performs without a hitch.— [Official

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T3hc British Hncrc Httack: Gommecourt after its Capture

BOMBARDMENT HAVOC: REMAINS OF THE BIGGEST HOUSES; ALL LEFT STANDING OF THE CHATEAU. •

' Gommecourt," write* a correspondent of the "Morning Post ''
in * letter dated February a8, "pawrd out of the poueuion of
'>> .- Germans last nigh t . . . . The ' >• i >" rnmo:i1 fortreu of the
Ancre defences, which the army of n /j- i-n s<c'>buinly held for
months by the sacrifice of many livr. has been .-^fcwpuHl without
the loss of « single man. . . Stores, machine-guns, and bomb

supplies were gradu.i.'.y removed in the darkness through B*-'v Wood
to the next piepate- 'ine behind Bucquoy, while a handful of picked
men remained in tin- trenches until the last moment, trying to
carry out a schtir,- '.f deception — which did not deceive their
neighbours beyond Kc Man's Land — by the uvual simulation of a
strong and activ gAirison, exploding bombs and sending up flares.

i

M.rch 21. 1917

THK ILLUSIKATtU WAR NKWS.

|" r,.rt 41 I ...

[.Now S«UJ— '*

Che British Hncrc Httack : Gommccourt after its Capture.

, f0"BARDMENT HAVOC: A SMASHED -IN GERMAN TRENCH; A DUG-OUT GATEWAY ENTRANCE.

• destroying dug-outs and blocking all exits, save those uted was the enemy fire-position, has wholly disappeared in a maxe of

"'• Anal remnants of the rear-guard party. Nothing is left trenches which overruns the site of the straggling Tillage on the

the Gommecouit estate which formed the front line o( the eastern fac« and cemetery ' The taking of Gommecourt was for

origm. l German trench position, save the foundations of the us also the paying-off of an old score. There, on July I la«t,

i4tea«, where enormous subterranean' rooms had been dug to "London men assaulted an almost impregnable position, . . . until

house tiVl.t>»tali<Nij. while the park, the western edge of which forced back by massed gun-fire."— [Official

20 - [M5"fci«]- THE ILLUSTRATED

r

. .

€bc CClind that Btowctb from the Bast": H

v x.

BRITISH SOLDIERS' GAS-HELMETS SERVED OUT TO FRENCH CHILDREN : A S(

The old saying that "the wind that bloweth from the East Is nood for neither man nor tea^t," is certainly true on the Western
Front when German poison-gas is coining over. On such occasions the "long breeze" that streams from the East is by no
means delicious. Even in villages behind the lines, some lingering effects of the chemical \imes which Germany introduced into

tEWS, M«rch 21. 1917.— [Ne

- 21

Harm in a frcncb Village; Children with JMasks.

A VILLAGE NEAR THE FRONT ON THE APPROACH OF GERMAN POISON-GAS.

•arfare are occasionally felt. Our drawing shows a French village where British troops were billetted. An old man a (wing to
tree a notice that "There is danger o< asphyxiating gas," and the village children are putting on g«»-maski provided by B
>ldi*r«. On th» rieh' is < Brit.sh officer itepping forward to clear the way for » motor-cyclist.- • [Drawn by A.

IHE ILLUSTRATED WAR NEWi.. March 21. 1917.

Back "Over the t!op ' (bounded; and fusing She

-r-. _

»r ^

to the W,. is a wounded

ON THE BRITISH FRONT IN FRANCE DURING THE RECENT PUSH: (1 A WOUNDED

M>

front under sn°w- The '•""•*'*• » s—d -11

,tW° """J1 ln "' While jUSt "°VCr the t0p"°f "•-* P""""-
lower photographs show mm fixing (uses to shells for the

THE ILLUSTRATED WAR NtW!> March 21. 191 7. [s.1',. ',:!,] -21

Stokes Mortars: Scenes on the British front.

WLING BACK TO OUR LINES ; (7 Mid 3) FIXING FUSES FOR STOKES MORTARS.

nous Stokes mortars a new type of sru.rt-rnnge trench-gun which has Pi,ve-! remarkably effective. It fires a number 01

ills of cylindrical shape, which during their flight have been likened to a f-.rjp of lead-pencils. The weapon is named after

inventor, Mr. Wilfred Stokes, a well-known engineer, of whom we gave a porirait in our issue of March 14.— (Offitt,-! l-liotagrafl,^

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March 21. 1917

dinning the food of the Nation.

NO TIME LOST : PLOUGHING BY NIGHT AS WELL AS BY DAY.

The desirability «nd the tugentj of ensuring the maintenance of
the food supply has been recognised and acted upon with prompti-
tude. Our photographs illust.-M- a case in point. Mr. Chisholm,
of the Chequer Farm, near Wrndover, who is ihown ploughing by
night, says that the darkness presents no difficulty. On moonlit
nighu no artificial light is needed. On very dark nights, as seen

in our first photograph, two tights are used ; on less dark nights,
one is found sufficient. The motor-tractor has proved of great
Talue, saving him days of work. Our second photograph shows
an acetylene gas-generator being prepared. Mr. Chisholm is on the
right. The utilisation of daylight and dark -in this practical
fashion is of the greatest value. — [Photos, by Illustrations Bureau.]

M.rch 21, 1917

THE ILLUSTRATED WAR NEWS

r Part 41 T
!_New Scries J~

French " "Cubes" for Saving Life on the Belgian front.

.,

BEYOND GERMAN SHELLS : A VIEW ALONG ONE OF THE NIEUPORT UNDERGROUND GALLERIES.

The Belgian trench-lines along the front held by King Albert's
gallant Army in Western Flanders, extending between Ypres and
the sea near Nieuport, if protected from infantry attacks by the
inundation-belt, which exists still as heretofore, in advance of the
main positions, are within rang'- of the opp<-«ing German batteries.
Sh-lls go daily hurtling across the intervening space from one side

or the other, the Germans on their part continuing sullenly to
bombard the Belgian positions. As a meins of saving the livet
of those engaged in supplying the Belgian fire-trenches with
ammunition and food, a network of underground communication-
galleries has been dug, several feet below the surface, The vista
down one is seen herr. - •', Plioln. by Ittttslrt't: >'• • Ililr.'K.,

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FOOTNOTES TO ARMAGEDDON: XXXII. -"'OW'S YOURSELF?

A T " i 1 1 v something pip-emma touched the tick
\ \ the two regiments got over the bags with

something of the determined reticence of men

getting out of bed on a cold morning ; they

charged.

The work they had

to do was to converge

on a valley and drive

up it, removing any

little matters like Huns

and their trenches as

they walked. As the

men went soberly over

the ground, it was seen

that the two battalions

would have to keep

their wits spry, or they

would end in a most

blasphemous tangle.

There was no time for

tangles in this scrap.

for one regiment had to

swing left and work

along the Fritz line,

and the other had to

swing right and do the

same thing in that

direction. The regi-
ments marched on,

looking at each other

calmly. Now and then

an excitable fellow in either rank waved his rifle.
The Hoy went forward as stolidly as ever ;
sometimes he looked up at the other battalion.
sometimes he looked towards the German line —
he seemed
blast about
both.

The man
next him
said,"Wunner
whether we '11
get it 'ot ? "
The Boy-
thought per-
haps they
would and
perhaps they
wouldn't.

" \Vunner
whether we '11
come off
worsc'n that
other lot ? "

The Boy-
thought it
was as like
as not.

The man

:- e x t the

i' private

sKutec z..:nr. words. The private turned to
The Boy with the air of a man giving ex_
elusive and valuable -.n formation

ON THE BRITISH WESTERN FRONT: A STAFF CAR
STANDING BY A GAS-ALARM. IN A SHELLED VILLAGE.

UliilSa Official Plu't'^'.ifil:.

IN

"That's the Splitputtees," he said. "Say,
d'y'ear that ? Them 's the Splitputtees."

" All right." said The Hoy, and he trudged on
The Germans were busy with machine-guns.
Also there was shrap-
nel coining over, with
H.E. now and then.
The ground became
fairly hot. The regi-
ments went on at a
dogged pace, as though
they were sorry they
couldn't stop though
the Germans wanted
'em to, but business
calls ' bade them push
on. They worked up
the valley, and the
trenches came near.
What seemed more
important to sergeants
was that there would
be no hope, of ^aving
that de\ il of a tangle
in the centre. The
battalions uere already
intermingled.

Thev went ov.
Frit/ parapets alnio-.t
together. Tin M- was
the same leJMin.-liness
about the business, for war i> leisnrt.'lv rather
than exciting, and the men got to work on the
inmates of the trench with trade- union steadi-
ness ; bomb and bayonet, but ju.nioularly

bayonet, be-
gan to clear
out the trav-
erses. Tin:
G e. r m a n s
fought in
p a t c h e s —
some patches
well, some
badly, as is
, their habit.

The Hoy-
found that he
was one of
the '.ver-lap-
pers, but he
didn't let that
worry him.
He went on
fighting
soberly. ll«'
jostled and
elboued vari-
01!-- privates
of Ihfc Liplit-
puttees. and
cl: up against «

A TRENCH CAPTURED FROM THE GERMANS: A STORE OF OUR
BIG TRENCH-MORTAR BOMBS ON THE WESTERN FRONT.
lirititk Official Phnlanrafth.

in particular he scr.iruv! t.-i Un
grey-headed mar. :i j;real deal.

lie found '".:•, Head >>;' llis side when they

March 21 1917

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I.New Series J

Our Mesopotamia Victory: In Captured Baghdad.

ENTERED BY THE BRITISH ON MARCH 11 : THE PRINCIPAL STREET OF THE CITY.

Haghdad wal taken on March it. The War Office announced
the pi*liminary battle as follows: "Our forces were engaged with
the enemy on the lint of the Diala on the night of March 8.
Our troops succeeded, in spite of bright moonlight, in effecting a
surprise crossing of the Diala and in establishing a strong post on
the right bank of that rivrr. Meanwhile, on the morning of

the 8th, the Tigris having been bridged at some distance downstream
from the confluence of the Diala, a strong British detachment
marched up the right bank and found the enemr holding a position
about six miles south-west of Baghdad. The enemy were driven
from this position to another two miles in rear." So the battle
shaped.— [Photo, by CJVV,

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March 21. 1*17

were putting the- kybosh on an Kmma Oee point.
When Grey Head had spitted his second German
he i aught sight of The Boy and nodded, and
Tin- Boy nodded back. Both got on with
their work. They came together again as
i hey worked along a traverse. They didn't
nod" then, though they knew
each was near, hut went on
with the job.

There was a little worry of
scrapping in clear ground by
the support trenches later, and
r.rey I lead and The Boy knocked
up against each other in that.
When the supports were taken
there was a breathing space,
and Grey Head and The Boy
being side by side, they rested
and talked.

" Makes you sweat," said
Grey Head.

" Like 'ell," said The Boy.

" 'Ad much like this ? " asked
Grey Head.

" Since June, nothing else.
Bit fed up," said The Boy.

" My second time only,"
said Grey Head. " We Ve been
out but a month or so."

" You '11 get as much as
you want," said The Boy.

A frantic sergeant came bustling along the

trench.

" Splitputtees ! Any more ruddy lorst sheep
abart ? Splitputtees, wheel left. Oh, you there,
get a move on, you an' yer gossip. You ain't
'anging out th' washing now."

WHERE

I 'ave."

" So ? " from Grey Head. He looked at The
Boy. " 'Ow 's yourself ? "

" Carn't complain," admitted The Boy.
" 'Ow 're you ?

" Fust rate — bit roomaticky, but I don't
mind."

" Ole lady orl right larst time you saw
'er ? " There was just a shake in the voice.

" Oh, you

THE BRITISH ADVANCE ON THE WESTERN
AMONG THE RUINS OF GOMMECOURT.
British Official Photograph.

" In th' pink. Bit anxious-like, o' course.
She '11 be. pleased I ran up agin you."
" Bit o !iu k," agreed The Boy.

HISTORY HAS BEEN MADE: if. GOMMECOURT.
British Official Photograph.

" You there " was Grey Head. He began to
move. He nodded to The Boy.
" So long," he said.
" So long," said The Boy.
Grey Head hurried down trench to join
the wandering Splitputtees. The Boy went
off to the point where sand-bags were being
built up.

'ave come," said a friendly
corporal. " You 'avo thort o'
going on with this ole war. I
thort of 'phoning them 'Uns
to stop making such a row
'cos it interrupted your chat.
Look lively, now."

The Boy looked lively. The
corporal regretted The Boy's
taciturnity. It robbed his wit
of its sprightliness.

" I suppose you 'ad to 'ave
that little chat. Brought you
news of your estates, didn't 'e ?
'Ow is Society gettin' along
nowadays ? "

" All right," said The
Boy.

" Ole friend you 'adn't
seen fer years ? " asked the
corporal.

" Twelve - month. Saw 'im
en me last leave."

" You are a rum cove," said
the corporal to the reticent one.
He didn't quite understand The
Boy. " 'Oo was the ole blighter, any '<>«•?
" My ole dad," said The Hoy.

\V. DOUGLAS NLWTON.

FRONT :

M.rch 21. 1917

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Part 41 ]

e» Series J

Our Mesopotamia Victory: In Captured Bacybdad.

CAPTURED ON MARCH 11 : THE BRIDGE OF BOATS

The official statement, quoted on the preceding page, continue* :
"During the night of March 9 the passage of the Di»l» w«l forced
and out troops advanced lour miles toward* Baghdad. During
the 9th our forces on the right bank drove the enemy from hit
second position, bivouacking on the ground gained. This advantage,
in spite of blinding dust storms and a violent gale, was pressed on

(LOOKING NORTH TOWARDS THE "OLD" CITY).

the morning of the loth, the Turin being forced back to within
three milet ... of Baghdad. . . . Sir Stanley Maud«, on March II,
announces that the British forces occupied Baghdad that morning."
On March it, Mr. Bonar Law added : "Th«« Is every reakon to
believe that Two-thirds of the rnemy'f artillery fell Into British
hand*, or was thrown Into the Tigris. "— (PhoU. 6y Undmvodt?.

THE I!.'. "STKATED WAR NEWS.

March 21. 1917

Our JMeoopotamia Victory: In Captured Baghdad.

HISTORIC LANDMARKS: A GENERAL VIEW OF THE BRIDGE OF BOATS; THE "SOUTH GATE.'

."he celebrated Bridge of Boats over the Tigris at Baghdad is

probably— almost certainly- the oldest existing structure of the kind

e world. It has a place of it, own in stories and annals of

s East, and would appear to hare existed as a permanent mean,

of crossing the river at least a, far back as the days of the Great

Cahph Haroun-al.Ra.chid. Always, ,|,o, the general form or

• "make-up," of the bridge itself, as shown in the upper illus-
tration on this page, seems to hare, much u now the roadway
resting on roughly timbered pontoons, or large rirer boats of old-
time shape. The lower illustration shows the "South Gate" of
Baghdad, which was used as a block-house and barrack by the
Turkish garrison.— [Photos, by St. SUphen's Bureau and C.K.]

March 21. 1917

THE K.I.I; STRATED WAR NEWS.

Our Mesopotamia Victory: In Captured Baghdad.

ON

THE BOAT BRIDGE : A MILK-SELLER CROSSING THE BRIDGE OF BOATS TO THE BAZAAR.

The ancient bridge of boati across the Tigris ,. from early morning
(o du»k almost u thronged an artery of communication for
Baghdad daily workers as are London Bridge in! Blackfriari Bridge
o»er the Thames at corresponding tiuui of day. In the morning
country people from th- yllage, on the outskirts of Old Baghdad
come streaming across with their produce to tell in the bazaars

of the city— the market-place — which ire in the newer part of
Baghdad wlier* everyday trading is carried on. In the illustration,
• woman milk-seller, with, on her head, flat pan-shaped Teasels of
wood holding the sour milk that is a popular comestible In the
East, is seen at an early hour, taking her way over the bridge to
one of the bazaars — [Photo, by I'mUncooil tn

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March 21. 1917

Our Mesopotamia Victory: In Captured Baghdad.

FEATURES OF INTEREST ; THE RIVER FRONT ; LOOKING OVER THE CITY ; A BAGHDAD-BASRA STEAMER.

The upper of these three illustrations gives a general view of the
principal quarter along the river bank, on the side of the Tigris
on which the main and more modern portion of the city is built.
On that side are situated the Custom House, the main residence
of the Turkish pasha, the Governor, the barracks of the Turkish
garrison, and the various European consulates, as well as the more

important mosques and native bazaars. The second illustration
shows the general overhead appearance and extent of the city with
its flat roofs, and minarets, the view extending to the desert plain
beyond. In the river prospect forming the third illustration is
seen one of the freight steamers belonging to a company trading;
with Basra and the Persian Gulf.

i —

March 21. 1917

THE ILLUSTRATED WAR NEWS.

in 41 "|
Series J

Our JMcsopotamia Victory: In Captured Baghdad.

A EUROPEAN INNOVATION OBJECTED TO ONCE, BUT NOW CONSIDERED INDISPENSABLE : THE TRAM.

OIK of the European introduction! into Baghdad under Turltiih
rule it given a glimpse o( here, in the shape of the horse-tramway
which trarerMS part of th- suburbs of the city. The two-horsed
car, it will be noticed, ir of a "double-decked" type, suggesting
m this regard the London County Council trams which form one
•< the modern predominant features on the Thames Embankment,

with an overhead roof awning ab..ve the upper tier of seats. As
with the native townsfolk elsewhrre all over the East, the Baghdad
folk, when the line was being first laid, had scruples in regard to
the propriety of the foreigners' innovation, but they hare by now
become used to the tram for its conveniences, and use it regu-
larly.— [Photo, by U^dftwond and Untttnt^oii.\

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March 21. 1917

WOMEN AND THE WAR.

A WRITER once put forward the theory that
petrol and electricity combined had a
deleterious effect on manners. There must be
something in it — for are not most, or at any rate
a great many, taxi-drivers singularly ungracious,
as well as " sniffy "
in the matter of tips ;
and 'bus - drivers
prone to jeer as they
flash by some un-
fortunate individual
who wants to board
their vehicle, which
they are foolish
enough to think is
meant for the public
convenience ? Con-
ductors, too, have a
distressing habit of
treading on un-
offending toes, and
the man who per-
emptorily orders you
on and off the Tube,
or slams the gate in
your face with Sa-
tanic glee, is another
example of how the
petrol poison works.

WOMEN - FARMERS IN THE MAKING: EXPLAINING
THE MECHANISM OF A MOTOR - TRACTOR.

The new department of the Board of Agriculture has arranged with the
Battersea Polytechnic to train recruits in motor-ploughing, as a preliminary
to a fuller course of instruction in farming.— [Photograph by Sport and General.]

Probably its influence has had something to do
with the attitude taken up by the taxi-men with
regard to the recent decision to license women-
drivers. Rumour had it that there were threats to
" do in " the first " lady " brave enough to take
the wheel in this capacity, and the enterprising
few who have come forward to apply for the
necessary permission did not have an exactly

cordial welcome when they made their first trip
on the " knowledge of London " car. However,
the war has proved that it takes a good deal to
daunt a woman, so that, if there is not a positive
glut of women-driven taxis, we may safely con-
clude that lack of
skill rather than
spirit is at the bot-
tom of it.

For to become
the driver of a pub-
lic vehicle plying for
hire is not quite the
simple business it
appears. The rules
governing it are laid
down by Scotland
Yard, and most
would-be t a x i-
drivers will tell you
that they seemed
framed with the
special intention of
limiting the supply
of public cabs. Any-
how, there are five
hundred different
routes in the official
handbook, and the
applicant for a licence has to know them all, and
show a perfect knowledge of fifteen selected at ran-
dom at the final examination. Squares and avenues,
lunatic asylums, prisons, theatres, hospitals, police
courts — the taxi-driver must know them all ; and,
as any number of names are repeated many
times over, it is not difficult to mix up East End
with West in hopeless confusion. Three months

\Omtinjteti (nxrleaf.

MOTOR - TRACTION UNDER FEMININE GUIDANCE: A LADY-DRIVER FOR A MOTOR - PLOUGH.

A new devclcri.cnt of v ">[•-«.-''< war-work is shown above, where a powerful type of motor -tractor for ploughing work is shown drawing »
plough thrcuclv i-.rjvv irou'-.x .t the Cambridge University Farm, the lady-driver managing th« powerful machinery without difficulty.

Photograph by Topical.

March 21.

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tl'.n 41 I .c
N.-« series J~35

Parisians, kihe Londoners, Short of Coal.

RETAILING COAL IN PARIS IN WINTRY WEATHER : A QUEUE OF PURCHASERS OUTSIDE THE

Owing to difficulties of transport and labour (or delivery, Paris his
suffered from a shortage f>i co*' an(* other commodities in tht
Mme way as London, especially in the cold weather. When the
Seine became unnavigabln during the frost, coal could no longer
be conveyed by barge, and an important channel of supply was
thui closed. Paris normally requires 7000 tons daily, and at one

time only 8500 tons were arriving. To cope with the situation,
the city's ctocki of coal were drawn upon, and some iSoo military
lorries distributed it to am ill coal-merchants The price was
regulated by the municipality. A few weeks ago poor people were
charged 9!. for 10 kilo* (J2 Ib-K while the middle classes paid
fts. per sack of 100 Ib. delivered at their houses,— (Photos, by

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March 21. 1917

is ,ic< -minted the minimum in which an intelligent
applicant can qualify for a licence, and even then
the work requires from eight to ten hours' study
a day. Route after route has to be " picked "
out and learnt on a map, and a trip in the " know-
ledge " car helps in the " fixing " process.

the house for the purpose, and it has now been
transformed into a thoroughly comfortable place,
with beautifully equipped bath-rooms and what
agents call " every modern convenience."

The war has taught the world of men a
about women.
It has taught
women that a
many of

The main feature of the club, however, is its
domestic staff, the members of which are all
lot voluntary workers, with the exception of the cook

and the house-
keeper. Most
of them, too,
are quite well
known in the
social world, and
at the begin-
ning were not
a little at sea
about the eti-
quette govern-
ing the use of
dusters or the
precise way in
which to hand
round dishes at
the dinner-
table. Practice,
however, soon
remedied such
trifling draw-

A WAR-TIME INNOVATION IN BIRKENHEAD: WOMEN - POLICE. backs, and of

Smart, well set-up, and obviously in earnest, this squad of women-police is seen

starting on duty, ha/ing been enrolled for the work of ordinary constables. It may

be hoped that the " enterprising burglar " will " cease from burgling " in the districts

which these patriotic young women will patrol. — {Photograph by Topical.}

great

the things " I
could never do,
my dear," are
really not quite
so difficult as
they seemed in
the piping days
of peace. It
used to be held
that women
were, in some
curious way,
born with a
knowledge of
housework.
Most, or at least
a great many of
them, knew no-
thing whatever
about it, and
one result of
their ignorance
was what used to be known as the Domestic
Servant Problem. But times have changed, and
hands that didn't know how to rock a cradle or
handle a duster,
sweep a room
or polish a floor,
are fast becom-
ing the rivals of
the professional
servant.

To the nu-
merous Y.M.C.A.
triangles that
now adorn van-
ous buildings in
London another
has recently
been added. It
hangs over a
house in Bel-
grave Square,
and many have
wondered for
whom the
Christian Young
Men were going
to cater in
that aristocratic
thoroughfare. It
is, in fa<t, the
signboard of the latest addition to London
chibs for men, and is intended for officers who
are passing through London. Someone gave

ECONOMY

AT A WOMEN'S HOSPITAL SUPPLY

BOOKING UP THE DAY'S WORK.

From the Enfield Women War-Workers' Depot, which was started on a capital of £10,
more than 4000 articles have been sent to hospitals at home and abroad, including
splints, crutches, bed-rests, bir.d.-.f's, surgical dressings, and many other necessaries.

h by Alfuri.

practice the
" staff " at 14,
Belgrave Square
have had plenty.
The club has only been open quite a short time,
but nearly four hundred officers have already
passed through it. The workers are quite 'a pic-
turesque feature

^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ of the place, for

their costume —
purple overalls
and black caps
— is not a little
becoming.

They work
in five - hour
shifts day and
night, and their
duties are any-
thing but light,
for it is not
easy to keep a
house in Bel-
grave Square in
perfect order,
and to wait on
luncheon and
dinner parties
where forty or
fifty people
have to be pro-
vided for. The
numbers always
vary, for the
club members may invite as many men
friends as they please to meals. Women guosts
are barred. CLAUDINE CLEVE.

DEPOT :

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The Russian Revolution : The Imperial family.

ABDICATED : THE EMPEROR NICHOLAS II. OF RUSSIA, WITH THE EMPRESS AND THEIR CHILDREN.
Momentous news regarding Russia was made known in the House manifesto announcing his abdication (published on March 17), the

of Commons, by Mr. Bonar Law, on March 15. "To-night," he Emperor said: "We have recognised that it is for the good of

said, "a message has been received from our Ambassador to the the country that we should abdicate the Crown of the Russian

effect that a telephone message had been received from the Duma State and lay down that supreme power. Not wishing to separate

announcing that the Tsar had abdicated, and that the Grand Duke ourselves from our beloved son, we bequeath our heritage to our

Michael Alexandrovitch had been appointed Regent." In his own brother, the Grand Duke Michael Alexandrovitch. " The latter

[GmNmtnt nrrt, a/.

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By W. DOUGLAS NEWTON.

I the

so the Eastern
coming more and
more into action. Not
merely are the
Mesopotamia!! and
Persian arenas brisk
with fighting, but a
great many en-
counters are going on
along the Russian
front, the Roumanian,
and the Macedonian.
The Baghdad victory
grows more emphatic
in its certainty every
day. It is not merely
that the City of the
Caliphs has fallen to
a brilliant stroke, or
that General Maude's
force is so efficiently
handled and supplied
that he is already
driving northward to-
wards the next
Turkish defences,
south of Samarra, but
also that his gain has
had a very powerful
reflex on the Persian
front. The Russians

and Oriental fronts are

AWARDED THE D.S.O. AND THE V.C. FOR SERVICES NOT

PUBLICLY STATED : COMMANDER GORDON CAMPBELL, R.N.

Commander Campbell was specially promoted to his present rank last year

over the heads of nearly 700 senior Lieutenant-Commanders. In June he

was awarded the D.S.O., and now he has been decorated with the V.C.

Photograph by Russell.

a^eadyreoccupTedr'and'now the retreating Turks

find themselves run-
ning with Maude on
their one flank and
the Slavs on their
other. They will have
a desperate business
to get clear. Mean-
while, the Turks based
on Mosul and the
railhead at Nisibin
cannot be altogether
comfortable. They
have enemies above
them in the Lake Van
area, to the east, and
to the south. It will
take all that their
German task-masters
can do to hold them
unbeaten once a deter-
mined concentration
sets in. In a practical
sense, perhaps, this
theatre is of minor
importance ; but I am
not so ready to admit
this. The collapse of
Turkey would be a
most serious blow,
both in a moral and

[Continued overleaf.

A CASE OF TEMPORARY DISABLEMENT THROUGH " TRENCH FEET " WHILE ON DUTY : AWAITING THE ARRIVAL
OF RED CROSS ORDERLIES FOR REMOVAL TO HOSPITAL. — [Australian Official Photograph.]

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"Che Russian Revolution : TTbe ex-emperor's Only Son.

THE BELOVED SON FROM WHOM THE EMPEROR DID NOT WISH TO SEPARATE : THE TSAREVITCH.

(born July 30, 1904). Of the Emperor's personal share in recent
events the " Times " said : "To the Tsar, in particular, the
highest credit is due. Had he chosen to resist the demands of
the Duma, there were, doubtless, plenty of troops ready to support
him. But he knew what such a choice would have meant for
Russia and the great European cause." — [Photos, Boissonnas &• Eggler.]

subsequently declared that he would only accept the throne
if the people, by a plebiscite, desired it The Emperor
Nicholas II. was born in 1868, and married in 1894 Princess
Alice, daughter of Louis IV., Grand Duke of Hesse and the Rhine.
Their children are the Grand Duchesses Olga (born 1895), Tatiana
(1897), Marie (1899), and AnasUsia (1901), and the Tsarevitch Alexis

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material manner, to Germany. It might upset
dispositions as far north as Galicia, and might have
evil effects (for Germany) as far as Bulgaria and
the Balkans stand. Also, if the collapse was
real, the Dardanelles would be freed again, and a
route to Russia would be opened and might
prove fatal to the Central Powers. Turkey has
not collapsed yet, however. She has stubborn
capacities, and may hang on for the length of the
war ; but the blow in the Middle East must have

\vell in line with the German ideals to drive
back the Russian left wing and establish a
German front well on the flank, for that
would effect a preat stretch of tne Russian
line. In Macedonia the Allied troops are show-
ing some activity, particularly the British,
who have made an advance — not, apparently,
heavily resisted. The movement is, perhaps, a
manoeuvre for 'positions that will give an advan-
tage when weather conditions are better.

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Bakuba \ Mondali

WHERE THE BRITISH FROM THE SOUTH AND THE RUSSIANS FROM THE EAST ARE CONJOINTLY DRIVING IN

THE TURKISH MESOPOTAMIA ARMY : MAP OF THE COUNTRY BETWEEN BAGHDAD AND KERMANSHAH, SHOWING

ALSO THE TIGRIS ROUTE OF SIR STANLEY MAUDE'S VICTORIOUS ADVANCE.

According to official telegrams at the time of writing (March 17), Sir Stanley Maude's troops are thirty miles beyond Baghdad to the North.
The Russians, advancing from Hamadan, have taken Kermanshah after a two-days' battle.

shaken her badly — so badly that we are certain
that the Germans must reconsider their plans
somewhat to meet this new danger.

In Russia, on the Galician front, the Germans
have been raiding very heavily in the region of the
Tarnopol railway. There has been a cvrious per-
sistence and power shown here, and, taken together
with the fighting in Roumania — where attacks
have won positions in South Moldavia — we ought
to give the zone some attention. It would be

The greatest item of political news is, of course,
the Revolution in Russia. It is of major import-
ance, because it is bound to have direct effect on
the military effort. Of the many discussable
points, the only thing that need concern us here
is that the Revolution is one of the greatest
offensives directed against Germany in this war.
It should give a new spirit, a new assurance, a
new efficiency, to the huge armies facing the
enemy in the East. LONDON: MARCH 17. 1017

LONDON : Published Weekly at the Office. 172, Strand, in the Parish of St. Clement Danes, in the County of London, by THE ILLUSTRATED LONDON NRWS AND SKETCH, LTD.,
,72. Strand, aforesaid : and Printed by THE ILLUSTRATED LONDON NHWS AND SKFT-M. LTD.. Milford Lane. W.C.— WEDNESDAY. MARCH at. 1917.

The Illustrated War New*. April 4, 1917. —Part 43. New Series.

Illustrated War Rcios

TOMMY'S WAY WITH THE CHILDREN : IN A RECAPTURED FRENCH VILLAGE.

Ufficial Photograph.

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By W. DOUGLAS NEWTON.

THE CRITICAL MOMENT ? OUR CARDS YET TO BE PLAYED-THE HINDENBURG BOGIE.

WE have the German Emperor's speech and
a stiffening of the fighting along the
Arras-Aisne line to help us arrive at the con-
clusion that perhaps the great retreat of which
the Kaiser is so proud has at last reached its fixed
front, and we are on the threshold of, if we have
not already entered
upon, the greatest and
most critical battle of
our time. We cannot.
of course, be sure of
these facts ; the Kaiser
is an inevitable speech-
maker, and also the
steady deepening of the
resistance may mean no
more than a Germanic
effort to slow up our

rather too rapid advance

with stronger rear-
guards, so that troops

to the rear might be

got clear safely. At the

same time, there may

be something in both

happenings. It would

not be happy, even for

the Kaiser, to have to

make a series of speeches

of joy at each fresh re-
tirement ; and, at the

same time, the fighting

IN RECAPTURED NESLE AFTER THE BRITISH ENTRY :

OUR MEN HAVING A WELCOMING CHAT WITH ONE

OF THE WOMEN TOWNSFOLK.— [Official Photograph.]

that is now going on, especially before Cambrai
(about Beaumetz) and on the Oise, seems to be of
a bigger and more bitter nature than fighting
usually indulged by rearguards — though, it might
be said, rearguard battles can be of the heaviest

kind, as we, who put up so good a fight at Le
Cateau, can admit. On the face of things, how-
ever, we have some reason to feel that, as far as
the Germans are concerned, they have arrived at
a point where they hope to halt, and that the
next phase of the manoeuvring is with us.

What our own part
in the battle is going
to be is still, we must
agree, undiscoverable.
We have everything to
do y et. We have
shown nothing. Our
cards are still to be
played in answer to the
German hand — for, so
far, we have done little
more than follow the
German up, and, though
we have pushed him
along at a rate rather
quicker than he ex-
pected, we have done
this rather with our
advance forces than
with the full weight and
power at our disposal.
These things are to be
remembered, emphatic-
ally, on those occasions
when the gloomy among
us point out that on

certain sections of the line — the front from Arras
to Cambrai, for instance — the movement has been
very small, and very slow too. The slowness and
the smallness of our movement at these points
does not necessarily mean that the German is

WTHE GARDEN OF A HOUSE AT NESLE - BRITISH SOLDIERS BEING SHOWN THE ENTRANCE TO A BIG DUG OUT
USED AS GERMAN HEADQUARTERS.— {Official Photograph.}

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beating us now that he has found his foothold, so
much as it may mean that we are not in a state
yet to test his power in a fitting way. The smallest
area of advance is noticeably where there has been
most fighting. That is, where the ground has been
most battered, and so is difficult for guns and
transport. It is thus here that the success or
failure of the retreat has not been decided at all
(for we have not really hit hard here), and it will
only be decided when we bear with all our weight.
Indeed, when considering this matter, it seems
curious to me that so much attention should be
concentrated on the work done by the Germans,
and so little on the work that is to be done by
ourselves. \Ve seem so taken up by the fact that
the Germans have managed a capable and well-
handled retreat that we seem unable to realise that

for the eventuality of German retreat, so it is
absurd to act as if this retreat had left our Com-
manders helpless and fumbling. Obviously our
leaders must have been ready for any such move,
though we may have to wait with patience to see
the development, the testing, and the chances of
success of their plan. But it will be well for us to
wait until our full forces are brought into play —
and the conditions are at least as favourable to
us as to the Germans — before we think our ominous
little thoughts about the meagreness of our advance
and the all-powerfulness of Hindenburg.

I do not mean that the French Commander-in-
Chief and Sir Douglas Haig have a plan up their
sleeves which foresaw every detail of this retreat,
and had so schemed their forces as to sweep away
the new line in the first impact of their power. I

ONE OF THE GUNS THE RETREATING GERMANS MINE ROADS AND BLOW UP BRIDGES TO KEEP BACK :
A FRENCH HEAVY PIECE AND ITS CREW BEING TOWED BY A TRACTOR.— [Plwlo. C.N.]

retreats are things that enter into the calculations
of every military leader — even our own. We do
not seem to recognise the fact that Generals
Xivelle and Haig may have had their attentions
drawn to the possibilities of retreat some time last
year, when the Somme attack was initiated. \Ve
who insist, quite rightly, that this " glorious move-
ment to a line of their own choosing " was forced
upon the Germans by our Commanders, are yet
filled with a curious fear that this retreat has
spoiled our future plans. If we feel that — if we
feel that Hindenburg has, by his retreat, check-
mated our offensive — then we must also feel that
the whole of the Ancre-Somme battles of last year
and this were mere witless, directionless assaults
solely concerned with daily captures of German
trenches, and having no vision at all of what might
happen if the enemy line snapped. As it is absurd
to think that the Somme battles had no plan ready

mean that the possibilities of such a move as the
Germans have undertaken were undoubtedly fore-
seen, and every means provided to meet su i
a contingency in the face of a skilful and capable
enemy. It takes two to make a battle — though
there do seem to be a surprising number cf our
people who appear to think that there is only one
side in a modern battle, and that the German — and
our object in the coming fight is to attack and
defeat the enemy, just as the object of the German
is to outmanoeuvre and frustrate our attempts.
He has probably made a very skilful attempt to
throw us out in this retirement, and will go on
doing his best. It is because he is doing his best
that we have advanced but slowly and carefully.
There is, indeed, nothing sweeping or easy about
the matter, and the battle will be terrible rather
than simple. But it is a battle which is yet to
come. It is no good treating the matter as being

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already all over, when, in fact, it has yet really
to begin.

Whether the battle will go in our favour is a
matter for the future fact rather than the present
prophecy. We have to help us in our optimism
the memory of the Somme. It is, really, the only

AT A CANAL-SIDE RAILWAY DEP6T-YARD NEAR PERONNE : A WRECKED

AND DESTROYED GERMAN STEAM- CRANE AND BARGES AS LEFT BY

THE ENEMY.— [Official Photograph.]

precedent. The great defensive fights of the
beginning of the war— Ypres, Arras, the Austrians
before Cracow, the Russians before Warsaw — are
all obsolete examples in the matter of military
history. The Somme transformed military art,
though, in itself, the Somme was but
an improvement of the hammer-
head method employed at Verdun
and on the Dunajec. But the Somme
did prove that, in spite of defences
that were gigantic in comparison, say,
to the defences at Ypres, and filled
with troops and served with guns
beyond even the fondest dreams of
men resisting (and resisting well) in
earlier batt positions could be lost
to modern <..cack. To resist on his
new line Hindenburg will have to
exceed the impregnability of the
Somme. That does n&c seem pos-
sible, and the chances are that, with
our present man-power and gun-
power, the present German line is
but a halting-place, and not a " steel
wall " to resist all efforts, as the Ger-
mans declare.

The question to consider now is
whether Germany can gain time by
this move to initiate a new stroke
elsewhere — against the Western Allies,
against Russia, or against Italy. We cannot really
answer this question until the answer is given us
by Germany. But one thing might be said. It is
this — Has any big, single blow struck by Germany
brought her even appreciably nearer the successful
end of the war for which she dreams ? In her

prime she has made some huge strokes, against
France Russia, Serbia, and Roumama— have they
availed her anything ? They have not, and it
seems to me that Hindenburg, as leader of a
degenerating power, will have to work a miracle if
he is to carry out a stroke which will do more than
any stroke the Germans have at-
tempted. He may have ready a card
by which he hopes to win the final
trick of a beneficent peace — that is
another matter. But even that trick
will not be so easy of accomplish-
ment. War is a game of two sides,
I say again, and already the Allies
show a disposition to contest Ger-
many's hand from the very moment
it begins to be played. The great
retreat does not yet appear to be a
qualified success. The French are
pressing too eagerly up the Oise, our
men and the French are imperilling
Cambrai, and we are showing such a
disposition to harry him that his
final cards may be spoiled. For here
is a point that is worth a good deal
more attention than it is getting —
that is, Hindenburg may be pre-
paring a big offensive in his retreat ;
but we, on our side, may spoil his
planned offensive by advancing.
There is such a thing as pinning
troops down to one front.

By a resolute attack we may so endanger
Hindenburg's line that he will have to em-
ploy all his men to keep us out. By such
an attack he may have to forgo • his Big

NEAR PERONNE: THE REMAINS OF A BLOWN-UP RAILWAY STATION
AND A SHATTERED GERMAN TRANSPORT-TRAIN TRUCK.

Official Photograph.

Stroke, and call off his troops from fields else-
where as the Germans had to call off the troops

from Verdun when we struck at the Somme. The
success of our attack may kill the bogie of
Hindenburg.

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One Reason (Tiny the British forward TTbrust Succeeds,

EXPLAINING THE NEXT MOVE WITH THE

Headlong Balaclara blund-r. ire rn.de impouible now.dayi.

There, my lord, are your puu 1 " wu all the hapleu Captain

Un, who brought the order to chur,e, told Lord Cardlfan, with

'« of hli hand towardi the far end of the ralley of death.

lowadayi we do thin»i differently. Before ererj more, Head-

quart.™ tsplaini detail! of the adrance to dlTUlonal commander, j

MAP: A SUBALTERN INSTRUCTING HIS MEN.

theie pan the Information on to the brlgadien, and the chain of
explanation foea on down throufh battalion commander) to tubal-
terni, and, finally, to the rank of We, whenerer pouible to enter
into particular). A subaltern with a field map of the dlitrlct is
ae«n here, durlnj a temporary rett and halt acrou the Somme,
ahowtof hli man where they are not to go.— [Official Ptotopap*.)

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Che Salonika Hir-Httach on the British Rospital,

WHERE BOMBS FELL : THE RED CROSS ANTI-AIRCRAFT GROUND-BADGE ; A BLOWN-UP WARD.

With the customary callous German disregard of humanity and
International convention, rnrmy airmen on the Balkan front hm
no scruples on what they drop their bombs. Salonika, where
there la a Urge British but-hospital, hai been the scene of a
recent air-raid, In the course of which bomb* were dropped on the
hospital. Eleven patienta and two orderlies were killed and many

others were wounded. To make the act more indefensible, the
hospital was, at shown In the upper illustration, clearly designated
by a great red cross laid out horizontally on the ground, as a
protective measure against hostile aviators. The lower illustration
ihowi damage that one of the doien German bombs dropped did
in one of the ward*.— [Official

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"Che Salonika Hir Httack on the British Hospital.

BOMBS DROPPED INDISCRIMINATELY : A SHELL-HOLE BETWEEN THE WARD TENTS ; SEEKING FUSES

The British bate-hospital mt Smlonilu, which raiding enemy airmen
Attacked, stands at some distance from the other camps. Besides
Red Cross flags on fUgiuffi, it was, as shown in another illustration,
specially marked (or airmen to distinfuuh with an immense red cross
en the (round, laid out on a white square. All that, howmr, made
no difference to the hostile airmen. Some o( their bombi, (or-

tunatelr, fell between the rows of word tents. One cavity, at
seen In the upper illustration, was wide tnoufh to hold (our men.
One man appears up to his thighs at the deepest part. A party
of convalescents searching for shell-fuses is shown In the lower
Illustration — the recovery of the marked fuses being of military
importance for certain practical reasons.— (Official Photographs.}

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In the Great pursuit:

FOLLOWING UP THE GERMAN RETREAT : CYCLIST

These photographs were taken on the British front in France during
the pursuit of the retreating Germans. In the upper one is seen
a body of Cyclist Scouts going forward to watch the enemy's
movements. This patrol work in new country and strange villages
was adventurous in the extreme. " Intelligence Officers," writes
Mr. Philip Gibbs, " riding out on bicycles to thne places were

scared to find themselves so lonely, and believed that the enemy
must oe close at hand." The lower photograph shows men ol
the Metis and Derby Regiment, evidently in the best of spirits, on
the march through country just evacuated by the Germans. The
road resembles an avenue stricken by a hurricane. The men, it may
oe noted, wear a covering over their helmets.— [Official Photographs.]

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dees of "Crces : Hn " O.pip."

ON THE BRITISH FRONT IN FRANCE : A TYPICAL OBSERVATION-POST IN A TALL TREE.

Th« obier»ation-poet, or " 0. Pip," M the artillerymen call It, it
» common tenure of modern w«i fere. > It T«rie» considerably in
form according to the character «.( the country. In a wooded
dutrict, of COUTM, a hi^h tree aftordi an excellent petition for an
obMrration-pott, and itiucnuw >uch ai that here llluitrated hare
beta frequently built uoth bj the AUie> and the Gtrnunt. For

tzampl*, dwciiblnf the icene of the enemy'i recent rrttett u our
troop* found it, Mr. Philip Cibbi writa : "In miny placet are
filet of thtllt which he hat not removed. Cun-plti and machine-
fim emplacement!, tcreent to hide fruadfc) from view, obasrvation-
pottt built in tall treet, remain at «ign« of hit military life a milt
or two back from hit front linet."— [Official PMafraph.}

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ir

the Jfcver^Ceaeing Gunnery draining of the Gra

TtaMta

ON BOARD THE " LION " : HEAVY TURRET-GUN SHELLS, TAKf

fit .•**"* the, ^ ol «>•«• '» «n principle jurt the »me .. the athlete'i w,7 of preparir
Tth! °fne~rCliei '" P^"1": *« «ereise »' «><«« °^an' «"nli.l to winning the contest The.
of the continuous gunnery-exerc.se practice, in all conditions pf weather, at targets both fixed at]

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leet for Battle: Keeping the JMagazinee full

JEA, BEING TRUCKED FOR LOWERING TO THE MAGAZINE.

ifting, at varying ranges, unknown to tbi gunners except by metrn of their battle-day range-finders, which goes on practically
In that manner an enormoui quantity of ammunition ii being expended, which it renewed and added to, to keep the
s» alway« fully stored should the day of action with the enemy come suddenly.— (Canadian War Records Pkolograpki.]

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On the Track of the Retreating Germane

ENEMY BRIDGE-WRECKING : THE SOMME RAILWAY BRIDGE, PERONNE ; A VIADUCT AT CHAULNES.

Road and river bridges, railway viaducts, canal locks, and crowing
•wing bridge., have bun blown up wholnalt throughout the
German r«tr«t. Th« «n«my hoped thu« to delay tht puriult ;
especially to hold back a> long a> possible the dreaded artillfry of
the Aliin, and compel the guna to make detours by roundabout
routee. To render the railway line* unworkable, they mined the

bridgee, blowing up the iupportlng pillari o( the track-way so that
the roll-bearing girderi ihould collapse in miditream, aa teen in
the upper illuitration of a dntroyed main-line Somme bridge near
Peronne. Railway vladucta were destroyed by mining the §up-
porting brickwork at either aide, causing the bridge to fall in, at
the second illustration at Chaulnes shows.— [Official Photograph.)

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H Relic of the German Occupation Made Useful,

CONVERTED INTO

A BRITISH SENTRY-BOX : WHERE A GERMAN FORMERLY STOOD ON GUARD.

one is ihown above. Aj»in»t the side facing the reader, a door,
taken from a houte near by, ha» been nailed, decorated with a
painted black-and-white Iron Croat, and, below, having a page
from Mtnt illuitrated journal tacked on. Probably it was done to
ttop a draught through the interstice* of the planking on the wind-
ward fide of the sentry-box. —to/fiuni t'kotograpkf.]

As has been related by war-correspondents visiting Bapaurac and
P'-ronne after the enemy had fallen bark, German sentry-boxes,
painted with the Prussian black-and-white stripes, were fcund every-
where in the streets of the two towns, in front of buildings where
regimental headquarters and staff office! had been established. They
have, in many case*, come in usefully for our own sentries, and

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April 4. 1917

ROMANCES OF THE REGIMENTS: XLIII.-THE 20TH FOOT.

A NOBLE CAMP-FOLLOWER.

IN our older campaigns the soldier's wife often
won unofficial laurels for her devotion to
campaigning. Lady Smith was a famous case in

point, but many years

before her time another
gently bred woman
earned fame by the
courage and endurance
she displayed in follow-
ing her husband's for-
tunes and sharing his
hardships throughout
the most trying opera-
tions. This was Lady
Harriet Acland, born
Harriet C. Fox Strang-
ways, third daughter
of the first Earl of
Ilchester. In 1771, at
the age of one-and-
twenty, she was married
to John Dyke Acland,
Major in the 2oth Regi-
ment of Foot (the
" Minden Boys," now
the Lancashire Fusil-
iers), which was ordered
to America to serve
against Washington in
the War of Independ-
ence. In 1776 she was
with tho regiment all through the miseries of the
autumn campaign, and, after the American troops
had retired from before Quebec, she passed the

winter in the

Isle aux Noix
on Lake
Ohamplain.

At the
openi?gof the
spring cam-
paign the aoth
was ordered
to join Bur-
goyne's force,
detailed for
the attack on
Ticondelroga,
and Lady
Harriet stili
wished to
move forward
with the
troops ; but
her husband
would not con.
sent, until he
should see how
the fortune of
war inclined.

1

NEAR LE SARS : A SHELL AND BULLET-SCARRED GER-
MAN MONUMENT TO THEIR OCCUPATION, BUILT OF
CONCRETE AND DECORATED WITH AN IRON CROSS
MOULDING AND INSCRIPTION, AS WE FOUND IT.
Official Photograph.

be inactive no longer, and set off for the front to

nurse him. The weather was dreadful and the

conditions of travelling almost impossible ; but,

in consideration of a

MM^WMMMMMM«| substantial payment,

four boatmen consented
to take ths intrepid
lady across the lake to
a point from which she
could conveniently pro-
ceed to join the army.
After severe trials and
hardships, she came up
with the forces, found
Major Acland in a
wretched log hut, and
there looked after him
until he was once more
fit for duty.

She was now more
determined than ever to
see the thing through.
Acland entreated her to
stay behind in some
place of safety, but Lady
Harriet was not to be
ordered by the person
whom she had (more or
less) vowed to obey.
Transport was an in-
evitable difficulty, but

COOKING FIELD RATIONS ON THE BATTLEFIELD: SOLDIERS WITH A

PORTABLE CAMP -STOVE IN THE RUINS OF A VILLAGE (THILLOY),

JUST OUTSIDE BAPAUME— (Official Photograph.}

for this she made her own arrangements. Sha got
hold, somehow, of an old tumbril or ammunition-
cart, out of which two gunners made for her a

rude sort of
travelling car-
riage, which
she made her
home for the
rest of the
campaign. It
was a convey-
ance of little
ease, but for
that she cared
nothing, so
long as she
could follow
her husband's
fortunes wher-
ever he might

The Major
and his wife
now had their
hardships in-
creased by an
untoward
accident. One

She remained, therefore, with other
Englishwomen at the Isla aux Noix ; but after
the battle of Hubbardton, having heard that
Major Acland was severely wounded, she could

night, when they were asleep in their tent, their
Newfoundland dog upset a candle. The canvas
went on fire, and the Acland romance seemed likely
to come to a fervent end. But an orderly sergeant

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Red-faced <0ar has Rods of Steel and ffre."

DESTRUCTION ON THE WEST FRONT IN FRANCE:

In the dera.tatint war whj<:h j, robbln€ ,.,, Fr§nM o( |t§ ^

1 eren Nature etcapei destruction and demolition. The G*rm.n

r l«»ei nothinj unh.,med which it c«i. m»r, or auini or

utterly dertroy, uid our picture .how, the pititble e«ect upon .

once b«utl(ul wd p«c.tul country K«u in the ,illH« of Py,

M Mem u thou«h in the deplortbie dwlructivenei. the enemy

ALL THAT IS LEFT OF AN AVENUE OF TREES.
w«i dolnf hl« but to retlix the trtfic picture by Tennyion of
' The desecrated shrine, the trampled year, The amoulderinf homf-
.tead. and the houwhoid Mu»er, Torn from the lintel— A amoke g«,
up thro' which I loom. . . . Three tlffla a mon.ter." Our photo-
fraph of what wai once a peaceful avenue, now reduced to a wreck,
teache* in own leoon of th« honor of war.— [Official Photograph'}

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April 4. 1917

of the Grenadier Company which Acland com-
manded rushed into the blazing tent, and, at the
risk of his life, dragged out the devoted couple just
in the nick of time. They were unhurt, but they
lost all their belongings, which did not increase
their personal comfort during the movement
through desolate country in pursuit of the

ALREADY PROBABLY ENCAGED ON THE WESTERN FRONT: BENGAL LANCERS

PASSING THROUGH AN ADVANCED CAMP TO PURSUE THE ENEMY.

Official Photograph.

Americans. The operation was terribly trying, for
the American snipers were both clever and vigilant,
and harassed the British every yard of the way.

It was with an ill-equipped, greatly reduced,
and almost starving force that Burgoyne at length
crossed the Hudson in September, but still Lady
Harriet stuck gamely to her man and beloved 2oth.
During the battle of Freeman's Farm she stayed
in a small hut near the field watching the un-
ceasing stream of wounded
and dying borne past her
to the base, and expecting
every moment that her
husband might be the next
to be carried past. Her
hut was soon filled with the
maimed and the dying.

Suddenly her heart
stood still. Two Grenadiers
came in sight bearing a
figure in a Major's uniform.
But it was Major Harnage,
not Major Acland. Lady
Harriet was to see further
stricken fields.

The next at which she
was present was the dis-
astrow affair of Bemus
Heights, where Btirgoyne's
wretched handful was sur-
rounded by sixteen thou-
sand Americans. Horses

and baggage had long been lost, the force was
worn out and famishing. Shelter for Lady
Harriet there was none, but she bivouacked
cheerfully on the bare ground, doing what she
could for the sick and wounded who lay around.
All day she watched the unequal struggle, and
at dusk Lady Harriet heard that her husband

had been mortally wounded and taken prisoner.
Next day Lady Harriet went to Burgoyne and
begged that he would send to General Gates for
permission for her to pass into the American lines.
Burgoyne was perplexed. The country between
him and the Americans was utterly unsafe,
swarming with Indians, deserters, and desperadoes,
but he knew the lady, and
did what he could.

" The assistance I could
give her," he writes, " was
small indeed. I had not
even a cup of wine to offer
her (she was drenched with
the rains of many tempest-
uous nights), but I was told
that she had found, from
some kind and fortunate
hand, a little rum and dirty
water. All I could furnish
to her was an open boat,
and a few lines, written
upon dirty and wet paper,
to General Gates, recom-
mending her to his pro-
tection."

She set out, and was
rowed down the Hudson by
Brudenell, the chaplain, and

a wounded private of the 2oth, who had been
Major Acland's servant. The American troops
watched her with interest and respect as she
passed, and their General received her with
the high chivalry and courtesy of a soldier who
understood the best traditions of honourable
warfare. He gave Lady Harriet free access to
her husband, who still lived, and to her care
he once more owed his recovery. In December

MOTOR-BICYCLING TO FIND A FRESH POSITION FOR HIS GUNS: AN ARTILLERY

OFFICER ON THE AMIENS -ST. OUENTIN MAIN ROAD.

Official Pholagrapk.

1777 Major Acland was released, and went with
his wife to New York, where their son was
born a month or two later. Soon thereafter
they returned to England. Major Acland sur-
vived his adventures only a year. I.ady Harriet
lived until 1815, much honoured for the memory
of all that she had endured fur love.

April 4, 1917

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German River Obstructions to the British Hdvance.

ON THE LINE OF RETREAT : A BLOWN-UP WOODEN BRIDGE AT NESLE ; REPAIRING A BRIDGE.

With painstakin/5 and characteristic thoroughne«s, the Germans in
their retreat left nothing undone in the way of creating obstacles
to the Britith advance. All the avenues of approach to the
evacuated placet were either mined or blocked generally both —
and every existing means of passing rivers and »treami was des-
troyed - however small or apparently negligible At Ne»le, for

example, as our upper illustration shows, the enemy blew up a wooden
bridge over a deep stream skirting the town. Its wrecked remaina
are Men with iome of the poor French children, who managed to
lire through the German occupation, standing on the fallen timbers.
On our side no time ia lost in re-btidging the rivers, etc., with tem-
porary structural, as shown in the lower illustration. — [Official 1'hnl/is.j

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On the Scene of the Somme BattteneUte.

BY COURCELETTES AND IN THE DISTRICT: A BOMBARDED WOOD; ENEMY AMMUNITION.

The upper Illustration shows a scene too sadly universal now mil
o«r the formerly well-wooded districts of the Somme Valley and
th« northern frontier of France. Th« precise locality ii near
Courcelettes, whfre the enemy had to undergo an estceptlonally fterce
bombardment before being moved on. The devastated itrip of
woodland ihown resemblei, in iti heapt of fallen tree-branchet and

brc.kan-down tree-trunki, itrewn in bimbled piles and hfaps over
the jround, the devastation in the path of a furious tropical
tornado. In the lower illustration we have another Western Front
scene ; a shell-dep6t behind a section of trench during the Somm«
advance. Quantities of German artillery ammunition, abandoned in
the enemy's hurried retreat, were found like that— [Official Photos.]

LL=

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British HrtiUcry effects on a German position.

AT PYS, NEAR WARLENCOURT : SCRAP-IRON WRECKAGE; AN ENEMY ARTILLERY DEP6T.

Pys was one of the Tillages evacuated by the enemy with weak show
of resistance in the earlier (Uy» of the present advance. It U in
the Warlencourt-Miraumont district and ii named by Sir Douflaa
Half ai one of a froup of eleren vili.jei which all fell into
Biituh handi about the >ame time. Ail had been more or lot
elaborately fortified by the enemy, and were icrerely ahelled in the

preliminary clearing of the ground which drove the enemy out of
the district in a hurried retreat. The upper illustration showi the
scrap-heap remnants of an iron-tramed structure at Pys, sfter the
•helling oeavrf. The lower illustration shawl an abandoned
Germati artillery depot at the lame place, with wicker-work ihell-
baaket-carriers l»it littering the ground. — [Official

ao-ti£5S.]— an ^LUSTRA-

In the frencb Sector of the Tpres fror

PLODDING THROUGH MUD AND WATER

FRENCH ARTILL

With the eyes ot most people fixed on the Somme front, one is apt to forget the adjoining Ypres front, where things of
anee may happen at any time. That sector is held partly 1>y the British and partly by the French, who for some time hav
standing on the defensive in their entrenched positions. la that quarter the ground over which our advance must be m»

R NEWS. April 4, 1917.~[N«Clrts«rie,]-21

Ibc Qlaterlogged State of the JVlain Roads,

AND TEAM CONVEYING DEPARTMENTAL STORES BETWEEN CAMPS.

low-lying plain of Flanders, is in a more waterlogged state than in the districts of the Somme battlefields. The sketch
aduced above of a French artillery store - wagon carrying ''••partmenUl supplies, with its team plodding over a swamped road,
the main natural obstacle to mobility in that section ol Hie war-area.

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•jlgA H Olcstern front Instantaneous photograph.

A DIRECT ENEMY HIT : A GERMAN SHELL THROWING UP A CASCADE OF STONES AND CLODS.

Seen against the dark background of the earth surface, brown and
bare and furrowed by low* of trench excavations, the smoke of a
bursting shell looks white as it spurts, up ; like the puff of escaping
steam when a railway locomotive suddenly blows off. As the
smoke-cloud rises, it rapidly turns to a greyish colour, and then,
within a few seconds, it becomes black, before finally dissipating

and drifting away down wind in thinning vapour. The shell-burst,
at the same time, where the projectile falls into a trench, hurls
high up into the air a veritable cascade of dvbris, shooting up
high above the smoke and showering on all sides like fountain
spray, stones and clods and trench materials, woodwork fragments,
etc., which arc hurled outward*,— [Attstralian Official Photograph.}

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H Cttestern front Curiosity— the Result of a Shell-Burst.

\

TOSSED UP BODILY AND WEDGED UP A TREE : AN ARTILLERY WAGON'S BOMBARDMENT ADVENTURE.

The enormously pcmerful effect of high explostre ii, of court*, a
nutter of more or less common knowledge. It* force is ordinarily
of a suddenly violent and locally shattering nature, rather than at
a propellant ; but qr.eer example* of its capabilities in the latter
regard are al»o constantly v**n at the front. We illustrated in a
recent issu* one of the ext r ^ordinary freaks of a hif h-explovive

shell-burst which blew up in the middle of a belt of wire entangle-
ment and fluaf a section of wirei intact half-way up an adjacent
tree. A yet more wonderful freak-effect — probably unique — la seen
here ; a field artillery fourgon, or wagon, tossed up to th^ top of
a tree by a shell exploding in the ground directly underneath it, and
left wedged fast in ita branches.-- [PAoto, by C.N .}

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One. of. the German Road Obstruction*

(ructions were issued to mir troops i

I., the above i,,ustr,tion whic, ^^ ™E ***** °F ™E S°MME °^SIDE "pfeRONN^E :"A MAIN RO.

^"-^£^t.^^^%*£^*^~«' -d on ,he outskirts of P.ronne, we
igo, when Napoleon's invasion of England was dailv e retreating armies in all ages. A hundred

r cxj^ctea, elaborate instructions were is«n»ri tn ,

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> prevent the Hdvance of our HrtiUerv.

<G INTO THE TOWN BLOCKED BY A ROW OF FELLED TREES.

and Sussex as to how they werr to do exactly the same thing with the tre«» on All our roads from Hi* » <t, as they
back — it was assumed they would have to retreat- on a petition on the Surrey Downs covering London, where the great
wa» to te made. The tree-trunks are adzed nearly through, and dragged down with rope*. -[Ofitial r><"tr,ftaf-i' '

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FOOTNOTES TO ARMAGEDDON: XXXIV. -THOMSETT.

ONE day Thomsett was the sort of fellow
Colonels only remember when Captains
grumble about the inefficiency of section-com-
manders; the next day he was the Colonel's
favourite child, and the sort of lad one is proud to
command, don't
you know ! One
day Thomsett
was so incon-
spicuous as to be
scarcely on the
earth ; the next
the mess was hit-
ting him on the
back and naming
gay drinks for
him, and Colonel
Corliss was pat-
ting him on the
shoulder and pro-
mising him half
his kingdom.

Thomsett was
quite a nice boy,
but this sudden
uplift from the
dust in which
" one pips " have
their being to
high and dazzling altitudes made him stutter.
Colonel Corliss noticed his stutter, and he thought
the subaltern's embarrassment very manly.
Thomsett had
done a particu-
larlyplucky thing.
He had shown
that cold and
imperturbable
nerve which is
of the highest
order of discip-
lined and coura-
geous will. The
thing he had
done (it doesn't
matter what it
was) was so big
and so terrible
that a number of
men of undo»bted
pluck might have
shied at it. Thom-
sett had carried

ON THE OUTSKIRTS OF PERONNE: DESTRUCTION AT PERONNE-

FLAMICOURT RAILWAY STATION, WITH THE FALLEN BRIDGE

CONNECTING UP AND DOWN PLATFORMS.-IO^Kii Photograph.]

it through mag-
nificently and
coolly — and here
he was stuttering

the boy. (" Really, it is nice of him to stand on
one leg and then on the other— so embarrassed of
him, so marly.") He explained how proud the
regiment was, and how proud the Colonel of the
reeiment was, to have a distinguished lad like

Thomsett about.

And he also ex-
plained how
medal-ribbons of
worth would be
attached to
Thomsett's tunic
in the future.

" I 've spoken
to the Brigadier—
oh, and to the
C. - in - C. — and
both concur.
Most notable bit
of work, Thom-
sett— most nota-
ble. We have
sent your name
in to the W.O.
with commenda-
tions — oh, the
highest commen-
dations. And you
will get some-
thing worthy— quite. Not that it will be more
than you deserve. Oh, not at all. We're all
very proud of you. I 'm very proud of you —

so 's the Major.
All of us, very
proud. Great bit
of work. Quite."
Thomsett
gurgled amiably,
blushed ruddily.
From his noises,
it was under-
stood he thought
there had been
" nothing in it."
Sort of thing that
any Tempy. would
be only willing
and glad to do.

(" Nice of him
to be so inco-
herent," thought
the Old Man.
"So British. So —
very — oh, yes —

IN THE STREETS OF' PERONNE— THE FIERY INFERNO OUR AD-
VANCED GUARD HAD TO PASS THROUGH : A HOUSE STILL BLAZING.

Official Photograph.

and rivalling the peony, while the Colonel men-
tioned he was really rather proud of him. That
was the right spirit, don't you know, thought
the " Old Man."

The Colonel very luckily remembered his wife
had had Thomsett to tea in training days : that
gave him a very human and paternal interest in

manly ! ")

" Not at all;"

he insisted aloud.

" Not at all. Most notable act. I insist, very
notable. We are all really proud. And I 'm
glad it was done by one of my officers. I like
my officers to do things. I like it. I like to
do things for them." Perhaps he was carried
away by the emotion of the moment, but at
any rate just then he really meant what he said.

[Cimfinnaf eiierlraj.

April 4, 1917

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f Part 4> ~l 97
LNe» JieriesJ •'

Htongside a C&ar-Sbip of the french fleet.

TORPEDO-NET DEFENCE : THE •• CRINOLINE " PLACED IN POSITION AGAINST ATTACK ; BEING LOWERED.

Maral opinion hai for • long time put, from days long before the
w«f , been dirided u to the ralue of " crinoline protection— i.e.,
•urpedo-neti, leeinf that h!«h-»pw:I torpedoes c»rry an eRectirt
net-cutting apparatus fixed on their forward end, which can (hew
through any tteel netting mwhea without difficulty. StiU, battle-
ihipi and big cruUeri in all naTiea carry torpedo-neti and lower

them when at anchor in open water. In the upper Uluitration a
French war-ahlp is seen with her nets down ; in the lower, the
net If teen while in process of being lowered. The net* are
extended In linked. together sections, and slung out on hollow iteel
booms. They go down under water to a depth equiralent to the
reucl'i tain.— fF«<n* Official

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April 4. 1917

" Really, I like to do things for my officers " —
he became almost eager and paternal. " If there 's
anything I can do for you, Thomsett — should be
delighted to do anything . . ."

Thomsett gurgled rather more coherently.

" Very kind, Sir," he was recognised to say.
" Very kind. I really don't ^^^^^^^^
think . . ."

" Well, if I could be of help
to you — should be delighted to
be of help to you."

" Really, I don't think," began
Thomsett — and he hesitated.

" Ah," cried the Old Man, with
the swooping joy of a benevolent
father, " there is something. Come,
my boy — let me hear what it is."

Thomsett looked at him with
a pleading eye.

" Well, it 's — I 'm afraid, after
all, it 's rather more personal
than — er — than — regimental."

" Let me hear it, "commanded
the Colonel genially, as though to
say " Leave all private judgment
to me ! "

" I mean," stuttered Thomsett,
very red, " it 's outside the regi-
ment. It has nothing — that is,
practically nothing — to do with fighting or
military things or things with war in. It 's
personal ; it concerns me privately, and it
concerns — well, me."

The Colonel beamed and rocked on his heels.
" Ah, I see. Private — a matter of influence,
perhaps. I have some influence — well, some con-
siderable influence. I might be able to use it."

on. " I mean, married in a peculiar way. You see,
we met, and she was really above me ; but she loved
me. And we — that is, her parents don't know."
(" Aha," chuckled the Old Man. " There are
unsuspected depths in Thomsett the blusher. Gay
young Lothario.")

GUARDING AGAINST COUNTER-ATTACKS: A BARBED -WIRE
CARRYING PARTY BRINGING UP WIRE REELS TO LINK NEWLY
WON POSITIONS.— [Ogifial Photograph.]

It was to be seen that the Old Man had not the
slightest doubt he would be able to use it anywhere.

"In a way — yes — it 's that."

" Let me see what you want. Let me hear
what you have to say, my boy."

" Well, Sir, it 's this— I 'm married." The
Colonel 's eye seemed confused. Thomsett hastened

A BATTLEFIELD HUSTLE — FOLLOWING -UP ADVANCING INFANTRY:
GUNNERS HAULING A FIELD-PIECE TO A NEW BATTERY FIRING-
POINT AHEAD. -[nffkial Pholotrafk,]

" I see," he said, but still paternally. " I see.
You married clandestinely. You think her parents
might be — er — nasty. You think T might use my
influence."

" In a way— that is, I should like you to— er —
support me."

" Oh, but will you need my support ? With
this — er — fine performance to your credit, any
mm^^mm^^ girl, and the parents of any girl —
any girl's parents — can't be any-
thing but proud to have you in the
family. Don't you think that ? "
" I don't know, Sir," said
Thomsett a little miserably.
" You see, her people were rather

big people "

" Father a bit of a terror,"
chuckled the Old Man— really,
boys would be boys, whether they
were Colonels or Thotnsetts.
" Might do the high-born father,
and all that— I know 'em. Oh,
I know 'em ! "

" Oh, he 's a fine old lad — I
mean, I admire him awfully ; but
he might think that I ..."

" Leave him to me," snapped
the Old Man finally. " T '11 settle
him. I '11 make it plain to him
that you are a son worthy of
anybody— worthy of any family,
however exalted. I '11 let him
are a son I 'd be proud to have

know that you

myself — yes, myself."

" Well, that 's it. Sir," said Thomsett quickly

and breathlessly.

" Er . . . What ? . . . What the devil . . . ? "
' That s it, Sir. It was your daughter

Barbara I married." W. DOUGLAS NEWTON.

April 4. 1917

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CDUtb King Hlbert'a t>oops in flandera.

A BELGIAN DOG-TEAM BATTERY : ON THE LINE OF MARCH ; A WAYSIDE HALT.

The Belgian Army continue! to make general employment o( dog-
teams with their n»chine-(un Kctiont, u in the days before the
war. The doji are bij, sturdy animals, inch as louriit vUlton
to the Belfiui citin (onnetljr uw about the itreett, drawlnf mllk-
cartt *jid imall market vehicles, and to forth. The dogs did good
work during the Belgian campaign in Auguit and September, with

the machine-gun fectioni. They stood Are well, besides being
readily tractable, able to get about over any kind of ground and
showing themtclves capable of enduring fitigue and rough weather.
For thote reasons, the dog-teams are still continued in service. The
present dog-team machine-gun batteries, it may be added, are com-
pletely equipped for hard service. — [Bilgian Official Photograph*.}

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the Thoroughness of British ]Witary

GAS-MASK ROUTE-MARCHING NEAR LONDON: A DETACHMENT IN THE STREETS; PARADED TO START.

,ery Imaginable detail of battlefield training form. part of th. action, and 'practising bayonet-fighting, exactly a. In hand-to-hand

cJurTe oi instruction through which reinforcing draft, and new combat, with dummie. ta all po.tur«, «d at t«nch work M MM

battalion, being prepared in Great Britain .« put, before being th« enemy. Ga»-ma.k route marching, to accustom men to tt

anbarked for their de.tln.tlon. in France and Flander,, or els^ wearing of muk., anofher part of th. traming, *!«!»••

In previou. l»u«, for imt^ce, we have «hown some of Detachments so equipped, looking like Sp.msh Inquisition

at P«ct7« In bomb-throwing with •• K,e " bomb, a, In «. to b. met with round I**».-{J**». by Central

April 4. 1017

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fPart 4,1 1 _
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Soldiers Released bv the Cttar Office for the Land.

HELPING TO FEED THE NATION : CONVALESCENTS PLOUGHING HOSPITAL GROUND ;

The upper illustration show* conralescent soldiers at > certiin
hospital in ont of the Home Countia, lending • hind la the
•uthoritiei In ploughing up • part o( the hoipittl grounds, which
b to be planted for food production. The men, It ii stated, are
exceptionally keen on the work, and quick at letrninf what they
hare to do. In the lower illustration, a party of loldieri from

A FARM PARTY.

eareral regiments, released bjr the War Offlce from military duty
as being used to agricultural labour, for work on the land, are
aeen starting out, spade on shoulder, and marching in military
formation. At thr depot are men who before the war were
carters, ploughmen, etc., and local farmers ha»e only to apply for
theli serTica*.— [Ptolas. by LM.A. and Alfitri.}

Mr F.
"LN.w

THE ILLUSTRATED WAR NEWS.

April 4, 1917

Ht a frencb Hrtitlcry Hmmunition field Dcpdt.

CARRYING SHELLS FORWARD TO THE BATTERIES: 155-MM. PROJECTILES; 220-MM. PROJECTILES.

Everyday work at a French artillery ammunition-depot on the Oin
front, within a short distance of the battle-line, a ihown In the
two illustrations here. In the upper, men of a working - ptrty
are carrying on their shoulders to a battery, i5J-mm., or,
approximately, 6-inch CAlibre shelK These wergh about loo Ib.
apiece. In the lower illustration, another working-party la trans-

porting heerier projectiles on four-handled ammunition-trays, which
two men manage. The shells are for 22o-mm. guns, and each
weighs upwards of 350 Ib. A corduroy road of aapling timber-
trunks leading through the depot is seen in the upper Illustration,
and in the lower, one of the light-railway tracks by means of which
the shells arriro from the munition works.— [French Official Photos.]

April 4. 1917

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rfart 43 ~\,
New Serici J~ 3 3

Greek Irregulars fn the

A SUSPECTED COMITADJE LEADER CAUGHT : MATCHING THROUGH SALONIKA FOR EXAMINATION.

Comiudju it the TurkUh name for the frontier band* of natire
Irregulars, or guerillas, differing lull- in method! from bandits, who,
in the days of the Turkish dominion, iwarmed all over the Balkan
dlatrlcta. During th< war tt,-y hare served u adranced-guard
partiea, according to nationality- Bulgarian, Serbian, Creek coml-
tadjls. The lait have coniutently (tren trouble to the Alliei at

Salonika, and tome imall det«chment«, moitly of French toldien,
have hp-n ambiuhed and masaacred by them in the Monaitir dia-
trict. A recent order from General Sarrail directa that they are to
be lummirily dealt with. The illustration ihowl the leader of a
band which haa flren the British trouble. He ia being inarched
through the streets of Salonika (or examination. — [Official

THE ILLUSTRATED WAR NEWS.

April 4. 1917

WOMEN AND THE WAR.

RAG-PICKING — or, to be strictly accurate, rag-
collecting — hardly seems at first sight to fall
within the definition of war
work. But we have the
authority of Mrs. Tennant,
the Director of the Woman's
Branch of National Service,
that the woman who saves
and organises the collection
of rags in her district is
doing a truly national work.
The activity of the enemy
submarines and the effect
on our wool trade were
referred to last week. The
woman rag-collection organ-
iser is one of the pawns
which Great Britain will
use to defeat the enemy's
game. Briefly, then, it is
the duty of patriotic women
to develop an enthusiasm
for rags of every kind ex-
cept silk ones. Cotton rags,
woollen rags, scraps of
woven material, pdds and
ends of carpets, the remains
of knitted gloves, mufflers,
and socks, and the thousand-
and-one other oddments
that fall within the " rag "
definition, are all wanted by
the Government to help win
the war. All the woollen
goods will be

WOMEN CARPENTERS LEARNING AEROPLANE
CONSTRUCTION: RIPPING DOWN A PLANK.
Willesden Polytechnic has been asked by the Minister
of Munitions to train women to make the woodwork
used In aeroplanes. Mr. Ayres, the instructor, Is
here shown superintending the ripping-down of a

plank.
I'liolograph by Sport and General.

sent to the
North, where
factories for
turning them
into useful
material
again existed
long before
anyone ever
thought ol
the war.
When the re-
storation pro-
cess has been
completed,
they will be
sold to manu-
facturers to
be tu rned
into clothing
for the Army.

war work. Those who want to assist can do it
by setting to work at once to collect scraps, or
by volunteering to work
as canvassers in different
London districts and so
rousing the interest of
householders in the rag-
raising scheme. The idea
is that the rags should be
gathered regularly every
month and taken to a dis-
trict depot, whence, after a
professional rag-sorter has
dealt with them, they will be
despatched to their right
destination. By the way,
anyone who wants to be
a rag-collection canvasser
must apply to the St.
Ermin's Hotel.

The appeal for women
recruits to help in work con-
nected with the Flying
Corps which Lord Derby
made at the Women's
Meeting at the Albert Hall
is already bearing fruit, and
the Selection Committees of
the Women's National Ser-
vice have been busy dealing
with applications . The w ork
to be done is connected
with the manufacture of
aeroplanes,

and some of
it is of a
skilled nature.
To mention
only two of
the jobs that
want filling —
women are
required as
sand - blasters
and fitters'
mates, and
those who are
well educated
and intelli-
gent are espe-
cially asked
to volunteer.

The scheme
for the em-
ployment of
women in
France is

simple, and quite within the scope of those who, completed, and at a training centre 7n° London

causes, are each woman will receive three weeks' training,
together with elementary instruction in hygiene

[Ct'tttinrttJ evtfllff.

The way
in which to
help is quite

WOMEN CARPENTERS LEARNING AEROPLANE CONSTRUCTION:

IN THE WORKSHOP AT WILLESDEN.

A general view is here given of ladles at work, by desire of the Minister of Munitions,
at Willesden Polytechnic, under Mr. Ayres, the instructor. After a short course, they are
sent to the factories.— iPttotograpk by Sport and Central.]

on account of home ties or other

prevented from taking a more active share in

April 4. 1817.

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r Part 43 "I ,

[.New btticsj"*

(domcn Cdar-Cdorhers At ftlcrh and play.

ON AND OFF DUTY : SOCIETY LADIES AND A WOUNDED ANZAC DAIRYING ; MUNITIONERS AT PLAY.

Two well-known Society ladles, MlM Erica Muir snd Miss Victoria
Lemon-Cower (reading from Wt to right), are s«n here, <t work
they hare taken up to release mate bands for the colours, as
dairymiidi on the Royal Farms at Windsor. Workint with
them, and shown in the upper photograph as assisting In turning
oraf straw for cattle-beddinc, Is an Australian soldier, P. Sankup,

diachaiged from actiTa serrice by reason of his wounds alter being
In actinn with the Aruacs at Callipoli and also In France. In the
lowrr illustration a woman munition-workers' footbsll team, from
the fuse-making department of a munitions factory, is shown In
a match with a team from another department, the " Mechanicals." —
[Pkolograp/a by S. and G. and tUuslntiotu liitraui.]

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April 4, 1917

and discipline. About 5000 women will be em-
ployed, and will be sent out in batches of 200.

The Women's Land Army too, upon whose
exertions much of our food supply will depend, is
being rapidly mobilised, and centres at which they
can train for their work have already
been opened. The need for their ser-
vices is so urgent that the scheme
includes the establishment of several
hundred such centres all over the
country, so that as soon as the women
volunteer they can enrol for the neces-
sary training without waste of time.
Patriotic people in different districts
have come forward and placed their
houses, gardens, and lands at the
disposal of the authorities as centres
of instruction. At some of them the
rank and file will be taught the ele-
ments of land work. Others will be
used as training-schools for educated
women who will later be put in
charge of the companies who will be
sent to work on the different farms.
The training is provided free, and,
as I said last week, a uniform of
breeches, overalls, and boots will be
provided. There is just one thing to
remember, though — land work is only
suitable for those who are thoroughly
fit physically, and the dilettante
" out " for a little mild gardening
and exercise will save herself quite a lot of dis-
appointment if she refrains from offering her
services as a land worker. The Bible tells us

war and an offering of consolation to those
who have given so much in the splendid
defence of their country," the Women's Scien-
tific Co-operative Holdings Farm for Disabled
Soldiers and Sailors has been started, under
the patronage of Sir Frederick Milner. The

WOUNDED SOLDIERS LEARN SHORTHAND: A SCENE

AT KITCHENER HOUSE.

Wounded men of Kitchener's Army, who are convalescent, are being taught

shorthand at the new club just opened in London for men able to take up

light occuoations. Our photograph shows two of them receiving Instruction.

PhotognpK by L.N.A.

object of the movement is, by voluntary sub-
scriptions and other means, to provide some of
our disabled men with the means of obtain-
ing a home.

THE AMAZONS OF TO-DAY: LADIES WHO ARE MEMBERS

OF THE ARMY SERVICE CORPS.

In the multifarious duties of the A.S.C. there is scope for workers of all kinds,
and these ladies, seen in their becoming uniforms, do all sorts of useful work In
the garages, as well a» driving motors for military purposes.— [Photograph by C.N.]

wants further information should write to Miss
Violet Bertram, Hon. Secretary, Agricultural and
Horticultural Section, Lyceum Club, 128, Pic-

The idea is to acquire a suitable
farm, and than found a colony of men
who will till and own a corner of the
land they have fought to defend.
The men will be " settled " with their
families, and encouraged, under the
guidance of skilled people, to take
up dairy work, poultry-keeping, pig-
keeping, and other small branches of
" modern scientific husbandry," with
the object of making the scheme a
commercial success. A suitable farm
has been found at Sutton Valence,
not far from Maidstone, and the pro-
moters are of opinion that " one such
self-owned, intensively worked co-
operative farm established in a dras-
tically economical way (to avoid lay-
ing heavy financial burdens on the
settlers) will provide an object-lesson
and nucleus of great value to all
small agriculturists, men or women,
and a practical demonstration to their
children of the way to attain to a
living on the land." Anyone who

something about turning swords into ploughshares
and spears into pruning-hooks, but it has been
left to women to start the business in the middle
of the greatest war the world has ever known.
As " a memorial to those who have fallen in the

cadilly, W., who is responsible for originating
the scheme. CLAUDINE CLEVE.

April 4. 1917

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|_Ne» Kerie*J~3

In the Recaptured Villages of france.

OUR SOLDIERS AMONG THE CHILDREN : THE TREAT THE YOUNGSTERS LIKE BEST- BICYCLE RIDING.

Our soldiers and sailors have always made themselves prime recaptured villages on the Somme and Ancre, whenever opportunity

favourites with children, alike at home stations in England and in oners, the soldiers as much as anything, perhaps, out of sympathy

garrison all over the world. They speedily made themselves wit*, and to make up for what the French children have had to

favourites with the French children of the villages and towns in the undergo while the Germans occupied their homes— are ever ready

early days of the original British Expeditionary Force, now upwards to show every kindness to the youngsters, who appreciate our men's

of two years and three-quarters ago. At the present time, in the treatment.— [Official Photographs.]

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April 4, 1917

By W. DOUGLAS NEWTON.

THE CHANCES OF OFFENSIVES AGAINST ITALY AND RUSSIA-DESPERAJE TURKEY.

THEORISTS of the " impending Hindenburg
stroke " dogma have been veering con-
siderably. The idea that it is to be launched
against the Allies in the West is now not so
frequently advanced, for both Italy and Russia
are being suggested as likely objectives. In
support of those prophesying a big offensive
against thr Italians there have come many reports
of troop movements anil the concentration of men
and guns on the Austrian line ; while, as hint of

Russia, perhaps, is a more reasonable objective
for Hindenburg. The German leader's mind is
obsessed by Russia, the whole of his military
theory and practice has been bound up with
Russia, and at the present moment Russia may
suggest itself to Germany as a most amenable prey.
The Germans may feel that the Revolution has
weakened Russia's power for direct and coherent
action, and that a nation swayed by conflicting,
purposes might give her her opportunity. More,

J

TORPEDOED WITHOUT WARNING AT NIGHT, ALTHOUGH SHOWING ALL LIGHTS AND THE RED CROSS BADGE

BRIGHTLY ILLUMINATED : THE BRITISH HOSPITAL-SHIP " ASTURIAS."

Fortunately, the "S.O.S." signals of the "Asturias" brought speedy help, and between 300 and 400 of tho^e on board were rescued.
Only a short time before the " Asturias " had landed ooo wounded. According to official statements, 43 lives were lost, including a staff
nirrse and a stewardess, and 39 persons were injured. The question of reprisals is stated to be under consideration by the authorities.

Photograph Illustrations Bureau.

than that, a successful march on Petrograd might
be a stroke of enormous psychological success —
might restore the power of the deposed regime,
and swing the whole country to Germany's side
at a blow. These are likely considerations, and
may supply the reason for the accumulation of
Divisions noted before the Russians on the Dvinsk
line, as well as for the spirited fighting that has
been going on at the Russian centre in the
Baranovitchi area. As far as the spirit of Russia
goes, there is not very much to favour plans
founded on Russia's unreadiness. Where it has
changed the firing-line at all, the Revolution has

Lfmlinufif overleaf.

future activity, there has been a certain briskening
up in the fighting. This, however, is merely local
and minor in nature so far, and, though the
Austrians have] been able to take a little ground
on the edge of the Carso, there has happened
nothing to suggest action which Italy cannot
easily counter. As a possible victim to Hinden-
burg, Italy does not seem to help Germany far
on the road to peace, save as territory to bargain
with. On the other hand, Italy has not merely a
pretty tough army, it has an army made formid-
able by fairly consistent success. The conquest
would not present an easily workable problem.

April 4. 1917

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r Part M "1 — 3
L New Series J J

In the Recaptured Villages of f ranee.

HELPING INHABITANTS : A BRITISH MOTOR-CAR PARTY WITH FOOD ; SOLDIERS AND PROTEG&S.

The upper illustration shows an incident which has probably been
repeated over and over again in the villages within the districts
won back for France by the British advance, during the last eight
weeks. A British motor-car party is seen in one of the villages
distributing food to the starving peoplr of the place. The Germans,
as correspondents have told, not only sacked and burned down the

dwellings of the inhabitants who had provided them with comfortable
billets for months past, but also deliberately destroyed the people's
stocks of provisions. In addition, they even cut down, or killed,
by ''ringing " the bark with slashes, the fruit trees of the gardens*
The lower illustration shows French village children being amused
bf our men rtund a camp fire in a strert.— [Official Photographs.]

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THE ILLUSTRATED WAR NEWS.

April 4, 1917

certainly changed it for the better. A greater
confidence and unity is manifest, and the armic

Persian as well as the Armenian border, and fall
back to a new system of resistance ba«ed on
It cannot, by the way, be at all gratify-

cities. The Revolu-
tion, indeed, should
prove but an accession
of strength in arms.
Curiously enough, in
(iermany itself there
is a very considerable
feeling of sympathy
for the Russian. Revo-
lutionists, a feeling un-
derstandable enough :
both countries suffered
from the same
burden — though only
Russia has had the
spirit to depose it.

The Russians, though
they have met minor
checks on the Rou-
manian as well as on
their main front, have
had steady success in
Asia. The Turkish de-
fence in Persia has

CRESCENT, STAR, AND TRICOLOUR: A SPAHI STANDARD-BEARER WITH HIS ATTENDANT

"GARDES DE DRAPEAU."

the Tenei The picked Spahi troopers of the flag escort, in keeping with tradition, wear their hair long, coming

2;10r -rail- down m Jo their shouMers._to//ii:«a Photograph.)

Baghdad road into the

arms of the British, who still advance. Further their Ally, Germany, has left them in the lurch,
to the north the Russians, too, are again In a military sense they have now to fend tot
ieopardising the Turkish rear, for they are themselves, and even in feelers for peace they

seem to be left out
altogether. The Ger-
mans seem willing
enough to sacrifice
Armenia and Meso-
potamia, and it is
rumoured that they are
not unwilling to come
to some understanding
over Constantinople.

From America there
come signs that the
feelingforwar is stiffen-
ing. Its inevitability
is openly admitted, and
both by word and act
the Americans seem
preparing to take their
part on the side of the
Allies. Already fairly
authoritative schemes
for helping are being
put forward, the most
popular suggestions
being a huge loan to
the Allies, the patrol-
ling of the seas, the

FOR ITALY'S NAVAL WORK IN THE ADRIATIC : INNER FRAMEWORK OF TWO
SUBMARINE MINE-LAYERS UNDER CONSTRUCTION.

advancing from Van towards Mosul. With the
ring closing so tightly, the Turks may be forced
to relinquish the whole of Mesopotamia, and the

use of the American Navy for transport work,
and the supply of foodstuffs, munitions, and

the like. LONDON : MARCH 31, 1017

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The Illustrated War News. April 11. 1917.— Part 44, New Series.

ClK Illustrated War

AMERICA'S FLEET: ONE OF THE MOST POWERFUL SHIPS— THE SUPER-DREADNOUGHT "NEVADA."

Photozraplt by S. and G.

H.

• jr II
New Sene» |

THE ILLUSTRATED WAR NEWS.

April 11. 1917

By W. DOUGLAS NEWTON.

IS THERE A. LINE ?— THE VALUE OF CAMBRAI -THE BRITISH THREAT.

THERE are the elements of tragedy for railway above it, and, in conjunction with the
< K-nnunv in this week's news: the " Hin- French, brought the right flank of our attack

denburg line " is beginning to go. I do not mean
that " all is lost " for Germany in the West. I
do not mean that the Allied assault is shattering
or even damaging this

now famous front of ^^^^^^^^^^^^^—
delence — and, indeed, I
do not know whether
the Allied advance
guards have found the
fabulous thing. All I
mean is that our ex-
pert war commentators
aie beginning to pooh-
pooh the whole idea.
Woe to the idols of the
populace ! Last week
we were bowing in sim-
ple veneration before
" the line " ; this week
we are saying rather
loftily, " Is there really
such a thing ? " Hin-
denburg, as usual,
remains distractingly
dumb.

Doubt as to the
infallibility of Hinden-
burg came on the heels
of the advance that
swept us through Savy
and its woods, and by — and over — the villages
and rolling land that should have guarded
St. Quentin. The free movement of the British
that brought them on to the defences of the
town by Salency, helped them cut the Cambrai

U.S. LINESMEN READY FOR ACTION IN AIR AND ON

LAND : A SECTION AT FIRING EXERCISE IN BATTLE

FORMATION, AND AN AMERICAN ANTI-AIRCRAFT GUN

OF THE NEWEST TYPE. - [Photograph by C.N.]

right

round under it, suggested to us that any scheme

of defence pivoting on St. Quentin must be in

danger, it it was riot already crumpled and lost ;

while the success of the

HHMMMMMMBB French north of Soissons
in their advance against
the strong ground of
the St. Gobain Forest
seemed to bear out this
idea. It seemed impos-
sible that the Germans
could have planned any
system of defence that
did not take in the high
and advantageous coun-
try of the Aisne in the
La Fere and Laon area,
and yet the French had
carried their vigorous
attacks so far forward
that they had driven
dangerous wedges into
this particular front,
and were showing that
they might be able to
outflank the Aisne line
and threaten La Fere
and Laon — even as the
joint forces of the Allies
were threatening St.
Quentin. Moreover, the advance which had given
the French their successes between the Oise and
the Aisne had been attained only after very heavy
righting, fighting in which artillery work had
made its reappearance in battle ; while our own

ONE OF THE SPECIAL FIELD ORGANISATIONS OF THE UNITED STATES ARMY: AN AMERICAN MOUNTED
MACHINE-GUN CORPS AT DRILL-GALLOPING FORWARD.-^o/ogn** by Underwood and

April 11. 1917

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f Part 44 -| _

[New Series J~*

advance upon St. Quentin had met with similar
opposition, not merely in defence, but in counter-
attack. Indeed, on the whole of this front,\vhich
had latterly been fluid, the Germans were deploy-
ing their men in great force and contesting ground
in a manner suggesting intentions more serious
than mere attempts to hold us up with rear-
guards. This stiffening of front, together with
the attack (ob-
viously meant
to relieve pres-
sure) launched
by the Ger-
mans in Cham-
pagne, seemed
to convince us
that at last we
were in contact
with the enig-
matical " line."
All the same,
the French and
the British
made their de-
finite progress,
and this pro-
gress was such
as to make the
experts con-
sider that the
value of the
" line " had
been impaired

beyond safety. Hence the rather querulous
doubt if Hindenburg had an old line, after all.

This new state of affairs opens up an interesting
situation, and we can examine the field of the
West with new
excitement.
We can look
at it in several
ways. We can
feel that the
line is turned,
and that Hin-
denburg, de-
prived of his
hold, will now
have to fight a
rather desper-
ate retreat
back to some
new line, either
between him-
self and the
frontier or at
the frontier.
Or we can fee!
that Hinden-
burg was really

LINERS: NEW YORK POLICE GUARDING THE SS. "HAMBURG."

PRESIDENT WILSON'S PRONOUNCEMENT FOR WAR WITH GERMANY : IN THE

STOKEHOLD OF THE U.S. BATTLE-SHIP " MISSISSIPPI " -A 13,000-TON PRE-

DREADNOUGHT.— [Photograph by Underwood and Underwood.]

our ideas about a " line " may have been pie-
mature. We may' have been wrong in fixing the
new front Arras-Cambrai-St. Quentin-Laon, since
the defensive system must be further back, and
we must yet wait developments before we can
decide if the " line " is broken, or if the " line " is
yet to be reached and held. Each of these view-
points has much to be said in its support, and

we can hold
to them or re-
ject them as
we like. It
may be, even,
that there is
something of
the truth in
even' one of
them.

The main
error in fixing
any definite
front — that is,
from an on-
looker's point
of view — is
that our minds
have a tend-
ency to be
hypnotised by
points that
suggest to us
great rallying
centres. We

Photograph by S. and G.

AN AMERICAN PRECAUTION AGAINST ENEMY DAMAGE TO INTERNED GERMAN

and truly

forced out of

the Bapaume-

PeYonne line by our pressure, and is now

going back, hoping to find some front in the

process of retreat that will enable him to stand

and thrust us off. Or we may feel that perhaps

talk of Cambrai, St. Quentin, and I.aon as bas-
tions in any scheme of defence, Localise they
are great rail and road centres, and have all the
qualities required in nodal poinls. Perhaps, how-
ever, we are a
little too prone
to concentrate
on these nodal
points. It
seems to me,
even, that we
might be
making too
much of them,
especially of
such points as
St. Quentin
and Laon.

I mean, we
have been too
ready to as-
sume that
these towns
must be em-
bodied in any
line of defence,
since they are
indubitably
towns of first
importance in

communication and supply. But this does not
follow at all. In this present war it has some-
times been wise (as it has sometimes been neces-
sary) to give up big junction towns in order

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April 11. 1917

to present :i firm and defensible line to the enemy.
Main-line railways are vital, but field-railways can
do wonders at a pinch, and many fronts, cut off
from theii depots, have yet held strongly — in a
sense, the original German front on the Somme
was an example of this ; PeVonne was the im-
portant railway town, but the vital towns (Douai,
Cnmbrai, and St. Quentin) were fai removed.

AMERICA ON GUARD AGAINST GERMAN OUTRAGES :

A U.S. NAVAL MILITIA SENTRY ON DUTY AT BROOKLYN

BRIDGE— [Photograph by C.N.]

Thus, it seems to me that perhaps we might be
paying too much attention to St. Quentin and
Laon for merits for which thev are no longer
important— that is, we have made up our minds
that the enemy feels himself bound to hold them,
while his intentions might just as well have been
to let them go. I am offering this as a speculation
rather than a dogma, but it seems to me as feasible
as any other theory. The Germans may have
formed a plan that will give them a position
behind St. Quentin and Laon, and perhaps some
of the ^apidity of our advance on this flank owes
itself to this fact.

In support of this theory, I would suggest that
if the Germans planned a Hne Cambrai-St. Quentin-
Laon-Aisne, they planned a line that projected a
salient at St. Quentin — that is, on that plan their
line would not appear to be firm and straight, but
bulging and dangerous. If, on the other hand,
they had resolved to set a front fi . ther back, they
would have to give up some useful depot centres,
defences, and strong ground, but they would have
a line more workable and rigid, which at the same
time would not labour under very great de-
ficiences in the matter of supply. For behind this
line is the railway at Guise, and the Laon-Hirson
main line, as well as the Me"zieres-Rethel main line,
which form natural arteries for communications.
Indeed, to whatever distance they swing this left
wing of theirs, they will always be retreating along

great railways. T would therefore suggest that
some front aligning roughly Cambrai-Guise-Aisne
might just as reasonably be the fabulous " line "
as any other. That, whatever swinging the line
will accomplish, Cambrai will be the hinge, the
situation and the fighting seem to bear out.
The Arras-Cambrai front has shown itself ex-
ceedingly stubborn, and though we have made
our advances — rather brilliant advances too — they
have had to be made in the face of stiff resistance
and many counter-attacks. The reason for this
is not unconnected with the bad state of the
ground begot of our shelling (the guns and the
supply roads have to go over a veritable morass).
But that the Germans have a very full appreciation
of the value of this line is a very definite reason
also. In a material sense, the Arras-Cambrai line
protects Douai, and the whole of the rich industrial
country below Lille. In another sense, the line
holds in its keeping the safety of the Northern
German front — let us get beyond Cambrai and we
are dangerously across the flank of the Lens-Ypres
line, with the front curved back badly to defend
it. In the final sense, however, the Arras-
Cambrai line must be the pivotal upon which all
the movements of Hindenburg's left flank depend.
We have only to look at the map to see how
drastically the German front would be thrown out
if we forced our way through. We can see how
the German left would have to hurry to escape

INFANTRY TYPES OF THE REGULAR ARMY OF THE

UNITED STATES : A SENTRY BEING RELIEVED.

Photograph by Underwood and Utiderwood.

outflanking, and how supply and concentration
might be numbed. Whether they will be able to
cling to it is another matter. It may be that
the steady and relentless advance of the British
beyond Bapaume will be the factor to change

the whole situation. LONDON: APRIL 7, ,0.7.

April 11. 1917

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I New Scries J~ 5

up the enemy

r ADVANCE : R.E. ROAD REMAKING , A LABOUR BATTALION BRIDGING AN ENEMY TRENCH

loyal Enrmeeri. inf.mrr k.».i:«_ t;-. ...,._ tftmmtfO,

Royal Engineer., infantry battalion worklng-partie. of plonee-.

Battalion men, .re keeping p.cf with the onsw«p of our'

t«king .rrnjr. Blown-up r«<l. .re b,lnr r,p.ired, clf.red, Md

Jne-cr.ten filled up or bridged, or turned by side ro«dj

e witnes. to the work of the ro»d-reconitruetion Corp. i, the

Idity w,th which the .dnnce „ being ,UWe«fullT continued

without the .Uckenlng on which, from .11 account., the enemy hid

confidently counted. Men of the R.E. .r. «,„ in the upper illu*.

trat,on reUyln, a dejtroyod road with pick ,nd ,ho«J ,nd barrow.

illurtr.tion .how. Labour Battalion men, helmeted

gairut shrapnel, bridging a German trench. To the left U Men

the head of a traiuport column.— [OJficial

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O ^Nttw S«n«*J

.

•-

THE ENEMY'S ATTEMPTS TO BAR THE APPROACHES TO THE " HINDENBURG

Theie illustrations make one wonder more than ever at the rapidity with which the Bnt.sh Army m the St. Quentmjb

'tted orward over the country across which the Germans were driven during March. Our unresting advance may
Ft £m. to have done, have ioiled the enemy's design of establishing himself on the » Hindenburg Line before

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i the Heels of the Retreating Germane,

OCKED BV FELLED TREES , A ROAD BLOCKED BY A

«^"S"<,]— THE ILLUSTRATED WAR NEWS. AprO II. 1917.

The British (Ocetern front Hdvance : follow

WHY THE GERMANS RETREATED "ACCORDING TO PLAN"; AND THEIR

Br. w»y of «*P"inine away .</•" «h*'f °*n P«ple and neutrals) their hasty evacuations f fortified positions, th- Germans I
out that thr.r retreat was "only ..cording to p].,." They would thus "shorten the line" and prefer, I reinforced
on new option* It wa, not suggested that the Allies would correspondingly shorten their line of attack Ind

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in the Heels of the Re treating Germans,

I

DIARISM : A BOMBARDED TRENCH-LINE ; A VILLAGE THE GERMANS BLEW UP.

T masses into action. The real reason of the enemy's evacuations is shown in the upper illustration. In the (ace of
terrific bombardment, continued holding i>f the attacked positions was impossible. In the lower illustration an instance is
- of the wanton barbarity 01 the retreating enemy— the ruins of a village, deliberately destroyed before retiring.— [O^kwJ Photos.}

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April II.

THE BEGINNINGS OF WAR - MACHINES : BREECH-LOADING CANNON.

BREECH-LOADING cannon -of a crude type
were used at a very early period, but the
difficulties of providing a gas-tight breech action
led to the adoption of muzzle-loaders. The
breech-loading cannon of the fourteenth century
(shown in Fig. 9) consisted of a barrel (A), open
at both ends and fixed on a cradle, having an
abutment at its after end, clear of the barrel.
After the charge had been in-
serted, a breech-block (B) was
placed in the space between the
barrel and the abutment, and
kept in position by means of a
wedge (C) for firing. As guns
increased in size and power, the
weakness of the breech mechan-
ism— if one may use the term —
became so serious that the
breech opening was discarded.
So matters continued until the
middle of the nineteenth cen-
tury. The difficulties experienced
in finding a reliable breech-
loader caused the British naval
authorities to retain the muzzle-loader until about
1880. Then, however, the impossibility of run-
ning in, for loading at the muzzle, a gun with a
barrel long enough to get full power out of
modern propellants, led to the adoption of the
breech-loader by us. Other navies had adopted
it, but our retaining the muzzle-loader proved,
as it happened, an advantage. It placed the ex-
perience of other nations at our disposal, and
consequently the Brit-
ish naval breech-loader
started with advan-
tages. At the same time,
our delay in adopting a
breech-loading system
might have been a costly
matter had we become
involved in war whilst
still relying on muzzle-
loaders.

Modern breech-blocks
are usually operated
either by a wedge or
screw in some form or
other. Some of them
combine the two sys-
tems. The wedge system is the older, and is still
employed in the Krupp field-guns. The screw
type is in general use in the British Services.

In the Wahrendorf breech action, invented in
1846 (Fig. i), a cylindrical breech-block is inserted
behind the charge, and a transverse bolt passed
through it and the body of the gun. The whole
mechanism is firmly secured by a wing-nut on an
extension of the breech-block to the rear.

The Armstrong no-pounder (shown in Fig. 3)
is another example of a wedge action combined

F1C. 10.— BREECH-END OF AN EARLY
PATTERN ARMSTRONG 40-POUNDER.

FIG. 9. -THE EARLIEST BREECH -LOADING
METHOD.

with a screw for security. In this case a rect-
angular mortice is cut vertically through the
body of the gun, into which is inserted a breech-
block, provided with a touch-hole. That is
done after the charge has been passed into the
gun from the rear, through a hole in the breech
screw, which forces the block forward against
the rear end of the powder-chamber when the
gun is closed and ready for
firing. Tn order to loosen the
screw for re-loading, a double-
ended handle, or lever, is
mounted loosely on a shaft
concentric with the bore of the
gun. It is provided with pro-
jections which are brought in
contact with similar projections
on the screw-head, considerable
rotary movement on the lever
being obtainable before contact
is made. By this means the
weight of the lever can be used
to give the screw a series of
blows, if such be needed, to start
it. Fig. 10 shows the breech end and closing bar
of an Armstrong 4O-poundsr position-gun.

Fig. 4 shows an American example of the
" Interrupted screw " block. In this case the
block is pushed forward until it is almost " home."
and then given about one-eighth of a turn, during
which the screw-threads engage and quickly
tighten up the action.

This is the simplest form of Interrupted screw
block, a system which,
in conjunction with
more complicated de-
tails, is generally used
in our modern field
and naval guns.

We have an example
of a quickly operated
screw block in Blakey's
breech-loader (Fig. 5)
In this case the opera-
tion is not quite so
rapid as with an inter-
rupted screw, because
the block has to be
completely rotated a
sufficient number of
times for the threads on the taper-screws to clear
one another and enable the block to be shifted
bodily sufficiently far back to admit the charge.
A parallel guide-bar, or slide, below " centres "
the block, so as to engage the threads instantly
when closing.

Fig. 5 shows an early Krupp action breech
block. In this case there is a similar action to
the Armstrong type described in Fig. 3. It M,
however, a wedge-action pure and simple, no
centre screw being used. ic.«/m««/ ,ff,su,.

April 11. 1017

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TThc Beginnings of SZar-JMacbines : Breech-loading Cannon.

.HOKJZONTVM- 60L.T

— = _

THE WAHRENDORF

BREECH .LOADING GUN. c

ARMSTRONG BREECH -LOADING
EO-PDR. GUIS

ARMSTRONG B. L. HO PDR GUN

SHOWN PARTLY IN SECTION

SHOWING PLUG SCREWED UP

CA.STM ANN'S
BREECH .LOADER

POSITION AFTER TWO OR THREE TURNS

FOR WITHDRAWAL. ALONG THE SLIDE.

BLAKEVS BREECH-LOADER.

Pi-AN OF AN EARLY
WHITWORTH B.L. GUN.

SHOWING
SLIDING -BLOCK
BREECH OF AN EARLY KRUPP IIO PDR

8 "^(OW* -'— -'• I ^

/HIT WORTH '
1UZZLET AND
BREECH LOADING GUN

MODERN BREECH-LOADING

SYSTEMS : DEVELOPMENTS

The taper ol the wedge Ii to (light that the block retains it»
poeition when the weapon ii fired. The movement of a tide-lever,
pivoted on the wedge, forcet the latter to ttart by pressure of lot
abort end on the gun-body u a fulcrum. The Whitworth gun,
thown In Fig.. 7 and 8, hat a breech-block which swings out on
a hinge, and is secured by a tcrew when cloaed. Thi» gun, an

DURING THE PAST SEVENTY YEARS.

Bo-pounder, ii intereetlng In that It could be used either u •
breech-loader or ai a muzzle-loader, owing to the (pecial syitem of
rifling uied. The breech actioni of to-day are moatly deTelopmenti
of one or other of the derices above described, which were among
the first moderately luccenful attempta at dealing with this
development.

[N£"S.MC,]-THE ILLUSTRATED WAR NEWS, Anril U. 1917.

British iHeetern front Hdvancc : f ollowi

£
.•**l

VANDALISM OR A LEGITIMATE ACT OF WAR? A HOUSE

'"at^r^tt^ !~ »<«• ^e officia, c.pUo,

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* l_New Scries / * 3

n_tbe_Bcd8_ofb« Retreartng

'which retre.tin? partiei can dr.w off unobserved
here nearly burned down, m.y have be*n done
• leg.Um.te artifice of warf.r..I[0^i,,, £"0™p™

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April 11, 1917

ROMANCES OF THE REGIMENTS : XLIV.-THE 35TH NATIVE INFANTRY.

COLONEL SEATON1S ORDEAL.

" T OOK out, Sir, I saw that Sepoy loading his
J— ' musket ! "

Colonel Seaton (afterwards Major-General Sir
Thomas Seaton) heard the warning with curious
feelings, considering the mission upon which he
was engaged. He had just left his own regiment,
the 35th N.I., at Sealkot, and had come to Umballa
to take temporary command of the 6oth Native
Infantry. The task was anything but pleasant,
for the date was May 15, 1857 ; the dismal affair
at Meerut was only five days old, and the ooth
Sepoys had given unmistakable signs where their
sympathies lay. It was well understood that on
the previous Sunday they had been ready to
massacre the British residents during Divine
service. It was hoped, however, that the tact

But the authorities suddenly changed their
mind. Just as the men were parading, orders
came that they should march to take part in the
siege of Delhi, so that they might have a chance
to retrieve their character ! This monstrous folly
sickened and disgusted Seaton, but he had to
make the best of it. He paraded the Sepoys; and
swore them anew to fidelity to the Government.
It was an empty ceremony, but it kept the
regiment quiet for a few days longer. On the
2ist they set out for the Mogul capital.

On the 24th they halted at Kurnaul. Next
day came the astounding order to march to
Rohtuk, to intercept the Hurrianah Light Infantry,
already in open mutiny and guilty of abominable
atrocities. To hurl the restless 6oth into the arms

A GERMAN ENDEAVOUR TO DELAY OUR ADVANCE MADE INEFFECTIVE: TRANSPORT - WAGONS CROSSING
A ROAD MINE-CRATER FILLED IN AND RENDERED PASSABLE: THE WORKING- PARTY LOOKING ON.

Photograph ly S. and G.

of the Colonel of the 35th would yet win the 6oth
back to loyalty.

Colonel Seaton, who had arrived the night
before, had just breakfasted, and was standing on
the verandah of the Travellers' Bungalow, when a
passer-by shouted to him to take care. He put
up his field-glasses, and saw that the Sepoy
belonged to the disaffected corps. He at once
drove to the Adjutant's quarters, took over com-
mand, and had the newly relieved guards paraded.
He addressed the men, told them the reason for
the inspection, and said he was glad to find the
sentry in question had been calumniated.

But Seaton in his heart knew otherwise, and
next day he advised that the 6oth be disarmed.

of such a mob was little else than a death-sentence
to the gallant Colonel of the 35th and the British
officers under his temporary command.

During a halt, a young Sepoy of the Grenadier
company became very insolent to his Captain.
Seaton overheard the altercation, and, going up
to the man, looked at him sternly and asked
if he knew what he was about. The native put
up his hands and fell in humbly enough. Later
in the day, the Colonel sent for him and questioned
him about his conduct.

" Sahib," he replied, " I committed a great
fault. I have repented. Forgive me."

" You ought not to have committed it. The
Commander-in-Chief has been very good to this

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regiment. Instead of punishing you all for your
misconduct and mutiny at Umballa, he freely
pardoned you. He took me from my own regi-
ment and sant me to this, that I might be kind to
you and warn you against further error."

Again the Sepoy protested his contrition and
begged forgiveness, which Seaton granted.

The miseries of the march increased, and the
Colonel, spent with lack of sleep, had to dismount
and walk in order
to keep himself
awake. Then, dur-
ing a morning
halt at a well,
another small
incident occurred.
A Sepoy saluted,
and rather disre-
spectfully asked
leave to stay be-
hind, as his lotah
(brass pot) had
fallen into the
well.

Stragglers had
recently been mur-
dered by the sur-
rounding villagers,
and the request
was otherwise pre-
posterous. Sea-
ton, however.dealt
subtly.

" What is the price of your lotah ? " he asked.
" A rupee and a half, Sahib."
" Well,, 1 '11 give you a new lotah. A lotah is
nothing to me, but a Sepoy's life is a great deal."
The man's manner changed. He snapped his
fingers to his comrades and cried cheerily, " Come
on, brothers ; you hear what the Colonel Sahib
says — fall in quickly

The column moved, and the same day reached
Rohtuk, to find that the mutinous Hurrianah
regiment had just passed through in desperate

POST OFFICE DEPARTMENTAL WORK IN THE FIELD: AN ANZAC

SOLDIER HAVING A LETTER REGISTERED AT A HEADQUARTERS

OFFICE.— [A uftralian Official Photograph .]

haste, heading for Delhi to join the rebels. Seaton,
finding it impossible to get accurate news, wrote
for instructions.

It was the hour when the Colonel usually visited
the field hospital. He therefore strolled quietly
out and bade the Adjutant send the drummers to
meet him, as it were casually. The troops paraded
as usual. Assembling the native officers and
N.C.O.s a little apart from the ranks, the Colonel

taxed them \vith
their treachery.
They denied it
stoutly, and swore
by all their gods
that they would
be faithful to their
salt. The native
officers begged to
select a guard for
the night. Seaton
agreed to the dan-
gerous experiment.
The guard
chosen was satis-
factory, to all
appearance, and
two more days
passed so quietly
that the C.O. be-
gan to hope that
all might yet be
well ; but one
evening the young
Sepoy whom he had reproved and forgiven, bent
low and whispered, " Colonel Sahib, when your
Highness's people have regained the Empire, I
will make my petition to your Highness."

Seaton understood and prepared for the worst.
It came suddenly at 4 p.m. on June 10. The
Grenadier Company, accoutred, rushed out and
began to shoot at their officers. By adroitness, cool-
ness, and hard riding, Seaton and his colleagues got
away and reached the forces before Delhi in safety,
but ragged, spent, and destitute of everything.

AFTER THE CAPTURE OF BAPAUME : WORKING • PARTIES TO FILL UP SHELL-HOLES IN THE ROADWAY
AND CL1 ' R THE STREET? OF MASONRY DEBRIS, PASSING THROUGH THE TOWN.— [Australian Offichl Ptwlograp* .]

April 11, 1917

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f Pan 44 "I , ,
'.New Series J~ * «

Che British Western front Hdvance : TTo hamper pursuit.

RAILWAY LINE DAMAGE : THE PERMANENT WAY DESTROYED ; WRECKAGE AT A BLOWN-UP VIADUCT.

Immediately the enemy began to fall back, operations to retard bent and twisted out of shape, bonfires were made of the sleepers ; the

.t were started under cover of the German rearguards. In embankment culverts and viaducts were blown up. Even the

t,on to brut.liy firing villaje houses and exploding mines along ballast in place, was dug up. Sometimes, as the upper illustration

,d at crov, roads particularly, the railway Imes leading show., tel^raph posts were left standing, it may be w-th the idea

n of tr.e Allied advance were destroyed wholeule. of misleading the advancing troops as to poMlbilitie.- nl utilising the

i" permanent way wa. pulled up, the rail, were carried off or lines- until they reached the place.-; aifUul- I'Mo^afk, ]

1 <• -[N.'J'st'rttt]— THE ILLUSTRATED WAR NEWS. April II. 1917.

British Qlcstcrn front Hdvancc: follow

THE CAVALRY <V-T THEIR CHANCE TO TAKE THE

Already, oh the Western Front our c«valry, both British and Indian, have ha. opportunities of getting K Hose quarters with
Germans. As soon as the capture o( the Bapaume Ridge and Peronue disclosed open ground bey.md, cavalry, both
regiments, were launched in pursuit, to keep touch with the retreating army. At several points, regiment!

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»n the fieele of the Retreating Germane.

RECONNAISSANCE IN FORCE.
•w German rear-guard attempted to hold the cavalry back, resulting in sharp actions and cavalry charges, which captured a
t prisoners, who surrendered. In one village fight the enemy— infantry— after trying to beat our horsemen back with
ire, broke and ran immediately the cavalry lowered their lances and began to gallop in.-lofficial Photograph,.]

ILLUSTRX)

Cbc British (fleetern front Hdvancc: fc

i

"•

CIRCUMVENTING A GERMAN ROAD-MINE CRATER AT CROSS-ROADS: PACK-

WS. April 11.

6n the fJeele of the Retreating Germans.

NG THE GAPING CAVITY BY A PIONEER-MADE TEMPORARY TRACK.

•ent the German obstacles and keep up with the quickly advancing troops. Cavalry also were able to use them, and in
laces even lines of vehicles and guns. A skirting road for pack transport round the edge of a deep and steep-sided German
Mater, exploded at a place where cross-roads met in a destroyed village, is shown above in use.— [Official Photograph.}

aa-[Ne'i"kiUJ-THE ILLUSTRATED WAR NEWS, April II. 1917.

the British (Oeetem front Hdvancc : follow

QUICK CLEARANCE BY OUR WORKZNG PARTIES: ON A ROAD Wi

British break,hrollgh ta the

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m the neeta of the Retreating Germans.

period the roming-up of our guns, and of the supply columns with "provisions and field stores (or the evi-r-advt icing
rjr on their heeU. They have, however, been foiled by the smartness with which our yioneers made a way through the
ctions. A village church with its d6bris cleared to allow of a double line of traffic is seen here.— [Offinil

. I p.tl It 1

« — IN.* SrriuJ

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April 11. 1»17

On Leave from the front: poilu as a Dandv.

BEING MADE PRESENTABLE : A FRENCH

Two French nuldiers on short leave from the Front are seen here,
one of them bting dandified up by haying the last and txtrj
polish put on his boots. The French War Office authorities, like
our own, as the exigencies of the service allow, grant special
permits to soldiers whose battalions «re not for th« moment actually
engaged before the enemy, enabling the men t.i return to their

SOLDIER GETTING HIS BOOTS POLISHED,
native places for a ,hort period so as to «e their relatives and
friends at home. It it a great occasion naturally for the pcilu
and he mak« the most of it, invariably having his toilette taken
l hind, and being made presentable after reaching the railway
station of hi, destination, and before letting hims«U be seen about
the streets.

April II. 1917

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MCW Series J-25

The HUicd destcrn front Hdvance: "kes fran^aisf"

/jfK

1

THE HOUR OF DELIVERANCE FOR A

Many & dram .tic scene 'ike that seen here hat been witne«ed of
Ul» in the re- won '..'ages of Northern Fran^r. >s the Allied
columns gtin ground And the inhabitant^ of the TiJUg^is evacuated
by the German*^ only old folk and children are left --learn that
their brutal oppressors have gone. They emerge anxiously from
their cellars — almost every French Tillage dwelling has its cellar -

FRENCH VILLAGE : RECOGNISING THEIR ONCOMING COMPATRIOTS.

and other placet of refuge, and sometimes, as correspondents relate,
wheie the French retake m Tillage, at first do not recognise the
blue unifcrms of *he present Army war uniform as their deliverers
approach, remembering only the red-trousered soldiers of former
days. Then the truth dawns on them, and " Lev Franc* ts ! " is
the cry. We see above a Tillage group at rich A moment.

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April 11. 1917

FOOTNOTES TO ARMAGEDDON: XXXV.- THE COURT OF REASON.

T

HE British soldier shifted clumsily and settling the matter with the stone club of the

__ • Ji_l _ i 1,1 I,- r\4 /^rtiir't:** it- 'c «r/M"C<i

uneasily as he lay on the ground.

" Are you in pain ? " asked the German
beside him — he could turn his head, the German,
no more. " Has it begun to hurt, my friend ?

" No — oh no, the're 's no pain at all," said the
other. " I don't
know why I
moved. ..." He
seemed to think.
" I didn't expect
it to be like this.
I didn't expect
it to be painless,
almost boring."

" I, too, am
surprised," ad-
mitted the Ger-
man. Then he
took up their pre-
vious conversa-
tion. " So — you
were a journalist,
hein ? I myself
was a professor of
mathematics. A
professor in what
you would call a

IN A CAPTURED VILLAGE: CYCLISTS RESTING
Official Photograph.

primordial savage. Only, of course, it 's worse
than that — we simply use the divine gifts of
enlightenment and progress to make our club-
work more thorough. The best in us has been
made the slave of the worst."

"To what
end," groaned the
German, " to what
end ? "

"Just kill-
ing," said the
Englishman.

" It is abomin-
able, hein ? " said
the enemy. " So
useless, and so
quite unnecessary.
What reason can
you and I have
for this killing,
my friend ? And
you and I, all the
men who fight,
are those who
really count. Do
we hate each
other ? We do

boarding - school. War is made up of strange
material — you and I, it is incongruous that we
should be mixed in this mad stew."

" It 's all hopelessly idiotic," said the English-
man.

" You feel that too ? It has seemed like that
to me since the first — reasonless, meaningless. A
mad-dog slaughter, all to no end. I was a Social-
Democrat before the war. Were you Socialistic ? "

not. If we met in a street, would we fly at each
other with bomb and bayonet ? We would
not. . . . We — the mass of the two peoples — -
we are not really enemies, my friend. We
have quite many sympathies with each other,
we have quite much in common. You and I, we
have studied, and we know that all the races at
war are complements each to each other. In the
long run, German and Briton, they are very much

ON THE WESTERN FRONT: TREES AND WRECKAGE LAID ACROSS A ROAD TO IMPEDE THE BRITISH ADVANCE.
In th« foreground is part of a mine-crater. — [Official Photograph.]

" I was a good Liberal outside business hours —
my paper was Conservative. And — oh yes, the
whole business is quite mad. In this age — it is
chiving to a peace conference in an automobile,
aud, instead of letting off an idealistic speech,

the same. We have really no use for war ; there
is ' nothing in it,' as I have heard your men say.
All this slaughter is to no purpose. Left to
reasonable men, it would not have happened."
" That is true," said the dying journalist. " If

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frcnch OTestern Hdvancc: H Captured Blockhouse.

WALLS OF 4-FOOT CONCRETE FACED WITH 3-INCH

We arc shown here one of the elabontelj fortified machine-gun
emplacements, or armoured blockhouses, near Roye, formerly in
front of the French line on the Somme. It was stoutly con-
structed, and had concrete walls 4 feet thick, with armour-plating
of 3-inch Krupp steel. The place was really an outlying fortress
redoubt. Some of the Krupp plates are seen leaning against the

KRUPP STEEL : A MACHINE-GUN EMPLACEMENT.

walls. When the French attacked the Roye position the enemy
gare up the whole of the ground without serious defence At
Roye, says the French official report, "the enemy, refusing battle,
abandoned under pressure of our troops the powerfully and scienti-
fically fortified lines which he had been holding for more than two
years."— (Official Pknlafrapks.\

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April 11. 1917

the mass of the people had been consulted, it
would not have occurred. Really, war is the
hobby and obsession of a limited and bureau-
cratic class. The people in the bulk have gone
beyond this mediaeval ideal. Left to the people,
it would have been all right. There would be no

IN A CAPTURED VILLAGE: TOMMIES AT DINNER.
Official Photograph,

grounds for scuffling, or quarrelling, or difference.
The whole rumpus would have been considered
reasonably, and without heat. . . . You and I
are not. quarrelling, though, technically, we are
enemies."

" Quite right, my friend. We realise the
common ground. Humanity is the
same all the world over."

" Quite," said the Englishman.
A shrapnel burst a little to the
right. The explosion broke into
their talk. For a little while both
lay silent. They felt no pain, only
serene and perhaps exalted — though
both knew that they were to die in
the course of the next few hours.
They had an almost tender friendli-
ness for each other. Here at the
brink of death they had got down
to the bed-rock of things ; they had
rid their minds of rancour, had
realised the oneness of the world.
The journalist said presently —
" War is the sport of Kings."
" Yes, my friend," agreed the
professor ; "it is the sport of Kings,
and Governments too."

The journalist agreed dreamily.
" It is the same thin.?. I \-e
never, myself, been one of those who
pin the sole responsibility of the war on to the
Kaiser. I agree that he 'is one— the tool, if you

like — of a jingoist camarilla. I consider "

The German turned his head and stared
wonderingly.

" My friend, what is that you are saying ? "

" I was saying it was rather a bureaucracy of

bullies that forced Germany to declare war on

civilisation . . ." The German was amazed.
" My friend, that is mad talk. Bullies — ach !
But yes, I will admit this ' bullies ' ; the bullies
that bullied our triumphant mercantile marine on
the seas, who set us round with a wall of foes,
who forced Belgium to betray her neutrality —
those are the bullies who forced
Germany to fight for her life."

The Englishman turned in
astonishment.

" Oh, I say," he cried, " you
don't believe all that fudge ? As a
reasonable man, you must know
there is not a word of truth in any
of it. Your very logic must tell
you that Germany wanted this war
and planned it because she — her
rulers, anyhow — were lusting for
conquest."

" You talk like a madman," said
the German, in rage. " This war
was forced on us — leave our rulers
out, we Germans can see the facts —
this war was forced on us by Eng-
land because England was jealous of
our power, our culture, our pre-
eminence in all things."

" Rot ! " snapped the English-
man. " Culture be damned ! Was
it culture that sacked Belgium ? "
" Schweinhund with your lies ! You with
your black men to strengthen your degenerate
feebleness, cast you vile slanders at the race
chosen to lead the world ? Dog ! "

" My hat I " snarled the Englishman.
" Degenerate ! What wouldn't I give to show

ON THE WESTERN FRONT: CHINESE STUDENTS STARTING
FOR THE TRENCHES.- [Official

you just for a minute what a degenerate Britisher
can do to a — a low-down, slaughterous Hun ! "

' Donner ! " wailed the German. " Oh, for a
chance to slash this pig-man across the face I "

The shrap. burst again. Its coming ended
the interesting attempt of two reasonable and
logical men to settle differences on the basis
of humanity. W. DOUGLAS NEWTON.

April II. 1917

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Che

pro-HUy Ruler of Hbyssima.

THE ABYSSINIAN CORONATION : THE REGENT ENTERING ADDIS ABEBA ; AND THE EMPRESS ZEODITA.

The change of rulers in Abyssinia w« due to the deposed Emperor,
Lidj jeas>u, having come under German and Turkish influences
and offending the Christian population. The Entente Legations
protested, and last September his mother's tister, Zeodita, daughter
of the late Er.peror Menelek, was declared Empress. Civil war
ensued, in which her forces were finally rictoriou*. Her Coronation

took place with much pomp in St. George's Cathedral at Addis
Abeba on February n. The Ententr Ministers attended, but not
the German Minister or the Turkish Consul-General. The Empress
left the Cathedral with the Regent, Res Taffari, and took her seat
on a throne in the courtyard, where the Diplomitic Corps passed
before her. — [French Official Photograph.}

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April 11. 1917

OTith the Grand fleet at Sea : filling the Magazines

FOR ACTION BELOW AND ABOVE WATER : SHIPPING

Torpedoes juit shipped on board a war-ship from an Ordnance
Store department transport (the dark sail of which is seen in the
background to the right) are shown on deck, in the upper
illustration. The great size of a modern torpedo may be realised
br looking at the one in the loreground of the illustration. The
portion seen is about five-sixths of the total length. Inside are

TORPEDOES ; SENDING DOWN A 15-INCH SHELL.

the propelling mechanism, the compressed-air chamber, and the
steering and regulating machinery. The lower illustration shows a
big shell, of is-in. calibre, after being shipped from an ammunition
transport alongside, in the act of being lowered through the oblong-
shaped hatchway seen, down to the shell-room and magazine, which
is in the depths of the hull.— [Official Fltctntraphi.}

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Slith the Grand fleet at Sea: filling the Magazines.

TRUCKING A 15-INCH SHELL ON THE UPPER DECK,

In the upper illuttr»Uon three Marines are Ken trucking one of the
giant 15-inch shells which comprise the projectiles fired by the
turrtt-guns on board certain ol our war-§hip». The men are
transferring the projectile between the place where it was slung on
ooard from the ammunition supply-ship to the magaiine hatchway
on the upper deck. There the thelU are lowered one by one to

TO THE MAGAZINE-HATCHWAY : A STIFF PULL.

the magaiines, deep down below the lower edge of the armour-belt,
and several feet below the water-line level. Each is-inch calibre
thell weight, approximately, three-quarter* of a ton, and shifting
them about on the .hell-trucks is a stiff piece of work for the
working parties of three men tuld off to each truck, as the close
riew in the lower illustration suggests.- (f)/fcul PkotOfraplii.}

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April 11. 1917

TTbc HUied Olcstern front Hdvancc : TThc German Retreat.

" FISHING " FOR

The German Western Front retreat was "carried out according to

he plan, beforehand of the General Stafl." So the German nation

and neutrals were officially informed. The costly sacrifice of

rman war material that took place was, therefore, of no

Our soldiers, as they approached position after position

explosions of magazines, and large storehouse. bU.int. They

found, abandoned in the German lines, quantities of ammunition
>d all manner of war materials. In the captured villages the
inch and ourselves found in the ponds, thrown away valuable
'7 »ear, so got rid of. " Pithing" operations, as illustrated
ibove, bring up many most useful " hauU."— [O^u/ Photograph
and Canadian War Records Photograph.]

April 11. 1»17

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Che British Western front Hdvancc: In Bapaume.

BESIDE THE RUINS OF THE MAIRIE, WANTONLY DESTROYED BY THE ENEMY : AUSTRALIANS OFF DUTY.

i

Bapaunie was the firtt o( the evacuated lowm In the reconquered
French territory in which the Germans ga»e rein to their furjr «t
being dn'»en out by the Allied advance, by wantonly destroying
wholesale -»ery kind of edifice, public buildings and dwellings of
the peopl- alike. Immediately the Btitish gained the crest of the
Bipaum* Ridge, foreshadowing the capture of the town .mmedial'ly

afterwardi, incendiarism in Bapaumt started. Our men saw streets
of houses burning and the flare of explosions, as the public
buildings were destroyed. They entered, led by the Australian
adranced guard, amidst the reek of ruins, and passing bUiing
house*. The fate of the Mairie (the town hall) is shown here with
Australian soldiers in the picture.— [Australian Official

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WOMEN AND THE WAR.

TJ*VEN now there a.re people who have very
•L-' little notion of the extent to which women
are taking an active part in helping to win the

war. To such the phrase " women munition

workers " signifies

nothing more

than the fact that

women "have

something to do

with the easy parts

of shell - making,"

or that " there is

some powder that

turns their faces

yellow." As a

matter of fact,

there is hardly a
branch of industry
or engineering
connected with the
making of muni-
tions of war in
which women are
not playing an im-

FARMS :

NATIONAL SERVICE FOR GIRLS ON THE

WELL - EARNED REST.

Our photograph shows some of the workers on an Essex farm, resting after a
hard day's work in the fields.— [Photograph by L.N.A.]

portant and a re
sponsible part — a
fact which the
exhibition of wo-
men's work in
munition and other factories held at the Colonial
Institute the other day brought out very clearly.

Quite one of the most interesting exhibits
related to the optical work now undertaken by
women — who,
by - the - bye,
are first
trained at the
Optical Muni-
tions Train-
ing School,
Northampton
Polytechnic,
St. John's
Road, Cam-
berwell. Be-
sides being of
a very skilled
nature, the
work is speci-
ally suitable
to women, re-
quiring as it
does a strong,
firm, steady,
but withal de-
licate touch.
Probably the

gunners in their work of locating targets, seen
or unseen. Lenses and prisms apart, a pair of
binoculars were on view, which, with the exception
of the flattening and filing of the cover-plates and

the insertion of one
screw, had been
made entirely by
women ; so that,
after all, women, it
seems, do possess
the skill and ex-
actitude which
were at one time
reckoned mascu-
line prerogatives.

Much has been
written about the
part played by
women in the
making of shells,
fuses, explosives,
and the manufac-
ture of small-arms,
but few people,
perhaps, realise the
extent to which
they are employed
upon the processes

WOMEN AS NATIONAL SERVICE VOLUNTEERS: RECRUITS

ON AN ESSEX FARM.

e first National Service girl recruits for the farms have taken u th •
Essex, and are showing promise of soon becoming exoert. O,,r

most difficult
work in this
connection
undertaken by women is the adjustment of the
ious optical systems used in binoculars, dial-
sights, and other scientific instruments used by

connected with air-craft construction; and the
responsible nature of the work they do is the best
possible testimonial to the value their employers
set upon their services. All aeroplane work has
to be very exact, but the women engaged in

making the

••iBiHMH^MM^^^^^^^^ parts have to

mark them off
themselves
from the
drawings with
which they
are supplied.
Welding is an-
other process
that figures
largely in
aeroplane con-
struction, and
is a delicate
and difficult
business. Any
carelessness, if
passed, might
mean the sac-
rifice of the
aviator's life ;
but here
again the ex-
tent to which
women's ser-
vices are em-
work can with
entrusted to feminine

nte*t mxrtea/.

/. .

Cn

nloved sho,

per ect Setv h

workers. X

April 11. 1917

THE ILLUSTRATED WAR NEWS.

Hn eastbourne OTar-Cdorhcr :

kady TTaxi-Dnvcr.

" THE YELLOW BIRD " AND ITS

It U not surprising to learn that " The Yellow Bird" and its plucky
drirer are very populir and very much in request in Eastbourne,
for Mia Scott hu Ukim up her work in good earnest, and U a
fully qualified and fully licensed taxi-driver. Those who know the
comparatively small proportion of applicants who hare been successful
in qualifying for such a post in London «n realise the utiafaction

DRIVER : MISS SCOTT AND HER TAXI.

.1 with which Miss Scott mutt have received her licence, and that ah«
U well content with her work and popular with her clients is evident
in our photograph. The conditions under which such work is
carried out in Eastbourne differ largely from the more onercui and
nerve-trying conditions of London traffic, but none the less Mils
Scott U to be congratulated upon her war-work.— [Plioto. ty C.K.]

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April 11. 1917

Tool-setting used to be regarded as work which
men only could undertake successfully ; but the
theory, like so many others, has been dissipated
by the war. In the making of aircraft engines
women not only do all the operations from start
to finish, including the fitting and final assembling
upon the air-pump of a rotary aero-engine, but in

AN OPENING FOR NATIONAL SERVICE VOLUNTEERS.
Mrs Brendon, of Froggatt's Farm. Ockley, Surrey, who is seen in
our photograph at work, has a farm of sixty-five acrss to attend
to single-handed, her last man having been called to the Colours.
Here is an excellent opportunity for National Service Volunteers.
Pkotograph by Central Prtss.

every case the operator sets and grinds her own
tools. In the engine-erecting shops they strip the
engines after testing, and examine and view the
parts, make up wiring sets for the engines complete
and ready for the assemblers ; strip engines
returned for repair and view the parts, and assist
in altering Admiralty engines for military work.
Outside the engineering shops, women do a large
amount ot the work on the fabrics required for
aeroplanes, balloons, airships, and tents. All the
cutting out and sewing of canvas falls to their lot,
they inspect the seams and cover, stretch and sew
canvas on the wings, ailerons, tail-planes, and
rudders of aeroplanes. They undertake the
doping, sizing, and varnishing of planes ; paint
the identification rings, stencilling, and painting
marks ; cut out, tack, and machine rubber fabric
for balloons, as well as many other jobs.

Perhaps the most fiendish instrument of war
made by women is an aerial torpedo, a murderous-'
looking device designed for pumping death into
trenches. The large . .mnd body and the stout
propeller-blades with which it is fitted are stamped,
machined, and welded by feminine hands.

Still, all the work is not destructive, and many
modem theories have had to be revised during
the war. There is a distinctly mediaeval flavour

in the idea of visors of chain-mail. Women are,
however, employed on their manufacture, and,
when finished, they form steel curtains and are
slung across the front of the trench-helmets to
protect the eyes of our men. Body-armour is
another relic of the Middle Ages used in the war.
The modern version of it consists of slightly curved
metal plates enclosed in brown drill, and so
designed as to protect the vital parts of the body.

It is interesting to know that, while women
are working to help the men, the men are not
indifferent to the welfare of the women. Factorv
conditions have been enormously improved since
the woman munition-maker entered the industrial
field, and those who contemplate offering their
services to the nation in this way need have no
fears that inadequate provision will be made for
their welfare. Many of the munition factories have
been constructed or adapted for the work since
the war began, and, in consequence, the lighting
and ventilation arrangements are in line with all
the ideals of modern hygienic science. Further,
most factories have now their own rest-rooms, can-
teens, and ambulance-rooms, where recreation, hot
meals, and first aid in case of accident or sudden
indisposition are always to be had. One heard a
great deal at one time of the unbecoming results
of dealing with certain explosives ; but in this

AN OPENING FOR NATIONAL SERVICE GIRL VOLUNTEERS

AT FROGGATTS FARM.

Mrs. Brendon, of Froggatfs Farm, Ockley, Surrey, has a sixty-five

> farm to manage single-handed, her last man having been called

^1 volunteers can render real service to their country by

helping Mrs. Brendon to make each acre as productive as possible.

Photograph by Central Press.

direction, too, scientific experts have made the
welfare of the worker their special care, and fire-
proof overalls, caps, veils, gloves, respirators, and
face-lotions go far towards eliminating the chances
of lnJury- CLAUDINB CLEVK

\pril 11. 1917

THE ILLUSTRATED WAR NEWS.

Hmerica's Battle and " Mosquito" fleets.

EXTREMES

SUPER-DREADNOUGHT

In the upper illustration is shown one of the most recently com-
pleted and most powerful of the latest type of super-Dreadnoughts
in the Navy of the United States— the "Texas." The Urge battle-
fleet units of the American Navy are all named after the States
of tht Union, and smaller vessels after cities and towns, and so
on, in a regularly graduated scale, so that clarification is easy.

Newspaper readers can know at a glance, when a ship's name is
mentioned, what kind of vessel is concerned. Destroyers and
torpedo craft bear the names of distinguished officers of the past.
In the second illustration one of the specially built new " Submarine
Chasers " of the American Volunteer Fleet — the "Lynx" by name —
is seen out for a run. — [Photos, by C.N. and Topical.}

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April U. 1917

By W. DOUGLAS NEWTON.

T

THE VALUE OF AMERICA-THE APPEAL OF DEMOCRACY THE TURKISH PLIGHT.

HE most striking and invigorating news in provoked the most long-suffering as well as the

most powerful neutral beyond endurance. Indi-
rectly, the part of
America in the situa-
tion may have a more
practical moral value,
following the Revolu-
tion in Russia, the move
of America must have
great and grave effect
on the minds ot the
Germans themselves.
Russia has become a
democracy, and has
refused to treat with
the Prussian autocracy.
America, the greatest
of the neutral democ-
racies, has. as President
Wilson explained in a
speech of singular great-
ness and nobility, found
it necessary to forget
her friendship for the
German peopfe in order
to confront the German
rulers. There is the
same real note run-
ning through President Wilson's declaration as
there is running through the declarations of the

the fields of war outside the West is
undoubtedly political.
The American situation
is, of course, as yet
political ; and though
the Americans, now
that their President
has taken up his stand
definitely, have un-
grudgingly offered to
pool plans, capital,
men, ships, and muni-
tions with the Allies,
at this early date it is
the moral quality of
the recent develop-
ment that weighs most
in the scales. In the
direct sense the moral
support is enormous.
It vindicates at once
the attitude and the
method of war — espe-
cially sea war — adopted
by the Allies. It con-
centrated the world
opinion of democracy

on our side, and it shows, above all, that the
German war spirit is a thing so evil that it has

.

THE UNITED STATES NAVY : ONE OF THE NEWEST
AMERICAN SUPER-DREADNOUGHTS— THE " NEW YORK."

THE AMERICAN NAVY: THE BATTLE-SHIP " FLORIDA "-THREE OF THE 14-INCH-GUN TURRETS OF THE MAIN

ARMAMENT ON THE UPPER DECK (AS VIEWED FROM BROOKLYN BRIDGE)

The centre turret is, of course, designed for broadside action, or at angles with the line-of-keel, clear of the adjacent turrets f.re

and alt.— [Photograph bv Illustrations Bureau.]

April 11. 1917

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Hmerica under Hrms: Coast and Land Defenders.

HOWITZERS AND AUTOMATIC RIFLES : AN ATLANTIC SEABOARD CLIFF FORT ; TARGET SHOOTING.

The upper illustration shows the interior of one of the series of
powerful coast -defence forts which, at certain points requiring
the taking of special measures, have been constructed along the
Atlantic seaboard of the United States. They stand high, concealed
below ground-level from the sea. Four heavy howitzers, designed
for high-angle fire with big projectiles, are seen on the central

platform. The trajectory curve of the shells, through its steep
angle of descent, renders the batteries exceptionally formidable
opponents to any naval attacking force. The shells would come
down almost vertically on ship's decks, while range-finding from
ashore is a simple matter. The lower illustration shows an American
automatic-gun detachment at firing drill. — [Photos, by C.N.]

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April 11. 1817

Russian leaders. Kussia and the President join
the fighting democrats of the world in insisting
that that Thing \ve call militarism, or autocracy,
or frightfulness is a hateful, dangerous, and
criminal thing, and that it must bo purged

to rebellion ; but, at the same time, we can

see that the germs of revolution must be there.

I expect nothing, but I would not be surprised

if something happened.

On the general fronts there has been little of
very striking nature. The
situation at Baghdad has
every appearance of solid ex-
cellence. Sir Stanley Maude
has covered his left flank,
by proloning it towards the
Euphrates, while he has
taken all the fertile country
to the north east of the
town. He has also pushed
his front upward in the
direction of Mosul, and with
the buffers being operated in
the zone of Khanikin — the
Russians being the upper
and the British the nether
millstone — tha Turks in this
region seem to be in a tho-
roughly unpleasant position.
On the Russian front proper
there has been a reawaken-
ing of fighting, but little of
great importance ; and the
same can be said for the
line in Roumania. In Mace-
donia the Allies have done
well, the French, in par-

AMERICA'S NAVY : A BLUEJACKET LANDING PARTY AND LIGHT GUN— A SECTION

IN MARCHING ORDER ADVANCING THEIR PIECE WITH DRAG-ROPES.

Photograph by C.N.

from the world if men desire to live free. The ticular, having improved their position and

entry of America, like the revolution in Russia, beaten the Bulgarians back. On the Italian

would count against not indeed the German people line the rumour of attack seems to have

so much as the German rulers. J do not wish to dwindled — the Austrians, indeed, capping it

exaggerate the power of this new moral stroke, with 'a counter-rumour of an Italian attack.

but. we have seen something

of the effect of Russian events

on the people of Germany.

There has been a great acces-

sion to the sense of political

unrest, and the Social-Demo-

crats, seeing their chances,

have combined to attack

the governing system. The

Russian revolution quickened

a thoroughly worn and

miserable people. What might

an American declaration do ?

I seem to see it not merely

as assistance to the Allies,

but a new power to the

Social - Democrats in Ger-

many. There is no mis-

taking the meaning or the

sincerity of President Wilson's

speech. If the already awak-

ened Germans. ever .read, it,

it may give them very

seriously to think on the

matters oi right and wrong.

And, when they start think-

ing, in their present condi-

AMERICA'S NAVY : IN THE TRAINING SCHOOL AT BROOKLYN ARMOURY—

A GUNNERY CLASS UNDER INSTRUCTION IN THE BREECH - MECHANISM OF

A 4-INCH QUICK-FIRER.— [Photograph by S. and G.}

tion, where will they stop ? I do not prophesy
revolution. The German has had generations of
" discipline," and his nature may not be prone

There has been a good deal of artillery action,
and the Italians have made one or two coups o-f
capable but minor nature. LONDON; APRIL 7, 1917.

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Cbc Illustrated War Rcu>$

GERMAN BARBARITY : BURNED-OUT HOUSES IN BAPAUME SQUARE —VIEW THROUGH A SHELL-HOLE.

Australian Official Photograph.

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April 18. 1917

By W. DOUGLAS NEWTON.

VIMY RIDGE THE HINGE OF THE RETREAT-THE BRITISH PLAN.

have been happening certain definite
things which were not, apparently, up

Hindenburg's sleeve. We have attacked, and we

have won a remarkable success, while the world

was yet clouded with

speculations concerning

tin- disastrous stroke

Prussia's military Machia-

velli held in waiting for

us. Indeed, while the

Machiavelli himself was

speaking ex cathedra of

the impregnability of the

German line in the West,

the British, going for-
ward above and below

Arras, not only shattered

the dogma of impregna-
bility, but showed, by

their power and success,

that the " something up

the sleeve " might very

well be in the garment

of the Allies.

This big, purposeful,

and admirable stroke is

not merely a great gain

whereby, almost at a
single impact, we have
accomplished something

which the Allies had
failed to gain
through two
years of in-
tense fight-
ing ; it is not
merely a
stroke of
great strate-
gic as well as
tactical signi-
ficance --it
has important
moral and
political
meaning as
well. It may
convince the
Germans and
us that, ac-
tually, we are
the masters
of the situa-
tion on the
line between
the Channel
and Belfort ;

THE OUTRAGEOUS BLOWING-UP BY THE GERMANS

OF THE FRENCH THIRTEENTH - CENTURY CHATEAU

DE COUCY : PART OF THE RUINED WALLS OF THE

MAIN TOWER.— [French Official Photograph.]

THE OUTRAGEOUS BLOWING-UP BY THE GERMANS OF THE THIRTEENTH-
CENTURY CHATEAU DE COUCY : PART OF THE RUINED RAMPARTS OF THE
MAIN TOWER.— [French Official Photograph.]

we are capable of initiating and following our own
plans and working out our own movements, and
winning our victories in spite of all the cleverness
which Germany's publicity department credits to
Germany's leaders. It is,
at a stroke, the vindica-
tion of our own ability to
win. In these notes I
have done what I could
to suggest that the Allied
leaders are really not so
unwise as some of our
patriots seemed to think.
I have endeavoured to
argue that the German
plan of retreat could not
really be discussed until
we had seen what plan
the French and British
had for dealing with that
retreat. And, as I sug-
gested we should with-
hold our valuation of
the German evacuation
until we had seen the
Allies striking instead of
merely pursuing, so I
have pointed out that,
whatever the dark inten-
tions of Hindenburg might
be, it would be as well
to remember
that the Allies
might have
it in their
power to pre-
vent them
being carried
out — that is,
that, though
Hindenburg
may have
collected a
great reserve
in order to
attain some
final and fear-
ful coup, the
attack of the
Franco - Brit-
ish might be
so delivered
that, in order
to preserve
the very
equity of his
line, Hinden-

and that, in spite of all hints, bluffs, rumours, and
the like, the power of hitting and winning is still
with us. It may convince the Germans and us
that we are not the dupes of strategic retreats, that

burg's reserves might be dissipated in defensive
actions. The final suggestion has yet to be borne
out, but the battle at Arras appears to give con-
firmation to the other points I put forward.

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In this German retreat to the Cambrai-Aisne
line, nearly the whole interest of speculation was
concentrated on the German ability to hold the
Cambrai-St. Cjuentin-La Fere front. Concerning
the line north of the Bapaume-Cambrai road very
little was said. It was felt on all sides that the
line from Cambrai to the Vimy Ridge was the
hinge, that the whole front, south and south-east,

would swing

on this — but

more, it was

felt that the

Germans had

seen to it that

the pivotal

area was un-
assailable.
The impreg-
nability of
this line was,
most curi-
ously, a c-
cepted. While
we talked
continuously
abou t our
ability to
break through
at St. Quen-
tin and on the

Oise - where

a striking commentar} on the difference between
action and theory. First, the aerial arm defying
the fact that in theory its supremacy had gone by
the board, launched out in a superb assault that
simply transcended all war history. The Ger-
mans—new machines or no— were charged out of
the air. There were an enormous number of
fights— 103 machines were lost in two days, of

Which the
majoritywere
enemy planes
— and these
fights w'ere
undertaken
over enemy

ON

DRaLED TV WESTERN FLANDERS: BEL"AN INFANTRY BEING
LED IN ATTACK FORMATION-ADVANCING IN SUPPORT.
Belgian Official Photograph.

the chances were most favourable— there was little
enough discussion concerning the Vimy Ridge
knuckle. It seemed powerful beyond our optim-
ism. It was, however (as was suggested here last
week), obvious that this was the crucial point
for, since the
whole of the
retreat was
swinging on
this line, a
successful
blow might
disorganise
the whole
symmetry of
the German
movement —
might, i n-
deed, threaten
the evacua-
tion with dis-
aster. The
conditions
were tempt-
ing, yet the
defences were
strong. The
matter was
tacitly evaded

in our speculations. However, it was not evaded
by the Commanders in France. Even while we
were ready to admit the fact that we had arrived
at the firm, strong wall of Hindenburg's front, the
British were already breaking their way through the
firmest, strongest, and most delicate sector of it.
The whole splendid business of the stroke is, indeed,

ON THE BELGIAN FRONT IN WESTERN FLANDERS . BELGIAN iNFANTRY BEING

DRILLED IN ATTACK FORMATION-MOVING OUT TO STORM.

Belgian Official Photograph.

the Somme

territory.
Whether we
gained com-
plete control
of the air by
this almost
cavalry shock
of attack re-
mains to be
seen, but the
fact that is
of purpose is
that we
blinded the
German gun-
n e r s , we

Mnbed the railways and roads and depots — dis-
organising supplies and reserves— we drove down
the " spotter " balloons, and \ve were able to
secure 1700 photographs of enemy positions.
This aerial stroke is emphasised, for its success

was assuredly
emp ha t i c.
Thanks to it,
the big as-
sault was de-
livered with
full and as-
t o n i shi n g
power.

With the
aerial activity
went the gun-
nery activity.
It had the
same unpre-
cedented ca-
pacity as the
aerial attack.
The gunfire
was so terri- •
ble and accu-
rate that the
awful bom-
bardments of

were exceeded. The effect was
Jbviously almost paralysing to the enemy, for
when, on Monday, the assault was delivered
against the Vimy Ridge and east of Arras, the
first rush carried our front right over the strong-
it German positions and deep into the German
line before adequate counter - efforts could be

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April 18. 1917

n ml to i hock our surging advance. TheVimy
Ridg«, which had held out against the strength
and genius of General Foch, and the attacks ol the
British, fell to the Canadians with surprising ease
after its two years of impregnability. There wen-
some isolated points of resistance, but, in the

ON THE BELGIAN FRONT IN WESTERN FLANDERS : THE BARRIER ACROSS A

CERTAIN SECTION CONSTRUCTED BY THE BELGIAN " SAPEURS MARINIERS."

Belgian Official Photograph.

main, the defence was nerveless, and our casual-
ties few in consequence. In that first effort of
attack, too, our line was carried from the suburbs
of Arras to beyond Fampoux, over five miles
to the east ; while to the south-east we fought
our way through into Monchy-le-Beux, a position
of great advantage on a hill which the enemy had
orders to hold at all costs. To the north the front
was pressed beyond Vimy, and the fighting ex-
tended steadily until we were
winning positions on the
banks of the Souchez stream
in such a way as to threaten
the southern flank of the
Lens defences. In spite of
snowstorms and bad weather
the Arras attack was the big-
gest effort and biggest suc-
cess we have won in the
war, since its initial gains
exceed those of the Somme,
great though they were.

Although we have learnt
by this time not to expect
too much of even great suc-
cesses like this, there is that
about the fight which gives
us reason for satisfactory
optimism. In the first place,
we have punched our way
into the critical section of
the German front in a man-
ner that is bound to cause grave disorganisation of
the enemy plans, and may shatter those plans
altogether if our success continues — that is, we
may force the Germans to reconsider the whole
system of their new defences, and drive them back
far beyond the Cambrai-St. Quentin-Aisne front

by this sudden flanking stroke. In the second
place, we have won a victory against an enemy not
retreating, but powerfully prepared for us and
holding a position that had defied us for two
years ; there is no doubt that this battle was a
decisive test of full strength pitted against full
strength — the great haul of
prisoners, guns, and material
proves this. Finally, by this
stroke we prove that our own
plan is equal in flexibility,
initiative, and manoeuvre to
the best of the German
plans.

The fighting on the Cam-
brai-St. Quentin-Laon sector
of the line has been less am-
bitious this week, though the
advances made have been
steady and notable. The
French, on the whole, appear
to be facing very strong
positions, and there is a ten-
dency to swell the volume
of artillery attack in the place
of infantry assault. They
have, too, been engaged along
other points of the line, not-
ably in the Champagne, in
thrusting back heavy German attacks. These,

though vigorous in action, are undoubtedly sent
forward in the hope of relieving the great pres-
sure on the Oise and St. Quentin fronts, though
the slowing of the movement at the latter points
cannot be attributed to this agency, but rather
to the difficulties of terrain, the need for bring-
ing up guns, and the like. The British envelop-
ment of the St. Quentin position has been slower

ON THE BELGIAN FRONT IN WESTERN FLANDERS : BELGIAN INFANTRY RETURNING
FROM TRENCH DUTY BY A FOOT-BRIDGE OVER AN INUNDATION.

Belgian Official Photograph.

also, though good progress has been made, and
the wedge of encirclement has been driven
forward to the north of the town, until the rather
vital St. Quentin-Cambrai road has been threat-
ened. North of St. Quentin, too, further groups
of villages have fallen. LONDON; APRIL 14, 1917.

April IS. 1017

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P«rt 49

On the Western front t Clearing the Olay for an Hdvance,

AT THE MOMENT OF EXPLOSION : A BIG BLOW-UP IN THE ENEMY'S LINES.

A bin blow-up in the German lines, ti tetn from a British position
during the Somroe adrance, Is shown hert in an instantaneous
photograph. It show* the explosion at the moment of its taking
place — the rolcano-Uke column of smoke as it spurts upwards,
followed instantly by a blinding flash, carrying with it fragments of
d/.brii, wire-entanglements, and frsgments of trench timber. That

the norre of the Germans gires way at the constantly repeated shocks
of such explosions in close proximity, as Is the case, Is small
wonder. We have testimony as to that in the state of mental
collapse In which we find many prisoners. By such means the way
of the Allied adrance is cleared for the assaulting Infantry, and
our casualties materially lessened.— [Official Photograph.}

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On the Cdcetefn front: tlbe Old f

•LY OLD PEOPLE LEFT TO BE RESCUED BY THE BR^Tlj

"N«,e," writes M, Phi,,p Gibbs « ^ the H AT

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Left in J^eele — In the Streets.

I'HE FLAGGED STREETS OF A TOWN JUST SAVED FROM DESTRUCTION.

I the town. Had the Germans let fire to the place ... few of these inhabitants would h«r« escaped being burnt aliTt, but,
Ukily, the Britiih troops arrived sooner than was expected, and the Germans fled. . . . Only old and infirm men and womer
I sr* left. They hung out flags of welcomr British and French."— {official Pkou>frapk.\

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prince of COales Decorates General J^ivetle.

An

the Prlnc, of W^« !„„,«, c«n.ril „;„, ,h, F h
"-nd.r-In.CM,,, wi,h . Br,ti,h d«cijr.lll)n. Vh ^ ' w
p.ctur«,u, P,.c, d, rH»t«l d. Vllto. wher, .und, . brLT
of J««n, H.ch«,,*, 0* hl.,oric heroin, o, B«u«i,, who
. b«,n«, from ,h« troop, of Ch.r,tt ,h« Bo,d wh.n h.

wh
lorn

city in u7». Th. ped,,ul of th, monument can b. «,„ in
th. lower photor.ph on th, left-hand PM.. The Prince of W.l«

[CMMtMrf cfpanle.

April IS. 1917

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Che prince of dales and General Nivelle at Beauvais.

AFTER GENERAL NIVELLE'S INVESTITURE WITH A BRITISH ORDER: PRINCE AND GENERAL SALUTE.

Verdun, euceeaoed Genera! Joffre u Commander-ln-Chief. After
tht dccWon of the United State! to enter the war, he Mnt a
telefram to the Chief of the American General Staff expreeainf the
immenw joy of the French Army on hearing the newt, laying that
they saluted the American fltf. " General Hirelle'l tall, elegant
figure, pave retard, and Roman profile," write* Mr. G. H. Ferris,

" ipeak of hit heritafe from the deep wells of the old civilisation of
France ; and the blood of Enfllih tailort comlnf to him from hit
mother'! aide ia no unworthy tincture. HI* wordi, eren to hii
own men, hare bean few, though sympathetic ; and one nippoaea
that he would not croe* the itreet for all the adrertiaemeot the
world could offer."— [French Official Pkolopaph*.}

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db

On the (Oestern

front ,

* «• 9\r M to mi across «n^l •m^.u :_ »i_ _

April 18.

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On the Olestern front: German Sacrilege at Bapaume.

UP BY THE GERMANS: RUINS OF THE CHANCEL AND HIGH ALTAR OF BAPAUME CHURCH.

BLOWN

" There is no Bapaume now," write* a " Time* " correspondent.
" It is smoulderinj rubble and timber and an erll midden. When,
in future, the Germans talk of the need of their culture, Bapaume
and Ptronne should silence them." The chaos of ruin which
represents what is left of the ancient parish church shows further,
how the enemy descended to the utmost depths of randalism out

of deliberate malice. " Nothinf in all ihis deflation," afain to
quote the "Times" correspondent, " i* sadder than the wilful and
useless destruction of chuiches. What remains of the churches
raries from the ra«ed stumps of blackened walls, just markinf
the outline of the building, to mere shapeless heaps of rubbuh."
Bapaume church is shown here.— [A uslmlian Official Photo.]

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Che German Retreat in the Olest: Ht

ENEMY INUNDATIONS: OUTSIDE THE TOWN

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YARD IN

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Part « "I

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Che German Retreat in the dest: Ht

ENEMY INUNDATIONS : A BROKEN-DOWN BRIDGE AND CANAL DYKE ; FLOOD AND HOUSE DESTRUCTION.

Speaking of the enemy's inundation! at Noyon, Mr. Warner Allen
•ays this in an account In the "Morning Poit " : "Instead of
finnj the town, the Germans contented themselves with flooding its
lower portions by damming the canals. Th« inundations rote
quite high in the town, and caused much suffering, since it was
filled with 12,000 old men, women, and children brought from

the surrounding Tillages and the north." As the upper illustration
shows, besides damming the canals in order to flood the sur-
rounding country, the Germans destroyed the dykes and sluice*.
Bridge* were blown up and some houses in Noyon. The fallen timbers
and masonry of a blown-up house in one of the inundated quarters
is shown In the tower illustration. — [French Official Photograph \.

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ROMANCES OF THE REGIMENTS : XLV.-SEMPILL'S HIGHLANDERS.

A STRANGE DESERTION.

IN 1743 Lord Sempill's Highland Regiment, of
which the Black Watch has carried on the
traditions since the middle of the eighteenth
century, received orders to march to London. In
1739 the corps, which had
previously consisted of
several detached compan-
ies raised to keep the
peace in the northern parts
of Scotland, had been defi-
nitely formed into a regi-
ment, an;l the authorities
intended to use it like any
other force in the King's
service. The order to
march to London was
somewhat disingenuous, for
the men were told that the
object was a review by the
King, whereas the real
reason was service in
Germany. The soldiers

objected to leave Scotland,

as they considered even

that beyond the conditions

of their service, but the

flattery of a royal review

overcame their scruples so

far, and they marched

southward — with some mis-
giving, certainly, but no

actual mutiny. In due

time the regiment reached

ON THE WESTERN FRONT: THE GRAVEYARD
OF THE CHURCH AT FAVRIEUL, SHOWING
THE DESECRATION WROUGHT BY THE
GERMANS ON RETREATING.—fOjJSc.af

Highgate, where it encamped, only to learn to its
disappointment that the King had just gone
abroad. The
Highlanders
felt that they
had been im-
posed upon ;
but, although
very sore,
they kept
their discip-
line and pre-
pared to
make the best
of things. As
a solatium,
they were pro-
mised that
General Wade
should in-
spect them on
the King's
birthday,
May 14, and
for this event
they made

ON THE WESTERN FRONT: A BATTLEFIELD EXTEMPORISED
FOR HEAVY TRAFFIC OVER THE BED OF A STREAM.-W*™/

careful preparation, refusing to be led away by

certain busybodies (Jacobites presumably) who

sited the camp and made mutinous suggestions.

hinting that the corps was soon to be sent to
Germany.

The review, held on Finchley Common, was a
great success. A contemporary newspaper says :
" The Highlanders made a
very handsome appearance,
and went through their ex-
ercise and firing with the
utmost exactness. The
novelty of the sight drew
together the greatest con-
course of people e.-er seen
on such an occasion." It
was the first time that
Cockney eyes had seen a
Highland regiment.

The troops returned to
camp, and remained for four
days outwardly peaceable,
but really agitated with a
growing discontent. The
alleged object of their visit
was now accomplished ; why
were they still detained ?
Dissatisfaction spread
through the ranks.

On the night of May 18,
150 of the Highlanders took
the law into thair own
hands. With their arms
and fourteen rounds of
ball - cartridge each, they
set their faces northward
and began the long march back to Scotland.
Nowadays such a wild-cat scheme seems impos-
sible from the
outset, but
con d i tions
and commu-
nications were
very different
in 1743. The
fugitives melt-
ed away into
the dim out-
skirts of Lon-
don, and —
will it be be-
lieved ? — for
seven days
the capital
could get no
news of them !
In the home
counties there
was wild con-
sternation—
an ar med
band of kilted

BRIDGE

barbarians was loose ; any horror might follow 1

But the Highlanders had no sinister designs.

They wish.-d only to get home in peace. They

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Part « -I .

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TThc Great British Hdvance : t>encb t>ains : and Observers.

BEHIND AND IN ADVANCE OF THE GUNS : RAILWAYS IN THE TRENCHES ; AND ARTILLERY OBSERVERS.

A» th« upper photograph ihom, light-r.ilwij linu h»re be»n laid
in the trenchra it tome poinU, gtriog them the ipourance of
small railway cuttinfs. Ammunition for the guns and other
tuppliei can thua be rapidly raored up from the rear. Other
lucenai? support » (iren to the batteriM by the obserrert in
front, who telephone back reaultt and information about the

enemy's positions. Thit task is isolated and perilous. In describing
the Canadian success near Arras, for instance, Mr. Philip Gibbs
writes! "Some of the bravest work waa done by the forward
observing officers, who climbed to the top of Vimr Ridge »s soon
as it was captured, and through * sea of heary barrage reported
back to the artillery all the morements."— [Official 1'kntoi-rafk'i.}

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sought to injure no man, woman, or child. Frantic
expresses scoured northward to alarm the North-
Fastern Command. A price of forty shillings was
set on every deserter's head. But the days passed
and brought only uncertain rumours. No man
could certainly point the way the men had gone.

But they were steadily and very rapidly making
progress, under the very able
leadership of Corporal Samuel
Macpherson, who kept them away
from the main roads, and, moving
by night, brought them adroitly
from one defensive position to
another. They usually encamped
in some wood, where they lay
concealed all day. Meanwhile,
General Blakeney, commanding
the North-Eastern District, had
got to work, and had detached
Captain Ball with a large force of
cavalry to intercept the High-
landers, while,he himself took post
at Stamford. On the evening of
May 21, Ball got word that the
fugitives had crossed the Nen,
near Wellingborough, and, be-
lieving that they were making for
Rutlandshire, he halted at Upping-
ham, hoping to head them off
there or thereabouts. But the
Highlanders spent the night
on a hill, surrounded by a
dense wood, near Oundle in Northamptonshire.

There they were visited next morning by a
county magistrate named Creed, who urged them
to surrender. They refused, unless they were

Roman camp, and admirably chosen. They said
thev were soldiers, and would defend it to the last.
Ball replied that he also was a soldier, and would
kill the last one of them if it should come to a
combat. At that they parted. But Ball worked
upon the two privates detached to escort him as
far as the outskirts of the wood. Thess men he

'•

ON THE WESTERN FRONT: SPANISH OFFICERS VISITING THE BRITISH

LINES— A BRITISH STAFF OFFICER SHOWING THE DEPUTATION ROUND.

Official Photograph,

assured of pardon. Blakeney and Ball had joined
forces, only to find the hill quite unassailable by
cavalry. A further parley took place,, and
Macpherson showed Ball the strength of the
deserters' position. It was evidently an old

ON THE WESTERN FRONT: SPANISH OFFICERS VISITING A BRITISH

BATTLEFIELD-IN A MINE-CRATER; ONE OF THE VISITORS WATCHING

AN AEROPLANE OVERHEAD.— [Official Photograph.]

won over with the promise of a free pardon if
they could induce the rest to return to duty.
One went with the Captain to General Blakeney ;
the other returned, and during the night brought
in the remainder of his comrades.
The question was now one of
penalty. Apart from the act of
desertion, the behaviour of the
men had been excellent and the
skill of their retreat worthy of
all praise, had it been only legi-
timate. The public, from terror
flew to absurd admiration, com-
pared the Highlanders to the
Ten Thousand, and saw in Cor-
poral Macpherson a second
Xenophon.

Discipline, however, claimed
its victims. All were forgivfn
except Macpherson and his
brother (both corporals) and a
Private Shaw, who were con-
demned to suffer vicariously for
the whole body of delinquents.
They were shot on July 12, and
" behaved with perfect resolution
and propriety." The rest of
the Highlanders were paraded
to witness the execution, and
" joined in prayer with great
earnestness." The ringleaders died ' regretted
and. so much honoured that Lord John
Murray, who afterwards became Colonel of
the regiment, had their portraits on the walls
of his dining-room.

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On the Okstcrn front— "Gott Strafe England."

LAUGHING-STOCK INSCRIPTIOMS : FRENCH IN COUCY ; BRITISH WITH VILLAGERS AND CHILDREN.

The Germain, apparently, are not tired of their catch - phrue
" Cott itrale England." Our own men »nd the French, «• they
enter recaptured village*, hnd the fitting painted or chalked up
everywhere. There it hardly a building or wall without the
" decoration." It may be that the enemy Ihink the Allle*. or at
lead our Britimh toUi'rt, will be angered : a> a (act, everybody only

laugh*. Two .ample* are given here. The upper illuitratlon
.hows one at Coucy, retaken by the French. The lower .how* a
village icene : Brltlah »oldieri, merry a> a picnic party, among
villager* and children wearing the toldier.' helmet*. The group
chow a place with an interesting background— beneath a " Cott
rtrafe England " uucription.— (Official Photographs.}

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"Cbey Deserved this Honour": The

CAPTURE OF BAPAUME
may be

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the Hustraliane into Bapaume, to JVIueic.

LIAN BAND PLAYING ON THE MARCH INTO THE WRECKED AND BURNING TOWN.

ieit jor.gratulations on the splendid feat of the first Anzac cor ft in the capture of Bapaume." The Australian correspondent,
in bean, wrote : " After holding for fire long months of severe winter most ol the trenches opposite this town under
ppalling conditions . . . they deserved this honour a* richly as any merited in this war."— lAuilratian Official Photograph.]

20-[N£"sALl-THE ILLUSTRA

On the QJcstcrn front: Hrti

BRINGING UP THE GUNS ---THE PRESENT-HOUR STYLE;

;WS. April 18,

ring Hbcad to a ]Vcw position.

FOR ITS NEXT.

STARTING FROM ITS OLD FIRING-LINE

Id^ta'neloT!d7 oTi^t °' 7"? '"i"™"11- In r«" th« »hir«n« «">eel. of the gun-c.rn.ge. .nd limber. •• ,moke along the

ig du, . The uiuil th.ni now.d.y, i. very different to look ,t, .. the illu,tr.tion her. sugge.U, yet

ler. (et there, well to time, .11 the ume So the enemy «re leaning daily juit now.-[^ utoalun OfficM

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April IB, 1917

Raiding the enemy's Lines: The first Stage

A TYPICAL BRITISH TRENCH-RAID : AWAITING THE WORD TO START ; AND THE START.

In the interval* between the great battles on the Western Front,
such as that which opened so brilliantly for the British troops near
Arras on April 9, frequent trench-raids on the German lines have
been carried out by our men. Such operations* have been men-
tioned over and over again in the official despatches. For ex-
ample, one dated April 8 may be taken as * typical case. " Our

raiding parties," it stated, "entered the enemy's lines last night
at a number of points and secured several prisoners. In one raid
south-east of Ypres, we captured 18 German prisoners. Tie
enemy's trenches were found to have been greatly damaged by our
Are." The photographs on these two pages afford a -• ,id idea <A
what a raid is like, as seen from the British side. The upper one

'

April 18. 1917

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Our Raiding parties entered the enemy's Unes."

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A BRITISH

Continued.}

on the left-hand page .how. a raiding party crowded in . up

mn, the word to ,t.rt. :„ the lower one the word ha, ju,t

iren, .nd the m,n are on the more, the officer leading

«*en ,n the background on the left) being already "orer the

top" and running toward, the German trench.,, regardlew of the

bunting o« en^r rtr.p«l rtelb. In the upper photo,r.ph on the

THE WESTERN FRONT: THE START; AND THE RETURN.

right-hand page the raiding party it aeen getting clear of the tap
1 beginning to race toward, the entmy', line*, making their
way through their own barbed-wire eiitanglem-nts. The low,,
otograph ihow, them returning after the raid, while in the back.

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April 18. 1917

KBtfe tt* Grand fleet at Seat Winter Cruising

ARCTIC CONDITIONS : A WAR-SHIP'S SNOWY DECKS ; KEEPING FIT— A SNOWBALL SKIRMISH.

The daily newspapers throughout the winter have told people of
the fitter weather conditions that hare prevailed for so protracted
a period thit year all over the British Isles and Europe. We have
had accounts of deep snow North and South, eren in the Home
Counties and South Devon. In places we have heard of train
services being interrupted, of floekmasters and farmers everywhere

being almost in despair —but hardly a word has appeared of what
life at sea with the Grand Fleet and its cruising squadrons has
been all the time. The above photographs and that on the page
adjoining lift the v*il and show the Arctic exploration kind of
conditions under which the Navy has been ke«pinf watch and
ward for months past. — \Phofos. try >'. and G.]

April 18, 1917

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the Grand fleet at Sea: OTinter Cruising.

ON A WAR-SHIP'S UPPER DECK : CLEARING AWAY THE SNOW— AN ALMOST DAILY ROUTINE JOB.

Almost the only incidental mention folks in England hare had about
winter life in the fleets at tea during the put five month! wu a refer,
ence in a newspaper paragraph some weeks ago to a small war-vessel
coming in at an East Coast port with her deck gear, masts, and
rigging a mast of icicles and frozen snow. The reporter compared
her appearance to that of a ship in one of the typical pictures of

Arctic polv exploration vessels, as depicted in illustrated narrative*
of the days of the search for the Franklin Expedition. Our illus-
tration shows whst has been practically an everyday routine job on
board ship in the Grand Fleet, shovelling away snow on the upper
decks. In spite of the weather, thanks to the care of those In charge,
the health of the flr-l remains excellent,— [Pliolm. by S. and G.]

. S«-rie<.J

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April 18. 1»17

FOOTNOTES TO ARMAGEDDON: XXXVI.- HEROISM.

• T)KRHAPS it was courage — if you like. It
I may have been — -you see, I don't know
exactly what courage is. I don't know anybody
who does. When they gave John Ennis of our
company the V.C. for ' con-
spicuous bravery in the face
of the enemy,' he thought
they were having a joke on
him. When he saw they
were serious he was puzzled.
He went round asking the
fellows of his section if they
had noticed anything in
particular. . . . They all
said my show was courage,
too.

" Well, I didn't notice
any myself. The thing I
noticed most was that I was
so full of funk that it seemed
to be running out of my
seams. In the trenches it
was like waiting naked on
the edge of a blooming cold
river. The whole of my
body seemed to have sunk
into the pit of my stomach.
Oh, yes, we were all fright-
ened, so we all made jokes.
Yes, and when the whistle
went we started over the
top like men out to win a
sprint — that was because
we were funky, I guess. We wanted to show
how much we weren't — or we wanted to get it
over quick, I
don't know
which. A bit
of each, per-
haps.

"Me. I
just bumped
one feller aside
so 's I should
get over be-
fore him, an'
I got over
the top and
walked . on,
trying not to
run. Grr 1
I was the
funkiest man
on earth.

"You know,
as I went on,
I felt I must
keep me
safety - valve
screwed down
tight. If 1 didn't keep a hold of myself I should
have begun to scream and scream and scream.
Jt was just like steam in me, the funk. Bubbling
and hissing and fuming about, ready to leak out

ON THE WESTERN FRONT : GENERAL
SIR HENRY RAWLINSON HAVING A CHAT
WITH A FRENCH WAR-CORRESPONDENT.

Official Photograph.

ON THE WESTERN FRONT: PRESIDENT POINCARE'S VISIT TO RECAPTURED

PERONNE — THE BRITISH GUARD OF HONOUR AND BAND.

Official Photograph.

and make a devil of a bust. Don't know if I was
afraid of being killed. Don't really mind getting
killed, because that 's the end of it all. But I
was afraid of the suddenness of being killed . . .
if I 'd only 'a' known how
it was goinir to happen, I
don't think I should 'a'
minded. It was the waiting
with the arm up ready for
the smack, so to speak, that
twisted me up.

" Well, it wasn't very
heavy going. Their fire was
rather patchy. No big stuff
coming over, you know.
And only field-battery fire
here and there. The small-
arm stuff, rifles and machine-
guns, was patchy too. I 've
been in stunts that make
that one seem like a stroll in
the park. But I was funky !
"We went on up ard
down, slithering in shell-
holes, dragging in the mud —
usual damn dirty busi-
ness. I felt fearful. Almost
prayed for something to
finish me, I did, I was
that far gone. In time a
machine-gun picked us up. ,
The chaps in my section
began flopping down. The

lot of us began swearing most stiff. I sweared
most of all. I was in the devil of a stink. The

steam was
blowing off.
Then a bullet
got me — broke
my arm under
the elbow.
I walked on
a bit, wonder-
ing whether I
ought to fall
out. I was
afraid it
wasn't good
enough . . .
the sergeant
saw what had
happened,
swore at me,
and sent me
back.

" Funny,
going back
was worse
than advan-
cing. Grr ! I

nearly cried. I was afraid they 'd get me before
I was safe. I knew I had a good Blighty one,
only I felt sure them swine would spoil it all.
You know how it is. When yon 're just going to

'

April IS. 1917

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Che Russian Revolution : Xn petrograd.

THE FATE OF SHOP-FRONT IMPERIAL EMBLEMS:
One of the fir.t actions of the populace at Petroji-.d, as ' th*
crowd. .urfed throufh the .tree), after the Rerolution was pro-
claimed, wa, to pull down and clear away the Imperial coat-of-arm.

a. and heraldic emblem, orer shop front.. The hu,e double-
headed ra.le badfe. of the Romanoff, were hacked or sawn off
and pulled down, and the lra»ment, burned in bonfires lifhted in

HERALDIC LITTER FLUNG OVER A BRIDGE,
the .treett, or tin carried away and Kong orer the canal and
Hera bridges on to the frown nitface below. A number of the
.mailer .hield heraldic quartering borne on the wing, of the
Imperial Eafle are Ken in the illustration, litterinj the ice below
the parapet of on* of the bridge, orer the Fonranka Canal —
(>».*,. M- /lludmlimts Hartal,.}

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April 18. 1917

get everything you want, you 're afraid like hell
that something will happen to beggar it all up at
the last moment. That was me. I was in a
horrid stink. Shaky all over, and blubbing— yes,
real blubbing.

"I just scrambled along over the shell-holes

WITH THE CANADIANS IN ENGLAND: SIR ROBERT BORDEN'S

INSPECTION OF THE CONTINGENT IN ENGLAND — THE PREMIER

ADDRESSING THE NOVA SCOTIANS.— [Photograph by Topical.}

as fast as I could. Seemed I had a million miles
to go. I blubbed as I saw what a distance it was,
and the awful mucky country I had to go through
to get to cover. I kept saying to my?elf I 'd
never do it. I 'd never really do it — them swine
would pip me before I could get anywhere near,
I was running and slitherin'. They began putting
a barrage on to the gronud. I
swore like blazes, swore and swore,
and ran like a hen.

" Then that chap called out at
me. He was lying on the top of
the ground and saw me go by, and
yelled at me. He was in a bad
way, and wanted me to get him in
and save his life while it could be

saved. I know when he yelled I

swore worse. I thought he was a

fool and a beast. He could see I

was trying to get away myself, and

he was trying to stop me. I was

mad angry with that feller. He

wanted me to get myself killed,

just for him. He didn't mind about

me. He didn't mind spoiling my

chance of getting free, so long as he

could get me to help him. I felt

most vile about him.

" He yelled, but I didn't listen.

I was crying funky, and T had to

get on. So I ran on. He called and

called, and I hated him for choosing

But he had put it on me-there you are. I
ran on but I couldn't forget him. I could see
Mm and hear him calling, though I was a long way
awav and couldn't have seen or heard him really.
The" silly fool had spoilt things ... oh, I can t
explain how he made me feel beastly. ...
" So, you see, I went back,
didn't want to go back. I felt it
was all wrong to go back. I thought
the feller was a dirty blighter to
ask me to go.back, but I went back.
I went back sniffling, I felt horrid
about myself, and I knew them
Huns would get me. With my
good arm I hooked him over my
shoulder— he used his own arms
too. He tried to say something,
but I yelled at him. Told him to
shut his silly head, and all that.
I was mad with him. Then I took
him in.

" It was awful, that bit. I felt
like I was carrying the moon on my
back, and I felt we had thousands
of miles to go, and I felt the muzzle
of every Hun rifleman wavering over
the small of my back. I sweated
and slightered, and my heart
pumped, and I swore and cried.
Everything was loose and running
about inside me. I felt I could
'a' yelled. The barrage tried to catch us, and
I nearly burst with funk. . . . You can't guess
what a limp, floppy, nasty thing I was when I
got into the trench. I was just pulped— squashy
with fright I was. And how I hated that feller 1
" They said I had done a brave thing. Funny,
ain't it ? The feller I had brought in was very

WITH THE CANADIANS IN ENGLAND: SIR ROBERT BORDEN'S

INSPECTION OF THE CONTINGENT IN ENGLAND — THE PREMIER

VIEWING MEN IN GAS-MASKS— [Photograph by Topital.}

me ; but I ran on. As I ran on I. went on hating
him. He 'd put me in the wrong. He 'd made
me feel nasty about him. I damned him, and
cursed him for calling to me, and I wished to
Heaven he hadn't done it, because it wasn't fair.

talkative about it. He started telling me how
gritty I 'd bin ... I remember shutting him up.
I told him what a dirty tyke I thought him.
Save his life — Lord, you ought to have heard me
damn his eyes ! " W. DOUGLAS NEWTON.

April II. I»I7

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Russian Revolution : In pctrograd.

INCIDENTS : SOLDIERS GRAVE-DIGGING BEFORE THE WINTER PALACE ; SAILORS HUNTING POLICE.

Many who Ml In the street figh'inf In Petrograd, the immediate
sequel to the Coup tfEUit. were buried on the Champs de Marl, the
fre*t parade-ground ol the Petrograd garrison, and the great square
in front of the Winter Palace, the former Imperial rnidence.
Large grara were prepared there, and the remairu were borne to
their rating-place accompanied by crowd! ol iympathi»ert In

proceaeion. Soldier i of the Guard, tome of whoae comrades fell in
the nghting with the police, are teen in the upper illuitration
digging down through the now to make a grave. The lower
illustration shows one of many parties of sailors and soldiers, with
a red flag, engaged in searching for the hated Petrograd police of
the former Goremment — [Photos, by Illustration.* Bureau.]

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April 1ft. 191?

Che Russian Revolution: In petrograd

STREET SCENES : SOLDIERS ESCORTING ARRESTED PERSONS ; THE CROWD ROUND A WOUNDED MAN.

As a precaution, known partisans of the former rfyime and people
who htd openly shown sympathy with, or taken active part on, the
non-popular side during the street disturbances in Petrograd at
the outset of the Revolution, were arrested on the spot and escorted
by soldiers to places of detention. They submitted to arrest in
most cues in a quite quiet and resigned manner, and allowed

themselves to be marched away through the crowded streets
without giving their guards any trouble. Most of them were
released after a brief inquiry. In the upper • illustration tittctuts
are seen passing along a street in charge of soldiers. The lower
illustration shows a small crowd round a wounded man, with
soldiers to keep back the inquisitive. — [Photos, by Illustrations Bureau.]

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Russian Revolution: In petrograd.

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April 18. 1917

Che Russian Revolution: tn petrograd

STREET FIGHTING INCIDENTS : SOLDIERS AND STUDENTS ENGAGING POLICE ; GUARDING THE DUMA.

The upper illustration shows an incident at Petrograd during the
ftnt days of the rerolution. The firing took place mostly between
detachment! of the police, under the control of the then Minister of
the Interior, and soldiers of the Guard Regiments in the capital,
with some crrilians (many of them students) who supported the
Puma. A small party of soldiers and students are seen in action

across the Neviky Prospect, the great main thoroughfare of
Petrograd, with a police squad. Some of the police had machine*
guns, and fired down from house-tops. In the lower illustration,
bluejackets of the "Seamen of the Guard," who came over to the
popular side, are seen with some workmen, on guard at the entrance
to the Duma Building. — [1'iiaio.-.. by Illustrations Bureau.]

April 18. 1917

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§

Canada's premier Visits a Canadian Camp.

— ' *

Borden, the Prime Mini it *r of

'-- »i,h Ur, bomb. In th, tr«ch«.. „„„. .

«rch.d p.,, «„. Mlulinc baron.t-.nd ch\r<lflL"pWr."t"te±r'*t' " "^ ^'"^ **'

tt^chr was also o t •••««*4 pramce, machine-gun squads and field-

th. rwiou. Mrtloni, includlnf an ammuniulrl UT^i f"''Tln« firit *ld •' th« <«ttw for . jlijht spr.in of

"In., Md hor» mrtillw,, »n4 w.tch«l bomb.r. *" "•"* 'mt CM1r«tuUtion. to th. Can

i th^i captur. of Vlmjr Rid»«.— [Photoi. by C.N.

C.N.]

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April 13. 1917

WOMEN AND THE WAR.

M

'ME. CLARA BUTT is organising a Joan
of Arc " Day " in London for May 8.
Miss Gina Palerme will ride through the streets
of London clad in armour and surrounded by
appropriate attendants.

As much of interested London as can be
squeezed into the Queen's Hall will have an
opportunity of seeing Miss Ellen Terry, Miss Lily
Elsie, Miss Marion Terry, Lady Tree, and other
celebrated people take part in a Pageant of Fair
Women, written by Mr. Louis N. Parker, in which
Lady Diana Manners will impersonate the French
heroine, and walk in procession through the Hall.

May 8 is
the annuer-
sary of the
day on which
the Maid of
France raised
the siege of
Orleans — but
that has no-
thing to do
with the ob-
ject of the
" Day," ex-
cept that
much of her

spirit ani-

mates our

women who, in

various ways,

are working

towinthewar.

We helped to

burn her once

for doing the

same thing ;

it seems only

fair that some

reparation —

even though

rather late in

the da y —

should be

made. That

is the reason

why Mme.

Butt has

chosen Jeanne d'Arc as the patroness of her

" Day " on May 8 — when emblems, not flags, will

be sold in the streets for the benefit of the Three

Arts Women's Employment Fund : a work as use-

ful as any of the numerous " schemes" connected

with women which owe their origin to the war.

In the disorganisation that followed the out-
break of hostilities with Germany, probably few
women suffered more than those connected with
the arts of music, painting, and the drama. It is
rather amusing to remember the alacrity with
which pessimists prophesied the commercial,
financial, and military ruin of this country. If
only the economists had taken time by the fore-

FASHION ON THE LAND: A SCHOOL-GIRL AND HER TEAM.
It was a very practical Idea to offer prizes not only for agricultural proficiency, but also
for suitability of costume for working on the land. Miss D. Truscott, of St. Veep, Cornwall,
who is seen in our picture, is only fourteen, one of the youngest members of the Women's
Land Army, but has won three first prizes at agricultural demonstrations in Cornwall— for
harnessing and driving two horses in a wagon ; for harrowing ; and for the prize costume,
of showerproof washable twill, which she is wearing. Last year she raked eighty acres
of com without help.— [Photograph by C..V.J

its

lock, we might by this time have attained to
unthinkable habits of self-denial. As it was,
there was an indiscriminate " sacking " of
" hands," and a good deal of distress — much of it,
fortunately, only temporary, before we realised
as a nation that the end was not yet. But, mean-
time, artist.s, musicians, and actresses had suffered
terribly and their outlook was hardly rosy, for as
members of the so-called " luxury " professions,
their chances of re-employment were small.

With the object of remedying, if possible, this
dreary state of things, representative members of

the three pro-
fessions held
a meeting in
Sep tember
1914, and
agreed that
every effort
must be made
to meet this
distress. They
were unani-
mously against
the " dole "
system, both
as being in-
sulting to the
recipients, and
as affording
only tempo-
rary relief.
Work, either
in their own
sphere, or in
some new di-
rection, was
felt to be the
only possible
solution of the
problem of
the n n e rn-
ployed artist ;
and with a
little money
hastily col-
lected, and
much faith as

.vorking capital, the Three Arts Employment
Fxmd started on its beneficent career in rooms
lent for the purpose at the Headquarters of the
Women's Emergency Corps, in York Place, Baker
Street, W.

At first its policy could scarcely be described
as settled. Its appetite for " work " was in-
satiable, and its gifted members were ready to
tackle any proposition that came along. Lady
Bective ordered wallets of a certain pattern made
for soldiers — and wallets were turned out by the
score until no more were wanted. They were
followed by an outpouring of belts and socks for
soldiers until, that demand having been more or

Aeril 18. 1817

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H COar-Cime evolution : Our Olometi Police.

WOMEN POLICE AND THEIR WORK: OFF AND ON DUTY.

A-tlrf- ha, uu tha, « A po,*,,™.. «, „ not .

«n when the • enterprijine bur,lar', not ..burning," «,d the

., won^-poUc,™. „ w« My ^ ,he CI(>reoi^' mus(
Uen her course m both hwd. when .he took up her duties
But u«l.r. ^rtaj ,„ ,h, CTicencie. 0, .„„.„, ,J ^

uulitution. Ou, fir« ph,,op.ph rt<WI ,onw mBnb,ri

of the feminine "Force" in their hour of ea.ewom.nlT enough
to aatiafjr the m«« intttarate iiuiiter th.it women ihould be
women ; and needlework and letter-writing .how that thej retain
their feminine tastes and habits when "ofl duty." In the aecond
photograph the women-poUcemen are win " on duty."— [P*o/o».
by Nartpaper Illn-Jraliaiu.}

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April 18. 1917

less met, the Committee turned their attention to
rafia mats, with unexpected, if temporary, success.
It was not long, however, before the fertile brain
of one of the members devised a particularly solt
and vastly attractive penguin, that supplied the
key to the what-to-do problem. Germany had

the principal work, smocks, overalls, frocks, and
other clothes are also made, and the Three Arts
Shop, at 76, Baker Street, in addition to the
work turned out at Wigmore Street, has been
able to sell embroideries, and paintings, on com-
mission for some of the workers.

HOW YOUNG LADIES ARE HELPING TO SOLVE THE FOOD PROBLEM:
AT WORK NEAR BASINGSTOKE.

These young ladles are busily employed on Sir Richard Rycroft's farm near Basingstoke, where
they are most energetic and useful. — [Photograph ty Eric Guy.}

almost monopolised our toy industry ; but Ger-
many was at war, and none of her toys were
coming to England. The Committee of the Three
Arts Women's Employment Fund, with praise-
worthy optimism, decided to divert Germany's toy
trads into British hands, and
the Three Arts Women's Fund
Toy Industry has been in ex-
istence for over two years.

Its chief claim to fame,
however, rests not on the pen-
guin— delightful though that
is — but on its Cuddley Doll —
a creature with a fat and
pleasing personality and an
originality of appearance to
which no rival has yet been
discovered, and which, like the
penguin, is the Fund's own in-
vention. It has already ac-
quired a recognised position
for itself in the toy world, and
brought more orders to the
Fund Toy Industry than that
energetic concern is able to
cope with. This inability is
due, it should be explained,
not to want of will, but of
capital, a state of things
which the " Day " Mme. Clara
Butt is busy arranging for at 21, St. James's
Street, will, it is hoped, immediately set right.

The Fund, too, acts as an
employment agency, and many
women who at one time earned
a precarious livelihood in one
of the " Arts," are now draw-
ing regular salaries as clerks,
motor drivers, shop assistants,
or secretaries. Occasionally
those who apply lor work are
found to be unemployable, in
which case they are referred
to existing benevolent funds,
and the Committee, by work-
ing in co-operation with the
officers of such funds, is able
to find help for those who are
destitute or ill.

Apart from the fact that
the Fund is doing national
work in contributing towards
the formation of a national
toy industry, it deserves help
on another ground. Members
of the dramatic and musical
professions, have, above all others, helped to ensure
the financial success of entertainment after enter-
tainment organised in the cause of charity, both
before and since the war. May 8 will provide an
opportunity of showing an appreciation of the

The Fund has workrooms at 32, Wigmore
Street, and while doll-making in various forms is

HOW YOUNG LADIES ARE HELPING TO SOLVE THE FOOD PROBLEM.

Sir Richard Rycroft, of Dummer House, Basingstoke, has employed young ladles on his farm,

with excellent results, as they en)oy the open-air work, perform their task thoroughly, and hare

taken to their new life with zest.— [Photograph by Eric Guy.}

services that have been so ungrudgingly given.
Those whose enthusiasm can brook no delay can
send a donation to the Hon. Treasurer, the Three
Arts Women's Employment Fund, 32, Wigmore
Street, W. CLAUDIUS CLEVK.

April 18. 1917

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[New SeriesJ— 3

TThc British Victories on the Cdestern front.

LEADING THE GRAND ATTACK ON THE " HINDENBURG LINE": LIEUT.-GEN. SIR E. H. ALLENBY, K.C.B.

General All en by who, together with Genera) Home, is stated to
have the immediate charge of the divisions attacking the German
positions of the so-called ' ' Hindenburg Line," is a cavalryman.
He was formerly in the 5th Lancers and, like General Home, did
br lliant work in the South African War, for which he wears eight
clasps on his two medals. He has been at the front since the

outset of the war. He commanded the cavalry in the Mons
retreat, and his brilliant work in covering the retreat of our out-
numbered infantry divisions before von Kluck's five army corps,
won unstinted praise from Lord French. For his services he was
created K.C.B., and was awarded the Grand Cross of the Legion
of Honour.— [Photo, by Barnttt.]

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April 18, 1917

By W. DOUGLAS NEWTON.

GERMANY'S ENEMIES INCREASE-FIGHTING

B( ) TI I in number and in determination the
enemies of Germany have increased in force

this week. The United States of America has set

itself in practical manner

to the task of defeating

the common foe, while

independent States of

South America have joined

in with the Allies or else

expressed themselves of

their fervent disapproval.

To the ranks of the

belligerent the Republic

of Cuba and the State of

Panama have been added.

Cuba if she does little

else but give moral sup-
port, also adds a mimber

of interned enemy ships

to the common stock ;

while Panama has offered

to concern herself with the

defences of the Canal.

Brazil, on the other hand,

has not taken up an atti-
tude of hostility ; but she

has broken off negotia-
tions, and the action may

be only delayed. In any

case, Brazil has captive

in her harbours some

230,000 tons of enemy

shipping, and

this huge
total, added
to the ton-
nage interned
in the ports
ol the United
States, stands
for a most
useful acces-
sion to the
carrying cap-
acity of the
Allies at a
time when
every ton is
needed. For
herself, the
United States
has taken a
first and
magnificent
step in the
war, and has
organised a

huge .war STEEL-HELMETED NURSES ON THE WESTERN FRONT: PLACING FLOWERS ABOVE

THE GRAVE OF A FALLEN SOLDIER.

£ I .]00,000,000, As with s,rrtch<,r.bearers and hospital-attendants on duty at the front, steel helmets are served

O t W h 1 C n out to all nurses.— [Photograph by C.N.]

THE GERMAN AVIATOR PRINCE KILLED ON THE WESTERN

FRONT : PRINCE FREDERICK CHARLES OF PRUSSIA.
According to a telegram at time of writing, the German Court
Marshal at Berlin is making proposals to the British Government
for the disinterment and removal of the remains to Germany.

U-BOATS- RUSSIA AND CONSTANTINOPLE.

£600,000,000 is to be set aside for the purchase of
bonds for the Allies. The army and the country
are being organised on scientific lines, and, though
there is little hope of an
American Army being
seen on the Continent yet
awhile, the potential asset
of from two to six million
men is already in evidence;
the fleet and, what is use-
ful at the present moment,
the host of fast patrol
craft are already prepared
for action, and there can-
not be any great delay in
making use of this big
force in Atlantic waters.

That they may be used
to fight the submarine
threat is more than likely,
for, though the losses
through attack are being
kept down to a steady
level, it cannot be said that
we have yet eliminated
the U-boat peril. We still
have to face this grave
danger to our food sup-
ply, and though we can,
with care, hold out in
spite of the enemy, we
still have the emphatic
task of fight-
ing with all
our wills both
on the seas
and in our
own homes.
It is the
bread supply
which is, of
course, the
crucial mat-
ter, and in
this we de-
pend upon
the action of
the civilians
quite as much
as the Navy.
If we do not
make the
best use of
all substitutes
to eke out the
grain supply,
we are going
to be faced
with a very
grave situa-
tion. As things

[CvntinHtrt mxrltaf.

April 18. 1917

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TThe British Victories on the Cdestern front.

.GRAND ATTACK OK THE " HINDENBURG LINE": UEUT.-GEN. SIR H. , HORNE, K.C.B.

»

th. main German « Hind«nburg Lin. " in , ha,

captured Fricourt in tht earlier Somme fichtiiu B.

is an .rtilleryman, and in ,9,Z was Inspector-General of the R»a

HorK and Field Artillery of the ArmT He ««£

le greatly d,stmgu,shed

""'" """^ Urd Roll"ts •»* «-ord Kitchens, b«inf pr^nt
! "Potions under those leaders from first to list.

"dT^'t ""n C'"PS °" "" ribb°nS °' h" ^ CamPaig"
^' US' °C'Ober "' was ""'^ K'C-B- ">r " Anguished
serv.ces in the field" against the Germans.- [Photo, by Svaine ]

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April 18. 1917

an- now, the ]><•<>]>!<• of this country have it in
their own hands to starve themselves out or
ronr> through successfully.

Tlie Kustern and Oriental theatres show no
very great i halites, though again tlie intciTsting

news both concerns .ind comes from Turkey. In
Mesopotamia the British and the Russian troops

have joined hands on the Persian border, and

now hold a front along the Teheran road some

sixty miles north and north-east ot Baghdad.

The enemy, so

far, seem to have

escaped from a

position which

promised dis-
aster, and this

may, perhaps, be

attributable to

the fact that the

retreating forces

have been joined

by reinforce-
ments, and the

harried army has

been stiffened.

They seem to be

rallying on a

point between

the Tigris and

the Diala, and

may give battle.

In fact, if we

have made up

our minds to

advance, this would appear imminent, for the

Turkish line here must do everything to hold us

off Mosul and Sumawa, their only reasonable

bases on this field. The news that may have a

great effect on Turkey comes from Russia, where

the Provisional Government has declared itself

against territorial conquests. This would mean

that Russia no longer looks to occupy Constanti-

WITH THE BRITISH FORCES IN THE
EMBANKMENT THROUGH

nople after the war, but would be content with
free passage through the Dardanelles and effec-
tive guarantees. Such a declaration is bound
to have a powerful appeal to the Turkish mind.
The Turks, harried on half-a-dozen fronts, and
with defeated and despondent forces, can be in
no state to appreciate the spiritual beauty of
servitude to the German. The German had
earned a deserved unpopularity, and has taken
more than he has ever given ; Russia's declara-
tion — removing,
as it does, the
threat to Con-
stantinople—
seems, on the
face of things, an
opportunity lor
the Turks to cut
out from a bad
bargain. Turkey
seems ripe for
such a move, and
such a move
would be va'ti-
able to us, for
we could use
some of the men
now on the
Mesopotamia!!
and Sinai fronts
in other and
more important
fields.

Of naval news
there has been little this week, though we have
had a satisfactory " reprisal " for the destroyers
we have had sunk latterly, since we torpedoed
a couple of German boats off Zeebrugge early
in the week. These were destroyed in the
course of a combined naval and air raid on the
port. The Germans have admitted the loss of
one of the destroyers. LONDON: APRIL 14, 1917.

EAST : BUILDING A RAILWAY
A PALM GROVE.

WITH THE BRITISH FORCES IN THE EAST: A CAPTURED MEDICAL OFFICER OF A TURKISH "RED CRESCENT"
AMBULANCE (CORRESPONDING TO THE RED CROSS SERVICE).-[/>ft<,<ofra/>* by C.N.]

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The Illustrated War News. April 25, 1917.~Part 46, New Serif,.

Illustrated War

AMERICA DAY, APRIL 20, 1917 : KING GEORGE V. AND QUEEN MARY ARRIVING AT ST. PAUL'S.

Pkotogriph bv C.N.'

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April 25. 1917

By W. DOUGLAS NEWTON.

THE ALLIED STRATEGY BEGINS TO SHOW HINDENBURG'S PREDICAMENT -
FIRST FRUITS OF THE ALLIED OFFENSIVE.

THE past wci'k has certainly been one ol the
most notable in the annals of Armrgoddon.
The (iermans, who are unable to refrain from
drawing the attention of the less skilled to the
obvious, have advertised that " one of the
greatest battles of the mighty war. and therefore
in the history of the world," is taking place, and,
though we may wonder how it was that " the
brilliant retreat to plan " went wrong and changed
suddenly to
" the greatest
battle," we
can agree
that in the
time tinder
review events
have been de-
veloping with
extraordinary
swiftness to a
phase of cru-
cial import-
ance. The
whole scheme
of war has
emerged from
a condition
of indefinition
(indefinition,
that is, to the
public eye)
into a con-
dition of sin-
g u 1 a r r e-
levancy. We
have been
able to see
not merely
the vigorous
and victorious
extension of
fighting over the 120 miles of front that runs
between Loos and Auberive, but we are beginning
to see the machinery of a plan as big in con-
ception as the fighting is big in energy. We
are beginning, as it were, to see some light. We
are beginning to perceive the reasons for certain
apparent reticences in past action ; and, more
than anything, we are beginning to appreciate the
fact that not all good strategy is " made in
Germany," but that quite a striking portion of it
is the property of our own leaders.

As it was bad accountancy to strike a balance
of our profit and loss in the " retreat," before we
had seen what our plan to meet the enemy move
might be, so it would be bad accountancy to give
a final valuation to the plan in these days when it
has only just been put into motion. It is a good
plan ; it has about it the air of solidity and skill

ON THE BRITISH WESTERN FRONT
AGAINST THE RETIRING

which should make for success ; but strategic
plans, however fine their conception, have un-
deniably the faculty of ganging agley. We feel
this one will not suffer that fate, but it is not
reasonable to feel triumphant before the triumph
is here. All the same, though we are yet in the
days of initiation, we can consider our new
move in its scope, and assess from it some ideas
of its purpose, its powers, and its chances of

practical re-
sult.

The im-
mediate con-
sideration of
the plan —
and it is ob-
vious that the
fighting at
Lens is one
with the fight-
ing on the
Aisne — shows
us that we
have leaders
who have the
ability to do
so m e thing
better than
merely to
chase Hind-
enburg's re-
tiring divi-
sions across
country to
St. Quentin
and Cambrai.
Chase those
divisions they
did certainly,
but we see
.now that the
chase was mainly to hold the retirement, keep it
fighting, and keep it anxious by threats to such
nodal points as St. Quentin and Laon. While this
chase drove ahead, winning what it could, and dis-
maying the enemy by rts swiftness, the real power
of action was being taken up at more important
points in a more important manner. With the
smashing stroke beyond Vimy, against Lens, and
the nervous, defensive ganglion abou* St. Quentin,
we began to appreciate the fact that the Allies had
the nous, the ability, and the force to shatter
Hindenburg's schemes by a stroke of manoeuvre
rather than the pressure of weight — that is, the
assault from Arras threatened to turn the whole
of the German line, while the pressure against
Cambrai and St. Quentin only threatened to drive
it in. When the French opened their mighty
attack at the beginning of this week, our growing

: OUR MEN USING A GERMAN GUN
GERMANS. — [Official Photograph.]

April 25. 1917

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appreciation of the Allies' skill in plan was con-
firmed. That attack, which first extended the
general battle from Soissons to the north of
Rheims — giving the French the control of the
apparently impregnable northern bank of the
Aisne, as well as a supremacy on the Craonne
plateau — spread quickly eastward from Rheims
to the Suippes, where, as a result of truly mar-
vellous fighting, the troops of our Ally carried the
entirety of a formidable range of heights south of
Moron villiers.
The immediate
tactical advan-
tage of this
new offensive
was the cap-
ture of all the
German first
line positions,
an/1 some of
the second,
along a great
front ; but the
st r at eg ical
vahx; of the
movement,
taken in con-
junction with
the fighting at
V i m y, was
enormous.

In a sent-
ence, the mean-
ing of this Aisne • Champagn? battle is that
the French have opened up a phase of fight-
ing that threatens the flank and the rear
of the present Hindenbt.rg dispositions from
the south, as the British fighting about Lens
threatens them from the north. The battle we
see going on now is a battle concentrated on a
double flanking stroke ; it is a battle of indubitable
ferocity holding out such menace to the Germans
that they are bound to fight with every ounce of
strength, since, if they crack, the whole of their
power in the West is likely to collapse. The Allied

ON THE BRITISH WESTERN FRONT .
THE ADVANCE. -

strategy that was only latterly in question hr.s,
tfien/sutidenly developed a line of splendid bril-
liance. Holding Hindenburg from Cambrai to
St. Quentin, from St. Quentin to the Aisne (and
more than holding him — threatening him even
with a break at St. Quentin), the Allies are also
driving, hard at "his wings. «indehburg is in an
evil predicament. He must fight sternly and
with all his wits on every front. A break on any
of the fronts might spell disaster. That, of course,

is the bold con-
ception of the
present plan.
Its theory has,
however, to be
developed
through the
travails of fact.
The conception
is admirable
enough, but it
will be sub-
jected to many
exigencies. The
weather, quite
abominabl e
just now, must
have a certain
derogatory ef-
fect on the
action of ad-
vance, and the
advance must
meet difficulties in terrain and in defence works.
The Lens area is good country for tactics of
resistance ; the mine works and slag-heaps
can all be organised into holding points. On
the Aisne and in the Champagne the French
face a formidable country, stiffly hilly, sparse in
villages, difficult for organisation and communica-
tion. And, to these natural impediments, which
must be grimly surmounted before success comes,
must be added the energies of the enemy. He has
been struck some ghastly blows ; he has lost more
valuable positions in the last few days than he

WORKING PARTIES

•[Oficial Pl.olog'aph.]

FOLLOWING UP

ON THE BRITISH WESTERN FRONT : OUTSIDE AN ADVANCED DRESSING-STATION.— (Official Photograph)

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April 25. 1917

has lost through months of war ; he is in danger ;
lie will tight with all his powers to save himself
from the calamity of defeat ; and, at the worst, he
will employ all his ability to extricate himself
from an alarming position and find his way back
to a more secure line. As before Kovel in the

ON THE BRITISH WESTERN FRONT : A SCENE ON A ROAD ON NEWLY
CAPTURED GROUND.— [Official Photograph.]

summer of 1916, he is now piling up his forces to

bring the Allied assault to a standstill. He is

cramming his reserves into his line, as he did

before Brussiloff. It must be remembered that

these tactics were successful against the Russians,

and we cannot eliminate the chances of his success

now. Success or no must be left to the future and

the power and ability of the Allies, though it can

be said that the Allies are better equipped with

guns and shells than ever Brussiloff was. If the

Germans cannot hold, it must

be expected they will fall back

rather than break — I say this

because the Germans are

making much of the fact that

the Allies have failed to

" break " the front. The day

of broken fronts is probably

over ; but the day when fronts

must yield and go back, with a

vigorous enemy hurrying after,

is only beginning. The least

we can be aiming at is to force

the enemy still further back

across France ; the most might

be anything.

Some of the features of the
fighting are worth attention.
Its method, economy in effort
and life, its slaughter of the
enemy, and the soundness of
its manipulation are remark-
able qualities. The staffing
all through is essentially workmanlike ; the
tactics of gunnery and infantry combine with an
assurance beyond praise. When we recall that
such positions as the Vimy Ridge, the Aisne and
Craonne heights, and the bold hills between Mont
Carnillet and Auberive were justly considered

inaccessible even in 1915, and were yet carried
with a despatch which puts the fighting of the
Somme — brilliant though it was — in the shade, we
can gauge something of the skill which the Franco-
British Staffs have acquired. On all these fronts
the Allied troops had to fight against a prepared
enemy. Vimy was strongly
held, along the Aisne and in
the Champagne effectives were
massed in the expectancy of
just such strokes as the French
successfully delivered — and,
;ndeed, the huge bags of
prisoners and material, as well
as the huge slaughter, assures
us of the German strength —
yet, in spite of the enemy
strength in preparation, the
points were carried, and car-
ried with a loss considerably
less than that anticipated.
Such victories can only be
gained by armies whose me-
thod and strength are supreme
over their rivals. It is this
supremacy that augurs ill for
Germany.

That the augury is under-
stood is apparent. The Ger-
man divisions have been railed post-haste into
the battle area. It is said that the Russian
and Italian fronts have been tapped for men. It
Is certain that the Germans had twenty divisions
in line against the first French attack, and more
divisions were hurried up. The Germans realise
the position is crucial, and it is more than likely
that they have thrown aside all other plans in
their anxiety to pull the present situation out of
the fire. This, indeed, may be the first important

ON THE BRITISH WESTERN FRONT: A NEW SUPPORT Llm.-[Official Photograph.}

fruits of the Allied offensive. They may have
settled the enigma of Hindenburg's giant reserve
once and for all. That giant reserve may not be
utilised against Russia or Italy or Calais— it may
have to be utilised to dam the tide of attack that
is rising in the West. LONDON : APR,, 2I, ,9,7.

April 25. 1917

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Ht a British Base fiospital at Salonika.

ANTI-AIRCRAFT PRECAUTIONS : INDIANS MAKING A RED CROSS WITH TILES AND WHITEWASH.

To leave enemy aircraft on the Balkan Front no excuse when on
their occasional "tip and run" bomb-droppinf raids orer the
Allied base camps At Salonika, the hospital authorities consistently
designate the localities of their establishments by means of red
crosses on white, displayed horizontally on the ground and visible
(com any altitude. In tome instances red-»nd-whit« canras strips

are used, as we il'ustrated in * former issue, showing a hospital
camp so marked, which the enemy all the same bombarded, causing
loss of life. Her* Indian soldiers are seen marking out a red
crots with tiles and whitewash. French dragoons of General Sar rail's
personal escort are seen in the lower illustration, standing beside
their chargers, while an aeroplane is passing.— iPhotos. by L.N.A-1

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Britain's Oldest HUy en Route for the front.

LANDING OF THE PORTUGUESE CONTINGENT IN FRANCE : INFANTRY ON DISEMBARKATION.

The upper illustration shows a disembarkation scene at a certain typical Portuguese soldiers are seen. As will be noted they wear

French seaport at the landing of one of the /ortuguese infantry uniforms, caps and tunics, of very much the same shape and cut

regiment.. The regiment is shown fallen-in on the quay alongside .. the khaki-clad men of the British Army As to the fighting

the transport. The band is seen on the right of the illustration. capabilities of the Portuguese soldier, Englishmen ought to know

Men and baggage are still corrung off the ship down the sloping something. They proved thenuelves among the most stubborn

gangway partially seen on the l«ft In the lower illustration, some fighters in Wellington's Peninsular army -[PAotos by C N ]

April 25. 1917

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Britain's Oldest HUy en Route for the front.

PORTUGUESE MATERIEL LANDED AT A FRENCH PORT: LOWERING A VEHICLE FROM ^TRANSPORT.

In prerious iiauci we have given illustrations of some of the
troopt o( the Portuguese Army— infantry, cavalry, and artillery—
under orders to join the Allies on the Western Front, while under-
going training in Portugal for campaigning tervice ; also of officers
and men of an adrance detachment in France. On this page
and on that opposite, we now show part of the Portuguese main

Expeditionary Force, on the occasion of their landing at a French
port The photographs hare just reached London. That on this
page shows the disembarkation of army tiuUrul alongside a quay
In progress, a military vehicle being slung OTtrboard from a trans-
port Owing to Portugal's geographical situation, the only means of
reaching the scene of war is by a sea passage.— [Photos, by C.N.]

8 [NeH.'"!s*«]-THE ILLUSTRATED WAR NEWS. April 25, 1917.

" 'Co Reinforce those Splendid HustraUan Division*

INFLICTED TERRIBLE PUNISHMENT ON THE

After inspecting the Australian troops on Salisbury Plain on April 17, the King sent a message to Major-General the I
i Moore in which he said : "I am very glad to have had an opportunity of inspecting the various training I
e Australian Imperial Force, and I wish to express my satisfaction with the appearance of the fine body of nnf

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5{n?^ln9Pcction 0" Salisbury plain.

AT LAGNICOURT: A GREAT BODY OF AUSTRALIAN '
an attack by

TROOPS MARCHMo PAST THE KING

ou ime

r r.m
•0— {_NCW

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April 25. 191

t:be Canadian Capture of Vimy Ridge.

CAVALRY AND ARTILLERY : CANADIAN LIGHT HORSE AND HORSE ARTILLERY GOING INTO ACTJON.

Cavalry shut* In the taking of Vimy Ridge, as in other phases Mr. Philip Gibbf, "were rushing up their field-guns. 'Our

of the Battle of Arras. Some, for example, captured a pair of oo-pounders,1 said a Canadian officer, 'had the day of their lives.'

heaTy German howitzers ; others drove the Germans out of Monchy. They found many targets. There were train* moving in Vimy

Our photographs show Canadian Light Horse going into action on Tillage, and they hit them. There were troops massing ... and

Vimy Ridge, and (below) Canadian Horse Artillery, during the they were shattered. There were guns and limbers on the move,

same action, taking up a new position. "The gunners," writes and men and horses were killed."— (Pkotos. by Canadian War

April 25. 1917

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TTbe Canadian Capture of Vimy Ridge.

CANADIAN MACHINE-GUNNERS ON VIMY RIDGE: THE

The Canadian machine-gunners did good service both in the

e of Vimy Ridge and in the repulse of the sub^uent

a attempt* to recapture, it Thin, in an official despatch

il^ll (three day, after the Ridge had been taken), it was

"Early this morning we attacked and captured two im-

»t portions in the enemy's line, north of the Vimy Ridge,

USE OF SHELL-HOLES AS EMPLACEMENTS.

astride the River Souchez. A number Of prisoners were taken
by us. During the night two hostile attack! upon our new
positions oo the northern end of the Vimy Ridge were driven off
by our machine-gun fire, with heavy German losses." As the
above photograph shows, the Canadians made use of shell-holes as
position for machine-guns.— {Photos, by Canadian War Records.]

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German prisoners in the Battle of Hrras.

" CARRYING OUR WOUNDED " : PRISONER STRETCHER-BEARERS ; OTHERS FED BY THE BRITISH.

In the upper photograph some German pri«oner«, in their "Dolly
Varden " helmets, are seen acting as stretcher-bearers for British
and German wounded. The lower photograph shows others,
mostly in round caps, receding food from a British soldier. " The
German prisoners," writes Mr. Philip Gibbs in an account of the
capture of Vimy Ridge, "were glad to pay for the gift of life by

carrying our wounded back. The eagerness of these men was
pitiful, and now and then laughable. At least the Canadian escorts
found great laughing matter in the enormous numbers of men they
had to guard. . . . Many looked ill and starved, but others were
tall, stout, hefty fellows. . . . Some had been without food four
days ; our gun-fire had boxed them in. "— (Official l'lwtographs.1

\pril 25. 1917

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Some of our fourteen thousand German prisoners.

MAKING THEMSELVES USEFUL : GERMAN PRISONERS BRINGING IN WOUNDED AND A MACHINE-GUN.

The German* captured in the Battle of Arru, whoie number wu
officially stated on April 16 a* exceeding 14,000. showed considerable
alacrity in makinf thenuelres useful in rariotu ways. They were
actuated by motirea of relief, no doubt, at h«rinj escaped with
their lives, and exchanging the hardships and horrors of their own
trenches (or the good food and considerate treatment they were

certain of receiving in a British prison camp. In the upper photo-
graph are seen some German prisoner* carrying a wounded man on
a stretcher orer rough ground. The lower illustration shows cip-
tured German machine-gunners bringing their gun into the British
line*. German \artillery prisoner* feared their fellow captives of the
infantry might attack them for falling them in battle.— [Official Photos.}

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April 25. 1917

ROMANCES OF THE REGIMENTS: XLVI.-THE ROYAL SCOTS.

HEPBURN'S PARTING WITH QUSTAVUS.

THE romance of regimental romances has but
one defect : it is too obviously a romance.
But the famous old corps to which it belongs, the
senior regiment in the British Service, does not
require to go to fiction
for "a tale to draw
children from their play
and old men from the
chimney-corner," as Sir
Philip Sidney says. The
Royal Scots' wonderful
story is written in hard
fact, and the history of
the regiment is one long
romance. In romance
it arose, when certain
adventurous Scots — and
in particular John Hep-
burn, son of the Laird of
Athelstaneford in East
Lothian — heard the re-
cruiting drums of Sir
Andrew Gray, and took
service for the Bohemian
wars. Any cause would
have been welcome, but,
as it happened, the
Scottish recruits of 1620
found an especial attrac-
tion in trailing a pike
under Frederick, Count
lor his cause was in effect that of
Bohemia, daughter of James VI.

It is a far cry from that enlistment to the
Royal Scots. Hepburn, after serving for a time
as a " private gentleman," rose rapidly to com-
missioned rank, and became the trusted lieutenant
of Gustavus Adolphus, with whom he shared most
of his great exploits. But they parted at length

ON
BY

Palatine ol the Rhine ;
Elizabeth of

in some bitterness on the great day at Nuremberg.
On the eve of that battle Hepburn had resigned
his commission, but he -could not stay out of the
fighting ; and the King of Sweden, reluctant to
lose so good a man,
twice begged him as a
favour to undertake
hazardous duties. These,
" because they were
hazardous," Hepburn
performed gladly ; but
he would not reconsider
his decision, and passed
into the service of
France.

The exact reason of
the quarrel between
Gustavus and Hepburn
is not known. It oc-
curred at a critical time,
and appears tp have
been comparatively
trifling. But both men
were quick on the point
of honour, and words
were spoken on both
sides which were not
easily withdrawn. Some
younger officer, it is
said, had been sent by
Gustavus to a point of danger which Hepburn
coveted, and he and the King came to high words.
The King so far forgot himself as to descend to
personalities. He taunted Hepburn with being
a Roman Catholic (which he was), and, going a
little lower, made regrettable remarks about the
Colonel's dress, which was always very rich and fas-
tidious. Hepburn put up his sword, and vowed he
would never draw it again in the Swedish quarrel.

\fmMHHtd mtrlatf.

THE WESTERN FRONT: WOUNDED CARRIED IN
PRISONERS AT VIMY RIDGE.— [Canadian War Ktcords.]

.

ON THE WESTERN FRONT: A LIGHT-RAILROAD TRUCK WITH WOUNDED ABOARD: AND GERMAN PRISONERS
CARRYING IN A WOUNDED MAN^Cawutta,, Wo, Records.}

April 25, 1917

THE ILLUSTRATED WAR NEWS.

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"Che Canadian Capture of Vimy Ridge.

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AFTER THE ADVANCE : CANADIAN RESERVES ON VIMY RIDGE DIGGING IN AND CONSOLIDATING.

After the Canadians had accomplished their great exploit of
by uuult the famous Vioir Rldft, their next taak wai to hold
the poiition they had won. The next day (April 10) wu " largely
deroted (to quote a Reuter meisa(e) to consolidating the important
(aina of Monday and clearing up ipoti here and there which were
Hill ruining." This work the Canadians did with equal nicccss,

and two German counter-attacks were repelled. In an official
despatch of the 12th, Sir Douglas Haij was able to state that :
"Further progress haa also been made during the day north of
the Scarpe and east of the Vimy Ridge. Our gains reported this
morning north of th« Vimy Ridge hare been aecured, and our
positions strengthened."- [Pkotas. by Canadian War Records.]

.

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April 25. 1917

Gustavus saw his mistake, which was the more
g'aring that he had just appointed Sir John to the
command of half his infantry, though with no
higher rank than Colonel. He tried to smooth the
matter over, but the Colonel bowed and withdrew.

ON THE WESTERN FRONT: IN OCCUPATION OF A GERMAN TRENCH
Official Photograph.

But the friendship of years was hard to break.
All through that fierce day at Nuremberg, when
Wallenstein's artillery, firmly posted on the
Altenburg heights, mowed down attack after
attack of Gustavus's ' troops, Hepburn remained
near the King, and exposed himself as bravely
as the men of his old command, the Green
Brigade. Compelled to remain a mere spectator,
Hepburn kept always in the zone of danger.

Towards evening a fresh attack
was'proposed by Duke Bernard of
Weimar, and Gustavus wished
further information as' to the pre-
cise position. " Is there no able
officer," he asked, "who will hasten
there and examine this ground for
me ? " Not a single field officer
appeared amid the general con-
fusion. Hepburn took his chance,
and volunteered. " Go, Colonel
Hepburn," said the King. " I
am much obliged to you."

Hepburn, attended by a faith-
ful sergeant, dashed away through
the smoke and reconnoitred the
position as well as he could. He
returned alone. The sergeant had
fallen. " Sire," said the Colonel,
" the attempt is practicable."
The assault was delivered, at
terrible cost to the Scots. Night
was now at hand, and Gustavus
noticed that several Swedish
regiments, advancing too far, were like to be
cut of* by Wallenstein's cavalry. He wished
them to retreat, but had no one to send with
the order. Knowing his man, he applied once
more to the Colonel.

" Sire," said Hepburn, " this is the only

service I cannot refuse your Majesty, because it
is a hazardous one."

He turned and crossed the fire-swept ground
again, cutting his way through bands of straggling
Croats. When he rejoined the King, Hepburn
sheathed his sword, and cried,
" And now, Sire, never more shall
this sword be drawn in your ser-
vice. This is the last time I shall
serve so ungrateful a Prince."

Even then he could not desert
the King. All through that night
he lay on the ground close to
Gustavus. At dawn he heard
the King, who was anxious about
the advanced Scottish musketeers,
asking, " Is any officer of the
field near me ? "

" There is none but Colonel
Hepburn," said an attendant.

At the words, Hepburn sprang
forward.

" Colonel Hepburn," Gusta-
vus cried, " may I beg of you
to make one visit to our poor
soldiers on the Altenburg and
observe if there is any place
whence we may use artillery
against the castle ? "
Hepburn did his chief yet one more good turn.
He came back to report that he had found the Scots
almost buried in mud and water, but he had seen
a place where cannon might be used at forty paces.
" I had rather," said the King, " you had
found me a place at ten times that distance. I
cannot bear the thought of seeing my brave
soldiers torn to pieces a second time."

There was nothing for it but retreat. Gustavus,

ON THE WESTERN FRONT:

TOMMIES WATCHING THE BRITISH ADVANCE.
Official Photograph.

in person, brought off the mud-stained Scots,
marching with them on foot like a junior officer.
But even that act of reparation did not heal
the breach. Hepburn had performed his last
service, and went his way. A month later,
Gustavus fell at Liitzen.

April 25. 1917

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H German fiit-Bach during the Vimy Ridge Httach.

A SHRAPNEL-BURST IN FRONT OF A BRITISH TRENCH : IMMEDIATELY AFTERWARDS.

Two shrapnel effects with one shell >re shown here— the photograph of the shell-casing by it» explosion, and the scuttling forward of

haring been taken a few second* after a bur.t high up in the air. the bulleti inside, we tee the amoke cloud, »till forming a fairly

Note the whitish spots on the ground in the immediate foreground compact puff, as it drifts away. Already the whiteness charac-

of th« photograph. They are bullet marks, showing where the Uristic of shrapnel-bursts has to a large extent darkened to grey

bulleta from the shell had just struck the soft ground and em- and partially to the final dark tinge the imoke of the e*plosiT«

. bedded themselTes. In the brief interral succeeding the "opening" Ukes before finally breaking up.— [Cttnadia.* War Rtconb.)

>8-[Ne»'rs4L]~THE ILLUSTRATED WAR NEWS. April 25. 1917.

On Gaeter JVlonday JVlorning — The German fro

Scribing th, bomb.rdm.nt of the enemy', Vimy Ridee
Mr. B..ch Thorn., write, : " H.re ^dTher. rT."

i, fr.ntic .s.0.s., from

BURSTS OF SHELL AND SHRAPNEL FILLED THE "EARTH AND AIR": THE

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infantry advance.

"il'iT" "•""""""'' OI oi»CKness, glowing red at the centre.
«n, .nd shrapnel— this medley of fireworks— filled the

THE ILLUSTRATED WAR NEWS. April 25. 19I7.-[N£lts&,'J- 1»

n Vimy Ridge Undergoing Bombardment,

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»HES WHILE THE TORNADO OF BRITISH SHELLS WAS BURSTING ON THEM.

I and air with such intermingled fires that little distinction was perceptible till jome particular explosion happened to reflect
»»all of a ruin or girt background to a tree." There were continuous explosions along the enemy's front, mostly from high-
^sire shells bursting exactly on the trench-lines. —[Canidian War Recordi ,P,iofc>jra/>*.]

20-[K5IVIL1J-THE ILLUSTRAT

Canada's ^everstosbesforgotten Hcbievement :

IMMEDIATELY AFTER THE ARTILLERY BOMBARDMENT CEASED : G0|

With iuch completeness and thoroughness had the artillery done their work on Vimy Ridge among the German entrenchro |
and belts of barbed-wire entanglement, that, as far as outlying obstacles remained, the infantry of the Canadian attack had in r
places little more than a "walk over." We see something of the smashed-down and destroyed state of the German "wire1

NEWS. April 25, 1917.- [Ke^

Victorious Hssault on the Vimy Ridge position.

I

> ACROSS "NO MAN'S LAND" TO STORM THE GERMAN TRENCHES.

above illustration. It »hows the previously apparently impregnable barrier on a stretch of " No Man's Land " in front of the

? crossed b> some of the Canadians. Everywhere the wire was found swept away or flattened down by our

ire. Only stumps of the supporting poles, mostly splintered or broken, remained.- \Ca,adian War Record* Photogmpl,.]

THE ILLUSTRATED WAR NEWS, April 25. 1917.

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On the JVlorning of the Battle of Hrras-

i .

A, fast a, th. infantry of th STAR™G °™ ™ "^ W ™E BAYONETS OF ™B FOREMOST ATTACK
their heel, followed our supporting l^in "eadTnJsV t^Srce"'^ ?" ^'"J" ,«««*•>. carrying one after another, close at
proved stubborn. In rear of the supports came on the «v« .bay°ne' '""^"t fighters wherever the enemy's resistance
n*' to chnch matters where needed, and be at hand for an

THE ILLUSTRATED WAR NEWS. April 25. l»17.-[N/rs^«J-

Ibc Backbone of the Grand Httack.

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mt So it is laid down in bittle-forraation text-booki ; so it was carried out in the Battle of Arrai, according

-THE ILLUSTRATED WAR NEWS. April ». 19! 7.

Cbc ever-sMemorabte Bxploit of tl

ON VIMY RIDGE BATTLEFIELD : GERMAN PRISONERS UNDER BRITISH SUPE1

" The Canadian casualties were not heavy in comparison with the expected losses ; bu< -he German prisoners were glad to
pay for the gift of life by carrying our wounded back. The eagerness of these men wa» ;>itiful, and now and then laugM
So Mr Philip Gibbs describes, speaking of Viray Ridge battle on the afternoon o< the great Canadian exploit.

THE ILLUSTRATED WAR NEWS, April 25. 1 9 1 7.-[ „£«*£«]-

Canadians on Saetcr Monday, 1917.

NG IN WOUNDED AT A RED CROSS LIGHT-RAILWAY COLLECTING STATION.

,*" %°?nh J0","* ? >tretCher 'bearers and bringin« in wounded to *' temporary railhead of .

f the ii ' th , * al"ady bee" pushed forward close after the "ri"«-Mne. Men are seen, in the right

ion. advancmg the line towards where shells are b«rsting.-[a,*,rfla» HW

THE ILLUSTRATED WAR NEWS.

April 25. 1917

FOOTNOTES TO ARMAGEDDON: XXXVII.-A FLAW IN FAME.

"P\ON'T you talk of photoing me fer picture

\-J papers. Na-poo ; heroing makes me feel
bad. I 've 'ad some.

" I was rather a fool that way about a month
ago. A feller came along, round this hospital, you
sec, and took photos. Nice feller 'e was, too. 'E
took us in groups, and 'e took us at our little
games. We rather liked the idea. He said he
was from the Daily
Plate, an' that our
photos would be
looked at by mil-
lions of people, es-
pecially girls. And
the best - looking
among us would get
scores of letters,
with the ripest kind
of fags attached,
from Lonely Muni-
tioneers and other
wealthy maidens.
Good idea, we
thought, so we let
him have his fling.

" I must say, he
did a lot of fling with
me.. I 'm rather
neat at doing things
in the conjuring
line, and I do other things the fellers like, too. So
I did 'em all for 'im, and 'e never seemed tired of
snapping me attitudes. 'E was real pleased with
me. Said 'e 'd make a splash — ' Genius in the
ranks,' and all that. I was rather a chump, I own.
I let 'im do 'is worst.

' Well, after 'aving photo'd us all round, we
cheered 'im off, and waited with glad 'earts for the
Daily Plate to come out showin' us in all our
beauty. In a day or two there we was, a bit

ON THE WESTERN
Official

smudgy, and with queerer faces than wot we
thought we 'ad ; but, all the same, it was us.
Great sport it was, looking at ourselves in reckless
moments, and telling th' other chaps 'ow croolly
true to life them pictures were. Great sport it was.
I remember we lived on them photos fer weeks.
" Fer meself, I was very proud of meself. The
feller 'ad done as 'e said. I was the star turn — the

largest splash on
the middle pages,
and all that. Fine
pictures they were.
Never knew I was
like that. Rather
bucked me. An'
you knoo it was me,
mind. No gettin'
away from that.
They 'd took extra
well. The front
face an' side face,
an' ever* th' back
o' me 'ead — all me.
You couldn't get
away from th' fac'.
Beautiful pictures,
sure. An' then, o"
course, me name
was underneath ;
' Private Edwin
Smyles balances a chair on his chin ' ; ' Private E.
Smyles is seen here opening an umbrella which he
will hold over his head as it is raining ' ; ' Private
E. Smyles wears a happy look, conscious of the well-
earned rest he has earned in doing his duty in
fighting for his King and Country ' — you know
'ow they puts it down. I liked the King and
Country bit. Struck me as being very 'appy put.
" Oh, I didn't 'art feel proud. I bought five
copies of the Daily Plate. I left one about where

FRONT: HOWITZERS.
Photograph.

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ON THE WESTERN FRONT: BRIDGING A MINE- CRATER ON A ROAD.

Official P/iotograpti.

April 25. 1917

THE ILLUSTRATED WAR NEWS

Swearing-in Russia's "Democratic Hrmy" in f ranee.

FIERCE FIGHTERS ON THE AISNE : RUSSIANS IN FRANCE SWEARING-IN TO THE

'The democratic array of Russia took part in the kittle, ukinj a
brilli»nt sh.re in the advance. " So ran an Exchange menace

rf April 17 regarding the great French offensive. An official

:h communique of the tame dat», repor.inj- German counter.

attacks, laid : "Another violent attempt in the lector of Courcy.

occupied by Rusaian troop., .Uo /.iled." Ct»,cj u tome five

NEW REGIME.

milei north of Rheimi. Our photographs illuitrite the ceremony
which changed the Russian brigade In Champagne from an imperial
to a democratic force, the taking of the oath to the provisional
Government of Russia, administered by a Russian priest Tne upper
photograph shows the commander, General Lokhvitsky, and his
officers j the lower one, soldiers standing behind.— [PAotos. Topical.]

Mr P»
LN*»

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THE 1LLUSTBATED WAR NEWS.

April 25, 1917

1 I

the pretty V.A.D. 'elp could see it, and I nailed the
pictures o' me out of another over me bed. I
thought no end o' meself . I remember fellers I 'adn't
'ardly spoke to before gave me fags, so 's to be seen
talking with me. It was all very nice, I can tell you.

" An' th' other fellers envied me, o' course.
They said if any Lonely Munitioneers got busy, or
if there were any letters with fags in
knocking round, they were sure I 'd
carry off th' honours.

" I thought like that meself. Them
photographs were so good I almost
thought I 'd cornered the Lonely
Munitioneer and fag-parcel market.
I began to look forward to a good
time. Well, that is, I thought that
until I was called into the Qrderly
Room.

" Bit of a shock, that, being called
into the Orderly Room. The Captain
asked if it was me as 'ad been photo-
graphed in the papers. Feeling elated
like at fame, I said as that was so.

An" it 's a good photo, of you,
you think ? ' said the Captain.

' I told 'im it was first-class.

' ' Good enough, you think, for
anyone to recognise you ? '

" That was true, on me oath, an'
I said so. The Captain nodded.

1 It seems it might be,' said the Captain.
' Somebody 'as.'

" I did feel a bit chilly then. I was careful.

' 'Oo could 'ave ? ' I asked, cautious like.
' 'Oo in th' world ? '

She ses,' said the Captain, ' she ses she 's
your wife.'

" Well, there was a question to ask a man of a
sudden. I didn't know wot to say. After
breathin' deep, I ses that I wasn't quite certain,
as I didn't know 'ow law stood.

" ' She ses she is Edith Smyles, neigh Caple,' said
the Captain. ' She ses you married "er in Peck-
ham in 19-0-3. The marriage was a 'appy one

ON THE WESTERN FRONT: MEN WHO TOOK PART IN THE

ADVANCE: AND SOME CAPTURES FROM TILLOY.

Officml Photograph.

" Lummy, I did feel orlright then
tell you. All I
strewth ! '

" The Captain looked severe like,
a wife ? ' he asks, stern.

could say was, ' My wife,
' 'Ave you

CAPTURED AT TILLOY: A GERMAN MACHINE-GUN EMPLACEMENT

ON WHEELS.— [Official Photograph.]

until 19-0-6 ' .(' 'Appy, my 'at I ' thought I), ' but
in the autumn of that year she lost sight of you —
is all that true ? '

" I said, rather gaspy, that I seemed to
remember bits of it as being very like. The
Captain looks 'arsh at me.

' Then she is your wife, an' you deserted
'er, Smyles ? '

" Nasty word that.
1 ' Not really deserted, Sir. A
combattancy ot temper, really.' I
caught 'is eye — well, Captains is
'uman. ' Do you 'appen to 'ave seen
'er. Sir ? ' I asked. He coughed a
little at that.

' Well, no,' 'e ses, 'asty like.
' No, not seen 'er. But she 'as sent
several letters.' I caught 'is eye
again. Well, I know Edith. She 'as
a tongue, Edith. She do say things—
and she don't do it mildly.

' Mrs. Smyles,' ses I to 'im, ' Mrs.
Smyles don't really get 'er full scope
in letters. You should 'ear 'er in the
natural.'

" Well, 'e began coughin' again.
An' then 'e began to give it me 'ot.
. . . But I didn't mind that. It
was wot Edith wanted that knocked
me. No, an' it wasn't really the six-
pence a day cold wot came out o' me
pay— sixpence a day, fer 'ER. That
was bad enough. But 'er kindness
was worse. She demanded 'er rights to visit 'er
'ero 'usband — an', lummy, she do visit me !

" Me, 'oo expected Lonely Munitioneers an'
fags— to get Edie 1 No more photos in the
papers fer me." w. DOUGLAS NEWTON.

can

April 25. 1917

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<nith the Russians in f ranee: "Ba.ho," the Corps pet.

PLAYMATES AT PLAY : " BAIKO " HAVING

That a bear should be a Russian regimental pet will seem to most
people quite as it should be. The Bear, in the popular mind,
is typical of Russia, just as we arrogate to ourselves the
Lion. As to the British Lion, of course, we have the heraldic
lion-badge on the Royal Standard to support the popular conception,
the association of Russia with the Bear is, apparently, rather time-

A GAME WITH A SOLDIER'S MASCOT-KITTEN.

honoured artistic ikense. "Baiko" is the corps pet of the
Russians in France. Some of the troops, while crossing Siberia
in the neighbourhood of Lake Baikal, the great inland sea of the
country, took a fancy to him and bought him. "Baiko" has
been "mentioned in despatches," it is stated, since his arrival at
the front in France. — [Pkoto. by Illustrations Bureau.]

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TOE ILLUSTRATED WAR NEWS.

April 25. 1»17

Granary of Death to feed the french Guns.

THE ARTILLERY PREPARATION HAD BEEN

These photographs of . ,ing|e French munition ,,ore indicjlle

the enormous .hell-power behind the French artillery
It has gi»en proof of its re«ource» in the Battle of the Aime
« artillery preparation," write. Mr. G. H. Perrii in describing
French offensire, "had been upon a prodigious scale. Between

'riday afternoon and m o'clock this morning (April 16) big

UPON A PRODIGIOUS SCALE": SHELLS AT TOULOr,

. . NeTer ha. the preponderant part played by
'« b.g «uns m the modern battle been „ erid«,t » it i. tlday "

April 25. 1917

THE ILLUSTRATED WAR NEWS

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ji "Che a.S.H. and Star: "Stars and Stripes"

in the Citv.

THE FRATERNISATION OF THE UNITED STATES AND GREAT BRITAIN : FLAGS AT THE MANSION HOUSE.

Americans in London, and Londoners who hare hailed with supreme
satisfaction the "coming in" of the United States in the cause of
civilisation, will never forget the freat demonstration in the City
on April 20, when the King and Queen attended the service of
consecration at St. Paul's. The rait cathedral was packed to the
doora, Londoners, too, headed by the Lord Mayor, Sir William

Dunn, who ordered the British and American flags to be displayed
side by 'side on the front of the Mansion House, made a brave
show of bunting. The Stars and Stripes hare for a century put
stood for freedom, and never before has there been so general a
display of the American national flag in London, and assuredly
never in so noble a cause. — (Photo, by C.N.] • •

I-HE ILLUSTRATED WAR NEWS.

April 25, 1917

^

"this Great Landmark in the Rioter? of Mankind/'

.J.Re. , (PUBLIC RESOLUTION NO. / "i5th CONGRESS.) ?..

Congress at fyt Well States rf America;

Begun and IxJd at the City of Washington on Monday, the
one thousand nine hundred and seventeen.

scowl day of April,

JOINT RESOLUTION

Declaring that a state of war eii«U between the Imperial German Government
and the Government and the people of the United State* and making
provision to prosecute the same.

Whereas the Imperial German Government ha» committed repeated acts of
war against th« Government and the people of the United States of
America : Therefore be it

1 Resolved by the Senate, and House, of Ktpntentatiret of. lite United Slate*
a] America ia Congnu assembled, That the state of war between the United
States and the Imperial Gorman Government which has thus been thnwt upon
the United States in hereby formally declared ; and that the President be, uml
he is hereby, authorized and directed to employ the entire naval and military
forces of tho United States and the resources of the Government to carry on war
against the Imperial German Government; and to bmg the conflict to u
successful termination all of the resources of the country «i» hereby pledged by
the Congress of the United States. ,/

Speaker of the Jlotue of Reprtaentatim.

/ / A, > / .if +~

tetynZ J »jkf»*f'7'/

Tice President of the Umteti States anil

President of the Seual?.

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A HISTORIC DOCUMENT : THE WAR RESOLUTION OF THE UNITED STATES CONGRESS.

It U safe to say that the "Public Resolution No. x " of the
Sixty-fifth Congress, and the subsequent Proclamation, will liye
among the most famous documents in the history of the United
States, and, indeed, of the world. That on the left-hand page is
the resolution, with President Wilson's signature. On the right-hand
page is the President's signature, with the seal of the United

States, at the end of the Proclamation formally declaring war with
Germany. The concluding paragraph seen here contains provisions
regarding the arrest of enemy aliens in certain circumstance:.
The text of the whole Proclamation appeared in the "Times" ot
April 7. Both Houses of the British Parliament passed on
April ig a resolution welcoming America's decision. In the

[ConliHittd opposite.

April 25. 1VH

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. .

TTbe 'Curning-point in this Olar."

fcoufto violate, any regulm-
by the President, or any
Ited States,, or of the
lprfejsjtt>ieroof, *ill be subject
>.t byXtie United States Marshal,
r such othO!.> orr.'ser as the Preel-

, ai.-' to oor. fine. -.Tit In cuch
risen, jnil, military canp, or
rlctentiri, ^.. ...^.- 1, <:irec'..cc: by

and th« re^ulatione herein contained
tp all land and water, continental or
the Jurisdiction of the United

have hereunto set ray hand and
United States to be affixed.

Done at the City of HVashlngton,
this Si ~ day of April,
) in the year of our Lord one
) thousand nine hundred and
/ seventeen, and of the1 inde-
r pendence of the United States

the one hundred end forty-
first.

A HISTORIC DOCUMENT : PRESIDENT WILSON'S

Co»tintu<t.]

House of Lords Earl Curzon said: "The entry of the United
States into this w,-u h a great event, not merely in the fortunes
of the war or in the annals of the American people, but in the
moral history of the human race. . . . Each one of us may be
proud to have lived In these times and to have witnessed this
great landmark in the history of mankind." In the House of

SIGNATURE TO AMERICA'S WAR PROCLAMATION.

Commons Mr. Bonar Law similarly described the entry of the
United States into the struggle as "the greatest erent which hai
happened during the war." "The whole people of this Empire
and of all the Allied countries," he continued, "welcome the
adhesion of our new Ally with heartfelt sympathy, not only as the
greatest event, but . . . the turning-point in this war." — [Plioto$.Topicai.\

THE ILLUSTRATED WAR NEWS.

April 25. 1917

WOMEN AND THE WAR.

NURSES DECORATED BY THE KING: AFTER THE INVESTITURE.
At a recent Investiture by the King:, a number of Nurses were decorated by his
Majesty at Buckingham Palace, and were afterwards received by Queen Alexandra.
They are seen in our photograph leaving Marlborough House.— [Photograph by Topical.]

WITH the coming of Spring, we were told,
the women of England would be wanted
to speed the plough and indulge in other rural
occupations that would develop their muscles and
help to stave off famine at one and the sams
time. Spring delayed her arrival and is long
overdue, but
between two
and three thou-
sand women
have enrolled in
the Land Army,
and are gal-
lantly tackling
the heavy,
dirty, and hard
work promised
them by Mr.
Prothero at the
Albert Hall a
few weeks ago.
The question as
to whether it
is " woman's
work " no longer
arises. Anything
that a woman
is capable of
doing falls with-
in her " sphere"
•these progres-
sive days ; and even farmers, usually the most
conservative of men, are beginning to acknowledge
that the female farm " hand " who knows her
job is not really

such a bad sub- ^^^^^^^^^^^^

stitute for a
man after all,
so that new re-
cruits have not
the same pre-
judices to fight
against as the
pioneers.

The authori-
ties take care,
however, that
Miss " Hodge "
shall not im-
peril her repu-
tation by en-
gaging indis-
criminately in
any farm work
that may hap-
pen to take her
fancy. Like the
military recruit,
she has to undergo training, which is given at one
of the thousand centres for the purpose established
in this country. It is not, of course, claimed to
turn out a perfectly finished " hand " in the four

WOMEN FARM PUPILS: A GROUP IN BUCKINGHAMSHIRE.

A number of girls are learning farming at Denham, under Miss Tregea, a Cornish

instructress. They are billeted in a cottage and provide their own firewood by search.

ir* for branches, or felling small trees. Miss Tregea is seen on the left in our

photograph.— [Photograph by Alfitri.]

weeks' tuition, but at least the workers gain some
idea of the rudiments of their new work, and
their capacity for enduring the life is fully tested.

The day's work begins at six a.m. and ends at
eight p.m., and half-past nine is the latest hour

to Which the

. pupils are al-
lowed to " sit
up." Not that
there is any
disposition to
indulge in late
hours. Learn-
ing to clean
cow-houses, to
milk, to feed the
farm animals,
to feed and
groom horses,
to engage in
dairy work, as
well as in the
more strenuous
work of digging,
absorbs all
available energy,
though the fact
that the girls
improve very
quickly in phy-
sique, and that their welfare is the especial care
of women appointed by the Government for the
purpose, shows that the authorities are by no

means indifier-
^^ ent to the
health and gen-
eral well - being
of the members
of the Land
Army.

V

Learning to
milk is one of
the land girl's
most important
duties. A £50
cow is a fanci-
ful beast who
insists on being
gently handled,
and retaliates
for bad treat-
ment by refus-
ing to give any
milk at all. So
the recruit tries
her 'prentice
hand on a
dummy cow before attacking the live animal, and
when it is remembered that a novice can ruin a
valuable animal in half an hour the precaution is
seen to be both wise and necessary. The dummy

[Continued vvtrltaf.

April 25. 1917

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T Part 46 I ,-
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"Che Stars and Stripes in Great Demand in Cngland.

PROOF OF AMERICAN POPULARITY : A LONDON
While Parliament has welcomed the entry of the United SUtei
into the war, by the pining of resolutions in both Houses and
eloquent ipeeche* (quoted elsewhere in thii number), popular
feeling hat shown itself in a simpler form, by a demand for the
American flag. The Lord Mayor of London took the lead by dis-
playing tba Stars and Stripes along with the Union Jack outside

STREET-VENDOR SELLING UNITED STATES FLAGS.

'the Mansion House, and his suggestion that on America Day
(April 20) they should be similarly flown together on public
buildings throughout the country was eagerly taken up. The*
only difficulty was in obtaining enough flags for the purpose, and
by the I7th, it was reported, several large flag-printers were already
sold out ol " Old Glory. •'•— ff*oto. by C.N.]

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cow — more like a square stool than anything
else — is provided with wide udders which are
filled with water. After a certain amount of
practice, the beginner is promoted to a goat ;

ROUGH WAR-WORK FOR WOMEN: WHITEWASHING AN OUTHOUSE.

War-time has brought a startling revolution in work deemed suitable for women, and " house-
breaking," in the non-criminal sense, and labourers' work generally, are amongst their latest
tasks. Women workers are here seen busily whitewashing a. shed.— [Photograph try L.N.A.]

then, as her confidence increases, is allowed to
get to work on a cow.

The appeal for volunteers to do timber work
issued by Mrs. Tennant at 'the Albert Hall Women's
Meeting has been answered, and sixteen fair
" foresterettes " are already
learning the rudiments of
their novel job under the
Afforestation Department, of
which Sir Bampfylde Fuller
is the head. Instead of
houses, they live in cara-
vans, and their patriotism is
proof against even such
temptation to " grouse " as
has been afforded by the
Arctic April weather. A
communal canteen is respon-
sible for all the commissariat
arrangements, and the chief
work done by the girls is
cross-sawing for pit - props,
and clearing the wood and
trimming it. Work of the
kind has not, as Mrs. Ten-
nant said, formed any part
of the recreative programme
of the average young English-
woman, but the athletic girl
has a considerable " pull "
over her less energetic sister
when it comes to work that makes pretty con-
siderable demands on sheer physical strength.
It is interesting, too, to know that several
Canadian women are included amongst the
first batch of workers, whose numbers, by the

bye, will shortly be increased to sixty. As to
the financial side of the business, the pay offered
is twenty - five shillings a week, with a bonus
of five shillings on work done.

While some women are
doing their best to help save
the country from a serious
shortags of food, others are
engaged in seeing to it that
no scrap of food shall be
wasted. Upon the Women
Directors at the Ministry of
Food— Mrs. C. S. Peel and
Mrs. Pember Reeves — de-
volves the responsibility of
organising public or communal
kitchens, not merely as a help
to the poor and needy, but
as a means of checking food
waste in all classes. Pickled
herrings, porridge, pulse foods,
soup in jelly form are all in-
cluded in the prospective
menu, and with the depletion
of domestic staffs consequent
on the war the kitchens — if and
when they come into existence
further West than Shadwell,
where one was opened a week
or two ago — should supply a very real want. So
we may still come to the time when queues will be
formed outside the " Savoy " or " Cecil " kitchens,
and supper parties will return to the house of their
hostess each carrying his own meal in a bowl.
There is, of course, another side to the matter.

ROUGH WAR-WORK FOR WOMEN: WIELDING THE PICK.

Women are being employed by a Westminster firm in the demolition of buildings. The work
Is neither easy nor without risk even for navvies, but these women recruits to the army
of labour work hard and fearlessly at their unaccustomed labour. — [Photograph by L.N.A.]

At the moment the saving of food is the primary
necessity ; but later, when peace is restored, in
the event of a scarcity of money, the communal
kitchen would be of the greatest assistance in
helping to alleviate distress. — CLAODINE CLBVK.

April 25. 1917

THE ILLUSTRATED WAR NEWS.

T Part 46 ~\ ^,
(.New SpriesJ— -I?

By W. DOUGLAS NEWTON.

VICTORY AGAIN AT BAGHDAD

-AMERICAN

OUTSIDE the battle-area of the West there is
little news of fighting. The Eastern front
is quiet, probably because of the thaw ; there are
rumours and gun-fire along the Roumanian line,
but nothing of striking importance. In Mace-
donia there appear to have been clashes, but
reports are
few, and the
encounters on
the Italian
line are also
few and local.
From Meso
potamia comes
news of the
strengthening
of our hand.
Sir Stanley
Maude has
again whipped
the Turks, and
again he has
done it in his
clever fashion.
Assured of the
concentration
.ind reinforce-

ON THE BRITISH WESTERN FRONT : A NEW 5"9 GERMAN GUN
BY OUR ARTILLERY.— \Offifial Photograph.}

ment of the
enemy, he
delicately withdrew his troops in the districts
between the Tigris and the Diala, and the Turks
very readily followed this " retreating " force.
Behind Deli Abbas the British leader had his
trap for the enemy : he halted, turned on them,
thrashed and chased them. The defeat was
pretty drastic, and might have been more so, but
the mirage saved the flying Turks. In any case,
they were driven back with severe loss to a

FOOD - StllPS-GERMAN UNREST.

position fifty miles north of Baghdad. At the
same time, the British front has been pushing its
way upward on the Baghdad line until it has
come within striking distance of the Turkish
base at Samarra. At no point did the enemy
resist, and the like'ihood is that they will lose

yet another
stronghold in
this field, as
well as their
hold on this
portion of the
Baghdad rail-
way.

Among the
general war
reports there
is one which
puts the
United States
already among
the belliger-
ents. An Am-
erican des-
troyer is said
to have en-
countered a
U-boat ; this
attempted,
but failed to torpedo the American. On their part
the Germans insist they have rio submarines in
American waters — yet : the " yet " is studiously
embodied. Of more purpose is America's steady
assumption of her role in the war. President
Wilson, grasping the significant question, has
already laid his plans for sending food-ships —
U-boats or no U-boats — to the Allies. The
feeding of the Allies is of paramount importance,

[Continued an I'a£e 40.

DESTROYED

ON THE BRITISH WESTERN FRONT : A FIELD-GUN BATTERY IN ACTION.

Official Photograph.

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On the Day after the Opci

SOME OF THE 11,000 GERMAN PRISONER
reas," writes Mr. Philip Gibbs, descri

, a

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the Great Battle of Hrrae,

OUTSET : MEN OF MANY REGIMENTS.

liged to many branches of the German Army, infantry and reserve field artillery, Landwehr, foot artillery, pioneers,
nchment companies, telegraph battalions, Red Cross, trench wireless stations, and supply columns. . . They were weak
hunger till our men gave them food, for our bombardment had boxed them in for four days."— \:)ffici«l l'!:oinKnpk.]

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and the Americans are initiating a large effort to
maintain an unceasing and regular supply. To
this end ships will be in constant sailing, and to
this end a big scheme tor building wooden ships
is to be put in hand. At the same time attention
is being paid to the opportunities of food supply

ON THE BRITISH WESTERN FRONT : CAVALRY WAITING FOR THE ORDER
TO MOVE UP. — [Official Photograph.}

that Germany may be nurturing L>y means of the

neutrals. Likely channels by which food might

reach Germany through Scandinavia and Holland

are to be siibjected to examination, and the

blockade screwed tighter here. Of the problem

of America's future military strength we know

very little that is definite, as

yet. President Wilson is said

to be favouring conscription as

the equitable and economical

means of raising his armies.

It is probable that for many

months to come the benefits we

will obtain through America

will be mainly in supply —

money, food, munitions, and

weapons, like guns, aeroplanes,

and the rest.

Quite an interesting phase
of the present situation lies
in the atmosphere of political
incoherence troubling the rulers
and the peoples of the enemy
Powers. There is apparent a
great range of unrest and fret-
fulness inside Germany and
Austria. In Austria it takes
the form of political unsettle-
ment, a war-weariness, hunger,
and attempted rapprochements
with the new Russia. This
state of things is symptomatic
rather than the basis of definite action. There is,
as yet, nothing to build on, the chances of a
separate peace with Russia least of all. In Ger-
many the root cause of the unrest is hunger and

war - weariness also, these things finding some
sort of expression in a growing demand for
democratic control in the State. The Kaiser
has met this demand with insubstantial
promises, but the unrest continues. There have
been important strikes in Berlin and other
towns like Leipsic, and a cer-
tain amount of rioting. This
has been quietened, it is said,
but undoubtedly an uneasy
feeling is in the air, a feeling
which the Allied successes will
certainly not assuage. It is
not policy to build any vic-
tories out of this state of
things, since the German has
lived so many years under the
yoke that subservience is
habitual to him. The signs,
however, can be noted for the
light they throw on the de-
terioration of German moral.

On the sea the Germans
have entered into a war on
hospital-ships, and by air we
have effected the first of our
promised reprisals. Freiburg
has been bombed as punish-
ment for the sinking of the
Gloucester and Salta. The
Germans aie indignant at us
for hitting back ; but, to quote their own
gospel, the cure is in their own hands. The
British attitude towards reprisal is one of
extreme distaste, but if by such methods
we can save the lives of our non-combatants,
then we have a right to undertake them. When

ON THE BRITISH WESTERN FRONT : MAKING NEW DUG-OUTS ON
CAPTURED GROUND.— [Official Pliotofrapli.]

the Germans cease to torpedo Red Cross ships, we
will refrain. It is also notified that additional hos-
pitals are to be created overseas to reduce sailings,
and doctors of military age mobilised for them.

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