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AFTER THE GERMANS HAD WORKED THEIR WILL ON IT : BURNT-OUT HOUSES IN THE BELGIAN VILLAGE OF MOULAND, NEAR VISÉ. Photo. Newspaper IJlus.

BY SPENSER WILKINSON. Aufkor of " The Brain Chichele Professor of Military History in of an Army" the University of Oxford. " Britain at Bay&*c. A FORTNIGHT has passed since the people of England divined, in advance of their Government, that they must go through the ordeal h of

TO BE WON IN THE GREAT WAR : DECORATIONS THE Every Europti h itil dl fl hi ii FIGHTING NATIONS GIVE THEIR BRAVEST OF THE BRAVE. — [Drawings by Courtesy of Messrs. Spink. European nation has its special medal for personal heroism in action. The British Victoria Cross is, perhaps,

SLEEPING BY THE GUNS : AT NIGHT ON BOARD A BRITISH CRUISER IN WAR-TIME. -[I'liotoi^iiiph by Silk J There is probably not a single battle-ship or cruisei on the move in the North Sea—or in the Atlantic on board which a scene such as that shown here is not to be witnessed every nig

"e^rstTHE "BIRMWGHAM' 15 SAID TO HAVE DESTROYED THE GERMAN -*<* —" illustrates how a battlhi" T" mus« "Birmingham" This drawing SUBMARINE U is WELL-AIMED SHOT INFLICTS FATAL WOUND. full speed. fired first theshot . The periscope was shattered and thb blidd e^rst battle-shir, or c

THE SEA WATCHING ENGLAND'S SHORES : GUARDING THE YORKSHIRE NARROWING MAIN LANE. COAST ; AND THE —[Dratrn by Liorel Edu ards front a Skcich by Frank H. Mason, R.B.A.] In these anxious days it is reassuring to know that both the naval and military authorities have taken every preca

ROYAL INTEREST IN THE PRINCE OF WALES'S REGIMENT : QUEEN ALEXANDRA WATCHING GRENADIERS LEAVE FOR ACTIVE SERVICE, —[ bv Ccoi:«'.] Since the Prince of Wales joined the ist Battalion of the Grenadier Guards, as a Second Lieutenant, the interest of the Royal family in the famous regi

THE KITCHENER OF FRANCE : GENERAL JOFFRE, THE COMMANDER-IN-CHIEF Gl Jff th CdiChif f th Fnh Ar h hiiti bhhiii ON WHOM THE FRENCH ARMY RELIES- Joffre, the of the Army, has won his position by the exhibition of much the same qualities as those for which Lord Kitchener is famous. He