SOME ‘FRIGHTFUL’ WAR PICTURES [Illustration] BY W·HEATH ROBINSON DUCKWORTH & CO. [Illustration] _First published 1915_ _Reprinted 1916_ PRINTED IN GREAT BRITAIN AT THE COMPLETE PRESS WEST NORWOOD LONDON The full-page drawings originally appeared in “The Sketch” and in “The Illustrated Sporting and Dramatic News.” The author is indebted to the proprietors of these journals for permission to issue them in this volume. [Illustration] [Illustration: I. THE TRUE REASON OF THE WAR A little Frontier Incident in Alsace, July 1914] [Illustration] [Illustration] [Illustration: II. NACH PARIS! First Lessons in the Goose-step] [Illustration] [Illustration] [Illustration: III. HAGUE CONVENTION DEFIED! The Germans use Button Magnets] [Illustration] [Illustration] [Illustration: IV. HAGUE CONVENTION DEFIED! Stiffnecking Tommies by directing Draughts on the British Trenches] [Illustration] [Illustration] [Illustration: VI. HAGUE CONVENTION DEFIED! Failure of the new Tommy-scalder] [Illustration] [Illustration] [Illustration: VII. HAGUE CONVENTION DEFIED! The Tatcho Bomb] [Illustration] [Illustration] [Illustration: VIII. KOLOSSAL! Krupp’s Great Reconnoitring Mortar] [Illustration] [Illustration] [Illustration: IX. THE WAR LORD AT THE FRONT A Morning Tub on the Imperial Campaigning Car] [Illustration] [Illustration] [Illustration: X. WAR KOMFORTS! Some Notes in a German Bivouac] [Illustration: UHLANS PREPARING TOAST FOR TEA DURING AN ADVANCE. A CAVALRY OFFICER HAVING A WARM BATH. BROTHER GENERALS HAVING A QUIET CUP OF TEA AT THE FRONT. A NEW MORTAR FOR SENDING LUNCHEON BASKETS UP TO AEROPLANES. AN ORDINARY PRIVATE SECURING A PHEASANT. CRACKING NUTS FOR THE OFFICERS’ MESS.] [Illustration] [Illustration: XI. MUNITIONS! Testing Mines at Cuxhaven] [Illustration] [Illustration] [Illustration: XII. A CLEVER RUSE How two German Officers carried a Gun past the British Lines] [Illustration] [Illustration] [Illustration: XIII. NEUTRAL! A Swiss Shepherd watching a Battle on the Frontier] [Illustration] [Illustration] [Illustration: XIV. BRITISH PATENT (applied for) The Drilling Frame for Raw Recruits] [Illustration] [Illustration: CROSSING THE YSER] [Illustration: XV. BRITISH PATENT (applied for) The Lancing Wheel for teaching young Lancers to lance] [Illustration] [Illustration] [Illustration: XVI. BRITISH PATENT (applied for) The Trench Presser or Bosch Bayoneter] [Illustration] [Illustration] [Illustration: XVII. BRITISH PATENT (applied for)