[Illustration: MUCH USED AGAINST SOUTH AFRICAN REBELS: A TRUCK OF AN ARMOURED TRAIN, AT BLOEMFONTEIN. Armoured trains worked by the South African Engineer Corps have done useful service in the operations against the rebels. The truck in the photograph, it will be seen, is loop-holed.] This was the recent meeting, not at Cologne, but at Malmoe, of the three Kings of Scandinavia--Denmark, Sweden, and Norway--who lunched, and dined, and debated together for several days, when it was at last announced to the world at large (and Germany in particular) that "their deliberations had not only consolidated the good relations between the three Northern [Illustration: MEN WHO UNDERGO GREAT HARDSHIPS IN THEIR PURSUIT OF REBELS: A BIVOUAC OF SOUTH AFRICAN LOYALISTS. Our correspondent writes: "After a long chase they find themselves very often forty miles from the convoy, nothing to eat for man or beast, and in a country destitute of food."] [Illustration: WHERE "REGIMENTS HAD BEEN RAISED AS IF BY A WIZARD'S WAND": GENERAL SMUTS SPEAKING AT JOHANNESBURG. General Smuts, South African Minister of Defence, said recently that there had been a magnificent response to the call to arms. On the Rand regiments had been raised as if by a magician's wand.] __________________________________________________________________________ THE ILLUSTRATED WAR NEWS, DEC. 30, 1914--[Part 21]--7 [Illustration: AMENITIES OF MOLE WARFARE SATIRISED: A FRENCH CARICATURIST'S SKIT ON THE "LUXURIES" OF LIFE IN THE TRENCHES.] Both the French and British troops have made the best of things in the siege-warfare of the trenches, and out of an initial condition of misery have managed to evolve a considerable amount of comfort in many parts of the front. Ingenious French engineers, for example, have constructed warm shower-baths, hair-dressing saloons, and similar conveniences, while the British "Eye-Witness" was able to write recently of our own lines: "The trenches themselves are heated by braziers and stoves and floored with straw, bricks and boards. Behind them are shelters and dug-outs of every description most ingeniously contrived." The above French cartoon, which is from "La Vie Parisienne," is headed "La Guerre des Taubes et des Taupes" (moles). __________________________________________________________________________ 8--THE ILLUSTRATED WAR NEWS, DEC. 30, 1914.--[Part 21]