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Title: Some 'Frightful' War Pictures

Author: W. Heath Robinson

Release date: March 23, 2021 [eBook #64904]
Most recently updated: October 18, 2024

Language: English

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*** START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK SOME 'FRIGHTFUL' WAR PICTURES ***

SOME
‘FRIGHTFUL’
WAR PICTURES

BY W·HEATH ROBINSON

DUCKWORTH & CO.

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.

I. THE TRUE REASON OF THE WAR

A little Frontier Incident in Alsace, July 1914

II. NACH PARIS!

First Lessons in the Goose-step

III. HAGUE CONVENTION DEFIED!

The Germans use Button Magnets

IV. HAGUE CONVENTION DEFIED

Stiffnecking Tommies by directing Draughts on the British Trenches

VI. HAGUE CONVENTION DEFIED!

Failure of the new Tommy-scalder

VII. HAGUE CONVENTION DEFIED!

The Tatcho Bomb

VIII. KOLOSSAL!

Krupp’s Great Reconnoitring Mortar

IX. THE WAR LORD AT THE FRONT

A Morning Tub on the Imperial Campaigning Car

X. WAR KOMFORTS!

Some Notes in a German Bivouac

XI. MUNITIONS!

Testing Mines at Cuxhaven

XII. A CLEVER RUSE

How two German Officers carried a Gun past the British Lines

XIII. NEUTRAL!

A Swiss Shepherd watching a Battle on the Frontier

XIV. BRITISH PATENT (applied for)

The Drilling Frame for Raw Recruits

CROSSING THE YSER

XV. BRITISH PATENT (applied for)

The Lancing Wheel for teaching young Lancers to lance

XVI. BRITISH PATENT (applied for)

The Trench Presser or Bosch Bayoneter

XVII. BRITISH PATENT (applied for)

The Outflanking Machine for Turning Movements

XVIII. BRITISH PATENT (applied for)

A trained Dog of War drawing the Enemy’s Fire

XIX. BRITISH PATENT (applied for)

Picking the Pickelhaube: a little Game for the Trenches

XX. OH U!

The German Periscoper: “Ach, Himmel! Dot most be der peautiful
Ben Nevis of vich ve ’ave ’eard so mooch!”

XXI. THE ENEMY IN OUR MIDST!

German Spies training a Carrier Pigeon in the Fastnesses of a
London Boarding House

XXII. THE ENEMY IN OUR MIDST!

An Extra Special Constable discovering a German Waiter in the Act
of laying the Foundation of a Concrete Gun-bed

XXIII. HAGUE CONVENTION DEFIED!

Using Siphons of Laughing Gas to overcome the British before an Attack in Force

XXIV. HAGUE CONVENTION DEFIED!

Lachrymosing the British by Onion-whittling under Cover of Night

THE END

PRINTED IN GREAT BRITAIN
AT THE COMPLETE PRESS
WEST NORWOOD
LONDON