SOME
                              ‘FRIGHTFUL’
                             WAR PICTURES

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                                  BY
                                W·HEATH
                               ROBINSON

                            DUCKWORTH & CO.




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                        _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.

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[Illustration: I. THE TRUE REASON OF THE WAR

A little Frontier Incident in Alsace, July 1914]

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[Illustration: II. NACH PARIS!

First Lessons in the Goose-step]

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[Illustration: III. HAGUE CONVENTION DEFIED!

The Germans use Button Magnets]

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[Illustration: IV. HAGUE CONVENTION DEFIED!

Stiffnecking Tommies by directing Draughts on the British Trenches]

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[Illustration: VI. HAGUE CONVENTION DEFIED!

Failure of the new Tommy-scalder]

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[Illustration: VII. HAGUE CONVENTION DEFIED!

The Tatcho Bomb]

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[Illustration: VIII. KOLOSSAL!

Krupp’s Great Reconnoitring Mortar]

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[Illustration: IX. THE WAR LORD AT THE FRONT

A Morning Tub on the Imperial Campaigning Car]

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[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.]

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[Illustration: XI. MUNITIONS!

Testing Mines at Cuxhaven]

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[Illustration: XII. A CLEVER RUSE

How two German Officers carried a Gun past the British Lines]

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[Illustration: XIII. NEUTRAL!

A Swiss Shepherd watching a Battle on the Frontier]

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[Illustration: XIV. BRITISH PATENT (applied for)

The Drilling Frame for Raw Recruits]

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[Illustration: CROSSING THE YSER]

[Illustration: XV. BRITISH PATENT (applied for)

The Lancing Wheel for teaching young Lancers to lance]

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[Illustration: XVI. BRITISH PATENT (applied for)

The Trench Presser or Bosch Bayoneter]

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[Illustration: XVII. BRITISH PATENT (applied for)

The Outflanking Machine for Turning Movements]

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[Illustration: XVIII. BRITISH PATENT (applied for)

A trained Dog of War drawing the Enemy’s Fire]

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[Illustration: XIX. BRITISH PATENT (applied for)

Picking the Pickelhaube: a little Game for the Trenches]

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[Illustration: XX. OH U!

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

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[Illustration: XXI. THE ENEMY IN OUR MIDST!

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

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[Illustration: 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]

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[Illustration: XXIII. HAGUE CONVENTION DEFIED!

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

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[Illustration: XXIV. HAGUE CONVENTION DEFIED!

Lachrymosing the British by Onion-whittling under Cover of Night]

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                       PRINTED IN GREAT BRITAIN
                         AT THE COMPLETE PRESS
                             WEST NORWOOD
                                LONDON