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
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