Rights for this book: Public domain in the USA. This edition is published by Project Gutenberg. Originally issued by Project Gutenberg on 2021-03-23. To support the work of Project Gutenberg, visit their Donation Page. This free ebook has been produced by GITenberg, a program of the Free Ebook Foundation. If you have corrections or improvements to make to this ebook, or you want to use the source files for this ebook, visit the book's github repository. You can support the work of the Free Ebook Foundation at their Contributors Page. The Project Gutenberg eBook of Some 'Frightful' War Pictures, by William Heath Robinson This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere in the United States and most other parts of the world at no cost and with almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org. If you are not located in the United States, you will have to check the laws of the country where you are located before using this eBook. Title: Some 'Frightful' War Pictures Author: William Heath Robinson Release Date: March 23, 2021 [eBook #64904] Language: English Character set encoding: UTF-8 Produced by: Brian Coe, Chuck Greif and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive) *** 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
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