Some FrightfulWar Pictures by WHeath

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Title: Some 'Frightful' War Pictures

Author: William Heath Robinson

Release Date: March 23, 2021 [eBook #64904]

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.

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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.

I. THE TRUE REASON OF THE WAR

A little Frontier Incident in Alsace, July 1914

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II. NACH PARIS!

First Lessons in the Goose-step

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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

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VII. HAGUE CONVENTION DEFIED!

The Tatcho Bomb

VIII. KOLOSSAL!

Krupp’s Great Reconnoitring Mortar

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IX. THE WAR LORD AT THE FRONT

A Morning Tub on the Imperial Campaigning Car

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X. WAR KOMFORTS!

Some Notes in a German Bivouac

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XI. MUNITIONS!

Testing Mines at Cuxhaven

XII. A CLEVER RUSE

How two German Officers carried a Gun past the British Lines

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XIII. NEUTRAL!

A Swiss Shepherd watching a Battle on the Frontier

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XIV. BRITISH PATENT (applied for)
The Drilling Frame for Raw Recruits

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CROSSING THE YSER

XV. BRITISH PATENT (applied for)

The Lancing Wheel for teaching young Lancers to lance

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XVI. BRITISH PATENT (applied for)
The Trench Presser or Bosch Bayoneter

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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

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XIX. BRITISH PATENT (applied for)

Picking the Pickelhaube: a little Game for the Trenches

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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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XXI. THE ENEMY IN OUR MIDST!

German Spies training a Carrier Pigeon in the Fastnesses of a

London Boarding House

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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