heavy battery bombarded Vermelles. Finally the French "in a
very brilliant attack," stormed and took Vermelles, village and chateau.

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10--THE ILLUSTRATED WAR NEWS, DEC. 30, 1914.--[Part 21]

[Illustration: RULER OF EGYPT, THE BRITISH PROTECTORATE: SULTAN HUSSEIN I.]

The new Sultan of Egypt, Prince Hussein Kamel, is sixty years of age and
the eldest living Prince of the family of Mehemet Ali, the historic
liberator of Egypt from Turkish domination. For years past, as head of
various administrative departments in Egypt, he devoted his energies to
improving the lot of the natives, by whom he is called "the Father of the
Fellaheen."

[Illustration: THE ROUTED AUSTRIAN COMMANDER-IN-CHIEF: FIELD-MARSHAL
POTIOREK.]

General Oscar Potiorek commanded the Austrian Army invading Serbia. Elated
at occupying Belgrade without firing a shot, he promised his Imperial
master at Vienna that in a fortnight Serbia would be conquered. A
Field-Marshal's baton and the highest Austrian military decoration were
bestowed on him. Within a week Potiorek's army were fugitives. The
Field-Marshal is to be court-martialled.

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THE ILLUSTRATED WAR NEWS, DEC. 30, 1914--[Part 21]--11

[Illustration: THE ACCUSATIONS OF OUTRAGE AND BREACHES OF THE LAWS OF
WAR BY GERMANY: THE BRITISH COMMITTEE OF INQUIRY.]

On September 15, the Prime Minister announced in the House of Commons that
he had asked the Home Secretary and the Attorney-General to take such
steps as seemed best adapted to provide for the investigation, from
evidence obtainable in this country, of accusations of outrage and
breaches of the laws of war on the part of Germany, This Committee
is constituted of the Right Hon. Viscount Bryce, O.M. Chairman; the
Right Hon. Sir Frederick Pollock, Professor of Jurisprudence; the Right
Hon. Sir Edward Clarke; Sir Alfred Hopkinson, Vice-Chancellor of the
Victoria University, Manchester, 1900-1913; Professor H.A.L. Fisher,
Vice-Chancellor of Sheffield University; and Mr. Harold Cox, Editor of the
"Edinburgh Review."--[_Photos. by Beresford, Russell, Winter, and Elliott
and Fry._]

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12--THE ILLUSTRA