of old customs, and such care for all
available good cheer, as were possible. Our illustration shows a French
soldier obviously enjoying his Christmas dinner despite the fact that he
has to eat it by the wayside.--[_Photo. by Alfieri._]

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

[Illustration: A MISSING LONDONER! AN ENGLISH M.E.T. MOTOR-'BUS IN THE
HANDS OF THE GERMANS AND PUT TO USE BY THEM.]

As with our London soldiers at the front, the fortune of war has levied
its toll on other Londoners. Our photograph depicts the unfortunate fate
that has befallen a once well-known object in the streets of London--one
of the motor-'buses shipped across to France to serve in transporting
British troops to the front, now in the hands of the enemy. Not many of
them have had such bad luck, from all accounts, but accidents cannot be
helped, and a victim has been claimed now and again, mostly at places
where some raiding Uhlan patrol has managed to cut in and ambush one on
some outlying road near the line of communications between the front and
an army base, catching the 'bus while returning after discharging its
soldier "fares."

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THE ILLUSTRATED WAR NEWS, DEC. 30, 1914--[Part 21]--47

[Illustration: WEAPONS OF GREY "MOLES," AT TSING-TAU: A LAND-MINE AND
EMERGENCY HAND-GRENADES CAPTURED FROM THE GERMANS.]

The Germans made use of land-mines in the defence of Tsing-tau, and a few
days after the town's surrender, on Nov. 7, several exploded while they
were being removed by the Japanese, causing much loss of life. It was
stated that the explosions killed two officers and eight men, while
one officer and fifty-six men were injured. The Germans also used
hand-grenades, as shown in our photograph. These appear to have been of
the improvised "jam-tin" type such as has been employed in the trenches in
Flanders "Eye-Witness" wrote recently: "Mines have not played such an
important part in this mole-work as might have been supposed. We have
heard the enemy mining and we have tried it ourselves, but one strikes
water in this country between seven and eight feet down."--[_Photo. by
C.N._]

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