d have done if supplied with proper ammunition. In
the desperate charge which they made no wire entanglement could
stop the British soldiers. They threw their overcoats or blankets
over the barbed wire and then climbed across the obstruction. The
Seventh Division took three lines of trenches in this manner, until
it was 12,000 yards back of the original line of its enemy.

[Illustration: ATTACKS BY THE ALLIES IN THE ARTOIS

FRENCH, BRITISH, BELGIAN, CANADIAN AND MOROCCAN SOLDIERS AND THEIR
GERMAN ENEMIES

Liquid fire--a chemical which bursts into flame on contact with
the air--is discharged from an apparatus that resembles a fire
extinguisher. It is effective in fighting at close quarters]

[Illustration: Moroccan troops in camp at Arcy. France, like Great
Britain, has been able to draw upon her colonies for soldiers]

[Illustration: These Belgian soldiers are weary and covered with
mud from the trenches, but they are rallying for a fresh resistance
to German attacks]

[Illustration: Canadian volunteers at bayonet practice. From the
beginning of the war, the drilling of young Canadians for service
in Europe has gone on incessantly]

[Illustration: This large cave in the chalk hills of France furnishes
homes for three companies of German soldiers. It is divided by
partitions into many living rooms]

[Illustration: These soldiers have completed their underground
shelter by constructing a fireplace and are now adding the finishing
touches to the chimney]

[Illustration: A remarkable picture of French soldiers leaving
their trenches at the beginning of a spirited bayonet charge on
the German positions]

[Illustration: An armored automobile intercepting a troop of cavalry.
In the opening of the war in particular, automobile raiders played
a dashing part]

There were now two wedges driven into the German front, and the
British desired to join them and make what might be termed a
countersalient, or a salient running into the original salient of
the Germans. But the space between the two horns of the British
force was a network of trenches. The horns might prod and irritate
the Teutons, but they needed artillery again to rid the German
breastworks of machine guns and demolish the obstructions which
would cost too many lives to take in the same manner in which the
British success had been won in its night attack. Nevertheless
the British started in to bomb their way toward Festubert, and
they even gained forty ya