ritish genius for comfort developed in our own lines, but it
is doubtful whether anything done by either side in that direction has
surpassed the chef-d'oeuvre of an ingenious French engineer shown in our
illustration. At one point in the French trenches not seven hundred yards
from those of the enemy, and within two miles of the German artillery, he
constructed an up-to-date bathing establishment, with a heating apparatus
and a shower-bath! The apartment was fitted with a stove, benches,
clothes-pegs, and curtains; and adjoining the salle de douches, or
shower-bath room, was fitted up a salle de coiffure. There was even talk
of enlivening the bathing hour with music and a topical revue.

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4--THE ILLUSTRATED WAR NEWS, NOV. 18, 1914.

[Illustration: SIMILAR TO THE KAISER'S AERIAL BODYGUARD: A ZEPPELIN WITH
A GUN ON TOP FIRING AT HOSTILE AEROPLANES--A GERMAN PICTURE.]

It was stated recently that two Zeppelins, armed with machine-guns, circle
continually on guard above the Kaiser's private apartments in his
headquarters at Coblentz.

It must be remembered, too, that the casualties referred to--being
confined to "the western area of the war"--do not include our losses at
sea, which comprise few "wounded" and no "missing." At sea it is either
neck or nothing, sink or swim: a modern battle-ship, if holed and
exploded, like the Good Hope and the Monmouth off the coast of Chile,
going to the bottom, and most of her crew with her, like Kempenfelt's
oaken Royal George--

Brave Kempenfelt is gone,
His victories are o'er;
And he and his eight hundred
Will plough the waves no more.

Thus if our casualties at sea, which are mainly of one kind only, be added
up, they will probably be found to exceed our deaths on land, which
are always much less numerous than other kinds of losses; yet the
mortality of our battlefields has been mournful enough, especially among
officers--where the death percentage has been higher than in any other war
we ever waged.

On the other hand, the Germans have had to pay a fearful price for
the death-toll they have exacted of us and our Allies, seeing that,
according to their own official admission, their casualties to the end of
September amounted to over 500,000 for the Prussian army alone, while the