(2) a disk
burning; and (3) a disk, actual size, before being used.

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THE ILLUSTRATED WAR NEWS, NOV. 18, 1914--23

[Illustration: "BLACK MARIA'S" LITTLE BROTHER: ONE OF THE GERMAN
15-CENTIMETRE HEAVY POSITION-GUNS IN THE ACT OF FIRING.]

The German heavy "batteries of position" are for the most part armed-with
the 15 cm., or 6-inch howitzer, throwing a shell of 90 lb. with an
approximate range of 6650 yards. The howitzer type of mobile heavy gun is
much favoured for defensive work in both the German and the Austrian
armies. The howitzer is capable of elevation up to 65 deg., the idea of
this high elevation being, it is stated, to obtain a steep angle of
descent for the shells at comparatively short ranges, in combination with
a high remaining velocity so as to ensure the penetration of overhead
cover. These howitzers are also employed in siege and fortress defence
warfare. They have been used along the Aisne positions as auxiliaries to
the giant Krupp siege-howitzers.

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

[Illustration: CHARGING ON FOOT WITH THE LANCE: BENGAL LANCERS ATTACK
GERMAN TRENCHES.--From the Painting by R. Caton Woodville. (left half)]

Cavalry engaged in the Belgian frontier battles are fighting in
all sorts of ways: repeatedly, for example, as infantrymen in the
trenches. On occasion, also, they have even charged on foot, with
bayonet or with their lances. The Life Guards, according to a letter
from the front, charged the German trenches the other day with
bayonets. A squadron of French dragoons dismounted and crept through a
wood on foot, surprising a German infantry company and overpowering
them in close-quarter fight with lances and clubbed carbines. With

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THE ILLUSTRATED WAR NEWS, NOV. 18, 1914--25

[Illustration: CHARGING ON FOOT WITH THE LANCE: BENGAL LANCERS ATTACK
GERMAN TRENCHES.--From the Painting by R. Caton Woodville. (right half)]

lances, also, as our illustration shows, some of our Bengal cavalry, in
action on foot, on October 24, at Ramscapelle, near the Yser, recapt