ured
the village from the Germans. Dismounting near by, they charged the enemy
lance in hand, driving him from his trenches. Following up their success,
they then forced their way into the village, smashing in doors and windows
and storming house after house in spite of fierce resistance until,
assisted by other troops, they forced the enemy out, capturing guns and
many prisoners. The action was particularly notable.

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

[Illustration: FOR GALLANTRY ON THE FIELD OF HONOUR: A FRENCH OFFICER
RECEIVES THE ACCOLADE.]

[Illustration: THE MUCH-DISCUSSED IRON CROSS: A GERMAN OFFICER
DECORATED]

"Who gives quickly gives twice." That paraphrase of one of Napoleon's war
maxims in regard to the conferring of distinctions won in battle as
speedily as possible after the event, has been adopted by the nations
engaged in the world-war. Recommendations for the "V.C." have been
announced as having been laid before our authorities, many grants of the
"D.S.O." and "D.C.M." have already been garetted; and our French Allies
have awarded the Legion of Honour to several officers and men. Our first
photograph shows a French General publicly bestowing the accolade on a
newly made Chevalier of the Legion of Honour. Our second shows a German
Commander adorning a German officer with one of the innumerable Iron
Crosses the Kaiser is sending round.--[Photos. by Alfieri.]

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THE ILLUSTRATED WAR NEWS, NOV. 18, 1914--27

[Illustration: A HOLLOW SQUARE OF WRECKAGE: THE REMAINS OF A GERMAN
MOTOR-TRANSPORT CONVOY GROUPED ROUND THE SOLDIERS' GRAVE.]

There is something gruesomely appropriate in this photograph of the
wreckage of a destroyed German motor-transport wagon train, or convoy,
grouped in a sort of hollow square about the graves of the officers and
men involved in the destruction of their charge. The place is in the
Argonne district, the tract of rough country, between the sources of
the Aisne and the Meuse, through which the high road from Paris to
Verdun passes. How catastrophe befell this particular German convoy we
can guess. More than one of the enemy's transport trains, moving in
this part of the count