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THE ILLUSTRATED WAR NEWS, NOV. 18, 1914--1

The Illustrated War News.

[Illustration: AS USED IN THE GERMAN TRENCHES: A GERMAN BAND PLAYING ON
THE MARCH DURING THE WAR.

Photo. Alfieri.]

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

THE GREAT WAR.

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Our gracious Sovereign--more so even than his deceased father, who had
also a conspicuous gift that way--has ever shown a singular felicity in
voicing the sentiments of his people, but never more so than when he sent
this message to Sir John French: "The splendid pluck, spirit, and
endurance shown by my troops in the desperate fighting which has continued
for so many days against vastly superior forces fills me with admiration."
That sovereign message to his heroic soldiers--such as his ancestor Henry
V. might have addressed to his 10,000 long-enduring conquerors on the
night of Agincourt--was nobly supplemented by this passage from the
following day's Speech from the Throne: "My Navy and Army continue,
throughout the area of conflict, to maintain in full measure their
glorious traditions. We watch and follow their steadfastness and valour
with thankfulness and pride, and there is, throughout my Empire, a fixed
determination to secure, at whatever sacrifice, the triumph of our arms
and the vindication of our cause."

[Illustration: COMMANDER OF THE BRITISH CRUISER WHICH "IMPRISONED" THE
"KOeNIGSBERG": CAPTAIN SIDNEY R. DRURY-LOWE, R.N.]

The Admiralty stated on Nov. 11, "This search resulted on Oct. 30 in the
'Koenigsberg' being discovered by H.M.S. 'Chatham' (Captain Sidney R.
Drury-Lowe, R.N.) hiding in shoal water about six miles up the Rufigi
Ritter.... (German East Africa) ... She is now imprisoned, and unable to
do any further harm."--[Photo. by Elliott and Fry.]

[Illustration: COMMANDER OF THE AUSTRALIAN CRUISER WHICH DESTROYED THE
"EMDEN": CAPTAIN JOHN C.T. GLOSSOP, R.N.]

Captain Glossop received the following message from the First Lord of
the Admiralty: "Warmest congratulations on the brilliant entry of the
Australian Navy into the war, and the signal service rendered to the
Allied cause and to peaceful commerce by the destruction of the 'Emden.'"

Photograph by L