nded, and keeps his sword.

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THE ILLUSTRATED WAR NEWS, NOV. 18, 1914--37

[Illustration: THE DESTRUCTION OF THE "EMDEN" AND THE BOTTLING-UP OF THE
"KOeNIGSBERG": H.M.A.S. "SYDNEY" AND H.M.S. "CHATHAM."]

H.M.S. "Sydney" (No. 1) caught the commerce-raiding "Emden" at Keeling
Cocos Island and forced a sharp action upon her, with the result that the
German ship was driven ashore and burnt. The "Chatham" (No. 2) found the
"Koenigsberg," the ship, it will be recalled, which attacked the "Pegasus,"
hiding in shoal water up the Rufigi River, German East Africa, with part
of her crew entrenched on the banks. Unable to get at her, she bottled up
the "Koenigsberg" by sinking colliers in the only navigable channel. The
"Sydney" is a light cruiser of 5600 tons, launched, as was the "Chatham,"
in 1911. The "Chatham" was practically a sister ship of the "Sydney," but
rather smaller, displacing 5400 tons, The "Emden" was of 3650 tons; the
"Koenigsberg" displaced 3400 tons.--[Photos. by Symonds.]

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[Illustration: THE GERMAN TRENCH-MORTAR JUST INTRODUCED TO THE BRITISH:
A WEAPON WHICH THROWS A 187-LB. MINE-SHELL.]

"In this quarter," says Eye-Witness of the fighting near Ypres on October
29, "we experienced ... the action of the 'minenwerfer,' or trench-mortar.
This piece, though light enough to be wheeled by two men, throws a shell
weighing 187 lbs. The spherical shell has a loose stem which is loaded
into the bore and drops out in flight. It ranges about 350 yards at 45
deg. elevation. The shell is a thin-walled mine-shell containing a large
charge and is intended to act with explosive effect, not splinter-effect."
The diagram on the left shows one of the shells and its stem in their most
up-to-date form; in the centre is the trench-mortar (its wheels off) with
a shell in place; below this are three shells without their stems; on the
right is a shell and its stem.

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THE ILLUSTRATED WAR NEWS, NOV. 18, 1914--39

[Illustration: WHERE ANTI-AIRCRAFT GUNS ARE NOT: GERMAN MACHINE-GUNS, ON
TEMPORARY MOUNTINGS, FOR USE AGAINST WAR-PLANES.]

The Germans, acc