ording to paragraphs from their newspapers reprinted here,
sneer at the way London is guarding against hostile aircraft by mounting
quick-firing guns and searchlights and putting out many street lamps. They
are doing much the same themselves, however, in the cities nearest their
western frontier. At Cologne, ever since August, there has been constant
nervousness as to possible air-raids, and searchlights from elevated
points in the city have swept the sky nightly, and machine-guns have been
set up on tall buildings. At Duesseldorf when our airmen destroyed a
Zeppelin, the aviators were fired at by machine-guns from all over the
city. Our illustration shows German machine-guns in temporary use as
anti-aircraft guns.--[Photo. by Photopress.]

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

[Illustration: FRENCH COLONIAL TROOPS WHOSE DARK COMPLEXIONS MAKE THEM
"INVISIBLE" IN NIGHT ATTACKS! SENEGALESE ON THE DEFENSIVE AT PERVYSE.]

Among the French Colonial troops, the Senegalese have done excellent work,
both on the Aisne and, more recently, in Belgium. Our photograph was taken
near Pervyse, a village on the railway between Dixmunde and Nieuport,
which has been the scene of many fierce encounters. In the Battle of the
Aisne, when much night fighting took place, the Senegalese, it was
reported, whose dark complexions rendered their faces less visible, proved
very useful, and showed extraordinary daring. A favourite ruse was to send
them forward at night, and when they had crawled near to the German lines,
to turn powerful searchlights on the enemy, who, blinded by the glare,
could not see whence the attack came. The Senegalese would then charge
with the bayonet--[Photo. by Newspaper Illustrations.]

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THE ILLUSTRATED WAR NEWS, NOV. 18, 1914--41

[Illustration: MARTIAL LAW IN EGYPT: EXAMINING PASSPORTS AT PORT SAID
SINCE TURKEY FORMALLY DECLARED WAR.]

Martial Law was officially proclaimed by the British authorities in Egypt
on November 2, as the first and immediate result of the outbreak
of hostilities with Turkey. For some time before that, however, the
authorities had been taking precautionary measures in consequence of the
ubiquity and restless activity of