CHAPTER X. NEW METHODS AND HORRORS OF WARFARE

Tanks--Poison Gas--Flame Projectors--Airplane Bombs--Trench Mortars--Machine Guns--Modern Uses of Airplanes for Liaison and Attacks on Infantry--Radio--Rifle and Hand Grenades--A War of Intensive Artillery Preparation--A Debacle of Insanities, Terrible Wounds and Horrible Deaths 212

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THE VICTORIOUS GENERALS _Frontispiece_

KINGS AND CHIEF EXECUTIVES OF THE PRINCIPAL POWERS ASSOCIATED AGAINST THE GERMAN ALLIANCE 2

THE “TIGER OF FRANCE” 14

THE RIGHT HONORABLE DAVID LLOYD GEORGE 36

FRANCIS JOSEPH I OF AUSTRIA, THE “OLD EMPEROR” ON A STATE OCCASION 44

THE KAISER AND HIS SIX SONS 82

KING ALBERT AT THE HEAD OF THE HEROIC SOLDIERS OF BELGIUM 94

A SCENE FROM EARLY TRENCH WARFARE 114

GERMAN ATROCITIES 126

THE SUPREME EXPONENTS OF GERMAN FRIGHTFULNESS 148

GENERAL PERSHING AND MARSHAL JOFFRE 156

MARSHAL FERDINAND FOCH, COMMANDER-IN-CHIEF OF THE ALLIED ARMIES 162

COSSACKS OF THE DON ATTACKING PRUSSIAN CAVALRY 188

THE MADE-TO-ORDER INFERNO OF THE FLAME-THROWER 230

TYPES OF LAND BATTLESHIPS DEVELOPED BY ALLIES AND GERMANS 234

THE WORLD WAR