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... . This picture was taken by Lady Muriel Herbert while engaged on relief work in connection with Lady Wimborne' s hospital unit, which was established for the greater part of last year at Uskub. This view shows better than any descriptions which have yet reached us the nature of the roads through the gorges of southern Serbia and Albania. This is, of course, a made road, having been cut out of ...

... CHRISTMAS AMID SNOW and THAW on the EASTERN FRONT with MR. SCOTLAND LIDDELL spondent on the Eastern Front. THE GHOSTS OF THE CHRISTMAS FIRE By Scotland Liddell Russia, 1915. The country behind the battle line was as a Christmas card. The plains were white, and at the back were snow-capped hills and firs whose branches sagged beneath their load. The little groups of grey-clad men who trudged ...

... . By R. P. Hearne. The year 1915 has been the most extraordinary period ever lived through by the British motor industry. After vainly begging for war work in the early months of the war our factories have been set going at full speed on munition production. With the help of these factories Britain is beating Germany in war material; and we can feel gratified that our motor factories far excel ...

... A Theatre for Armament Employes and Other Notes of the Week. The New Dining-room at Eusion Station The new dining-room at Euston Station has two entrances, one from the Great Hall and one from Platform No. 9. The room is decorated in the Renaissance manner the walls being oak-panelled to a height of 10 ft., with pictures illu strating early scenes in the history of the railway inserted in the ...

... A YEAR OF WAR-- The DARDANELLES. Perpetually Under Shell Fire. The landing at the Dardanelles in April was beyond doubt one of the most daring military operations in history. A hundred thousand men were thrown ashore upon strips of beach overlooked by cliffs and rocky hills which were crowned with guns and swarmed with hostile infantry. Every yard of ground had to be won at the price of human ...

... IMPERIAL OPERATIONS in 1915. Special Sphere Summary MESOPOTAMIA The most important of the colonial cam paigns as regards number of troops employed on both sides was that in Mesopo tamia, but as it has recently been fully described in THE SPHERE it is not again dealt with here. SOUTH AFRICA The operations in South Africa are un doubtedly those which have attracted most attention. The British ...

... A FEW DAYS AGO A Random Chronicle. By V. V. V. What of 1916? Even our most prescient, warned by the terrible example of the prophets, are not venturing on any but the vaguest forecasts. And the failures in vaticination have been only too numerous. The Kaiser's promise about the fall of the leaves stands perhaps first. Then there is the famous military expert who expected the Russians in Berlin ...

... . The pictures given on this page were all obtained on one of the lines of retreat of the Serbs through western Serbia and Albania. The upper view is typical in a very high degree of a foot track across the hills. The women are crossing a wide grass-covered summit with occasional low bushes, It was over such tracks that they used to visit their markets. Owing to the war only one fair was held ...

... INTERNAL CONSTRUCTION OF ZEPPELIN AIRSHIPS How They are Enabled to Ride at Desired Heights. HOW A ZEPPELIN RISES AND FALLS To many people the manœuvring of a Zeppelin in the air is still a matter of mystery. It is certainly not easy for the lay mind to grasp and hold the fact that a monster vessel made of metal, and weighing nearly 20 tons, can float in a medium through which a feather falls. ...

... CHRISTMAS at the Railway Stations and Other Notes of the Week. A Busy Soldiers' Buffet The free buffet at Charing Cross was very popular during Christmas week. This buffet was opened in Novem ber, 1914, and has had a busy time ever since. It, like the rest, is supported by voluntary contributions, and has fed many hundreds of soldiers and sailors every day since it began work. Christmas Trres ...

... 1915-- A YEAR of FIGHTING on the WEST FRONT. The winter period of 1915 on the Western front that is, from January to April and November and December) was remarkable for a new disease which the conditions existing in these months produced. It became known as trench foot. Although the name does not connote the fact that it is induced by damp and cold, the term frost bite, as it was first ...