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... The GREAT ALLIED CONFERENCE in PARIS Th DELEGATES of EIGHT NATIONS in DELIBERATION. The Allied Representatives in Conference in the Grand Salon of the French Ministry of Foreign Affairs From a direct photographic enlargement. French official record, March 1916 The Position of the Delegates around the Table in the Grand Salorv at the Quai d'Orsay On Monday and Tuesday, March 27-28, one of the ...
... THE WAR DECORATIONS OF THE FALLEN V MOVING CEREMONY at the INVALIDES in PARIS. HONOURING THE DEAD THROUGH THE LIVING-GENERAL COUSIN CONFERRING ECORATIONS ON ORPHANED CHILDREN AND ON WIDOWS AT THE INVALIDES, PARIS From a direct photographic enlargement 1916 A moving spectacle is witnessed in Paris from time to time when decorations are conferred on orphans and widows for the gallantry in action ...
... IBy Mo Fo M@amnio A MOTOR. TRANSPORT TRIUMPH Sufficient attention has not been given to the great part played by motor transport in the French operations around Verdun. It appears that the work was planned to be done under* the conditions which would prevail if the chief strategic railways had been cut by the Germans. This meant that motor vehicles were set the colossal task of keeping up ...
... CREPE DE CHINE COATS FOR EASTER We have designed a number of rich Crepe de Chine Coats, especially with a view to the fashion that has arisen for smart indoor Coats to be worn over Frocks that may not be quite up to date. These Coats are particularly dainty and attractive, and are suit- a^'e ^or home or hotel orjWi wear, and with the ap- y yfe.'V proach of warm weather 'Wr for outdoor wear. ...
... A LITERARY LETTER The Real Margaret Catchpole. London, April 24, 1916. Not very long ago I read with great pleasure Mr. J. D. Beresford's brilliant novel trilogy, Jacob Stahl. I have now read with almost equal pleasure his new book, These Lynnekers (Cassell). The title somewhat suggests the story of an American woman who, witnessing King Lear for the first time, remarked to her companions, An ...
... GUARDING THE BLUE LINE OF THE VOSGES Scenes in the Shadow of the Forest Trees Re'd themhn^' the How the Little Railway Line at Passes Through Rocky Arch Lathering limber for the Army m the Vosges in the forests ISehind Poles are required for new telegraph lines and a host of purposes, so on the roads near Gerardmer or Le Bonhomme one may see sights like this a little group of men cutting and ...
... NAVAL MILITARY KIT THE DISTINCTIVE advan- A tages of Burberry for Active Service on both land and sea have been proved, and its protective and wearing properties endorsed by thou sands of Officers, including many whose names are household words throughout J the Empire. J i AT The |f j Home of Service Dress --Officers can rely upon ob taining Uniforms, as well as every item of dress and equip ...
... . AN EXCITING NIGHT SCENE IN FRANCE-QUELLING A DANGEROUS OUTBREAK OF FIRE IN A FARMYARD BILLET DRAWN BY CHRISTOPHER CLARK FROM A SKETCH BY AN OFFICER The other night our billet caught Are, and we had an exciting time preventing the flames from spreading. was on the top of a ladder hacking away for dear life. Others were removing hay and passing water. Ammunition was constantly going off, and ...
... WITH THE NEW NAVAL AUXILIARIES specia^here THE FAST MOTOR CRAFT WHICH GUARD OUR WATERS DRAWN BY G. H. DAVIS, 1916 In the issue of The Sphere for November 6 was shown one of the vessels of the motor-boat reserve. We are able to give an additional picture showing fast vessels which are employed in hunting for German naval craft Copyrighted in the U.S.A. ...
... . B^ Olivia,, I have just been reading a very funny--because it is not meant to be funny-- and a very, very French French book entitled Comment Trouver un Mari après la Guerre. Strange product of the war, it gives one, as the French say, furiously to think. Unfortunately the authoress, having no higher vision than the old and rather nasty idea that the woman is ever the hunter and the man ...
... By R. Po fSeairrae0 THE TAXATION TANGLE I wonder why the Treasury does not consult some independent expert when arranging new motor taxes. The very basis of motor taxation is defective, for horse-power is reckoned according to cylinder bore. Then, again, there is a most violent jump in taxation amounts from one class to another, and a difference of one millimetre in cylinder bore may mean ...
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