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... 11 1 I I THE GREAT WORLD WAR wtlKEKBY ;i A TRUCE Just for to-day I will forget 1 the dreary reaches Of the late years, the toil, =j perplexities and all the pain ■2-1 Of loss, and the red rage of battle. Just for to-day I'll tread again the green and flow'ry spaces Of a fair yesterday, where ra- diant white days, and nights Of peace, followed in sweet succession. I CLOSING IN ON PETROGRAD It ...
... The BOMBARDMENT of DUNKERQUE ByaL„7%rSea- The Worst Bombed Place of All How Dunkerque was Damaged by Shells and Bombs We are now able to give a plan of Dunkerque showing the damage inflicted upon the town during the war the places where the different missiles fell whether of Zeppelin, gun, or aeroDlane are shown by means of different symbols on the plan. One hundred and seventy-seven aeroplane ...
... THE AUSTRIAN TERMS Settling the New Frontiers of The Ramshackle Empire The chief interest of the terms of peace presented to the Austrian dele gates is that, if ratified, they mark the disappearance from the map of the world of the Habsburg empire, which for over two centuries has been the second largest state in Europe. As finally constituted in 1880, the Habsburg dominions consisted of the ...
... ALSACE AND LORRAINE The Value of the jKau Northern Province in Terms of Coal and Iron. Oudelange GERMANY'S SOURCE OF POWER SINCE 1871 The basin of the Moselle, with its mineral wealth, has been the cause of many historic combats as fierce and bitter as the Hellenic wars. Its possession has assured the economic and industrial supremacy of Germany since the conquest of 1871. Already in the early ...
... . The marriage of King Alexander of Yugo slavia has a special in terest in that the House of Karageorgevich is the single dynasty in Europe actually sprung from the people. The House ot .oernauuiie in owcucn ib only an apparent excep tion, for Marshal Jules Bernadotte, the founder of the line, was the son of a lawyer in tolerably good circumstances, and was himself fairly well bred and well ...
... . The New Buildings, Designed by Gilbert Scott, R.A., Now Being Erected in the Grounds of Clare College, Cambridge On left Plan of the New Build ings The buildings marked A, oil the left, show the east front, B the S.E. corner block to be erected by Colonel Barham, C the N.E. corner block, and D future extensions. On this plan and the Loggan print below is indicated the position of the new ...
... THE STORMS AT SEA The Loss of the Afrique. The recent wintry gales at sea have claimed their full toll in lives and vessels: the most seriousloss was that of the French S.S. Afrique, which foundered on January 11 on the Rochbonne Rocks. The vessel was proceeding from Bordeaux to the west coast of Africa when, in the teeth of a violent gale, she sprang a leak 100 miles out at sea: the boiler ...
... LIFE in the STARVING CITY of VIENNA Opposite Page. Of all the countries whose present internal conditions are troubling responsible minds, Austria is the unhappiest and most sorely tried. Even during the war, as far back as 1916, her condition was decidedly uncomfortable-- food substitutes and clothing substitutes were being very freely used, and the credit of the State received a series of ...
... . ()n Tuesday evening Mr. Theodore Roose velt lectured before the Royal Geo graphical Society at Burlington House to a crowded audience, who came to see the famous traveller and to hear about the dis puted river. Its position has been charted on the annexed map, reproduced by kind permission of The Morning Post in accordance with the lecturer's descriptions. From the point where Mr. Roosevelt ...
... TO OPEN UP AUSTRALIA Railway ScheToJln^ommonweam The Australian Parliament having given the necessary authority the con struction of the two transcontinental rail ways are being proceeded with. The dotted lines on the map represent the unfinished sections of the two lines, one east and west, from Port Augusta in South Australia to Kalgoorlie in West Australia, and the other north and south, ...
... THE SPHERE AND TATLER PROFESSIONAL F OURSOMES at SUNNINGDALE A of the >Qv AN OVERHEAD VIEW OF THE SUNNINGDALE GOLF COURSE, WHERE THE SPHERE AND TATLER PROFESSIONAL GOLF FOURSOMES TAKE PLACE ON MAY 12, 13, AND 14 /Qv DRAWN BY D. MACPHERSON On 1 uesday, Wednesday, and 1 hursday of next week bunningdale golf course will be the centre of the world of golf, for there will toregatr The above view ...
... THE MUNSTERS IN THE RETREAT FROM ST. QUENTIN BETWEEN PERONNE AND AMIENS The adjoining key-map, covering the district of the Somme river and the country between Peronne and Bois de Hamel, with the road to Hamel, deals with that part of the line behind the Fifth Army's front in March, as described in Mrs. Victor Rickard's article on pp. 118-9 of this issue. The article deals in detail with the ...