[Illustration: AMENITIES OF MOLE WARFARE SATIRISED: A FRENCH
CARICATURIST'S SKIT ON THE "LUXURIES" OF LIFE IN THE TRENCHES.]

Both the French and British troops have made the best of things in the
siege-warfare of the trenches, and out of an initial condition of misery
have managed to evolve a considerable amount of comfort in many parts of
the front. Ingenious French engineers, for example, have constructed warm
shower-baths, hair-dressing saloons, and similar conveniences, while the
British "Eye-Witness" was able to write recently of our own lines: "The
trenches themselves are heated by braziers and stoves and floored with
straw, bricks and boards. Behind them are shelters and dug-outs of every
description most ingeniously contrived." The above French cartoon, which
is from "La Vie Parisienne," is headed "La Guerre des Taubes et des
Taupes" (moles).




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8--THE ILLUSTRATED WAR NEWS, DEC. 30, 1914.--[Part 21]


kingdoms, but that an agreement had also been reached concerning the
special questions raised"--a result which must have been anything but
agreeable to the War-Lord of Potsdam, who had been thirsting for
_Weltmacht_, or world-dominion, and casting about to pave the way for this
result by absorbing the minor States of Northern Europe--as a shark would
open its voracious jaws to swallow down a shoal of minnows, or other small