The Wonder of War on Land Read online

  ILLUSTRATIONS

  Where Boyhood Guards France _Frontispiece_

  FACING PAGE

  "Please, Colonel, Can't I Join?" 12

  A Belgian Boy Hero 26

  Smoke, the Herald of Death 38

  Armored Train Defending Antwerp 50

  Armored Car Harassing Invaders 50

  The First Clash 64

  Taking Soup to the Firing-Line 76

  The Modern Ogre of the Forest 88

  The Charge Irresistible 100

  A Mammoth German War Car 118

  French Cavalry on Patrol 136

  Royal Boy Warriors 146

  Liquid Fire Projected from the German Trenches 156

  Liquid Fire Projected from Portable Reservoirs 156

  Boy Heroes of the Front 168

  "Our Enemies Showed Great Gallantry" 180

  French Infantry Advancing 200

  German Infantry Advancing 200

  "They Do Not Pass!" 210

  "The Veteran's Advice" 210

  "We've Got Them Licked, Boys!" 222

  The War of Fire 232

  Saved in a Hail of Shell 242

  Attack on a Stranded Tank 256

  The Men Whom No Danger Can Daunt 272

  The Endless Line of Motor Convoys 294

  The Valley of the Dead 304

  Listening-Patrol Trapped by a Star-Shell 314

  Locating Enemy Sappers on a Listening-Patrol 314

  French Tank Cutting Wire 322

  Machine-Gun Dog-Team in Belgium 338

  Each Kennel Inhabited by One Wise, Silent Dog 338

  Message Dog Wearing Gas Mask 342

  The Zouave Bugler's Last Call 348

  When Hooded Demons Take the Trenches 356

  The Approach of Doom 362

  Bringing up Food for the Firing-Line through a Poison Gas Cloud 368

  The Battle of Demon Faces. Flinging Bombs in a Mist of Green Death 368

  THE WONDER OF WAR ON LAND