BLOEMFONTEIN.

Armoured trains worked by the South African Engineer Corps have done
useful service in the operations against the rebels. The truck in the
photograph, it will be seen, is loop-holed.]

This was the recent meeting, not at Cologne, but at Malmoe, of the three
Kings of Scandinavia--Denmark, Sweden, and Norway--who lunched, and dined,
and debated together for several days, when it was at last announced to
the world at large (and Germany in particular) that "their deliberations
had not only consolidated the good relations between the three Northern

[Illustration: MEN WHO UNDERGO GREAT HARDSHIPS IN THEIR PURSUIT OF
REBELS: A BIVOUAC OF SOUTH AFRICAN LOYALISTS.

Our correspondent writes: "After a long chase they find themselves very
often forty miles from the convoy, nothing to eat for man or beast, and in
a country destitute of food."]

[Illustration: WHERE "REGIMENTS HAD BEEN RAISED AS IF BY A WIZARD'S
WAND": GENERAL SMUTS SPEAKING AT JOHANNESBURG.

General Smuts, South African Minister of Defence, said recently that there
had been a magnificent response to the call to arms. On the Rand regiments
had been raised as if by a magician's wand.]

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[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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kingdoms, but that an agreement had also been reached concer