THE TRAITOR, DE WET: THE UNION JACK THE REBEL
LEADER TORE AND TRAMPLED UPON AT WINBURG.]

De Wet committed his first open act of rebellion at Vrede, on October 28.
There, with a hastily raised commando at his heels, he forcibly seized the
place and, after submitting the local officials to brutal ill-treatment,
in a wild, incendiary speech called on the Dutch of South Africa to rise
in arms against the British Government. It was at Winburg that De Wet
performed, as it is stated, the theatrical and unworthy outrage of
trampling on and tearing the Union Jack. The identical flag which suffered
the maltreatment is shown in our photograph, in the state in which it was
after De Wet's puerile act of defiance had been committed. Reparation and
atonement are to come, as we shall learn when De Wet faces his
court-martial, probably at an early date.

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[Illustration: "GLORY TO THOSE WHO HAVE FALLEN!" MEN OF THE HEROIC
FRENCH ARMY WHO HAVE DIED FOR EUROPEAN FREEDOM.]

This tragic photograph, showing the fatal effects of a German shell among
some French soldiers, brings home to the mind what "death on the field of
honour" means. The Premier of France, M. Viviani, in his great speech at
the opening of the Chambers, paid an eloquent tribute to the French Army.
"We have," he said, "the certainty of success. We owe this certainty ...
to our Army, whose heroism in numerous combats has been guided by their
incomparable chiefs from the victory on the Marne to the victory in
Flanders.... Let us do honour to all these heroes. Glory to those who have
fallen before the victory, and to those also who through it will avenge
them to-morrow! A nation which can arouse such enthusiasm can never
perish."--[_Photo. by Alfieri._]

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

[Illustration: DEFENDING OUR EAST COAST FROM INVADERS: ENTRENCHMENTS OF
THE TYPE USED AT THE FRONT, ON THE CLIFFS.]

The entrenchment of the East Coast is not only a wise precaution, but the
work of digging and fitting up the trenches is excellent practice for the
troops who may later on be called upon to do similar work abroad. It will
be seen from our photographs