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16--THE ILLUSTRATED WAR NEWS, NOV. 18, 1914.

[Illustration: NOT EVEN THE DEAD LEFT IN PEACE! GERMAN SHELLS UNEARTH
GRAVES AND SCATTER THEIR CONTENTS IN A VILLAGE CHURCHYARD.]

In our last issue we gave a photograph of a Galician town bombarded by the
Russians, proving that they carefully avoid the destruction of churches.
The German gunners, on the contrary, show no respect for the House of God,
although their Emperor so often claims Divine approval. The havoc wrought
by German shells in French and Belgian churches and cathedrals stands
recorded in countless photographs and other illustrations, to form a
permanent Indictment of Germany's methods of warfare that will make her
name execrated by posterity. In the present instance not only the church
itself was destroyed, but the very graves were torn open, and the
bodies and bones of the desecrated dead flung from their places of
rest--[Facsimile Drawing by H.C. Seppings Weight Special War Artist.]

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THE ILLUSTRATED WAR NEWS, NOV. 18, 1914--17

[Illustration: A GERMAN SAW-EDGE BAYONET IN ACTUAL USE IN THE WAR: WHEN
THE GERMAN FLAG WAS PLANTED ON A CAPTURED POSITION.]

It has been pointed out by a Naval correspondent that the German bayonet
of which one edge is a saw is not really quite the barbarous weapon it
seems, but is similiar to that carried by pioneers in British naval
landing-parties, for use in sawing wood. The toothed edge, he mentions, is
so far from the point that only by the rarest chance could it enter the
body of an enemy. It would be interesting to know whether the two bayonets
British and German--are exactly similar. Another account of the German
weapon states that the saw-edge begins only six inches from the point,
quite near enough thereto, one would imagine, to "enter the body of an
enemy." Inset is an enlargement of the German saw-bayonet--[Photo. by
L.N.A.]

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18--THE ILLUSTRATED WAR NEWS, NOV. 18, 1914.

[Illustration: WHERE FRENCH SAILORS FOUGHT AT DIXMUDE: NAVAL-BRIGADE
DEFENCES.]

[Illustration: WHERE FRENCH SAILORS FOUGHT AT DIXMUDE: THE NAVAL
DEFENCES--FRONT VIEW.]

Dixmude, the name of which little West Flanders town on the Y