ser all the
world knows now, after being heroically defended against persistent
night-and-day attacks and bombardments at all hours, was taken by the
reinforced Germans after a forty-hours renewed attack on November 11. The
defenders, however, held out in the outskirts of the town, and could not
be dislodged. The post is not part of the Allied main line, but rather of
value as a bridge-head over the river. The French naval officer who sent
the photographs shown above was one of the defenders until he had to
withdraw wounded. When he was there Dixmude had been defended by 6000
French sailors, reinforced at the end of October by 1500 Algerian
soldiers.

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THE ILLUSTRATED WAR NEWS, NOV. 18, 1914--19

[Illustration: THE COWHERDS OF WAR: ARMED GERMAN MARINES ROUNDING UP
CATTLE FOR FOOD FOR THE ARMY IN THE FIELD.]

One of War's "little ironies" finds illustration in our photograph. A
great conflict such as that now being waged is full of contrasts: grins,
pathetic, sometimes not without a suggestion of humour. That the German
Marine should be told off in a pretty rural district to round up cattle
for food for the German troops is a case in point. The sleek and shapely
kine which these sturdy fellows are commandeering plod peacefully along in
happy ignorance of the fact that they are prisoners of war being led to
their doom by an armed guard. If it were not for the significance of the
weapons borne by the Marines, the scene would be as purely pastoral
as that immortalised by Gray. It suggests the "lowing herd"--with a
difference.--[Photo. by Photopress.]

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

[Illustration: THE ATTACK ON THE "PEGASUS" BY THE "KOeNIGSBERG" (NOW
"IMPRISONED"): TRANSHIPPING WOUNDED TO THE HOSPITAL-SHIP "GASCON."]

The "Pegasus," an old and small cruiser, was attacked and disabled by the
German cruiser "Koenigsberg" (recently trapped by the "Chatham" in an East
African river), a modern ship of larger size and much heavier metal, at
daybreak on September 20, while anchored in Zanzibar harbour to clean
boilers. The "Koenigsberg" stole up during the night, sheltered behind an
island off the shore and, easily outranging the guns