afayette.

[Illustration: ONE OF THE VESSELS CONCERNED IN "THE LARGE COMBINED
OPERATION" AGAINST THE "EMDEN" H.M.A.S. "MELBOURNE."]

While it fell to H.M.A.S. "Sydney" to bring the "Emden" to action, another
vessel of the Australian Navy, the "Melbourne," also joined in the
pursuit. The Admiralty stated that a "large combined operation by fast
cruisers against the 'Emden' has been for some time in progress. In this
search, which covered an immense area, the British cruisers have been
aided by French, Russian, and Japanese vessels working in harmony.
H.M.A.S. 'Melbourne' and 'Sydney' were also included in these movements."

Photograph by Sport and General.

At whatever sacrifice! And that promises to be terrible. For what will be
the sacrifice entailed by two years of war--to put its duration at a
moderate estimate--if our casualties in life and limb alone (compared with
which our millions of money are as nothing) amounted, according to an
official statement in Parliament, to about 57,000 of all ranks up to the
end of October, and it is believed that 10,000 at least must be added for
the first ten days of November? Of course, by far the larger portion of
those casualties are "wounded," of whom, according to one of the Netley
authorities, nine in ten at least ought to recover; while those casualties
also include "missing," or "prisoners," of whom the Germans claim to have
now more than 16,000 in their keeping. In the Boer War our "wounded"
amounted to 22,829, of which only 2018 proved fatal cases; while our total
casualties for over two and a-half years of warfare, including 13,250
deaths from disease--which, in every campaign, is always far more fatal
than lead or steel--figured up to 52,204, as compared with 57,000 in
France and Belgium for only three months, or considerably more than twice
the number of men (26,000) whom we landed in the Crimea; while the purely
British contingent of Wellington's "Allies" at Waterloo was returned at
something like 24,000.

[Continued overleaf.

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THE ILLUSTRATED WAR NEWS, NOV. 18, 1914--3

[Illustration: SYBARITISM IN THE TRENCHES! A HOT SHOWER-BATH
ESTABLISHMENT INSTALLED BY AN INGENIOUS FRENCH ENGINEER.]

Much has been said of the elaborate character of the German entrenchments,
and of the B