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 Yser 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