"Carmania"--a ship of great length, standing 60 feet out of the water--she
was saved from suffering more damage by the seamanship of Captain
Noel Grant, R.N., her Captain, who kept her end-on to the enemy.
Our photograph of the navigating bridge of the "Carmania," with the
engine-room telegraphs wrecked and fragments of metal strewn about, will
give an idea of what those on board went through. It has just reached this
country.--[Photo. by Farringdon Co.]




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


[Illustration: THE GERMAN SCIENCE OF ARSON: INCENDIARY DISKS CARRIED BY
THE KAISER'S SOLDIERS--A SPECIMEN BEFORE AND DURING IGNITION.]

It is clear that the German incendiary outrages in Belgium and France were
premeditated, and German scientists devised special apparatus for setting
fire to buildings. Our informant, who bought some incendiary disks from a
German soldier near Antwerp, states that every man carries twenty bags,
each containing about 300 disks. Mr. Bertram Blount, the analyst, found
the disks consist of nitro-cellulose, or gun-cotton. They may be lit, even
when wet, with a match or cigarette-end, and burn for eleven or twelve
seconds, emitting a strong five-inch flame, and entirely consuming
themselves. The Germans throw them alight into houses. The photographs
show (1) a bag of disks as supplied to German soldiers; (2) a disk
burning; and (3) a disk, actual size, before being used.