[Illustration: A HOLLOW SQUARE OF WRECKAGE: THE REMAINS OF A GERMAN
MOTOR-TRANSPORT CONVOY GROUPED ROUND THE SOLDIERS' GRAVE.]

There is something gruesomely appropriate in this photograph of the
wreckage of a destroyed German motor-transport wagon train, or convoy,
grouped in a sort of hollow square about the graves of the officers and
men involved in the destruction of their charge. The place is in the
Argonne district, the tract of rough country, between the sources of
the Aisne and the Meuse, through which the high road from Paris to
Verdun passes. How catastrophe befell this particular German convoy we
can guess. More than one of the enemy's transport trains, moving in
this part of the country, are recorded to have fallen victims to
long-range bombardments by the French artillery as the result of aeroplane
reconnoitring activity--[Photo. by Alfieri.]




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


[Illustration: TELLING THE TALE IN GERMANY!--PRINCE EITEL FRITZ AS A
DRUMMER.]

Like his father and brothers, Prince Eitel Fritz, the Kaiser's second son,
has received the Iron Cross. It has not been made known over here how the
Prince won it. Our illustration, reproducing a picture from a German