[Illustration: WHERE ANTI-AIRCRAFT GUNS ARE NOT: GERMAN MACHINE-GUNS, ON
TEMPORARY MOUNTINGS, FOR USE AGAINST WAR-PLANES.]

The Germans, according to paragraphs from their newspapers reprinted here,
sneer at the way London is guarding against hostile aircraft by mounting
quick-firing guns and searchlights and putting out many street lamps. They
are doing much the same themselves, however, in the cities nearest their
western frontier. At Cologne, ever since August, there has been constant
nervousness as to possible air-raids, and searchlights from elevated
points in the city have swept the sky nightly, and machine-guns have been
set up on tall buildings. At Düsseldorf when our airmen destroyed a
Zeppelin, the aviators were fired at by machine-guns from all over the
city. Our illustration shows German machine-guns in temporary use as
anti-aircraft guns.--[Photo. by Photopress.]




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


[Illustration: FRENCH COLONIAL TROOPS WHOSE DARK COMPLEXIONS MAKE THEM
"INVISIBLE" IN NIGHT ATTACKS! SENEGALESE ON THE DEFENSIVE AT PERVYSE.]

Among the French Colonial troops, the Senegalese have done excellent work,
both on the Aisne and, more recently, in Belgium. Our photograph was taken
near Pervyse, a village on the railway between Dixmunde and Nieuport,
which has been the scene of many fierce encounters. In the Battle of the