within a hundred and fifty yards of some of the bursting shells. The
locality of the battle is in the Argonne country between the Upper
Aisne and the Meuse, where the French are having continuous and stiff
fighting. Men of the French infantry keeping under cover in one of their
advanced trenches are seen in the left foreground of the picture. The
object of the actual fighting on the occasion was to keep apart
the Third German army as it fell back towards prepared positions
near the Meuse and a force of reinforcing troops coming up from the
direction of Metz. "To impede the persistent advance of our ---- corps."




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THE ILLUSTRATED WAR NEWS, NOV. 18, 1914--45


[Illustration: "SIX GERMAN SHELLS TO EVERY FRENCH SOLDIER"--SHRAPNEL AND
HIGH-EXPLOSIVE BOMBS BURSTING IN THE OPEN: A PANORAMIC PHOTOGRAPH TAKEN
DURING A BATTLE IN THE ARGONNE. (right half)]

writes a French correspondent on the spot, the enemy resisted vigorously
and with his heavy artillery. He treated us to shells with a veritable
prodigality, but without causing us very serious losses. In the forward
movement, led by the ---- infantry regiment, on an important position that
had to be taken, practically every soldier engaged was saluted by six
shells. There was, though, no 'shyness' among our men. They laughed and
joked with one another as they quitted the trenches to move forward over
the open. By the evening the enemy's position had been taken." Both
ordinary shrapnel and high-explosive 15-c.m. shells from the German heavy