THE ILLUSTRATED WAR NEWS, NOV. 18, 1914--47


[Illustration: WHAT IT MEANS TO VILLAGERS TO HAVE GERMANS BILLETED UPON
THEM: MOTOR-CORPS OFFICERS ASLEEP IN A COTTAGE.]

The inhabitants of those parts of France and Belgium which are still
groaning under the German incubus are greatly to be pitied. Beyond the
terrible agony inflicted by the invaders upon defenceless populations, in
the form of executions and house-burnings and various forms of outrage,
there is a great mass of less drastic but still intolerable misery to be
borne by those unfortunate householders who are compelled to house and
feed the soldiers of the enemy. Some idea of the nature of the infliction
to which they are subjected can be gathered from such a drawing as that
here reproduced. It shows some officers of the motor-corps of the
Nineteenth German Army Corps asleep in a house upon which they have been
billeted. The drawing is by a German artist.




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


[Illustration: AT YPRES, WITH THE BRITISH: THE FRENCH NAVAL BRIGADE
CHARGING.]

Much hard fighting on the Yser and elsewhere in West Flanders has fallen
to the lot of the French bluejackets of the Naval Brigade, a strong force