France and Belgium for only three months, or considerably more than twice
the number of men (26,000) whom we landed in the Crimea; while the purely
British contingent of Wellington's "Allies" at Waterloo was returned at
something like 24,000.

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THE ILLUSTRATED WAR NEWS, NOV. 18, 1914--3


[Illustration: SYBARITISM IN THE TRENCHES! A HOT SHOWER-BATH
ESTABLISHMENT INSTALLED BY AN INGENIOUS FRENCH ENGINEER.]

Much has been said of the elaborate character of the German entrenchments,
and of the British genius for comfort developed in our own lines, but it
is doubtful whether anything done by either side in that direction has
surpassed the chef-d'oeuvre of an ingenious French engineer shown in our
illustration. At one point in the French trenches not seven hundred yards
from those of the enemy, and within two miles of the German artillery, he
constructed an up-to-date bathing establishment, with a heating apparatus
and a shower-bath! The apartment was fitted with a stove, benches,
clothes-pegs, and curtains; and adjoining the salle de douches, or
shower-bath room, was fitted up a salle de coiffure. There was even talk
of enlivening the bathing hour with music and a topical revue.