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


[Illustration: SIMILAR TO THE KAISER'S AERIAL BODYGUARD: A ZEPPELIN WITH
A GUN ON TOP FIRING AT HOSTILE AEROPLANES--A GERMAN PICTURE.]

It was stated recently that two Zeppelins, armed with machine-guns, circle
continually on guard above the Kaiser's private apartments in his
headquarters at Coblentz.

It must be remembered, too, that the casualties referred to--being
confined to "the western area of the war"--do not include our losses at
sea, which comprise few "wounded" and no "missing." At sea it is either
neck or nothing, sink or swim: a modern battle-ship, if holed and
exploded, like the Good Hope and the Monmouth off the coast of Chile,
going to the bottom, and most of her crew with her, like Kempenfelt's
oaken Royal George--

Brave Kempenfelt is gone,
His victories are o'er;
And he and his eight hundred
Will plough the waves no more.


Thus if our casualties at sea, which are mainly of one kind only, be added
up, they will probably be found to exceed our deaths on land, which
are always much less numerous than other kinds of losses; yet the