20--THE ILLUSTRATED WAR NEWS, DEC. 30, 1914.--[Part 21]


[Illustration: HAND-GRENADES SHOT FROM A GUN!--THE AARSEN GRENADE-GUN
BEING LOADED.]

One of the features of the present war which have been drawn attention to
by "Eye-Witness" in his letters from the Front, is the resuscitation of
fighting with hand-grenades on both sides. Particularly has this been the
case during the battles in Northern France and Flanders, wherever the
trenches approached one another within flinging distance. There also, on
occasion, where the troops facing one another were further apart, and
beyond reach of a throw by hand, an improvised catapult of the classic
type has been devised by our men for slinging hand-bombs; utilising a
metal spring bent back and held fast in a notch, to be released on the
lighting of the fuse. An illustration of a catapult appeared in the
"Illustrated War News" of December 23.




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[Illustration: HAND-GRENADES SHOT FROM A GUN!--AARSEN GRENADES BURSTING
IN THE OPEN.]

On the page opposite we give a photograph of a Danish experimental gun,
designed at Copenhagen, for firing Aarsen hand-grenades. The grenades are