[Illustration: THE NEUTRALITY OF THE SCANDINAVIAN POWERS: THE KINGS OF
NORWAY, SWEDEN, AND DENMARK, WHO MET IN CONFERENCE AT MALMO.]

The three Northern Monarchs whose portraits are given above are: (1) King
Haakon of Norway; (2) King Gustav of Sweden; (3) King Christian of
Denmark. King Gustav was the convener of the meeting, the object of which
was to arrive at an understanding by means of which the Scandinavian
countries might be able to draw closer together in view of the interests
common to them all as neutrals. The motive was to maintain the neutrality
and independence of the three peoples, and at the same time to mitigate as
far as possible the serious inconveniences which all the three Northern
States have suffered in regard to the supplies of the necessaries of life
and in their general economic condition in consequence of the existence of
a state of war in Europe.--[_Photos. by Russell, Florman, and Bieber._]




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


[Illustration: THE ENEMY AS PORTRAYED BY HIMSELF ON CHALK: THE GERMAN
SOLDIER-CAVEMAN AS ARTIST IN THE AISNE QUARRIES.]

In more ways than one, the German soldier would seem on occasion to
represent, as it were, a reverting to primitive type: to the barbaric
European of centuries back in the world's history. The "reversion"