THE ILLUSTRATED WAR NEWS, DEC. 30, 1914--[Part 21]--39


[Illustration: SHIPS THE BRITISH, AND THE GERMAN, NAVY MIGHT HAVE HAD!
DESIGNS BY THE KAISER AND OTHER NAVAL THEORISTS.]

The first illustration on this page is a design for a battle-ship made by
the Kaiser in 1893, to replace the old "Preussen," then out of date. The
vessel was to carry four large barbettes and a huge umbrella-like
fighting-top. Illustration No. 2 is an Immersible Ironclad, designed by a
French engineer named Le Grand, in 1862. In action the vessel was to be
partly submerged, so that only her three turrets and the top of the
armoured glacis would be visible. No. 3 is Admiral Elliott's "Ram," of
1884. The ship was to carry a "crinoline" of stanchions along her
water-line, practically a fixed torpedo-net. No. 4 is Thomas Cornish's
Invulnerable Ironclad, of 1885. She was to have two separate parallel
hulls under water; above she was of turtle-back shape.




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


[Illustration: EXPERTS IN CLOSE-QUARTER FIGHTING: SIBERIAN INFANTRYMEN
IN THEIR FIELD-SERVICE EQUIPMENT AT WARSAW.]

Our illustration shows a halt in one of the squares of Warsaw of one of
the regiments of Siberian infantry, whose magnificent fighting qualities