The horse was not afraid to show his fright by rearing when a shell exploded on the other side of the barn. COPYRIGHT-INTERNAT. NEWS COPYRIGHT UNDERWOOD & UNDERWOOD BRIDGING THE YSER French pontoniers at work preparing the way for an advance. The fence, however, is one of the elaborate French trenches in the Argonne, and the game being watched by the two Frenchmen is a German advance. The wounded are being carried in the boxes on the swaying backs of the camels. The picture is thoroughly typical of the many weird conditions under which the campaigns in the near East are being conducted. COPYRIGHT-UNDERWOOD & UNDERWOOD THE RED CROSS UNDER FIRE Two bearers have dashed out into the storm of bullets that is sweeping across the plain, and are picking up a wounded officer, while on the dead run. In doing so, they have forfeited their right to immunity, because under the ordinary rules, firing need not cease if a bearer or surgeon ventures into a space where an engagement is actually in progress, as they are doing here. A BRUSH BETWEEN SCOUTS Dismounted Austrian hussars going after a group of Cossacks hidden at the other side of the field. T The little launch to the right is conveying Norwegian officials, who are going to warn the German war vessel that it must quit the ford in which it has taken shelter, within twenty-four hours. ATLING gun motor exhausts will enter the lists in place of the late firecracker on the Fourth of July, 1915. The rattle of the open mufflers will be just as loud as the roars of the ancient firecrackers, the flights of the planes will be just as thrilling as the balloon ascensions of old, the danger to the populace will be infinitesimal, the Sane Fourth triumphant. All this will happen because on that day, in cities dotted from Coast to Coast over the United States, aeroplanes and hydroaeroplanes of every description will spread their wings to the blue sky as they open the one hundred days' tournament and launch the most tremendous series of flights ever begun in the United States. Stabilizers of every kind will be tried out under the most severe conditions, and one of the many already invented may be finally established, to take its place as the logical instrument to make the aeroplane genuinely foolproof. Monoplane parasols, built for speed, will compete with great water planes. The public will learn that an aeroplane is a real vehicle, fast approaching a useful position beside the telephone and the automobile; it will be shown by cross country flights, speed races and general utility stunts, that in spite of the appetite of the public for daredevil feats, there is room for the sane aeroplane and sane flying. |