Curious Phases of the War 



Filling a French 

 captive balloon 

 from cylinders of 

 hydrogen gas. The 

 invention of this 

 form of gas con- 

 tainer permits of 

 much more rapid 

 filling of balloons, 

 and dispenses with 

 the old cumbersome 

 generating plant 

 which was formerly 

 used 



These field kitchens in the Aisne 

 country have been concealed in 

 caves by their French cooks, who 

 are preparing meals as calmly as 

 though they were at the Cafe de 

 Paris 



(At Left.) An incendiary bomb 

 which fell on a London house 

 during a recentj Zeppelin raid 



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