Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1914-12-17
ILLUSTRATED WAR EXTRA
HELP TO STAR READERS
Furnishes Better Appreciation of
Real Conditions of Destruction and
Misery Caused by Conflict.

Westinghouse who read their war
news from The Star last night had
better appreciation of the real condi-
tons of destruction and misery, as
well as of the military strategy, be-
cause they supplemented it with the
midweek war extra, with its vivid pic
lures of actual war scenes, to illustrate
the cabled dispatches.
The war extra had a large sale yes
terday, and even before this illustrated
magazine could be placed in the hands
of the newsboys and on the news
stands men were calling up The Star
to ask how early in the day they would
be able to buy it.
The sales yesterday were even in eX-
cess of the first two weeks. The agents
now have a large number of regular
customers who have ordered the deliV-
cry of the entire series of pictorial
war extras as fast as they are issued
This is proving one of the most popu-
lar features The Star has ever put out
The new rotogravure process, which
brings out in clear detail all the lights
and shadings of the war photographs
is interesting to many persons: 1t sup
plies a sepia-print finish that is at the
same time artistic and of practical
value in giving sharpness and realism
that make the pictures stand right
out from the pages.
Pictures Taken at the Front.
This weeks extra gives number of
excellent pictures taken at the very
forefront of the conflict. Among them
are:
French officers examining the pit
formerly occupied by one of Germany
great seventeen-incn guns: In oruer
to keep details of the guns construc-
ton a complete secret the Germans
fill up these holes with water. A
temporary railroad is shown. which
was laid for the especially construct
ed car on which the giant gun was
carried.
showing two of the giant airships at
anchor, an invasion by which is the
great present dread of Great Britain.
The Zeppelin factories at f'fieuricns-
busy since the beginning of the war
as the krupp works at Essen. No ore
outside of Germany knows how many
airships have been built, but the peo-
pie of England have been confidently
aerial invasion of their land.
Scene at one of the camps near
,Verdun: Fear of discovery ny aero
plane scouts leads the German artil-
lerymen to conceal their horses in low
sheds covered over with straw and
grass. Only by flying within range
of the sharpshooters rifles couiu an
aviator distinguish the sheds from
the surrounding fields.
Belgian refugees returning to Ant
werp from Holland on Scheldt steam
ers: Owners of property in the Bel
gian port who fed before the Ger
man advance are returning to see how
much they have lost by the bomba I'd
ment. The poorer refugees have been
cared for by the Dutch and have grown
very fond of their protectors.
Belgian and German officers watching
wounded French soldiers playing
checkers at one of the German base
hospitals: The hospital authorities have
found great difficulty in supplying
means for giving convalescent soldiers
the amusement that is almost as neces-
sary to quick recovery from their
wounds as medical care itself.
An ambulance car on the Midland
railroad: All the English railroad COM
panies are supplying the government
with specially constructed cars. fitted
with the latest hospital equipment, for
carrying wounded soldiers.
Pictures of Fighting Kurds.
Market square of Kurd village. near
the Russian border: The people OF
Kurdestan are very poor and their
houses are of thin boards topped with