[Illustration:  The much-discussed Iron Cross:  A German officer decorated]

“Who gives quickly gives twice.”  That paraphrase of one of Napoleon’s war maxims in regard to the conferring of distinctions won in battle as speedily as possible after the event, has been adopted by the nations engaged in the world-war.  Recommendations for the “V.C.” have been announced as having been laid before our authorities, many grants of the “D.S.O.” and “D.C.M.” have already been garetted; and our French Allies have awarded the Legion of Honour to several officers and men.  Our first photograph shows a French General publicly bestowing the accolade on a newly made Chevalier of the Legion of Honour.  Our second shows a German Commander adorning a German officer with one of the innumerable Iron Crosses the Kaiser is sending round.—­[Photos. by Alfieri.]

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The illustrated war news, Nov. 18, 1914—­27

[Illustration:  A hollow square of wreckage:  The remains of A German motor-transport convoy grouped round the soldiers’ Grave.]

There is something gruesomely appropriate in this photograph of the wreckage of a destroyed German motor-transport wagon train, or convoy, grouped in a sort of hollow square about the graves of the officers and men involved in the destruction of their charge.  The place is in the Argonne district, the tract of rough country, between the sources of the Aisne and the Meuse, through which the high road from Paris to Verdun passes.  How catastrophe befell this particular German convoy we can guess.  More than one of the enemy’s transport trains, moving in this part of the country, are recorded to have fallen victims to long-range bombardments by the French artillery as the result of aeroplane reconnoitring activity—­[Photo. by Alfieri.]

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28—­The illustrated war news, Nov. 18, 1914.

[Illustration:  Telling the tale in Germany!—­Prince Eitel Fritz as A Drummer.]

Like his father and brothers, Prince Eitel Fritz, the Kaiser’s second son, has received the Iron Cross.  It has not been made known over here how the Prince won it.  Our illustration, reproducing a picture from a German paper, may solve the difficulty.  Says the legend:  “The Prince seized the drum of a fallen soldier and led his troops, beating the charge.”

[Illustration:  Telling the tale in Germany!—­Searching for the British fleet.]