THE SALIENT FROM 1915 TO 1916.
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A view looking across to Ypres from a German observation post on Hill 60 in July, 1915, In the foreground is the railway and behind
the village of Zillebeke, with the lake partly screened by trees. Among the buildings that are visible in Ypres are the water-tower, St.
Peter's Church, the Cloth Hall, with the Cathedral Church of St. Martin rising behind, and the Church of St. Jacques.
VIEWS ACROSS THE ALLIED FRONT LINES.Two of the German panoramic photographs of the Ypres Front which have been
presented to the Imperial War Museum by Major Gudtschmidt, of the Imperial German Army. With their ranging detail and complete
annotations these panoramas are excellent examples of the effective use of such photographs for identifying artillery targets and supple
menting information derived from maps.
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The devastation is shown by this panorama, made from an observation post, apparently in the neighbourhood of Zonnebeke, in October, 1916.
The vertical lines refer to the numerous targets and points of interest in the Allied lines annotated by the German observer. The buildings to
be picked out in Ypres itself are (from left to right) the Church of St. Jacques, the Cloth Hall, the Cathedral, the water-tower, the prison,
with the Dixmude Gate identified beyond the extreme right.
