The WAR BOND CAMPAIGN in Trafalgar Square.
Trafalgar Square Transformed into a Battle Are in France
The organisers of the War Bond campaign have converted Trafalgar Square into a realisttic "fragment from France". One fountain has become a picturesque windmill; the other is hidden by a ruined cottage. The ponds serve as strongly fortified positions. The lap-posts are changed into battered and broken trees; the ruined tower of a Gothic church rises to the view, and from it to the brown windmill this is a most realistic representaion of a tragic "No Man's Land." Deep crater-holes linked by shallow trenches for defence, with her the limb of a German, there the body of a horse, and patches of grass brightening shell-churned soil, suggest the terrain between the Ancre river and the Somme. Beyond all this great guns most illusively camouflaged, point their death-dealing mouths to an extremely well-painted panorama of a battlefield, with villages aflame, or almost completely destroyed, and woods reduced to splintered stumps. The public is urged to visit the scene and buy as many war bonds as possible on the spot.