... DEVILS OF THE SEA (UPPER) THE U-BOAT WHICH HELD UP AND SEARCHED THE FIRST U.S. SHIP STOPPED IN THE WAR AND (LOWER) ANOTHER U-BOAT, PHOTOGRAPHED FROM A NORWEGIAN FREIGHTER, AFTER SHE HAD SUNK TWO BRITISH SHIPS. (Photographs by Keystone and A. P.) i We believe, said Mr. Churchill in the House, on October 17, that out of *1 about sixty U-boats ready for action at the beginning of the war about ...

... j LEADERS OF BRITAIN'S HUGE NEW FORCES THE HIGH COMMANDS OF THE ARMY AND THE R.A.F. GENERAL LORD GORT, V.C., THE COMMANDER-IN-CHIEF OF THE BRITISH FIELD FORCE IN FRANCE. Lord Gort's V.C. was won on Septem ber 27, 1918, while commanding the 1st Battalion of the Guards. A FORMER DIRECTOR-GENERAL OF THE T.A., NOW INSPECTOR-GENERAL, HOME FORCES GENERAL SIR WALTER KIRKE. Is responsible for the ...

... THE ARMY, NAVY AND AIR FORCE CHIEFS OF OUR GALLANT ALLIES FOUR FRENCH WAR LEADERS WITH MAGNIFICENT SERVICE RECORDS j GENERAL GAMELIN. General Gamelin, who occupies the place in the Allied War councils that Marshal Foch filled in the latter part of the Great War, comes of an old French military family. He is a noted strategist, and was partly responsible for the Marne victory. GENERAL GEORGES. ...

... FOR HEAVY SHELLING OF GERMAN DEFENCES AND LINES OF COMMUNICATION FRENCH LONG-RANGE, HIGH-VELOCITY GUNS ON THE WESTERN FRONT WHICH WILL HELP TO HOLD UP ANY ENEMY OFFENSIVE INTENDED TO DRIVE ALLIED TROOPS OFF GERMAN SOIL. Photos., Planet and A. P.) The Allies will never in this war be faced with the inferiority in heavy artillery which hampered them in the last. The French have now regained the ...

... WITH THEIR ARMY PACKS AS SHIELDS-- AN INGENIOUS METHOD OF TEMPORARY CONCEALMENT AND PROTECTION: FRENCH TROOPS DIGGING IN. S. and G.) The term 44 our gallant Allies assumes a specially significant meaning when applied to the French front-line soldiers who, in face of strong attacks by the Germans, have maintained their hold on a large area of enemy territory between the Rhine and the Moselle. ...

... WHAT IT FEELS LIKE TO BE ARCHIED: BURSTING ANTI-AIRCRAFT SHELLS PHOTOGRAPHED FROM AN AEROPLANE. (Keystone.) 'Planes of the German Air Force, which on Tuesday twice raided Scapa Flow, were seen in the neighbourhood of the Orkneys again yesterday. Anti-aircraft guns blazed away at them, and raid warnings were sounded in Kirkwall, Orkney Islands. When we read some such report as the foregoing, ...

... THE SINKING OF THE AIRCRAFT-CARRIER COURAGEOUS: THE CREW ABANDONING SHIP AS SHE SETTLED DOWN BY THE BOWS. From the Drawing by O. H. Davit.) The 22,500-ton aircraft carrier Courageous was torpedoed by a German submarine in the evening of September 17. Of the reduced complement of 1202 officers and men on board at the time, 687 were saved, the commander of the vessel, Captain Makeig-Jones, ...

... THE GUNS OF THE FLEET GUARANTEEING, AS IN NELSON'S DAY, THE COMMAND OF THE SEAS BRITISH BATTLESHIPS ABOUT TO OPEN FIRE. (L.N. A.) ...

... BRITAIN'S LEADERS IN THE WAR AT SEA LORDS OF THE ADMIRALTY AND COMMANDERS OF OUR FLEETS. _____ ADMIRAL SIR DUDLEY A. POUND. (Bar rails.) Admiral Sir Dudley Pound was appointed i First Sea Lord and Chief J of Naval Staff in May I 1939. Previously he had been C.-in-C. of the Mediterranean station 1 since 1936. Served 1 during the last war, including Jutland, where he was in command of the ...

... A BRITISH DESTROYER AT FULL SPEED AFTER DROPPING A DEPTH-CHARGE THE SPOUTS INDICATING THE EXPLOSION'S TERRIFIC FORCE. (Photos, by Fox taken previous to the outbreak of war.) Depth-charges, along with bombing from the air, constitute the chief danger to the U-boat and above we show a British destroyer steaming away at top speed after dropping a depth-charge. So great is the explosion that ...

... ENGLAND'S NEW IRONSIDES THUNDERING OVER THE LEVEL: FAST LIGHT TANKS THE CAVALRY OF MODERN ARMIES-- AT EXERCISE. c (Fox.) i ...

... ADOLF HITLER A PRIVATE IN THE LAST WAR, SUPREME WAR-LORD IN HIS OWN AN AMAZING TRANSFORMATION IN TWENTY-FIVE YEARS. (Wide World.) History can show no more astounding instance of change of fortune than that which in a quarter of a century has made a former Austrian builder's labourer and an ordinary private during the war of 1914-18 into the sole arbitrator for his entire nation and their ...