... GREAT BRITAIN BLOCKADED BY THE GERMAN NAVY A NAZI WAR ARTIST DEPICTS NAZI WARSHIPS SEARCHING NEUTRAL SHIPPING FOR CONTRABAND IN THE NORTH SEA-REGARDLESS OF THE FACT THAT THE BRITISH NAVY'S SUPREMACY REMAINS UNCHALLENGED. ...

... THE ONLY CONCRETE RESULT OF THE FIRST GERMAN AIR RAIDS CAPTURED GERMAN AIRMEN IN LONDON. (GJ>.U.) Although, according to reports from neutral countries, Hitler has been debating with his generals the possibilities of a joint land and air attack on Eastern Britain, and, in ^n English broadcast from a Nazi radio station, the announcer stated, Britain has now become the field of war, and this is ...

... THE PROGRESS OF THE WAR A DIARY OF THE WEEK'S EVENTS. German Air Attacks on a Convoy Fail. ON Oct. 21 German aircraft twice attacked a British convoy in the North Sea. In the morning attack, delivered by six bombers, it is probable that two of the enemy aircraft were destroyed, and in the afternoon attempt, made by two formations of nine and twelve bombers respectively, four, or perhaps five, ...

... CHRISTMAS BOXES FOR HITLER AND GEORING HUGE BOMBS AT A MUNITIONS FACTORY IN ENGLAND BEARING INSCRIPTIONS STRICTLY UNOFFICIAL. BUT ELOQUENT OF THE FEELING OF THE WORKERS. The national organisation of munitions supply proceeds apace. A reason was i given on October 13 why excavating plant had been requisitioned and work held up on the Chingford and Staines reservoirs of the Metropolitan Water I ...

... I ADMIRAL SIR CHARLES FORBES OH THE BRIDGE. HE HAS BEEM CmmABW£B-m-€mEF (OF USE HiSWffi ElgZT M££ lkMS. HE FOUGHT WITH THE GRAHD FLEET AT JVTLAMB, (Fmm Mr Mum* a/ Time AW* 'TJor *ir fHatk. MtMmi) ...

... A BATTLESHIP WARDROOM JUST BEFORE THE LOYAL TOAST WHICH, IN ACCORDANCE WITH NAVAL TRADITION, IS DRUNK BY THE COMPANY SEATED. [Reproduced by Courtesy of The March of Time) We give a still from what is believed to be the first film ever taken of naval officers at dinner in the wardroom of a British battleship, where they are seen just before the loyal toast was proposed. In accordance with ...

... AN INSPIRING PICTURE OF THE NAVY ENGAGED ON ITS ENDLESS TASK OF PATROLLING OUR COASTS: TO KEEP THE SEAS, BY ARTHUR J. W. BURGESS, R.I., R.O.I. R.B.C., SHOWING DESTROYERS IN A HEAVY SEA. FROM THE R.O.I. EXHIBITION AT 195, PICCADILLY. ...

... THE ARTIST IN WARTIME AN IMPRESSION BY C. CHATER OF (LEFT) A BRITISH BATTLESHIP LOCATING A GERMAN RECONNAISSANCE AIRCRAFT AT NIGHT AND (RIGHT) A GERMAN JUNKERS JU. 87 'PLANE BROUGHT DOWN BY ANTI-AIRCRAFT FIRE BEHIND THE FRENCH LINES. The services of British artists have not as yet, as in the last war, been officially j called upon by the Government to supplement photography as a means of ...

... THERE'S A WEALTH OF ENTERTAINMENT IN A large number of the informative diagrammatic drawings, reproduced as panoramas, EACH MEASURING OVER THREE chiefly by that well-known artist G. H. Davis, which have FEET WIDE. They show British warship types a Battleship, a been published from time to time in THE ILLUSTRATED Cruiser, a Flotilla-Leader, a Submarine, and an Aircraft- LONDON NEWS, are now ...

... THE PROGRESS OF THE WAR: A DIARY OF THE WEEK'S EVENTS. German Activity in the West. BIG concentrations of German troops and aeroplanes and incessant movements of war material on the North German coast were reported on Oct. 26. The Italian wireless stated on Oct. 27 that there were 10 German divisions along the Dutch frontier, and 12 along the Swiss frontier from Basle to Lake Con- stance. On ...

... PIGEONS AS TRUSTED MESSENGERS AT THE FRONT (LEFT) RETURNING TO THE LOFT AND (RIGHT) EXAMINATION AFTER THE MISSION. The use of pigeons as speedy and trusted messengers dates far back into antiquity for example, the Persians and Greeks used them to fly back with the names of the winners of the OlyiVipic Games. The racing or homing pigeons employed in the British and French Army (our photographs ...

... GUNNERY TRAINING IN THE FLEET AIR ARM AN INSTRUCTOR DEMONSTRATING THE USE OF A CAMERA-GUN TO A RATTNr. (C.P.) This is one of the first photographs to be taken at a naval air station since the outbreak of war, and shows an instructor teaching a rating to work a camera-gun. At this particular station signaller-gunners drawn from the lower deck are trained for duty with the Fleet Air Arm. By a ...