... THE FLAGSHIP OF BRITAIN'S HOME FLEET-- H.M.S. NELSON (33,950 TONS), WHICH MOUNTS THE HUGE ARMAMENT OF NINE 16-IN. GUNS. (Charles E. Brown.) H.M.S. Nelson, 33,950 tons, is the flagship of Britain's Home Fleet, according to the last Navy List issued. She was laid down with her sister-ship, the Rodney, c. 38,000 tons, in December 1922. Both were completed in 1929. Their over-all length is 710 ...

... AFTER AN R.A.F. RECONNAISSANCE FLIGHT THE PILOT HANDING OVER HIS NEGATIVES WHICH WILL PROVIDE THE STAFF WITH INFORMATION OF THE UTMOST IMPORTANCE. ...

... REMINISCENT IN ALL ITS DETAILS OF A SCENE ON THE WESTERN FRONT IN THE LAST WAR BRITISH TROOPS RESTING SOMEWHERE IN FRANCE. British Official Photograph.) j One of the most extraordinary experiences in these early days of the new European conflict for anyone who took part in the last war is to find it all coming to life again in the photographs reaching England from the Western Front, where, as ...

... THE WAR AGAINST NAZI GERMANY A RETROSPECT OF THE OUTSTANDING EVENTS FROM THE OUTBREAK OF THE STRUGGLE. German Aggression Provokes War. IN his broadcast to the nation at u. 15 on the morning of September 3 Mr. Chamberlain announced that Great Britain was at war with Germanv. A state of war existed between France and Germany from 5 p.m. on the same day; on which Australia and New Zealand also ...

... 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 ...

... 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. ...