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... 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 ...
... GERMANS FOR WHOM THE WAR IS ALREADY OVER PRISONERS OF WAR PLAYING FOOTBALL AND (RIGHT) A PRISONER RECEIVING ORDERS Aitnough certain prisoners of war at Donnington Hall between 1914 and 1918 made capital out of their experiences by painting adverse pictures, of their life j *n England in post-war books, the majority of German prisoners here were fully content. Indeed, it was sometimes ...
... ON THE PROPAGANDA FRONT B.B.C. MONITORS AT WORK -- EXPERT LINGUISTS WHO LISTEN-IN TO ALL FOREIGN BROADCASTS. (Keystone Photos.) The War in the Ether has not developed into the chaos of jamming that was predicted by many experts; but the B.B.C. has taken many defensive measures and is playing an important part on the propaganda front- This entails constant monitoring that is. listening-in to ...
... THE 41 CITY OF FLINT,*' THE U.S. SHIP CAPTURED BY THE DEUTSCHLAND BUT FREED BY THE NORWEGIANS, WHO INTERNED THE PRIZE CREW. (Planet.) The release of the American merchant ship City of Flint by the Norwegian authorities on November 3 caused an outburst of fury in Germany, and the Nazi Government lodged a protest in Oslo. The vessel, it will be remembered, was stopped by the 44 Deutschland 44 on ...
... TRAINING MEN FOR OUR MECHANISED ARMY A UNIT OF THE ROYAL ARMOURED CORPS AT AN INSTRUCTION CENTRE IN ENGLAND. (Keystone.) ...
... MANOEUVRES ON THE SAND-TABLE MEN OF THE ROYAL TANK REGIMENT RECEIVING INSTRUCTION IN TACTICS WITH THE AID OF MODEL TANKS. (S. and G.) v -jj Tank manoeuvres require a large area of ground to be successful, but the use of a sand-table, built up to represent a miniature stretch of countryside, enables instruction in tactics to be given indoors. This is an efficient and convenient method. The ...
... INDICATING THE CHARACTERISTICS OF A GERMAN TANK A ROYAL ARMOURED CORPS INSTRUCTOR SHOWING MEN FOREIGN EQUIPMENT. {Keystone.) ...
... The He. 1 1 1 K bomber is larger than the Dorniers, and roughly in the same class as the Vickers- Armstrongs Well ington. Its lay-out and working details can be studied from the diagram below appears the He. 1 1 1 K brought down in Scotland on October 28, after a thrilling chase by R.A.F. fighters (de- 1 tails were given in our last week's issue). [Continued, opposite. j Continued. J The He ...