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The Illustrated London News 1939

Outbreak of World War II

"Old Mother Hubbard and her Dog" A Hundred years ago: An early version of the famous
Nursery Rhyme, with most engaging coloured illustrations

Making lessons interesting to children a hundred years ago: some illustrations
from "A pic-nic party of the parts of speech": and the accompanying verses

"Punctuation personified, or pointing made easy; by Mr. Stops" : A pleasant idea, devised in the reign
of George IV, for helping young people to read correctly by means of coloured pictures

Guinness Adverts 1939

An advert - Just for the grown ups - well everybody did it then !

Events of this year in the Illustrated London News

April 15th

June 3rd

June 17th

July 1st

July 8th

• Training The Fleet Air Arm At HMS Daedalus ,

• Italian Royal Wedding,

• Danzig - Nazi Rallies And Relics,

• Bow Torpedo Tubes Of A British Submarine,

• Wimbledon - Tennis

July 15th

July 22nd

• The British Guards In The Fete Nationale Parade In Paris,

• French Army In "Bastille Day" Parade In Paris,

• Imperial Forces Of France On Parade, Franco-British Air Power - The Fete Nationale Combined Fly Past,

• Japanese Blockade Of The Tientsin Concessions,

• Shanghai Carries On As Normal,

• British Submarine Exercising At Malta,

• The Nelson-Ward Collection, Rebuilt And Looking Like A Different Ship "Hms Renown" Comparisons,

• French Infantry In The Fete National Parade,

• The First Group Of Militiamen

July 29th

August 5th

August 12th

August 19th

August 26th

September 2nd

September 9th

September 16th

September 30th

• German Motor Torpedo Boat Tactics - With Aircraft Smoke Screens 'Accompanying Aircraft Releasing a Smoke Screen Between The Flotilla and The Enemy Ship' - - - 'The Coat of Arms of a German Motor Torpedo Boat Flotilla, Which Borne on the Bows of The Flotilla's Mother Ship' - - - Salving Practise Torpedoes: A Smoke Buoy Emerging Out of the Sea' - - - ' German S Boat Manoeuvring Behind The Smoke Screen' - - - 'The Path of Torpedoes From a German S Boat Illumined During Night Practise - - - 'Firing a Torpedo on a Crooked Course'

  A double page pictorial map - 'What Germany Stands to Lose in the Saar - A Pictorial Map Showing Its Mineral Riches - Particularly in Coal and Iron and Steel' the map shows many of the chemical works, steel works, coal mines stretching from the Maginot Line, over the river Saar up to the Main Siegfried Line and showing Volkingen - Saarbrucken - Warndt Forest - Merzig - Sarlouis or Saarlautern - Dillignen - St Ingbert - Neunkirchen and much more. There is an inset of the Rheinland

  The Navys Way With U boats - The Visible Results of Depth Charging and Depth Charge Throwers - 'The Surface Result of Depth Charges Exploding at a Prearrange depth two photographs - - - The Destroyer HMS Essex Steaming Away at Full Speed After Dropping a Depth Charge'

  'Depth Charges Secured to The Thrower and Resting on the Carrier ' - - - ' Petty Officer Fitting a Depth Charge to the Thrower'

  The Polish Pianist ' Paderewski Playing The Piano as a Boy ' - - - ' Paderewski at the Time of His Marriage in 1880' - - - 'The Hands of Paderewski on the Keyboard '

  'How an RAF Pilot Stalked a U Boat and Bombed It - By a Young South African Pilot of The Royal Air Force ' full page drawn by "Our Special Artist G. H. Davis; From a Description by The Pilot" with an account of the action below

  ' German Warships in the Polish Naval Base of Gdynia '

  'Possibility of Change in the US Neutrality Act: President Roosevelt Addressing The Special Session of Congress Summoned to Hear His Scheme for the Repeal of the Arms Embargo '

  ' A Map Showing The Lines of Demarcation Between The Soviet and German Armies, The Soviet Having Exacted The Galician Oil Wells'

  'The Kings Surprise Visit To The Royal Air Force Coastal Command Headquarters, "Somewhere in England": His Majesty Passing Workmen on ARP Duty'

  'A German FIghter Plane One of a Formation Flying Over Polish Territory'

  ' Herr Hitler Viewing From His Special Plane Polish Territory Conquered By Germany, But As Seen in the Map Above, Subsequently Handed Over To Russia '

  ' An RAF Flying Boat Assisting in the Rescue of the Crew of a Torpedoed Tramp Steamer " Kensington Court " ..'

  'A Nazi Bomber Forced Down in the Sea Off The Dutch Island of Ameland '

  'HMS Kittiwake Damaged By striking a Mine in The English Channel: A Recent Photograph of the Patrol Vessel'

  ' British Airmen Lost in the Kiel Raid Given an Official Funeral At Wilhelmshaven - A German Naval Chaplain Reading The Burial Service

  'The US Submarine " Squalus " Breaking Surface After Being Raised From the Ocean Bed By Giant Pontoons ' - - - ' The Ill Fated American Submarine in Which 26 Men Lost Their Lives When She Foundered on May 23, Photographed in Dry Dock at Portsmouth, New Haven, Connecticut After Her Successful Salvage '

  German Tanks and Guns in Warsaw, The Smoke of Many Bombings - 'Scenes in the Outskirts and Suburbs of Warsaw: German Infantry Entrenched at a Street Corner and German Infantry Advancing Behind a Tank ' two photographs - - - ' Dense Clouds of Smoke aFter an Air Raid ' a row of houses being bombed - - - ' A German Light Field Gun Covering a Street in Warsaw Suburb' - - - 'Primitive Horse Drawn Fire Engines Used To Put Out The Flames After The Bombing of Krzemienic on the Frontier '

  The Eastern Front: German Infantry; and Trenches in Warsaw - 'Nearing Warsaw; German Infantry, Motorised and Mechanised, Advancing Through the Deserted Streets of a Small Town' - - - 'German Entrenchments on the Outskirts of Warsaw - The Tramcars Vividly Suggesting The Nearness of the Capitals Centre to The Front Line'

  'Before Her Calvary: The Fair and Spacious City of Warsaw - 'TheRailway Station Before Warsaw Became The German and Polish Front Line' - - - Warsaw's Theatre Place, Dominated By the Opera House; The Town Hall is Reported Demolished By Bombardment' - - - 'One of Europe's Highest Buildings and the Office of the Prudential INsurance Company of London - Warsaw's Sixteen Storey Prudential Skyscraper in Napoleon Square'

  'The Plan of Polands Capital At THe Time of Going To Press Still Resisting Against Terrific Odds'

  Saint Johns Cathedral, Also on the South Side of the River' - - - 'The Former Seat of the Polish Government at Warsaw, Who Are Now Hoping To Govern on The A Foreign Land: Parliament House '

  'One of the Surprisingly Large Number of Polish Warships Which Have Succeeded in Escaping From German Clutches: The Big Submarine " Orzel " For Which a Large Soviet Squadron Also Hunted After It Escaped From the Estonian Port of Tallinn '

  'A Type of Polish Destroyer Now Represented in British Waters: The Burza One of a Pair of French Built Boats'

  The Assassination of M. Armand Calinescu - 'The Scene of th Assassination of M. Calinescu, Rumanian Premier, By The Iron Guard. M. Calinescu's Car; In The Foreground, His Bodyguards Shrouded Corpse'

  'A Few Minutes After The Crime: M. Calinescu's Chauffeur Sitting on the Running Board of the Car, Both He and His Companion Dazed by The Shock of the Outrage, In Which He Was Wounded' - - - ' A Close View of M. Calinuscu's Car Showing The Bullet Holes and The Peasant Cart Which Formed a Partial Barricade. M. Calinescu Was Hit By Seventeen Bullets'

  'The 22,500 Ton Aircraft Carrier " Courageous " Listing to Port and Settling Down By The Bows, After She Had Been Torpedoed; While THe Crew Obey The Order to Abandon Ship, Lowering The Boats, and Throwing Rafts and Wooden Objects Into The Water' graphic double page sketch "Drawn by Our Special Artist G. H. Davis From the Accounts of Survivors". She was the first British combatant ship to be lost in the war

  'A Section of The Crowd O Relatives and Friends of Men on The Courageous Which Gathered Silently at a Naval Port After The News of the Sinking'

  'Relatives of MEn Serving on the Torpedoed Aircraft Carrier, Closely Scanning The Lists of Survivors Displayed Outside An Admiralty Building' - - - 'Three Rescued Stokers Photographed After Their Arrival Back in London' - - - The Youngest Rating Who Was on His First Sea Voyage: Bugler Dick Emerson Aged 15, Who Gave a Graphic Story of the Torpedoing; With His Mother and Sister After His Rescue' - - - 'Provided With New Kit From the HMS Drake Depot: A Group of Survivors at a Naval Port, Those in the Foreground Searching Local Journals for the Names of Others Rescued' ' Sir Sylvanus Vivian '

  ' Lord Camrose '

  ' Mr S. Waterson New High Commissioner for S. Africa '

  'Captain W. T. Makeig-Jones, The Captain Went Down With His Ship " Courageous "..'

  'The Originator of Psycho-Analysis - The Late Professor Freud '

  'The New South African Cabinet; and The Governor General' shows Mr J. H. Hofmeyr - J. C. Smuts - Sir Patrick Duncan - Colonel Denys Reitz - Mr R. Stuttaford - Colonel W. R. Collins - Dr Colin Steyn - Mr H. G. Lawrence - Senator Conroy - Major Van der Byl - Mr F. C. Sutrrock - Senator Clarkson - Colonel Stallard - Mr W. B. Madeley

  'The Radio Commentator on Warsaw's Defence: Colonel Lipinski '

  'M. Saradjoglu, Turkish Minister for Foreign Affairs'

  'Reported Killed on the Polish Front: Colonel General Baron Von Fritsch

  'The Chairman of a Great US Steel Trust Dies: Mr Charles M. Schwab '

  'General Argeseanu; The New Premier of Rumania

  'Dr Benes Former Presient of Czechoslovakia with Organisers of a Czech Legion to Serve With The Allies' Colonel Moravec - General Inger - general Viest

  'Captain With The Pilots Who Saved Him and His Crew' on steamer Kensington Court

  'Donnington Hall Leicestershire, Again A Prisoners Camp for German Officers '

  ' Claims to be the First Coal Gas Driven Car in England Wince War Was Declared'

  'The Baroque Statue of James II in Roman Toga Removed from St James Park to a Place of Safety'

  'ARP For Cathedrals: the Historic Nave of Canterbury Cathedral Encumbered by Many Tons of Earth for Use in Sandbag Protection of Precious Sculptures and Fabrics'

  'The Tomb of the Black Prince in Canterbury Cathedral as it Appears today' sandbagged

  'The Lord Mayors Appeal For The Red Cross and St John Ambulance Funds: Sir Frank Bowater with Lord Nuffield and the Archbishop of Canterbury on His Right'

  ' Westminster School Evacuated to Sussex: Boys Assembled at Hurstpierpoint College To Hear An Address by The Headmaster'

  'Lower Whitehall Photographed in the Morning of Sunday, September 24 When Petrol Rationing Came into Full Force'

  'Piccadilly Circus - A View Taken at 10.45 am on September 23; Showing Shaftesbury avenue for Once Uncongested by Motor Traffic'

  '/Cine Pictures of the French Super Heavy Tank (Of WHich a Drawing Appears on Our Front Page) Showing This Land Battleships Power of Overcoming Obstacles ' twelve frames on a double page

  'The German Devastation of Polish Aerodromes: An Aerial Photograph Stated to be of the Aerodrome at Cracow Seamed With Bomb Craters' - - - 'The Aerodrome at Radom, A Large Town Some Fifty Miles South of Warsaw'

  ' Field Marshal Goring, Who, As American Investigators Have Discovered, in Distrust of The Future of Germany, Has Effected Heavy Life Insurances Abroad'

  'The Former Wine Merchant, Joachim Von Ribbentrop, Now Nazi Foreign Minister, Whose Fortune Abroad is Believed to Attain to the Total of £1,948,000'

  'Herr Heinrich Himmler Head of the Gestapo, Who Has Taken Advantage of His Office to Send Out of germany £400,000'

  'Dr Ley leader Of The Labour Front, Who has Sent £378,200 Abroad For Security - A Crime For Which Many Germans Have Suffered'

  'Julius Streicher The Nororious Anti Semite, Now Said to be in Protective Custody; Whose Oversea Nest Egg is Given as £80,000'

  'The Enormous Fortune of £1,798,000 Second Only to That of Von Ribbentrop is Deposited Abroad in Cash and Securities By Dr Goebbels The Nazi Propaganda Minister'

  'Herr Hess The Fuhrers Deputy and a Former Fellow Prisoner with Hitler at Landsbert, Is also a Nazi Plutocrat with £80,000 deposited Outside Germany'

  'A Zebra Hybrid Foal' - - - The Indian CHital' - - - 'The Somali Giraffe'

  'Billingsgate's Short Sojourn in the Country: Porters of the Famous Fish Market Which Was Evacuated From London But Subsequently Had to Return' - - - 'Handling Fish in a Suburban Distributing Centre'

  'When Billingsgate was Outside London: A Quiet Street in a Provincial town packed With Dealers Trucks' - - - 'Porters Unloading Beside a Special Transport Sign'

  'Buyers Where Required to Produce Tickets For Their Respective Consignments' - - - 'BUyers in a Circumscribed Market Crowding Round Crates of Fish'

  'The Strategic conformation of the Western Front. Which Falls in To Two Sectors; The Southern, Barred by The Rhine, and th Northern, Where Violent Activity Continues; With The Adjoining Neutral Countries, Including Holland, Affording Obvious Temptations for Further Nazi Adventures' full page map

  'The Tremendous Range of RAF Bombers Pictorially Shown' Full page

  'The Rumanian Leader Assassinated on September 21 by Members of The Iron Guard, An Organisation Modelled on Nazi Lines: M. Armand Calinescu, The Second Rumanian Premier to be Murdered by The Iron Guard'

  'Postage stamps - Helvetia - Deutches Reich - Nederland - France, Chateau de Pau - Canal Zone Postage The Panama Canal - Panama Republic, The Pedro Miguel Locks'

  ' Craven A ' Full page colour cigarette advert of a lady tennis player

  And More Adverts of the day (not colour)

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  Also articles (no pictures unless listed above) including :
  'Our Note Book by Arthur Bryant'

  'Pianist and Polish Patriot, The Paderewski Memoirs by Ignace Paderewski and Mary Lawton, An Appreciation by Sir John Squire '

  'The War With Nazi Germany: A Strategic Verdict on Poland; Prospects in The West by Cyril Falls '

  The World of Science Dartmoor Ponies and The War: Black Outs in Nature by W. P. Pycraft FZS'

  'Books of the Day by Charles E. Byles '

  'The Chronicle of the Car by H. Thornton Rutter '

October 7th

• Ministry of Information and How the Censors Do Their Work - 'Censoring Material for Transmission Abroad: Lady Language Expert at Work in The Translation Room'

  'Squadron Leader Elsdon Censoring Photographs Which Often Provide Unsuspected data to the Enemy'

  'Press Censors at Work at the Ministry of Information'

  Editorial Conference at The Ministry of Information: Mr Tom Clarke, Deptuty Director - The Assistant Director mr J. H. Brebner and Captain Taprell Dorling'

  'Press Room: Showing The Press Call Boxes Round the Walls'

  'Reporters and Editorial Representatives Queuing Up For Copies of the Latest News Bulletins'

  'A General View of the Translation Room at the Ministry'

  'The New Copy Censor Room'

  The Censor: Vice Admiral C. V. Usborne, A Former Director of Naval Intelligence'

  'Naval Ratings as Messengers'

  ' NewsBulletin Being Broadcast from the Press Room by Mr J. H. Brebner'

  Smoke Screen: 'A Photograph of British Tanks Making Use of This Most Effective Device for Foiling Anti Tank Guns' Double page

  'Greek Art: Two of the Korai of the Acropolis' - - - 'Ionian Work: Caryatids fromn The Cnidian and Siphnian Treasuries' - - - 'Greek Art During The Transition From Archaism to The Goleden Age;: The Flute Player From The Ludovisi Throne and a Figure by Maillol'

  'A Destroyer Getting Out a Boat To Rescue The Crew of a German Aircraft, A Nazi Flying Boat, Shot Down in the Fruitless Attack on a British Squadron in the North Sea on September 27 - As Described by MR Churchill in the House' Wonderful full page

  'Described by Mendacious Nazi Wireless Propaganda as a Major Action "With British But No German Losses", But By Admiral Sir Charles Forbes as a Mere Episode in Which No British Ship Was Touched: A Drawing of the First Encounter at Sea Between A British Squadron and Enemy Aeroplanes' Double page

  'The Ebb and Flow of Income Tax Rates: Fromn 2d in the £ to 7/6! - - A Graph Showing The Variation in the Rate of Income Tax FRorm its First Imposition in 1799 to the rate Announced by Sir John simon on September 27 1939' Full pae

  'ARP for Hitler in London! A Moving Waxwork of the German Fuhrer Being Conveyed from the Country for Exhibition at Madame Tussauds'

  'Allied Military Leaders for MAdamw Tussaud's: Mr Bernard Tussaud Working on a bust of General Gamelin with Busts of General Lord Gort and General Sir Edmund Ironside'

  'Workmen Erecting a Siren Near a Police Box in a London street'

  'trying out One of the New Official Headlamp Masks'

  'A Government Headlamp Mask Being Fitted'

  'Empty Frames, With Their Glass, on The Walls of the National Portrait Gallery'

  'Cardinal Hinsley, Who Thus Stigmatised Nazi-ism, with Troops on Westminster Cathedral Lawn'

  'Russian Troops Entering Vilna After Declaration By The Soviet Government' 'Soviet Invasion of Eastern Poland, Ostensibly to Protect Russian Minorities in the western Ukraine and GBelorussia: a Red Army Tank Passing Through a Street in Rakov'

  'Red Army Soldiers Distributing Moscow Newspapers to Peasants'

  'fourth Partition of Poland: The Russian Plenipotentiary, Borowenskie, Studyin a Map with German Officers at Brest Litovsk'

  'The Unsmiling Russian Commander Borowenski, Leaving Brest Litovsk After Agreing Upon the Line of Demarcation, With Equally Unsmiling German Officers'

  'Ruthless German Bombardment of Warsaw: The Smoke from Fires Rising Above the BeleagueredCoty'

  'Red Cross Volunteers in their Ordinary Clothes, Tending a Wounded Man in Warsaw'

  'A Column of German Tanks Clattering Down a Deserted Street after Capitulation; and Typical of the Grerman Preponderance in Material Which Overwhelmed The Poles'

  'Polish General Kutrzeba Being Received By German Officers at Their HQ near the City'

  'Polish Representatives Negotiating The Surrender in the German HQ Railway Carriage With General Blaskowitz the German C in C' Polish photos by Planet

  'A Cruiser Working With a Destroyer Screen in Brillian Sunlight on the North Sea'

  'Elequent of the Misery of the People of Poland: A Column of Refugees Plodding Along a Road over An Apparently Limitless Plain' - - - Mass of Transport Captured by Germans in Poland'

  'Anglo Turkish Friendship: General Kiazim Orbay Welcomed in London by Lrod Birdwood' - 'The Ceremonious Funeral of General Von Fritsh: Goring Standing at Attention Before The Bier of the German Army Leader, Who had Many Differences with Hitler and Met His End Under Mysterious Circumstances in Poland'

  'British Airmen, Stated to Have Been Shot Down By GermanAircraft Over Thuringia, Photographed at a Prisoners of War Camp at Itzehoe, Near Hamburg; With Their Guards'

  'Ribbentrops Second Visit to Moscow, After The Partition of Poland: The Nazi Foreign Minister Received By the Red Foreign Commissar Potemkin; With The Russian Ambassador in Berlin on the Right' - - - 'Hitler Sees Some of the Casualties of His Polish Campaign in a Mobile Military Hospital'

  'The Gun Crew of a High Velocity Gun Firing at A Great Range' Full page

  'Testing One of Hollands Most Important Defences Against Invasion: The Dutch C-in-C, Baron J. J. G. van Vooert To Vooert Inspecting Inundations near Utrecht'

  'The Dutch Air Liner Which a German Plane Attacked, Killing a Swedish Engineer, Leading to German Apologies to Sweden ANd Holland'

  'Commander Ladyslaw Sikorski CinC Polish Legion' - 'Leader of the Turkish Mission to London: General Kiazim Orbay' - 'M. Constantin Argetoianu, New Premier of Rumania' - 'Chaplain General To The Forces: The Rev C. D. Symons' - 'UK Representative in Eire: Sir John Maffey' - 'Mr Knickerbocker Who Disclosed Details of Nazi Fortunes Abroad' - 'Signor Guiseppe Bastianini The New Italian Ambassador to London' - 'Alderman Sir William Coxen, Lord Mayor of London'

  Once the German Liner Bismarck and Later the White Star Liner Majestic: The Naval Training Ship Caledonia, Destroyed By Fire'

  'Their Majesties Part in the Day of National Prayer: The King and Queen at St Pauls with the Retiring Lord Mayor Sir Frank Bowater'

  'Le Dernier Cri in Gas Mask Containers: A Variety of Styles - 'The Official Exhortation to Take Your Gas Mask With @you Loses Much of its Grimness When It Is Possible to Stow the Unaesthetic Looking Object Away in Such Well Designed, Not To Say Chic, Containers As These' Ten designs of gas masks including Crocodile skin - Burberry style check - Black Box Calf - and more on a full page

  'The Meeting of The Supreme War Council in France on September 12: A Drawin by a French Artish, Showing Lord Chatfield, Mr Chamberlain, M. Daladier, and General Gamelin '

  Behind the lLines on the Western Front - 'French Troops including Cavalry units, on the Western Front' - 'Poilus at the Stand easy Outside a French Village' - French Infantry with Horse Drawn Gun Carriages' - 'Moving Up French Heavy Artillery to Their Positions' - 'French Peasants Make The Sad Trek Away From the War Zone' - 'Messerschmitt Fighter Brought Down By French AA The Pilot, Slightly Wounded, Was Captured' - ' French Artillerymen Loading a Field gun'

  The Rations of the British Field Force: A Photographic Guide - 'A Diet Superior in Certain Aspects to Former Peacetime Rations and Including a Choice of Eight Kinds of Jam!' shown are Curry Powder eighth of an ounce per day - - Tea 3/4 oz per day - Bacon 3 oz per day - Tobacco or Cigarettes 2oz per week - Meat 14oz per day

  British Troops en Route for the Front - 'Kit Inspection on a Regimental Parade Ground' - 'All Correct Sergeant! - A Youthful NCO Wearing A Marksmanship Badge, Helping Equally Youthful Sergeant with FInal Kit Adjustments' - 'British Units Disembarking at A French Port Which Welcomed Their Predecessors in the Previous War' - '..."Are We Downhearted? - No!!!": British Tommies, Singing, Cheering and Laughing, at an English Railway Siding Before Entraining for the Front' - 'Playing Lotto or House: A Scene in a Transport on its Way to France'

  'The Fulvous Footed Scorpion' - 'The Ichneumon Fly' - 'The Great Saw Fly'

  An Armed Merchantman in British Waters The Mauretania, Showing her 6in Anti Submarine Gun'

  'a Boxing Match Staged in a Training Camp'

  'An ANti Gas Chamber Opened At Kingston to Give Inhabitants Confidence in Their Masks: The Scene Inside The Gas Chamber'

  'A Child Being Placed in a Babys Gas Helmet Outside Kingstons Gas Chamber Where People Arrive Nervously and Leave Confidently'

  ARP in the Churches: Sandbags Protecting The Tomb of the Celebrated Bishop Lancelot Andrewes'

  'Dunlop Fort Tyres' A wonderful full page advert showing a squirrel in a tree and a family out in the car

  The New Daimler Fifteen 2.5 Litre Ritz Aports Saloon Car, Photographed in the Main Square of the Charmikng Gloucestershire Township of Stow on The Wold '

  'A Rolls Royce Phantom III With Hooper Body Designed to The Requirements of the Managing Director, Mr G. L.Sclater_Booth. Phto taken at Westwell near Burford'

  'Burberrys Military Tailors for Over Fifty Years - The Burberry Trench Coat and Officers Uniform' Full page advert with sketches by J. Scott

  'The War and The Waifs and Strays Society' War EmergencyFund for Children

  'Players Number 3 Cigarettes' advert with photo of 39 North Castle Street, Edinburgh

October 14th

• 'Tommies Investigating The Intricacies of The French Coinage at a British Field Post Office' - Letters Home: Stamping The Mens Correspondence in a british Field Post Office With The Army in France' - 'A Party of Tommies Being Given A Lift By a Friendly French Farmer' - 'Framed By French Shutters: British Nurses Knitting and Writing Home in the Autumn Sunshine at a Window of Their Billet' - 'The British Army Making Friends in France; Small French Children' - 'First Steps in French Conversation, With young Teachers'

  'Church Parades in France: Khaki Congregations in the Villages

  'Signing The Agrement Which Divided Poland Between Russia and Germany: M. Molotoff, The Soviet Commissar for Foreign Affairs, with RIbbentrop Standing Behind, and M. Stalin, DIctator of the USSR'

  'ENjoying a Joke with Stalin on the Carve Up of Poland, M. Stalin Heartily Pats Ribbentrop on the Back While M. Molotoff Reads Over The Terms'

  'A Detailed Drawing of the Fingerpost to Germanys Only Western Sea Outlet: The Tiny Island of Heligoland, Showing The Elaborate Fortifications and Reconstruction Work in Progress' Full page

  Switzerland Prepares Her Defences for All Emergencies - 'Rows of Barbed Wire Coils Barricading The Frontier' - 'Swiss Militiamen Bearing aloft Their National Flag' - 'Strike up The Drums - Calling the Troops to The Colours in a Swiss Frontier Town' - 'For Defence in the Mountain Passes: Manoeubres Reminiscent, Except for the Uniformed Troops of Pictures of Mountain Clinb ing Expeditions' - A Democratic Army: some of the Swiss Militia Ready For Active Service' - 'Women Form A Prominent Part of the ARP Personnel betwen 16-65 Being Reported Called Up'

  Switzerland Prepares Her Defences for All Emergencies - 'Climbing Practice with Ropes by Swiss Mountain Troops' - 'Felling Trees on the Frontier, A Double Line of Fortifications' - 'General Guisan, elected Commander in Chief of the Swiss Forces' - 'A Swiss Father Bids Good Bye To His Son' - 'Swiss Soldiers Helping Women Volunteers in Filling Bags with Straw for Use in Ambulance Train' - 'Mobilised at the Beginning of the Present War, As During the War of 1914 18: Swiss Militiamen Entrained'

  'ARP in the Churchyard: An Air Raid Shelter Construced in Wandsworth Cemetery'

  'Making The London Underground Floodproof in Case of Bomb Damage to an Underwater Tunnel: Waterloo Station'

  'A Toy Expected to be in Great Demand This Christmas: A Miniature Home Defence unit, Complete with AA Guns, Ballon Barrage and Anderson Shelter'

  'Model Babies, For teaching The Use of the Gas Mask for Younger Children: Life Size Dolls Bought by Esher ARP Authorities'

  'Polands New President, M. Raczkiewicz and Her New Premier and War Minister, General Sikorski, After attending Mass in Paris'

  'The Daily Rations of the German People Assembled - Less in Every Respect Than Those of The British Field Force'

  'A Copenhagen Horse and Cart, The Cart Being Normally a Motor Van'

  'A British Submarine Epic - A British Submarines Patrol in Enemy Waters Which Led To A Terrible Ordeal and an Amazing Escape, Barraged by Depth Charges and Actually Scraped by The Sweeps of the Hunters, She Survives and Limps Home' Full page Drawn by G. H. Davis From The Official Reports

  'A British Submarine Epic: Lying Inert on the Sea BEd, The Submarines Crew Run a Sweepstake on the Time When The Next Stunning Explosion Will Shake The Hull' Full page Drawn by C. E. Turner from Official Reports

  'An Aerial View of Warsaw Taken Shortly Before The Polish Capital Capitulated on September 27' - The All Consuming Character of a Fire Caused By German Incendiary Bombs - Aerial View Warsaw' - -'Admiring Nazi Handiwork with German Staff Officers in a safe Position Near Warsaw - Hitler Inspecting Through Field Periscopes, the Progress of his Army - 'German Riflemen and a Man With A Range Finder in a Position Overlooking The City' - 'Moving Evidence of the Desperate Heroism With Which The Population of Warsaw Defended Their Beloved Capital: Street Barricades Hastily Thrown up in a Suburb of the City'

  Warsaw Falls Before Ruthless Bombardment - 'Nazi Troops Parading in Theatre Square, Warsaw, Some of Whose Survinng Inhabitants Are Seen Silently Watching Their Attackers' - Disarmed Polish Soldiers in a Street in WHich All The Houses Exhibit Shell Holes or Other Damage' - 'German Troops Marching into The Wrecked Capital' - 'The Nazi Triumphal Parade in Warsaw: German Cavalry and Infantry Marching Down The Deserted Aleja Ujazdowska, The Polish Champs Elysees' - A Scene of Deathless Pride for Poland and of Eternal Dishonour to Hitlers Germany: The Plenipotentiary, General Kutzreba Accompanied By Civilian Hostages, Surrenders Warsaw to General Blaskowitz'

  'The Heavies and Their Crews: Range Practice for The Real Thing' Various pictures on a full page

  'Merely one Instance of Britains Huge Munition Making Effort: A Great Stack of Shining Shells Turned Out by an Ordinary Factory Converted To This Work During Our Rearmament Programme' Full page somewhere in the Black Country

  'The Long Arm of Our Navy: A U Boat Meets its End, Destroyers having Picked Up its Trail 120 Miles Away - A Series of Drawing sHowing The Successful Hunting by British Destroyers of a German Submarine After a Dash Across 120 miles of the Atlantic From An SOS Drom a British Merchantman' Double page drawn by "Our Special Artist G. H. Davis'

  Bombarding German Loines With Guns Mounted on German Soil: Scenes on the Western Front - '... "Visitors Wanting to Look ver the Parapet at the German B ank of the Rhine, Please Pay The Tax of One Cigarette, Thank You"...' - 'Loading a French Long Range Gun on the Western Front' - 'One Of The Camouflaged French Super Heavy Guns' - 'With THe German Town of Kehl Only 300 Yards Across the Rhine, The Famous Iron Bridge at Strasbourg' - 'The French Troops in a Trench Dug in Enemy Soil' - 'A View Taken Along The Barrel of a Camouflaged French Super Heavy Gun'

  Bombarding German Lines on the Western Front - 'A French Gun, Equipped with a Split Trail Carriage, Sends Its Missile onto an Enemy Position' - A German War Memorial Undamaged in a Demolished Village' - ' A View of the Kehl Strasbourg Bridge Across The Rhine' - 'French Troops in a Captured German Village, The Village Bearing Little Signs of war But The Barbed Wire' - 'French Guns'

  'A Comprehensive Shelter Scheme for The People of Bermondsey: A London Boroughs Exemplary ARP' Wonder double page Drawn by Capt. Bryan De Grineau

  'Lord Caldecote new Lord Chancellor'

  'Major General P. Neame Deptuty Chief of the Imperial Staff'

  'Prince Edward, The Eldest Child of the Duke and Duchess of Kent, aged 4'

  'Sir Walter Monkton KC Controller of Censorship'

  'The Late Mr Robert Sievier '

  'Hitler Addressing The Reichstag on October 6'

  'A Concert Party Sent Out by Ensa Entertains the Troops in an English Garden from An Improvised Platform'

  'General Von Brauchitsch with General Halder

  'The Turkish Military Mission with its Leader General Orbay - Captain Turkkan - Colonel Atac - Major Alkin and Captain Akoglu'

  'A Polish Government Formed - Colonel Adam Koc - M. Stronki - M. Raczkiewicz - General Sikorski - M. Zaleski'

  'Ringstraked and Spotted Londons Wartime Motif of Black and White' a precaution for the Black Outs. Full page

  'The Illustrated London News War Correspondent in France: Captain Bryan De Grineau '

  'The Formation of a Polish Army on French Soil, the Troops Being Reviewed by General Denain '

  'The Western Front: A New Map, Giving All Strategic Features. Showing the Siegfried Line Zone of Varying Depth, and The Magniot Line According to the Latest Information' Full page

  'Spiny Spider Crab' - - - Shell Fish - Fapanese Zenophora Pallidula and The Chinese Species Xenophora Calculifera' - - - 'A Xenophora Found by The Challenger Expedition'

  'Is It a Lost Leonardo Painting:? The Madonna Del Gatto. Considered by Some cRitics to Be The Lost Madonna Del Gatto Known to Have Been painted by leonardo Da Vinci in 1478' Full page

  'Members of the Turkish Mission with Their Leader General Kiazim Orbay at the Inaugural Meeting With The British and French'

  ' Guinness at Waterloo - and Guinness Today' Full page Guinness advert number GE 954

  'An Austin Ten in the Little Cotswold Village of Wroxton ' - 'The New Ford Eight

  'Schweppes' Advert full page

  'Smilingly Confident of Britains Strength on Land and Sea and in The Air: Air Marshal Sir Cyril Newall, Chief of Air Staff - General Sir Edmund Ironside, Chief of The Imperial General Staff - Sir Kingsley Wood, Air Minister - Admiral Sir Dudley Pound, first Sea Lord Photographed Crossing Whitehall'
  
  'Our Note Book by Arthuyr Bryant'

  'A French Air Adventurer and Visionary. Widn Sand and Stars by Antoine De Saint Exupery. An Appreciation by Sir John Squire'

  'The War With Nazi Germany:The Campaign in The West by Cyril Falls'

  'The World of Science.concerning Camouflage by W. P. Pycraft FZS

  'Books of the Day by Charles E. Byles'

  'The Chronicle of the Car by H. Thornton Rutter '
  

October 21st

October 28th

November 4th

November 18th

Xmas number

November 25th

• ' The Revised Cash and Carry Neutrality Act - President Roosevelt Signing the Act in The White House Surrounded by Congress Leaders - Mr Adolphe Berle - Senator Key Pittman - Mr William Bankhead -0 Mr Cordell Hull - Mr John Garner - Senator Charles McNary - Senator Alben W. Barkley '

  ' Squadron Leader of an Armoured Car of The LAncers Sends Information by Wireless To HQ - Interior of an Armoured Car of the Lancer Regiment ' a wonderful full page from a sketch by "Our Special War Artist.... Captain Bryan Grineau

  
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  The Making and Testing of British Torpedoes at a Royal Admiralty Factory

  ' Preparing the interior of a Balance Chamber ..'

  ' Fuelling The Torpedeo for Testing ...'

  ' A Factory Mechanic Workman Drilling a Warhead with the Utmost Precision '

  ' Polishing the Torpedoe Section that Contains the Driving Gear ...'

  ' A Workman Turning The Inside of the Air Vessel Which Has 6000 Plus Parts and Takes Several Months to Make ...'

  ' A Workman Fuelling the Test Head ...'

  ' The Completed Weapon - Entering the Testing Tube Before It Trials '

  ' The Torpedeo Leaving a Testing Tube For its Trials ...'

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  Tricks of The Spy Trade

  ' Means of Getting Military information Through the Post ' - - - ' Spys Report Camouflaged by a Drawing - A Naturalists Rough Sketch of a Leaf and Browsing Insects ...' - - - ' A message Sewn Inside a Belgian Woman Agents Clothing from 1918 ...'

  
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  ' Innocent and INconspicuous Objects Used as Containers for Invisible Ink ...' three photographs with explanations
  ' Hollow Coins Used by Agents for Passing Messages By Buying Goods ...'

  ' Dutch Cigar Factory Catalogue Used in the First War by a German Spy ...'

  ' A Soft Collar on Which Messages in Invisible Ink Were Written ...'

  ' A Cake of Soap Used for Carring Invisible Ink ...'

  ' Rice Paper for Concealing Messages and Chocolates Used Where the Centres Concealed Messages ...'

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  British Expeditionary Force - The BEF in France

  ' Scottish Troops Digging Trenches in France ..'

  ' Scottish Soldiers Fixing Props and Chicken Wire to Revet the Sides of the Trench ..'

  ' An Officer and Sentry in Gas Masks During an Inspection in an Underground Position in the British Sector ...'

  ' Underground in the British Sector - A Highlander Using a Periscope ...'

  ' British Detachment Marching to Take up Duties Underground - A Fortified Position in France ..'

  ' Inspection of British Troops and Equipment in an Underground Position on the Maginot Line ...'

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  ' A Typical Army Post Office in a Village Hall on The Western Front - Sorting The Mail During an Air Raid ' a double page sketch by Captain Bryan De Grineau with note on the drawing "Passed by The Censor - signed " - The article makes reference to Mr Hore Belisha and his Speech in the House outlining the short comings in getting letters and cigarettes etc to the BEF - Also a description of the sketched scene

  
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  Minesweepers in the North Sea

  ' The Look Out on Board a Mine-Sweeper Scanning the Skies with Shaded Glass for enemy Aircraft '

  ' A Sailor Manning a Multiple Anti Aircraft Machine Gun '

  ' Lowering an " Oropesa " Float Keeping the Sweeps the Required Distance from the Ship ..'

  ' Lowering an " Otter " This Keeps the Float at the Required Depth ...'

  ' The Look Out on a Miner Sweeper at Dawn ..'

  ' The Captain of the Minesweeper on the Look OUt for Nazi Raiders ...'

  ' Stowing Away the Sweeps and The Oropesa Floats on Deck '

  ' An Officer in Arctic Winter Dress on the Watch for German U Boats etc ..'

  ' Disposing of a Mine By Rifle Fire During An Air Raid Warning ...'

  ' The Winches on Board The Mine Sweeper Attached To The Sweeps ...'

  ' The Navigator Aboard a Mine Sweeper in the North Sea ...'

  ' The Cutter, Which is Attached to the Sweep, Which Severs the Mines Cable, Bringing it to the Surface ...'

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  ' The Mine - The Restrictions on this Form of Naval Warfare are Ignored by Germany ' a full page of diagramatical drawings by "Our Special Artist G. H. Davis " showing A Contact Mine - - British And German Mine Fields in the North Sea - - Bow of a German Mine Laying Submarine U41 - - How a Contact Mine is Laid - - Positioning of Mines x3 diagrams

  
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  Prisoners of War in a Stately Home In England

  ' Erecting Barbed Wiore Fences in the Grounds While Sentries Look on ..'

  ' A Sentry in a Tower Enabling Him to Overlook the Wire in a Number of Directions ... '

  ' The U Boat Hotel as The Prisoners Have Named the Country House - The Cooks Preparing Soup While a Guard Looks on Smoking a Cigarette ...'

  ' POWs around The Piano in the "U Boat Hotel"...'

  ' A Work Party - A German Korvetten Kapitan or Lieutneant Commander in the Centre of the Party ...'

  ' In the Evenings The Prisoners The Prisoners Rading English Papers in front of a Log Fire - With Armed Guards Standing Near By ..'

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  ' A Luftwaffe Raid on the Shetlands - the 6ft Crater and the only Casualty, A Rabbit ' man holding the rabbit up in a crater

  ' A Cottage Window Shattered After The Raid in the Shetlands ..'

  ' A German Photographic Expert at Work on a "Direct Hit" in Scottish Waters....'

  
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  Nazi Mine Warfare - The Tragedy of the " Simon Bolivar "

  ' The Simon Bolivar Sinking, A Destoryer Going to the Rescue ...'

  ' An Eleven Week Old Baby Rescued from the Simon Bolivar Carried by a Survivor ...'

  Christina Wensvoort in Hospital - Separated From Her Family During the Sinking but Later Reunited ...'

  ' Mrs Van Dyk with her Two Children Photographed Together at a London Hotel After Their Ordeal ...'

  ' Boy Survivors at St Bartholomews Hospital London, Dressed in Womens Clothing After Being Rescued ...'

  ' Mr And Mrs J. P. Jansen with Their Baby Son in Hospital ...' - from the article "Eighty Three Died including Sixty Four Passenger and The Captain"

  ' The Sinking of the Dutch Liner Simon Bolivar - As She Went Down Survivors Struggling in a Sea of Oil, While the Royal Navy Rac to Their Aid...' a wonderful double page drawing "Drawn by Our Special Artist G. H. Davis Under the Direct Supervision of Mr J. H. Lindeman Chief Wireless Officer an Other Crew Members"

  More info..The Dutch passenger ship which sailed the Hamburg-Central America route and owned by the Royal Netherlands Steamship Company, she was on her way to Tilbury from Rotterdam, when she struck a magnetic mine. I cant find out much more about her.

  
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  Personalities of the Week

  ' Queen Farida of Egypt and Her Daughter Princess Ferial - Wife and Daughter of King Faruk ' - Farouk

  ' Dr Hacha President of the Czech Protectorate ..'

  ' Rev. Sir Montagu Proctor Beauchamp died at Paoning Szechwan China ..'

  ' Air Marshal Sir F. W. Bowhill ..'

  ' Dr Paasikivi Head of the Moscow Delegation and M. Erkko The Finnish Foreign Minister - Leaders of Finland '

  ' Admiral Darlan - General Gamelin - Air Chief Marshal Sir Cyril Newall - M. Daladier - M. - M. Corbin - Mr Chamberlain - Outside No 10 Downing Street After the Meeting pf The Allies Supreme War Council '

  ' Signor Mussolini and the Crown Prince Umberto at Anniversary Celebrations in Rome ..'

  ' Mr Churchill and Colleagues of the Admiralty Board - Mr Geoffrey Shakespeare MP - Rear Admiral H. M. Burrough - VIce Admiral Sir Alexander Ramsay - Rear Admiral T. S. V. Phillips - Admiral of the Fleet Sir Dudley Pound - Sir J. Sidney Barnes - Mr Winston Churchill - Sir Archibald Carter - Admiral Sir Charles Little - Rear Admiral B. A. Fraser - Rear Admiral G. S. Arbuthnor - Captain A. U. M. Hudson '

  ' General Sikorski and The Duke of Kent ..'

  ' Wedding of the Viceroy (Marquess of Linlithgow) and Vicereine's Daughter Lady Anne Adeline Hope to Lieut. P. H. J. Southby RN Son of Sir Archibald Southby ...'

  ' The Queen and the Duchess of Gloucester at One of the National Gallery Lunch Hour Concerts '

  ' Allied Troops and In the Centre Box lord Gort Enjoying The Maurice Chevalier and Noel Coward Concert '

  ' Maurice Chevalier Singing During the Concert for the Troops in France ...'

  ' The BEF Quyeueing up For the Gracie Fields Concert, Outside the Little French Cinema '

  ' Gracie Fields at the Concert She Gave Against Her Doctors Orders ...'

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  ' Nazi Propaganda Strafes on the Wester Front ' five photographs of various ways the germans attempted to fraternise with our allies and broadcasting from a vehicle etc

  ' French Armoured Car and Motorised Convoy ..' two drawings on a full page by A. Brenet

  ' The French Mechanised Forces - Tanks ' double page of drawings by A. Brenet in sepia style

  ' French Motor Transport of Men, Horses and Guns ' six drawings on a full page by A. Brenet

  ~French Fighters Attacking and the Results ' three photographs showing the aerial battle and after the burning debris of one of the nine Messerschmitt Fighters brought down between Forbach and Sarreguemines - Full page

  ' Remains of Buildings of the Megaron type ...' Palestine - three photographs and a small plan

  ' Small Map of Palestine Showing the Locality of Megiddo ....'

  ' News from Armageddon - Relics of the Megiddo Expedition of the Oriental Institute of University of Chicago ...' thirteen photographs and sketches - Fragment of Carved Ivory Ring - - Drawing of the Face of a Dark Green Jasper Scarab .. - - Unusual Scarab Hedgehog - - Bronze Pin - - Bronze Shovel - - Alabaster Jug - - A Duck Shaped Jar - - Fragment of an Ivory Magic Wand

  ' German Army - Infantry Units in Their Armoured Cars in the Ost West Achse Berlin '

  ' German Using Tree Mines ' - - - ' Germans Laying Road Mines ..'

  ' A German Soldier Arming a German Mortar ..'

  ' Harrods ' full page advert showing the array of gifts available from Pigskin Pocket Flasks, Pudding Charms, Solid Silver Tea Sets, Stainless Steel Carving Sets, Stainless Steel Tea Knives, Grape Scissors !!! - all Priced -

  ' Wind Borne Seed Zonura Macrocarpa A Javanese Climbing Plant - - - Parachute Seeds of Goats Beard - - - Complete Seed Head of the Goats Beard - - - Sycamore etc '

  ' Gordons Gin ' full page advert

  
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  The New Westminster Hospital - Help Needed

  ' The King Opening the Hospital in April with The Queen on the Dais ..'

  ' A Surgical Ward: Patiens with Every Comfort including Wireless Headphones etc ...'

  ' Tea time in One of the Up To Date Surgical Wards ...'

  ' The Ground Floor and Entrance of the Hospital Sandbagged ...'

  ' The Hospitals ARP - Lowering a Gas Proof Curtain - - - Sinking The Radium Well - - -Closing a Gas Proof Ward '

  ' The New Westminster Hospital Nurses Home and Medical School ' sketch

  ' Telephone Operators Wearing Gas Masks '

  ' A Mother And Child Being Evacuated From the Hospital ..'

  ' Mrs Chamberlain Watching an Air Raid Drill - A Nurse Cleansing the Eyes of a Gas Casualty '

  ' Before Evacuation Began - The Childrens Hour in the Out Patients Dept...'

  ' Nurses Enjoying an Entertainment ...'

  ' Nurses Making ready Surgical Dressings in Preparation for Air Raid Victims ..'

  ' A Helper at the Hospital Snatches a Brief Moment With Her Baby ...'

  ' A Child Patient and a Adult Patient Playing Ludo ...'

  ' A Smiling Patient Receives His Medicine - A Glass of Beer from the Nurse ..'

  ' A Nurse Feeding a Baby ..'

  ' A Guardsman Visits His Baby at the Hospital '

  ' An Armful of Newcomers - Six Babies in the Arms of a Nurse

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  ' Three Daimler C.O.G.6 Double Decker Buses Recently Shipped to South Africa and The Durban Corporation '

  ' The 1940 Minx Saloon de Luxe '

  ' VAT 69 Scotch Whisky ' full page advert showing golfers and golf clubs

  ' Ross Lightweight Prism Binoculars ' advert

  ' The Minox Miniature Camera ' advert

  ' Bovril ' full page colour advert of a man in pyjamas on an air balloon

  ' Debenham & Freebody - Velvet Jacket ' advert

  ' Burberry N. 6 Design ' advert for raincoat

  ' Morgan and Ball Golf Mitts - MIlitary and Air Force Mitts ' advert

  
  Also articles (no pictures unless listed above) including :
  'Our Note Book by Arthuyr Bryant'

  Books of the Day by Charles E. Byles

  The War With Nazi Germany - Blockade, Historical and other Observations by Cyril Falls

  Megara Reminiscent of Troy - By Gordon Loud, Field Director of the Megiddo Expidition of the Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago ...

  Guns Not Butter - From Frederick The Great to Hitler. "The German Army" by Herbert Rosinski - An Appreciation by Sir John Squire

  The World of Science by W. P. Pycraft FZS

December 2nd

• ' Derelict Houses Set on Fire in Walworth to Provide Practice for Auxiliary Firemen '

  ' A German Artists Impression of an Aerodrome of the Future: The Assisted Take Off, A Drawing Which MAy indicate the Nature of Hitlers Secret Weapon and the Method of Launching It ' a fascinating full page drawing - the sketch is signed but I cant make out the signature of the german artist

  
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  New Warship Designs

  ' The New German Battleship 26,000 Ton Gneisenau ....'

  ' Plan of the First Aircraft Carrier Built in germany: The Graf Zeppelin ....'

  ' The " Hipper " a 10,000 Ton Cruiser '

  ' New American Cruiser - The " Wichita " ...'

  ' Japanese Navy - The Seaplane Carrier " Miduho " ....'

  ' British Cruiser: The " Belfast " ...'

  ' Small British Cruiser - One of the Ships of the 5450 Ton Dido Class ...'

  ' Sweden - One of The New Vest Pocket Battleships '

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  ' The Canon of Proportion for the Figure of Buddha - Fixed for All Time By Divine Revelation '

  ' A Lama painter Konchhog Gyaltsan at Work on a T'Hanka ...'

  ' One of the Dancers in a Sacred Mystery Play - Miscalled Devil Dances in Bhutan ....'

  
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  Germanys Mine War 1914-18

  ' A Minelaying Submarine Captured in 1916 off the East Coast - The UC 5 ...'

  ' A Captured Example of a Mine With Its Sinker, Depth Regulating Mechanism and Frame ' a sailor looking on

  ' A Type of Driftin Mine Used Buy The Germans - The Leon Torpedo Mine Ejected fro ma Tube and Oscillating Beneath The Surface '

  ' The Top View of the Mine Chutes of a Captured UC.5 ...'

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  Mines - Hitlers "Secret Weapon"

  ' How Magnetic or NonContact Mines Sink Ships by Causing, Like Depth Charges, Terrific Under Water pressure and: and The Anti Mine Paravane Explained ' a double page diagrammatical drawing with explanations "Drawn by Our Special Artist G. H. Davis " in sepia style

  
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  Mine Attacks - Indiscriminate German Attacks on Neutral and Allied Ships

  ' The Half Submerged British Destroyer " Gipsy " Sunk off The East Coast on 21 Nov ...'

  ' Hitlers War o Neutrals - The Japanese Liner " Terukuni Maru " Foundering in the North Sea ...'

  ' The Foundering Mine Sweeper Aragonite Believed to Have Been Sunk by a Magnetic Mine: and A Short Distance Away, The Italian Steamer " Fianona " with Hull Split Open '

  ' The Fracture Running From Top to Bottom of the Fianona's Hull '

  ' Teh Dutch Liner Spaarndam Sinking After a Striking a Mine off The Thames Estuary - Four Crew and an Elderly Woman Passenger Were Killed ...'

  ' The Transatlantic Liner " Pilsudski " Polands Biggest Ship Chartered by the British Navy Sun Either By Mine or Torpedo ...'

  ' The Mined Terukuni Maru - The Passengers and Crew Escaping From The Japanese 11,930 Ton Liner Sunk by an Undeclared German Mine ...' Full page

  
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  Harrogate College Girls School in Wartime Retreat at Lord Swintons Residence Near Ripon Yorkshire

  ' The Girls of Harrogate College at Work in the Library of Swint Castle Masham ...'

  ' The Main Corridor at Swinton Now Serves as A Reading Room - The Girls Studying in Novel Surroundings ...'

  ' The Dining Room at Swinton The Walls Hung With Fine Pictures including Gainsborough Madam Bacelli Over the Fireplace and Romneys Lady Hamilton to the Back ' the girls seated for a meal

  ' A Dramatic Angle Shot of a Chemistry Lesson Taken Next to the Great Staircase ' girls and a teacher at the blackboard

  ' College Girls Descending the Staircase at Swinton Which Has been Reinforced Because of the Increase in Pedestrian Traffic ...'

  ' Rows of White Enemel Bedsteads Marked HC in a Corridor Converted to a Dormitory ' girls in the dormitory corridor

  ' Teh Castle Squash Court now a Gymnasium - The Girls Jumping the Vaulting Horse '

  ' Teh Lower Fourths Blackboard Hung Beside a Lawrence portrait of the Duke of Wellington - Todays Prep '

  ' Another Lesson - The Duke of Wellington Now Looks Down upon a Charade - One actor is Weeping and The Other Wears a Gas Mask ' an acting lesson

  ' Miss Jacob The Headmistress of Harrogate Can Take in the Plan of the Schools Curriculum at a Glance by Means of an Ingenious Arrangement of Flags on a Chart '

  Double page - info. - the ancestral home of the Cunliffe-Lister family and now the Swinton Park Luxury Castle Hotel

  
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  ' The Skull of The Extinct Sabre Toothed Tiger Machaerodus neogaeus ...'

  ' The Skull of Tinoceros ...'

  ' The Skull of a Sabre Tooth Marsupial Thylacosmilus Atrox '

  ' Their Majesties at the Theatre - The Duke and Duchess of 'Kent - The Duchess of Gloucester - The King and Queen - Teh Duke of Gloucester ' plus one other un-named person - At a showing of " Black Velvet " at the Hippodrome

  ' Firing A 100 lb Howitzer Shell Through a Steel Cage Only Three Feet Wide Suspended in the Air - Photographs at a British Artillery Range ...'

  ' The Mersey Pilot Ship Wrecked off Ainsdale near Southport with the Loss of Twenty Two Lives '

  ' The Scuttled German Liner " Adolph Woermann " - the Crew Rescued by a British Warship ...'

  ' The First Sea Battle of the War - The " Rawalpindi's " Heroic Stand But Out Gunned by the " Deutschland " in Stormy Sub Arctic Seas ...' a wonderful double page drawing by G. H. Davis

  ' Bringing Down a Heinkel Bomber From the Pilots Point of View - From a Drawing Made in the Pilots Seat Just After The Fight ....' drawn by "Our Special War Artist in France Bryan De Grineau " from sketches made by the pilot

  ' The Ark Royal Riding At Anchor Despite German Propaganda That She Was Sunk on 26 Sept '

  
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  Armed Forces in Finland

  ' Finnish Soldiers on the March ...'

  ' The Finnish Fiord ( fjord ) of Petsamo ' - or Pechenga now part of Russia

  ' The Bridge Across the River Rajajoki on the Karelian Isthmus - Half Red and Half White '

  ' The Finnish Premier M. Cajander ...'

  ' Finnish Cavalry on Ponies ...'

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  Personalities

  ' Lieutenant General Sir Tom Bridges Died on ...'

  ' Sir William Prout Specialist in Tropical Diseases Did ons ...'

  ' Mrs Baillie Reynolds The Novelest Died on...'

  ' The Earl of Denbigh ...' - Rudolph Robert Basil Aloysius Augustine Feilding

  ' Mister A. P. Boissier New Headmaster of Harrow '

  ' M. Georges Tatarescu The New Rumanian Prime Minister ' - Romanian

  ' Lord Gort with Major General Lindsell at Breakfast at GHQ in France '

  ' Vice Admiral G. C. C. Royle '

  ' Major General B. C. Freyberg VC ...'

  ' Mr H. G. Wells and Dr. Bennes (ex President of Czechoslovakia ) at A Foyle's Literary Luncheon '

  ' Sergeant Observer J. Vickers of The RAF First to win the Medaille Militaire ....' - info John Henry Vickers from Withernsea Yorkshire

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  ' A Scene from The Comedy French For Love - Mr Cecil Parker - Mlle. Alice Delysia - Miss Athene Seyler '

  ' Mr Vic Oliver - Comedian '

  ' ..."Saloon Bar" at Wyndhams Theatre - Mr Gordon Harker - Mr Mervyn Johns '

  ' Drury Lane Theatre: Headquarters of The Entertainment Front, The Entertainments National Service Association or ENSA - The King And Queen Attend a Rehearsal ' Double page sepia style - six sketches and one photograph. The sketches are not signed

  
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  Current Events

  ' Westminster Abbey - The Interior Looking Down from the Triforium on to Protective Sandbags'

  ' View of the Extensive Buildings Overlooking The Open Sea and Wellington Harbour New Zealand - The Centennial '

  ' Filling a Gas Producing Unit on a Private Car With Anthracite ...'

  ' Gas Driven Vehicle - A Vanwith a Balloon Container Being Filled '

  ' The Blackout on The Trains - A Lighting Arrangement on LMS Suburban Services ...'

  ' Evacuees Camps - Some of the 190 Children from Londons East in Their New Home at Horsley Green ' near Stokenchurch Buckinghamshire

  ' The Falcon of the Terukuni Maru Japanese Liner Which Travelled from Beirut and Survived the Explosion Now in London Zoo ...'

  
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  Discoveries in The Palace at Alalakh in Syria - Minoan Influences in a Hittite City

  ' A Little Seal Showing an Impression Resembling Minoan Types and The Egyptian Ankh Sign '

  ' An Elaborately Painted (Fragmented) Beaker of th eKhabur Type Recovered from Alalakh in Hatay ...'

  ' A Map of Northern Syria and the Hatay Showing Alalakh The Modern Atchana ...'

  ' Two Cypriote Bronze Age Pottery 1700-1600 BC at Alalakh ...'

  ' Painted Potter of the Khabur Type at Alalakh ...'

  ' A Krater of Black Burnished and Incised Ware found at Alalakh but Northern in Character ....'

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  ' A Marble Bust of the Empress Josephine by Chinard Now at the Victoria an dAlbert museum ...'

  ' Elizabeth Arden - Gifts of Beauty 25 Old Bond Street W1 ' a full page advert showing Burnt Sugar Colour Harmony Box of Cosmetics - - Oval Powder Case - - Velva Bath Mit and Talcum Powder - - Pink and Blue Bath Luxury Box - - Attache Cas With Cosmetics - - Morocco Leather Beauty Box ' full page advert not colour

  ' The Worlds Largest Cine Tele Photo Lens Which Is Shortley to Go to France ...'

  ' A Mine Washed up on the East Coast, Which Bears an Anti Churchill Poem Painted On It '

  ' Mappin & Webb Gifts - Pigskin Utility Case Macassar Brushes etc - - Bronze Photograph Frame with Badge of Regiment - - Prismatic Binoculars - - Pigskin Hair Brush and Shaving Requisites - - Handbag and Gas Mask Case - - High Grade Movement - Watch ' advert with prices

  ' Vat 69 Scotch Whisky ' full page advert - an old gentleman with his glass of whisky

  Two photgraphs of a Riley Twelve and a Wolseley Ten

  ' Dunlop Tyres ' a wonderful full apge advert showing four small children playing with toys ( donald duck, cars etc ) on a pavement next to a car

  ' Ronson Lighters - Standard No. 21 - Regimental Badge Lighters - Touchtip No. 2104 - Junior Sports "Butler" No. 110 - Banker No. 5577 - Penciliter No. 15252 - Standard No. 6007 ' full page advert showing various models and prices

  ' Children of the Toddlers Homes of the Waifs and Strays Society '

  ' NSPCC - Richard Now a Happy Healthy Child: But Found thirteen Months Earlier in an Appalling Condition of Neglect '

  ' Some Evacuees From Dr Barnardo's homes Living at Horham Hall - In Their Playroom

  ' Waifs and Strays Society ' appeal advert

  ' NSPCC ' appeal

  ' Newsvendors Benevolent and Provident Institution ' appeal

  ' Dr Barnardo's Homes ' appeal

  ' Highland Queen Scotch Whisky Macdonald and Muir Ltd ' advert

  ' Jig-Saw Puzzle by The London Electrotype Agence Ltd ' advert

  ' Players No. 3 Cigarettes ' an advert showing 26 High Street Stratford Upon Avon the maiden home of Katharine Rogers the mother of John Garvard founder of the American University

  ' The Scott Phantom The Finest Radio Receiver ' advert

  ' The Burberry ' advert

  ' King Six Cigars '

  ' Bush Button Radio Model P.B. 63 ' advert

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  This second part of the description features items of news articles etc but have no images associated with the subject matter unless listed above. They include :-
  Our Note Book by Arthur Bryant

  The World of Science - Problems of Armature by W. P. Pycraft

  Books of the Day by Charles E. Byles include Let the People Sing by J. B. Priestley - - Printers Error by Gladys Mitchell - - Urchin Moor by Naomi Royde Smith - - The Murder at Charters by John Fethaland - - Henry Elizabeth and George Edited by Lord Herbert

  The War With Nazi Germany: Teuton Fury by Cyril Falls'

  In Quest of The Lost Horizon - " Peaks and Lamas " by Marco Pallis - An Appreciation by Sir John Squire'

  The World of the Theatre by Ivor Brown

  Minoan Influences in a Hittite City - Alalakh in Syria by Sir Leonard Woolley Director of the British Museum Excavations in North Syria

  The Chronicle of theCar By Harold Nockolds

  The Playhouses includes - Judgment Day at the Phoenix - - - Married For Money at the Aldwych

  Peacetime Charities Performing Services Doubley Necessary in War - NSPCC - - Waifs and Strays Society - - DistressedGentlefolk - - The Church Army - - the Salvation Army - - Dr Barnardo's Homes

December 9th

December 16th

• ' The King with President Lebrun - M. Daladier - Viscount Gort During His Visit to The Armies in France '

  ' A Detailed Photograph of an English East Coast Aerodrome That Comes From Germany: Stated to have Been Taken by German Reconnaissance Planes over England - Showing Manston Near Ramsgate '

  ' Dover Harbour: Another of the Series of Air Views Stated to Have Been Obtained by Luftwaffe Reconnaissance Machines '

  ' Air Photograph Taken by German Reconnaissance MAchines over Scotland - A Coastal Fort on the Moray Forth '

  ' "The Downs": A Photograph of Ranks of Merchant Ships Most of Them Not Under Way, Stated to Show the Contraband Control Station '

  ' This Item In the German Series Described as Invergordon. Rows of Oil Tanks are Visible and Aeroplanes on the Dark Background of the Sea '

  ' German Aerial Photographs Purporting to Show the Thames: Oil Tanks at Thames Haven '

  ' Tilbury Docks - This Item in the German Series is Remarkable for its Fine Quality and Repays Examination With a Magnigfying Glass Being Full of Minute Details Which Demonstrate The Great Importance of This Branch of Aerial Activity to Military Intelligence '

  ' Photagraph in the German Series Showing the Mersey From the Air and Alleged to Have Been Taken By a German Airman: The Dotted Line Purports to Mark the Line of the Mersey Tunnel '

  ' Described as Kinloss Aerodrome in North Scotland, by the Germans, Claim That This Aerial Photograph, Shows Camouflage Work '

  
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  The Diamond Cavalcade - The Story of De Beers

  ' During the Siege of Kimberley, Cecil Rhodes and The First Chairman of De Beers '

  ' The Great Gathering of Diggers at Grasfontein in 1927 '

  ' The Greates Diamond Rush in Mining History Runners at Grasfontein '

  'Some of the the Large Fossil Oysters in the Famous "Oyster Be" Raised Marine Terrace, Merensky Claims Sw African Coast - An Indication that Diamonds May be Present '

  
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  ' Boatswain's Mates Piping His Majesty Over the Side on Arrival at a Channel Port ...'

  ' His Majesty Setting Off in a Camouflaged Army Car to British GHQ After His Arrival I France - The King - Viscount Gort - Captain the Earl of Munster '

  
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  Bombs Ravage Helsinki Finland

  ' Where Several University Teachers and Many Students Lost Their Lives: The Technical High School Wrecked by Soviet Bombs '

  ' The German Church Wrecked by a Russian Bomb - Proof of Indiscriminate Raiding Despite M. Mol.otovs Disclaimer '

  ' The Ruins of a House i Helsinki After The Raiders Had Passed '

  ' Women of Helsinki Calmly Seek Shelter '

  ' People of Helsinki Including MAny Children, Sheltering from Bomb Splinters Under a High Wall During a Raid By Soviet Aircraft '

  ' Formerly An Apartment House, Where th Killed Numbered Scores of Inhabitants, Gutted by a Heavy Bomb '

  ' A Swedish Chemical Factory in Helsinki Wrecked By Soviet High Power Bombs '

  ' The Havoc Wrought by an Incendiary Bomb '

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  ' The Art of Winter Warfare Which The Finns have Developed Mos t Ingeniously: White Colaked Machine Gunner Taking Advantagge of Natural Cover '

  ' Like A Pilgrimage of Some Weird Monastic Order: Finnish Ski Troops Gliding Through the Silent Snow Carpeted Forest '

  
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  Finland - the Petsamo Nickel Mine

  ' The Mond Nickel Plant Area at Kolosjoki in the Petsamo Region o Northern Finland '

  ' One of the New Roads Built by Monds in Their Five Years of preliminary Work '

  ' Another View of The Land Of Lakes Showing Th 10 in Air Pipe Line Bringing Power for Shaft Sinking to Kaulatunturi in the Mond Concession area '

  ' Summer Aspect of Typical Country in the Petsamo District - One of the Staff With An Electrical Prospecting Apparatus '

  ' "Daytime" in Kolosjoki Where During the Winter Months Artificial Lighting Ws Used for Work on the Mond Plant - A Summer Scene and a Winter Scene '

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  Personalities and Events

  ' Sir R. Plunkett Ernle Erle Drax Appointed Cin C of the Nore '

  ' TheContraband Committee Which Plays a Vial art iint he Blockade, In Session; The Chairman, Viscount Finlay ' and others

  ' Mr Douglas Fairbanks Senr. Died on December 12 aged 56 '

  ' A U Boat Sunk By Destroyers: A unique Photograph Showing a Man on the Coning Tower '

  ' A British Submarine, Disabled By Heavy Seas Puts into a Norwegian Port for Repairs '

  ' The New Zealand Centennial Exhibition at Wellington: The UK Court Illuminated on the Opening Night '

  ' The Court of Pioneers During the Opening by the Governor General Lord Galway '

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  Colour ' Air Chief Marshal Sir Cyril Newall, Chief of the Air Staff ' full page colour portrait in RAF Uniform

  Colour '... " De Reszke Minors " Cigarettes by J. Millhoff & Co 1 Piccadilly W ' Full page colour advert

  
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  ' The King With the British And French Armies in France

  ' A King Who Carries A Gas Mask Greets One of theOfficers of His Strangely Clad Army - the Officer is in Battle Dress, Identical With That of His Men '

  ' The King, Indistinguishable from Other Air Force Officers in Overcoat and Forage Cap Joins in the Laughter at a Joke With Him is th Duke of Gloucester and War correspondents in Uniform '

  ' His Majesty Is Here Seen Saluting a Guard Of Honour in a French Sector '

  ' In The Maginot Line - The King Inspecting a Pill Box '

  ' Flying Officer R. C. Graveley Congratulated by The King Who Awarded Him the Empore Gallantry Medal for a Rescue from A Burning Plane '

  ' With The B.E.F. Anti Aircraft Gunners Under the Open Sky - HM Inspecting the Complex Predictor for Aiming The Guns in a Camouflaged Pit '

  
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  ' The Readiness Patrol at an RAF Aerodrome Taking Off His Majesty Having Telephoned the Order Personally ' Double page drawn by Bryan de Grineau

  ' A Typical Welcome Given To The King During His Recent Visit to the Troops inFrance - Acknowledging the Cheers of a Battalion Lining a Narrow Road ..' Double page drawing "By Our Special War Artist in France, Captain Bryan De Grineau "

  ' Intensive Manufacture of The Fastest Machine of its King - A High Speed Twin Engined Bomber Fighter: Bristol Blenheims Under Construction at a Secret Wartime Factory '

  ' Fuselages of The Wellington Bomber on TheAssembly Line '

  ' A Remarkable Picture of Mass Manufacture of Aircraft on Active Service i Very Large Numbers Showing Bristol Blenheim Bomber Fighters in Various Stages of Construction '

  ' Working on The Wings of Armstrong Whitworth Whitley Heavy Bombers '

  
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  In and Near Deserted Strasbourg

  ' A French Officer Taking observations of Enemy Movements Across The Rhine While a Poilu With a Bandaged Hand and Wearing Clogs Stands Behind '

  ' A Gendarme Feeding Pigeons in the Place Kleber in Evacuated Strasbourg, Whose 200,000 Inhabitants Were Evacuated in September '

  ' A Bearded Poilu Wearing Clogs As A Protection against Alsatian Mud, Watching The German Bank Through an Army Periscope '

  ' A View Across French Barbed Wire of The Right Bank of the Rhine, a "Front" for Childish Nazi Propaganda '

  ' Blocking the French Side of the Last Great Bridge Spanning the Rhine: Pill Boxes and Barbed Wire Surrounding the Former Douane at Strasbourg '

  ' Removing Precious Stained Glass Dating Back to the Middle Ages, Fromthe Windows of Strasbourg Cathedral '

  Colour 'This Christmas Give Greys Cigarettes ..' Full page colour advert

  Colour ' Vat 69 Sandersons Luxury Blend Scotch Whisky ' Full page colour advert

  ' The Acropolis Summit at Mycenae from The North West '

  ' Plan of Mycenae Showing the Citadel ...'

  ' The House of Columns Brought to Light By Professor Wace on the Eastern Side of the Acropolis - The Remains of a Room with a Series of Large Jars '

  
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  Relics of A Greece Centuries Older Than Homer

  ' Set of Seven Vases '

  ' A Stirrup Jar Inscribed with Minoan Script '

  ' The Loveliest Mycenaean IVory Carving Ever Found in Greece: A Group of Two Seated Women and a Little Boy, of About 1300 BC '

  ' The Head of a Statuette in Painted Plaster ' three views

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  ' The Queens Visit to Evacuated Children In West Sussex: Billeted at Stansted House, Rowland Castle, Where She Stayed The Night '

  ' The Queen Talking to a Voluntary Worker at Bosham During a Second Visit to Sussex Evacuation Centres '

  ' Turning Waste Paper into Cardboard: at London Wharf '

  ' A US Experiment in Sea Rescue By Airship: A Rubber Life Raft Being Hauled Aloft '

  ' Serving as Laboratories as Well as ARP Vaults: Derbyshire Caves Where £15,000 of Radium is Stored '

  ' The First Detachment of the Womens mechanised Transport to Go Abroad: Women Drivers Detailed For Service in France Studying Maps '

  ' Women Wartime Bus and Tram Conductors for Birmingham: Girl Conductors, Wearing New Dark Blue Uniforms, Learning to Punch Tickets '

  ' TheStomias Atlanticus Showing the Relatively LargeEye '

  ' Two Deep Sea rawns Which Expel From Glands At the Base of the Antennae a Cloud of Glowing Light - The Aristoeus and Heterocarpus Found off The Andaman ISlands '

  ' TheMelanocetus Johnsoni One of the Deep sea Angler Fishes '

  ' The Leads in the First New Opera Production Given Since the War: Othello ( John Wright ) and Desdemona ( Joan Cross ) at Sadler Wells '

  ' Cinderella - Liberty ( Dorothy Hyson ) and the Prince Charming ( Margaretta Scott ) '

  
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  Admiral Byrd Returns to the Antarctic: A US Government Expedition with a £30,000 Snow Cruiser

  ' A Gigantic Snow Cruiser For Use in the Antarctic Wastes By The Third Byrd Expedition, Taken Apart To Enable it to Be Shipped: Showing the Tail Section To Be Re Wel;ded at the Destination - and Eskimo Sled Dogs in Foreground '

  ' A Girl Photographed Beside The Brobdingnagian Wheels of the Huge Snow Cruiser '

  ' The 27 Ton Polar Snow Cruiser Designed by Dr Thomas Poulter for Admiral Byre - A Diagram '

  ' Polar Exploration Vehicle Runs on Huge Balloon Tyres '

  ' The Supply Ship North Star of the Expedition Led by Rear Admiral Richar Byrd, Which Sailed For South Polar Regions From Boston on November 15: With The Cruiser on Board '

  ' the US Governments Antarctic Expedition Which Admiral Byrd is Leading: The Second Supply Ship " Bear of Oakland " leaving East Boston in a Snow Storm '

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  ' A Polish War Vessel Whose Exploits In Escaping Russo german Clutches Before Making a British Landfall Were Recently revealed: The Submarine Orzel '

  ' Two Polish Destroyers Which Escaped The Soviet and German Baltic Fleets and Are Now on War Service With Britains Naval Forces '

  
  

  ' Schweppes Soda Water ' Full page advert

  ' A Morris Eight Photographed in a Delightful Setting '

  ' Philips All Wave Receiver ' radio advert

  ' The King Six Cigars ' advert

  ' Booths Gin ' advert

  ' A New Vauxhall Ten Car - At East London South AFrica with their owners Mr and Mrs J. H> Crookall of Cape Town '

  ' The Minister of Supply Examing a Light Aerial Bomb - Mr Leslie Burgin '

  ' Mappin & Webb Lasting Mementoes ' advert

  ' Thornycroft Built Boat ' advert

  ' Watermans Pen ' advert

  ' Work in Progress on The New Kwangsi Railway ' China

  ' Part of the Completed Line of the Kwangsi Railway Showing Handtrucks Running on It '

  ' The Art of the Postage stamp - Switzerland - New Zealand - Holland - Cuba - Dominican Republic - Yugoslavia '

  ' The Dual Burberry Overcoat ' Butrberrys ltd Haymarket London - advert

  ' The Barling Double Denture Pipe ' advert

  
  Also articles (no pictures unless listed above) including :
  'Our Note Book by Arthuyr Bryant'

  The Diamond Cavalcade - The Story of De Beers by Hedley A. Chilvers. An Appreciation by Sir John Squire

  ' Books of the Day by charles E. Byles

  The War With Nazi Germany - Russia, Finland and Germany by cyril Falls

  ' New Light on Pre Homeric Mycenae: Recent Excavations

  The World of Science - searchlights by W. P. Pycraft

  The World of the Theatre by Ivor Brown

  Notes for The Novel Reader - Book Reviews - How Gree Was My Valley by Richard Llewellyn - Whats in it for Me by Jerome Weidman - Polonaise By MArtin HAre - Olympic Discus by Jan Parandowski - Rejected Guest by Richard Aldington - not a Sparrow Falls By Neil Bell - Gestapo Trial By Jan Petersen - Congratulate the Devil by Andrew Marvell - From Natural Causes By Josephine Bell - Sudden Silence By Cortland Fitzsimmons

  The Chronicle of the Catr by Harold Nockolds
  

• Spying Out the enemy's Secret From The Air: Photographic Reconnaissance Work In the R.A.F. (5 pages with photos and drawings)
  "The Story Of De Beers" by Hedley A. Chilvers
  Bombs Ravage Helsinki
  The War With Nazi Germany: Russia, Finland and Germany by Cyril Falls
  New Light On Pre-Homeric Mycenae
  Admiral Byrd Returns To The Antarctic

December 23rd

• Double page sketch by Bryan De Grineau 'A German Reconnaissance Plane Passing Over a Well Known Anti Aircraft Post in the British Sector in France THe Garrison Turn out an dMan Their Anti Aircraft Lewis Gun: A Drawing of a Shelter Made From An Old Taxi and Covered With Facetious Inscriptions (Mr & Mrs Chamberlain 10 Downing St) Which Has Attracted the Attention of Some Distinguished Visitors Including HM The King'

  Rossall School Finds a Wartime Home at Naworth Castle - 'Rossall School in Its Wartime Surroundings, The Boys Passing Under The Main Archway of Naworth Castle The Seat of Lord Carlisle' - - - Rugby Practice in the Castle Grounds' - - - 'Rossall Boys Descending The Steps Leading From The Banqueting Hall' - - - 'Formerly Lady Carlisle's Bedroom; Now a Boys Dormitory' - - - 'A Housemasters Room; Showing Mr Olivier of Mitre House Working on Corrections'

  Rossall - 'After Sunday Service at Lanercost Priory, Now Used as The School Chapel' - - - 'Rossall at Lunch: The Banqueting Hall Retaing Its Heraldic Figures and Tapestries' (evacuated Rossall School, Fleetwood, Lancs )

  'When a U Boat is Sunk: British Warships Rescuing Survivors'

  'rescued German Submnarine Survivors Entertain Themselves With An Accordion in The Destroyer WHich Rescued THem'

  'Mr Chamberlain onArrival At The Airport For His Visit to The Front: The Premiers Introduction to French Staff Officers'

  'Air Vice Marshall Playfair, Air Officer Commanding at the RAF HQ'

  'The British Destroyer Lost WIth Heavy Casualties After A Collision WIth Another Of HM Ships: The Duchess, 1375 Tons of The Defender Class'

  'Stating Finlands Case Against The USSR The Latter Being Expelled From THe League on December 14: M. Holsti Addressing The League Assembly'

  'A Brilliant Feat By a British Submarine; The Ursula, 54 tons, Which Penetrated the Heligoland Bight to Sink a Cruiser of The Koln class' photos of both vessels

  'The Graf Spees Control Tower Where Hits By British Cruisers Probably Interfered With Her Spotting; Differing From The HEavy Foremast of the " Deutschland "..' Full page

  'The Radio Room in The Graf Spee Which, Like All The Pocket Battleships, Was Most Elaborately Equipped' also an inset of Where The Graf Spee Was Sunk

  'The Graf Spee's Big Guns: Firing A Broadside From One Triple 11 inch Turret'

  'Loading a 5.9 Aboard The Graf Spee '

  ''.."Fire!" - The Command Relayed From A Central Control Station to The Gun Turrets' The Graf Spee

  The Now Discredited Pocket Battleship: Its Design a nd Appearance - 'As She Appeared Before Her Defeat At The Hands of The Three British Cruisers, First of Germays Three 10,000 Ton Pociket Battleships '

  The Ingenious Design of a German pocket Battleship: A Diagrammatci Drawing of the Deutschland, WHich Is Basically Similar To Her Sister Ships; and The Diesel Engines Whose Excessive Vibrations May Have Partially Accounte for THe Graf Spees Poor Shooting'

  'The Fight With The Graf Spee: Factors in A Classic Example of NAval battle Tactics Pictorially Explained' Wonderful double page of drawings by "Our Special Artist G. H. Davis "

  'Damaged But Not Disabled: The British Cruiser Exeter, Armed With 8in and 4in Guns'

  'Captain H. L. Woodhouse, Commanding HMS Ajax '

  'HMS Ajax The Flagship of Commodore Harwood, WHose Cruisers, Although Outgunned, By Their "Incredible Audacity" Holed The Graf Spee and Drove Her into Montevideo'

  'One of the Two Light Cruisers, Which Fought Like Terriers: HMS Achilles '

  'Captain W. E. Parry, Commanding HMS Achilles'

  Men Who Fought The Graf Spee: Life Aboard The Ajax - 'Neptune Comes Aboard HMS Ajax, Commodore Harwoods Flagship. This Group, Taken While Crossing The Line In Peacetime, Includes Many Officers Who Fought in the Action'

  'Officers Playing Deck Hockey in the Ajax, Many Still in the Ship, Acquitted Themselves Most Gallantly in the Fight with THe Graf Spee'

  'Hoisting a Seaplane Aboard The AJax'

  'The Ajax's Sea Plane in Flight'

  'Neptune Comes Aboard The Ajax During The Traditional Crossing The Line Ceremony'

  'Captain Woodhouse Goes Under: The Man Who Commanded The Flagship in the Action With The Graf Spee Gets a Playful DUcking During thhe Crossing The Line Celebrations'

  'The Graf Spee Goes to Her Ignominious End: A Photograph Wirelessed From South America, Showing Her Leaving Montevideo Harbour to Scuttle Herself Rather Than Face British Guns Again'

  'The Guns of the Ajax: A Pair of the Twin 6 inch Weapons Whose Accuracy and Terrific Rate of fire Enabled the Cruiser 'To Smother The Graf Spee'

  'Australia prpares to Thro The Weight of Her Man Power into The Struggle Against Nazi-ism: Veterans of the Australian Imperial Force'

  'The Formation of The Second Australian Imperial Force: A Group of Stalwart Recruits'

  'Australia Prepares to Play Her Part in Teh War Against Nazi-ism: Men Lining Up at a Recruiting Office at Victoria Barracks, Sydney'

  'Men of an Australian Scottish Regiment All ready To Entrain for Camp near Sydney'

  'Older Men Who Served in the First AIF Whose Re-embodiment Now Permits the Release of Younger Men for the Fighting Line, On Parade In Melbourne, in their Familiar Digger Hats '

  'Australian Military Training is Absolutely Up to Date. A Recent Type of British Tank Has Run Upon a Machine Gun Nest During Exercise'

  India, The Charm of the Aborigina - The Baiga: 'The Baiga's Ceremonious Salutations: A Son Greeting a Father By Touching His Feet and The Father Returning the Greeting' - 'Two Friends Greeting Each Other'

  'Baiga Life' Full page

  Making Candle, Much In Demand for A Black Out Christmas: The Ancient Craft; and Mass Production - 'candle MAklers Craft: Fixing The Wicks On To a Hoop' - - - 'Mechanical Candle Making, The Candle Moulding Machine' - - - 'Rolling The Hand Made Beeswax Candles To Give Them Their Smooth Surface on Wooden Boards' - - - 'Proving That The Finished Article (Mechanically or Hand Made) Burns Satisfactorily; One fromn Each Packing Being Thus Tested'

  'The Candle Makers Craft: Pouring The Beeswax Down The Wicks, The Surplus Dripping into The Pans Beneath' Full page

  The Treasury of Atreus: The Facade' - - - 'A Mug From the Deposit of Broken Pottery' - - - 'The Triple Structure of the Northern Dromos Wall' - - - 'A Masons Mark of circa 1500 BC, The First Found on the Greek Mainland' - - - 'A Vase, Amphora, datedc1400'

  'The Door and South Wall of The Dromos of the Treasury of Atreus' - - - 'The Massiveness of Mycenaean Building: The Back of the Southern Dromos Wall'

  Pavement Ardades for Blackout Shoppers - 'An Arcade of the Type Proposed for Oxford Street' - - - A Cross Section of the Consruction of the Pavement Arcade' - - -'A Pavement Arcade By Night'

  'Deanna Durbin, Who is Seen in a Cinderella Role in Her New Film, First Love, At the Leicester Square Theatre'

  'Gwen Lawson ( Judith Barrett ) in Television Spy'

  Another Scene from the "Television Spy"

  'Chipping Campden Market Hall, Before Which Stands Mr Jack Barclays Bentley'

  'A Ford V8 Convertible Coupe'

  'We Need Winding! You Need Bovril' Wodnerful full page colour advert

  
  
  Articles include (no images unless listed above) :-
  OIur Note Book by arthur Bryant'

  'Books of The Day by Charles E. Byles'

  'The World of Science, The Christmas Cake by W. P. Pycraft

  The ar With Nazi Germay - The Second AIF by Cyril Falls'

  'The Charm of the Aboriginal - the Baiga by Verrier Elwin. An Appreciation by Sir John Squire'

  'The World of The Kinema by Ivor Brown'

  'The Chronicle of the Car by Harold Nockolds'

December 30th

• 'The King at Portsmouth: His Majesty Inspecting the Boys of HMS St Vincent Drawn up Beside the Victory, Nelson Flagship at Trafalgar'

  The BEF, British Expeditionary Force - 'A Drawing in France Showing Royal Engineers and A Guards Working Paty Building a Blockhouse' - - - 'Construction of a Trench System in the British Zone in France Where Trenches Are Now Dug By Means of Mechanical Excavagtors Called Back Trenchers or Back Actors and Finished Off By another Apparatus Known as a Drag Liner'

  'Where a British HQ Staff Spent Their Christmas: A French Chateau, Now THronged With Khaki Warriors Drawn by OUr Special War Artist in France, Captain Bryan de Grineau' a wonderful double page sketch

  'The "Office Train" - New Style: An LNER Department Installed on the Permanent Way' Seven photographs showing the LNER offices on situated in sidings

  'Shot by The Late Captain F. C. Selous, The Head of a Woodland Caribou' - - - 'The Antlers of Another Caribou' - - - 'Widely Utilised by The Finnish Army in Their Heroic Struggle Against The Bolshevik Hordes, To Carry Machine Gunns: A Scandinavian Reindeer'

  'Germanys NEw Destoyer Plane: The Messerschmitt - ME 110' Wonderful full page view/plan of the plane in flight showing interior and exterior and description of port motor; machine guns; shell guns etc by G. H. Davis

  The " Salmon " - 'The First Success of the Salmons Cruise: A Small and Difficult Target Sighted Through The Periscope of the British Submarine - An Outward Bound U Boat'

  'The Salmon Sights The Giant German Liner Bremen, But Allows Her to Proceed' ...."British Submarines Are Not Allowed To Sink Merchant SHips Without Providin For the Safety of THeir Crews"

  'The Salmons Attack on a German Squadron Results in the Cruiser Leipzig Being Hit and The 8000 Ton Blucher in the Same Group' Full page

  
  British Submarines and Their Victims - 'Lieut Commander g. C. Phillips, Who Sank A German Cruiser in The Submarine Ursula' - - - 'The Homecoming of the Ursula After Torpedoing a Koln Class Cruiser; The Men and Their Commander on Deck' - - - 'The Mine Sweeping Crew: The King with the Men During His Majestys Visit to Portsmouth' - - - 'Decorated By The IKing for THeir Work in Preparing German Mines For Examination at Risk of Their Own Lives: Able Seaman A. L. Vearncombe - Chief Petty Officer C. E. Baldwin - Lieutenant J. Glenny - Lieut Commander R. C. Lewis - Lieut Commander J. G. D. Ouvry ' - - - 'The Submarine WHich Sank Two German Cruisers and a U Boat: The "Salmon", A Medium Sized Vessel of 670 tons' - - - 'Torpedoed by The Salmon and Probably Sunk: The 6000 Ton German Cruiser Leipzig - - - 'The Cruiser of the Hipper Class Which Was Torpedoed By The Salmon@ The 8000 Ton 8in Gun Vessel Blucher' eight photographs on one full page

  'A 6000 Ton Koln Class cruiser Sunk By HM Submarine Ursula' in The Elbe Estuary. Full page drawn by G. H. Davis

  Life in a German U Boat: - 'In the Central Control Station of A Submerged Submarine, The Coxswain seated in fron tof His Wheel' - - - 'Submerging: Men Turning The Wheels Which Flood the Ballast Tanks' - - - 'The U Boat Submerging, The Stern and a Large Part of the Periscope are Here Still Visible' - - - 'The Moor Room Seen Through an Opened Bulkhead Door' - - - 'The U Boat Commader at the Periscope as He Appears T His Men onthe Deck Below Him'

  German U Boat - 'Surfacing: The U Boats Tanks Have Been Blown Clear and Here the Bow is Just Breaking Water - British and Fren h Navies Continue to Sink U Boats at the Rate of Three or Four a Week and Th the U Boat Men Go About Their Horrible Work in an All Pervading Atmosphere of Death' - - - 'A U Boat Flies The Names of the Ships She Has Sunk Upon Trophy Flags When in Port' - - - 'The U Boat is Resting on the Bottom and Th Officers are Taking The Opportunity to Write Up Their Reports - At The Back Can Just Be Seen The Caps of Torpedo Tubes'

  'The End of The Admiral Graf Spee - The Blazing Wreck of the Raider Scuttled By Hitlers Orders Drawn by C. E. Turner' Double page. Rusty staples to centre

  'The Gallant Ship Exeter, Which Bore The Brunt of The Admiral Graf Spee's Fire'

  How British Guns Hit The Admiral Graf Spee@: Photgraphs From Montevideo of the Raider and Her Captain - 'Showing one of the Gaping Holes in the Side of the Graf Spee' - - - 'A View of the Dazzle Painted Control Tower of The Graf Spee showing Damage' - - - 'With Members of Her Crew Standing at the Ships Rails in the Harbour at Montevideo: The Hull Peppered with Holes' - - - 'Dressed in Tropical Whites and Wearing His Medal Ribbons: An Excellent Study of 45 Year Old Captain Langsdorff Taken in Montevideo Shortly Before The Scuttling of the German Raider'

  Naval History - 'Finest Frigate CaptainThat Ever Lived: Sir Edward Pellew, Afterwards Lord Exmouth' - - - 'Principal Frigate Captain During Trafalgar; Sir Henry Blackwood' - - - Defeat of the Guillaume Tell in March 1800 By The Penelope' - - - and more

  Nazi Scuttlings: The Admiral Graf Spee and The Columbus - 'The Columbus, The Eighteenth German Merchantman to Sink Herself' - - - 'Another Historic Wirelessed Photograph Showing Captain Langsdorff, Wearing His Iron Cross and Surrounded by Smiling Members of His Crew About to Disembark on Arrival at Buenos Aires' - - - 'A Four Million Pounds Battleship, Pride of the German Navy, Goes up in Flames; Radioed Photo of the Graf Spee on Fire in the Estuary of the River Plate' - - - Captain Langsdorff's Farewell to the Officers and Men of the Admiral Graf Spee in the Grounds of the Argentine Naval Arsenal at Buenos Aires, Where He Secretly addressed Them Before Shooting Himself' - - - '..."I am Satisfied. I Saved All Mey Men": The Tragic End ofa German Commander Who Fought Jutland: Captain Langsdorffs Lying In State, With Two Fellow Officers as Guards'

  'The Satisfactory Pupil at Hastings Grammar School Who Was Later To become Famous as Grey Owl, The Red Indian Naturalist and Protector of Wild Life: Archie Belaney Aged About Thirteen' - - - 'The Cause of Grey Owls Turning From Trapping Beavers to Taming Them: His Wife Anahareo who Hated The Suffering of Animals, at Beaver Lodge, on Ajawaan Lake' - - - 'After the Vow Had Been Taken Never to Take Another Beavers Life: Grey Owql With Jelly Roll, so Called Because of her Gait, The Future Queen of the Beaver People' Archie Belaney (1888 - 1938) Belaney, gained world renown in the 1930s as the "Indian" conservationist and nature writer Grey Owl

  With The Finnish Army - 'A Red Army Bomber Shot Down by The Finns on the Karelian Front' - - - 'A Regiment of Finnish Soldiers on Skis Advancing to Meet the Bolshevik Hordes' - - - 'Depriving the Invaders of Quarters or Shelter: A Soldier Preparing to Set Fire to a Home in the Fighting Area' - - - 'A White Uniformed Defender of Finland Amid Snow Clad Pine Trees' - - - 'A White Cloaked Soldier of the Finnish Army' - - - 'Finnish Anti Tank Gunners in the Snow, With The Gun Camouflaged and the Artilleryment Wearing Their Deceptive Cloakes' - - - 'An Anti Tank Gun Crew Camouflaged in Unison With Their Surroundings, Photographed in their Trench in the Mannerheim Line'

  The Late 'Mr george Eumorfopoulos' - - - 'The Late 'Mr A. W. Gotch Berrill ' - - - The Late 'Mrs Rudyard Kipling' - - - The Late 'Lord Ernest Hamilton' - - - 'Sir Denison Ross, Counsellor at The Britisyh Embassy at Istanbul'

  'Sir Edward Wilshaw, President of Cable and Wireless Ltd, Presented with KCMG Insignia Subscribed For By 10,000 Employees of the Company' also shown is the Hon Jocelyn Dennison Pender

  'Mr Chamberlain Shaking Hands with M. Daladier After a meeting at the Supreme War Council in Paris'

  'The First Official Woman Artist on the Western Front: Miss Gwen Le Gallienne, With War Correspondents Status'

  'Members of the French and British Naval Staffs, Including Admiral Darlan in Conference at The Admiralty on Dec 20'

  'Staff Officers of the First Canadian Contingent: Including Major General NcNaughton - Lieut Colonel C. H. Hill DAPM - Hon. J. N. S. Buchan' no name for the fourth man

  'An Aerial View of One of the Oldest City Sites in the World: the Tell of Ras Shamra, The Ancient Ugarit' - - - 'Map of Northern Syria, Showing the Situation of the Tell of Ras Shamra'

  'History From The Family Vaults: Burial series Tell The Story of Ugarit' Seven photographs on one full page

  'The Stones of Ugarit Yield Up the Citys History' Eight photogtraphs of various Vases, jewellery etc

  Forms of Air Raid Shelter Built by The City of Westminster 'Bricking Up Trafalgar Square'fffff - - - One of a Series of Coal Hole Vaults Beneath The Pavement Linked together By Escape Passages' - - - 'Possibley Londons Finest Ari Raid Shelter in the Eighteenth Century Adelphi Arches Accomodating 600 People' - - - The Crypt of St Martin in the Fields: The Famous All Night Shelter for the Homeless Used for ARP Purposes' - - - 'The CoveredTrench System of ARP Shelter constructed in the Royal Parks (here St James's) and In Private Squares' sketches specially drawn for the Illustrated London News by Dennis Flanders on a double page

  'Mr Chamberlain at The Front: Inspecting a Camouflaged Gun Emplacement in the British Sector During His Visit to the BEF and RAF Units in France'

  'Magnificent Old French Ivory Casket, Designed To Grace a Ladys Bower in the Fourteenth Century' Recently Changed Hands at the Figure of £820' Full page

  'Theatre, - Great Expectations, four scenes starring Yvonne Mitchell - Roger Parker - Martita Hunt - Vera Lindsay - Marius Goring - Wilfred Caithness - Richard George - Merula Salaman - Roy Merton'

  '5,000 Babies, Cripples, Boys and Girls Now in uUr Homes - Waifs & Strays Society' Advert

  
  Also articles (no pictures unless listed above) including :
  'Our Note Book by Arthuyr Bryant'> 'The War With Nazi Germany, The Battle of The River Plate by Cyril Falls '

  'Frigates and Cruisers Versus Battleships in British Naval History by Professor Sir Geoffrey Callender Director of the National Maritime Museum'

  'The Friend of the Beaver Folk - Half Breed by Lovat Dickson, An Appreciation By Sir John Squire' about Archie Belaney

  'The North Syrian Kingdom of Ugarit as a Centre of Intellectual Life in the Second Millenium BC by Professor Claude F. A. Schaeffer Director of the French Archaeological Expedition to Ras Shamra'

  'Books of the Day byt Charles E. Byles'

  'The World of the Theatre by Ivor Brown'

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