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 wer

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 wi

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 ye

" 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

"THE FIGHT OF THE NINE": THE PRELUDE TO THE FAMOUS VICTORY OF THE NINE FRENCH FIGHTERS OVER THE 27 MESSERSCHMITTS A BRITISH FIGHTER DARTS OUT OF A CLOUD-BANK PURSUED BY THE NAZI "CIRCUS," JUST WHEN A FRENCH FIGHTER PATROL HAPPENS TO BE PASSING. (Specially drawn for The Illustrate

A HEAVY BOMBER ISSUED TO THE ROYAL AIR FORCE IN LARGE NUMBERS IN 1937 THE HANDLEY PAGE HARROW WHICH, POWERED WITH PEGASUS XX." ENGINES, HAS A MAXIMUM SPEED OF 200 M.P.H. AND A RANGE, WITH NORMAL BOMB-LOAD, OF 1250 MILES. Charles E. Brown.) The Handley Page 41 Harrow twin-engined

MECHANICAL CAVALRY SCOUTS OF THE B.E.F. IN FRANCE: A LANCER REGIMENT ON PATROL IN THEIR ARMOURED CARS-- A TYPE OF UNIT THAT MIGHT BECOME OF THE UTMOST IMPORTANCE IF THE GERMANS TRY TO TURN THE MAGINOT LINE VIA BELGIUM. (Specially drawn by Captain Bryan de Grineau.)

THE ,LLnovIMBAEREU m1K NEWS PRICE Sevexpexce PART 1 PRICE SEVENPENCE: BY INLAND POST, EIGHTPENCE printed in England and registered as a newspaper for transmission in PUBLISHING OFFICE Canada and Newfoundland. Id.: Foreign, lid THE united kingdom and to Canada and Newfoundland by

11= The Wars of Great Britain and other countries for the last ninety -seven years, including the Crimean War, Persian War, Indian Mutiny, American Civil War, Chinese Wars, Abyssinian Campaign, Afghan Wars, Franco-Prussian Wars, Ashanti Wars, Soudan Expeditions, the Transvaal W

DEVILS OF THE SEA (UPPER) THE U-BOAT WHICH HELD UP AND SEARCHED THE FIRST U.S. SHIP STOPPED IN THE WAR AND (LOWER) ANOTHER U-BOAT, PHOTOGRAPHED FROM A NORWEGIAN FREIGHTER, AFTER SHE HAD SUNK TWO BRITISH SHIPS. (Photographs by Keystone and A. P.) i We believe," said Mr. Churchill