THE PRINCE OF WALES GOES TO THE FRONT Edward Albert, Prince of Wales, is now in his twenty-first year, despite his youthful appearance, and has received an excellent training as a soldier. While he makes no claim to be an Alexander (who, it will be remembered, greatly distinguished himself at the age of eighteen at the battle of Charonea), the young Prince promptly joined his regiment, the Grenadier Guards, and wert with them to the Continental battlefields. The devotion to duty thus shown on the part of the royal family is said to pervade every section of English society

GERMANY'S IMPERIAL CHANCELLOR IS HE TO BE THE BISMARCK OF THE PRESENT WAR?

Dr. Theobald von Bethmann-Hollweg has been regarded as a philosopher and an academician rather than as a man of blood and iron," but he will now have an opportunity to show his qual ties as a warrior-statesman on the widest possible field. He is fifty-seven years old; Bismarck was in his fifty-sixth year at the beginning of the FrancoPrussian War. The present Chancellor has had a legal training, having been a lawyer and a judge; he was a schoolmate of the Kaiser's at the University of Bonn. He has been Germany's Chancellor since 1909

AN ENGLISH MILITARY WIRELESS APPARATUS IN ACTION

In recent wars the telegraph and telephone superseded communication by messenger; in the present war the wireless is taking the place of the former improvements in the means of communication on the battlefield

A GERMAN AEROPLANE GUN MOUNTED ON AN AUTOMOBILE GOING TO THE FRONT

The great conflict between the nations of Europe carries with it many subsidiary conflicts between various kinds of weapons, armaments, and defenses; one of the most interesting of these is the rivalry between the inventions that take the soldier up into the clouds and those that are designed to bring him down to destruction. The picture shows one of the guns used by the Germans to destroy hostile aerial craft