The Illustrated London News, Saturday May 25, 1918 - Bombers of Cologne and Western Germany / The Controlled Distribution of Meat

Features: Title page illustration of British soldiers in a captured German "Communication-Trench" beneath the Hooge-Menin Road; The Merchant Seaman's Badge of Honour (article); Red Cross Pearls - A Meditation (article); The Herb Garden - Homely Plants (article); One-page illustration of the destruction of Captain Baron Von Richthofen; Two photos of German planes brought down over London; Photos of The Countess Markievicz, Novelist Darrell Figgis, Joseph McGuinness, Count Plunkett, Edmund De Valera, John McGarry, Dr. Thomas Dillon, William Cosgrave, Lord Glenconner, The Duke of Atholl, and Lady Glenconner; Photos of large allied bombers as they prepare to strike Cologne and Western Germany; G.K. Chesterton discusses translations of the words of the German Emperor - who can speak and write English; Grounding the Flying Services (article); Photo of British airmen inspecting a captured German "Kamerad"; One-page detailed illustrated explanation of the British food control organisation/The machinery of Meat Supply; From Field to Kitchen - Fascinating one-page illustration with text explains the controlled distribution of meat in Britain; One-page illustration of a French armoured car, out of ammunition, driving through a crowd of German soldiers; Wonderful centrefold illustration of a sky full of fighting German and British planes; Article on how wartime food rationing has forced some knowledge of chemistry onto people; One-page illustration inside the newly opened Chapel at Hampton Court; Roll of Honour - photos of 18 officers, including Capt. R.P.L. Dallas, M.C., KIA; Front and back photos of members of the American Expeditionary Force in France with captured German flame-throwers; Photo of W.A.A.C.'s playing basket ball with convalescing Tommies in France; and more. 36 pages including several pages of marvelous vintage ads, most of which are illustrated. Unmarked with average wear. Binding intact. A sound copy of this excellent WWI-era issue. Magazine