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First exclusive pictures from Western front hostilities area. One of the several concrete machine gun nests which have been built by the Nazi Army on the Luxembourg-German border. The windows are guarded by steel shutters painted blue. German soldiers are seen on right driving a farm wagon through the village which has been evacuated of civilians. A barbed wire barricade is seen in foreground.

Soldiers with pick axe and spade going forward. Here the men of a work company are going forward, passing the concrete front-sides of the bunkers, along the knolls and the wire barrings. Some guards are equipped with rifles against hostile troubles.

Where their fathers fought. This picture of man of the Welsh Guards is interesting in as much as it shows them during training at a spot where their fathers, who served in the regiment, fought in the last war. The ruins are of a building which was partially destroyed by shell fire in the last war. After the exercise, a local French woman provides a cup of tea.

German war prisoners interned in France. German prisoners captured by the French on the western front marching under guard to an internment camp somewhere in France.

At the break of the day in the West. Indistinctly in the fog, in the background the silhouettes of horsemen and autocars are to be seen, whilst in the foreground infantrymen are resting on the earth.

Spying section in the no man,s land. Whilst two men are securing the way out, their comrades are examining the houses, the yards, the gardens: The village is evacuated by the enemy.

American Broadcasting reporter on the West Wall. Mr. Jordan (in the centre, in private clothes) being pleased with the German officers about the funny sign-posts in the West, carved by German soldiers.

Rest day in a bunker of the West Wall. In order to judge what the cantonments on the front, as illustrated here, are signifying for the soldiers, one has to remember the pictures from the trenchs in the Great War.