Tonwoche №471-1 (1939)

Abyssinia.

A religious festival of Copts (Christians) was held in Addis Ababa on the occasion of the election of a new patriarch by the Supreme Coptic Council.

The Viceroy of Abyssinia held a ceremony of the patriarch's accession to the rank.

Felling a tree in the Bavarian Alps near Berchtesgaden.

A lumberjack hits a tree with an axe.

Timber is lowered from a mountain along a water chute.

Logs roll down a slope in the streams of a waterfall.

A mass of logs flies down a mountain into a river.

Timber rafting down a mountain river.

The Feast of St.

Wenceslas, held annually in Prague.

A church procession moves through the city, people carry banners and icons.

Women lead children in national costumes, nuns pass by.

A crowd near St.

Vitus Cathedral, where a service is taking place.

Clergymen carry a casket with relics.

President Dr.

Hacha and government officials arrive for the celebration, they proceed to the cathedral for a solemn service.

As in all neutral countries, private motor vehicle traffic is restricted in Italy.

Views of Rome, a group of young people on bicycles ride along the street, drive across a bridge.

An air raid siren sounds, a training alert has been declared in the city.

People rush to take shelter in the arches.

A fire engine drives along the street.

Civil defense soldiers carry a "wounded man" on a stretcher, put him in the car.

Two women put on gas masks on the street, a mother pulls a gas mask over the girl's head.

Civil defense soldiers put on gas masks.

The funeral of Prime Minister Armand Calinescu, killed by members of the fascist Iron Guard on 21 September 1939, is taking place in Bucharest.

The coffin is carried out of the church.

The military stands with the flag lowered.

The coffin is placed on a gun carriage.

The funeral procession moves along the street behind the hearse on horses.

Statesmen and military personnel are walking.

The coffin is being transported to the Prime Minister's homeland.

The hearse on oxen is accompanied by city residents.

Soldiers hold awards on cushions.

A priest performs the last rites at the cemetery.

Poland.

German sappers are restoring a railway bridge across the Vistula destroyed by the Poles during their retreat.

They are clearing rubble, welding parts, and laying rails.

A German artillery battery near Modlin, guns are firing.

Soldiers are digging in on a muddy field.

A view of Polish fortifications with traces of German shells.

Polish envoys walk along the road, meet German officers, and they shake hands.

A German soldier films the events on camera.

German soldiers are piling up captured Polish weapons.

A panorama of the stacks of rifles and machine guns.

An aerial view of the trophies from a low angle.

German soldiers on the outskirts of Warsaw, cars with soldiers, armored vehicles, mechanized artillery drive through the city.

Residents watch the movement of troops.

A ceremonial march through the city of German soldiers behind musicians, drummers and flutists play.

Food is distributed to the population, soup is poured.

Poland.

A view of the blown up bridge over the Vistula near Thorn.

Workers at repair work.

A trumpeter gives the signal to begin blasting operations.

The collapsed supports are being blown up.

A diver descends underwater, hooks metal parts, which are pulled up.

Welding work on the bridge.

On the shore, earth is poured into mine cars.

Workers repair the railroad tracks on the bridge.

The first train goes along the restored bridge.

German soldiers pour soup from cans to city residents, hand out bread from a truck.

Parade in front of the Fuhrer.

Separate units and subdivisions march to the sounds of a military orchestra.

Soldiers walk holding bicycles by the handlebars, horse and mechanized artillery, trucks with soldiers, tanks pass by.

Close-ups of Hitler.

Mobilization of the population for agricultural work.

Women ride in carts with soldiers, holding pitchforks and scythes in their hands.

Plowing on horses, women behind a plow.

Women harvest hay, feed cows, milk them.

Widespread involvement of women in Germany in socially useful work.

Soldiers carry dirty laundry to the laundry, dump it on the floor.

Women sort the laundry, one of them laughingly puts a holey sock on her hand.

Washing laundry by hand.

Women work at the post office, they sort letters.

After work, women leave the factory, ride bicycles.

A female tram driver, a female conductor on a tram.

A diplomatic reception in Rome.

The new Japanese ambassador Amau goes around the diplomats and military personnel who greet him.

At the same time, the Romanian ambassador Dr. R. Bossi gets into a carriage that is heading to the palace to present his credentials.

The Sino-Japanese War.

A Japanese squadron flies to northwest China, the city of Xi'an is bombed, an aerial view of the city's neighborhoods.

The North Sea.

German warships escort fishing schooners in a stormy sea.

Fishermen pull their nets on board.

Many seagulls sit on the water.

Fishermen take apart the fish, sort it.

The Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia.

Builders of the German autobahn are building new roads in the protectorate to connect them to the autobahn system in Germany.

Earthworks are underway.

An excavator is working, filling the cars with earth.

Local workers at the construction site.

The roller smoothes the asphalt.

The new road is built.