An apparatus for providing bandwidth compressed facsimile signals from respective picture information signals each picture information signal having a plurality of {TAIL ~ first blocks} of {HEAD ~ uniform bit lengths}, said apparatus comprising: 
An apparatus for providing bandwidth compressed facsimile signals from respective picture information signals each picture information signal having a plurality of { TAIL ~ first blocks } of { HEAD ~ uniform bit lengths } , said apparatus comprising :
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