... THE ROOF- RAISING DEFENCE TO DEFEAT DIVE-BOMBERS. W. Heath Robinson's latest device to defeat the dive-bombers is a roof-raising story By means of an ingenious system of cogs balloons and other lifting machinery, he believes that it will be possible completely to upset the dive-bomber pilots' calculations as to their height from the ground. DRAWN BY W. HEATH ROBINSON. ...

... . The battleship, holding a bone in its front teeth, has seated robots for turrets an admiral for control lower, and a bird- like aeroplane about to take off from a gigantic hand. Right A bellowing fighter plane roars down with clenched fists on a grinning bomber. The shoulders represent engine cowlings and the eyes are pilots. Everyone who has followed the march of mechanised armies across ...

... . A Scrap of Paper had historic importance in 1914-- every scrap of paper now has material value for waste paper, cartons, letters, card board, cards and boxes are all essential for the war effort. They must be neither hoarded nor wasted. The £10,000 Prize Waste Paper Drive inaugurated by the Waste Paper Recovery Association for May, June and July will add further incentive to the energy with ...

... FROM THE DRAWING BY DOROTHY M. WHEELER. ...

... THE fine exhibition of photographs by Barbara Morgan, arran of notable camera-studies of dances symbolising episodes ai pages. Many of them express fierce and tragic emotion, while 01 in 4t shaking out sin, are gay and amusing, but they are all The technique of double exposure is used in a most successful everyone else who has seen these photographs agree that they are s San Francisco to ...

... CHOCLIKS DON'T MAKE ME LAUGH! THIS AIN'T BENGHAZI! DRAWN BY FRANK REYNOLDS. ...

... PINOCCHIO, puppet-boy hero of WALT DISNEY'S second full-length film due at the New Gallery Regent Street, on March 18, is the netc boy in the Disney school. Here he is depicted as getting the once-over from his seniors, the other Disney creations. They lean out of their frames to inspect the boy, who, it *s rumoured, may steal their thunder as film celebrities and put them in the shade. The ...

... SERVICE UNITS No. 31 AN R.A.F. SIGNALS GROUP: By MEL Even though information likely to be of use to the enemy has to be kept so close a secret, it is fairly safe to assure the lay public that signalling in the R.A.F. is rarely done by the flag-wagging method, and even whistling and shouting out such expressions as Oi and Hi can be ruled out. Even with these manifest handicaps the message ...

... MEMBERS OF A CHEERFUL R.A.F. MESS SOMEWHERE It was not necessary for the artist to pick a moment when everyone was smiling, for the R.A.F. make a habit of it, and in spite of war's great tribulation they have every reason. The only thing they ask is More 'planes, and lots of 'em As to the rest, we know. Our people have established their superiority over the unspeakable Hun and our 'planes are ...

... By The Tout Tom Coulthwoite, Arthur Nightingall and Jack Anthony have each been responsible for three Grand National winners. Torn trained Eremon in 1907, Jenkinstown in 1910, and Grakle in 1931. Arthur, who still lives at Epsom, rode his first National winner, Ilex, fifty-four years ago, following up with Why Not in 1S92 and Grudon in 1901. His nephew, Walter Nightingall. trained last year's ...

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... INSTITUTION OF LOCOMOTIVE ENGINEERS* ANNUAL DINNER BY MEL A large assembly of members of the Institution of Locomotive Engineers and their guests attended the Institution's Annual Dinner at the Savoy Hotel recently. The chief guest of the evening was the Minister of Transport, Captain the Rt. Hon. Euan Wallace, P.C., M.P. In the unfortunate absence, through indisposition, of the President of ...