... FRENCH EQUATORIAL AFRICA The Vast Area in the Heart of the Black Continent which Has Now Come Under the Control of General de Gaulle Described by NEGLEY FARSON (Author of Behind God's Back(iust published by Goliancz), which Analyses Conditions and Life in this French Territory) ONLY one who has seen them in action can realise the bitterness with which the French officials in Equatorial Africa ...

... One of the last mission carried out by the Scharn horsl was the inglorious attack on Spitzbergen. This was carried out on Sep tember 8, 1943. On that day a large German naval force comprising the Tirpitz and Scharnhorst, with a destroyer escort, raided the lonely Arctic outpost of Spitz bergen, 10 deg. from the North Pole. The two principal mining settlements Barentsberg and Longyear City, ...

... HOW much will the public want to use the air after the war? I doubt if one could find a question to which such widely divergent answers are given. One is launched upon a sky of specu lation, of assertion and counter-assertion. To listen to some, the post-war generation is going to leap into the skies. Look, you are told. how they are all trying to get into the Air Force. That shows. Others, ...

... It was not long after the initial landings that the whole of the Arawe Peninsula was cleared of Japs there after attacks by their aircraft were carried out on the American land forces, but with little effect, three of them being shot down out of the comparatively small number the enemy were able to send into action. The aircraft shown in this drawing, half-buried in the dense tropic vegetation ...

... A BRITISH DESTROYER'S HAUL A captured German l-boat after it had been sailed into tsrindisi Harbour under a prize crew. On the night of November 9-10, H.M.S. Quilliam and H.M.S. Raider, two destroyers of the Fourth Flotilla, intercepted a Siebel ferry with an escort of two German I-boats off Corfu. The ferry, containing ammunition, was blown up with Quilliam s third salvo, and the I-boats were ...

... THE decision of Mr. Ernest Bevin to direct youths from all walks of life into the coal mines on a ballot system has caused mixed feelings and given rise to conflicting opinions. On the face of it, as a means of getting more coal immediately and tiding us over the next few vital months, the scheme would appear to have little practical value. A speaker in the recent debate in the House of ...

... A.F.S. Auxiliary Fire Service The Auxiliary Fire Service employs a large number of women, not as taking the place of firemen, but to work in close connection with the fire service system, chiefly in the capa city of telephonists, an employment which often re quires great pluck and endurance. Those engaged in secretarial and tele phonic duties are equipped with a uniform, coat and skirt, others ...

... V.A.D. Voluntary Aid Detachment Nursing auxiliar ies from the Red Cross and St. John's Ambu lance work together in the United Women's Volun tary Aid Detach ments popularly known as the V.A.D.s. They must have spent at least forty hours nursing actually in hospital, and in addition, before they are ad mitted to this ser vice they must also hold a first aid certificate. The V.A.D.s come under ...

... THE TORPEDO ATTACK How it was Carried Out at Taranto by the Torpedo-Droppers of the Fleet Air Arm before in this war, or any other, has a new Arm so justified its existence and the hopes of its creators ^^■uch fashion as the Fleet Air Arm has justified itself at Taranto. Even in the last war, aircraft-carriers jWl' L^lu R°y;*l Navy; hut it was in the intervening years that this huge type of ...

... t ^T| .r^,^ S-lKirKAA Kipps in Production at Shepherd's Bush Ginger Rogers FILM NEWS from SIUDIU and UNtMA Comes to the Gaumont and Gary Cooper to the Carlton DIANA WYNYARD AS HELEN WALSINGHAM IN KIPPS: Diana Wynyard plays the wealthy girl who takes the aspiring Kipps under her social wing in the film version of Kipps, H. G. Weils' early novel. The film is being directed by Carol Reed ...

... A WAR NEWSLETTER -No. 200 r, New Oxford Street, W.C.i Hitler?-- If the Führer does not soon make another brief appearance on the stage, all the crop of rumours about his continued existence and /or mental state will spring up again, like the weeds in our gardens. For, indeed, the mystery surrounding him grows deeper and more stimulating. One has no need to be a C.I.D. man or an Intelligence ...

... Official Pictures Taken Before and After the British Landings Pantellaria surrendered to the Allied forces bombarding the island from the air and si on June 1 1 the fall of Lampedusa came shortly afterwards. On these pages, and d pages 14-19 of this issue, we publish the first official pictures to reach England of tli scenes immediately preceding and following these events. By the capture of ...