... 'Now training p, wMmitg hard in Camp 3 Ile'Il need a GOOD pen now A first-class fountain pen is an absolute essential to anyone on active service (or, for that matter, to those whose duty it is to keep the wheels of commerce turning). And none serves the purpose so efficiently as the Swan. Put a Swan in his pocket before he goes and he need never feel out of touch with home, for it will speed ...

... 1 '**1 THE GERMAN COMMANDER- IN-CHIEF IN POLAND _ General von Brauchitsch, Commander in-Chief of the German Army (centre group, second from left), receiving reports on the banks of the Narew j River, near Pultusk. On right A car in Posen bearing the white cross which figures on so manv German motorised vehicles. What does it signify? A SIX-WHEELED STAFF CAR PULLS UP A mechanised train of mixed ...

... SOME months ago Mr. J. B. Priestley, a little sore, perhaps, after the financial failure of his ambitious play, Johnson over Jordan, declared, in effect, that what the theatre was suffering from was the typical West End audience in which the men wore white ties. I ventured to point out at tne time tnat a wnite tie am not aenote a brainless life, that intelligence cannot be gauged by the ...

... IN A DANGEROUSLY RICH LAND The Oilfields of Rumania Which May Well Tempt Covetous Eyes Towards the Mighty Danube Which Here Forms the Tfiorthern Frontier of Bessarabia THE OIL WEALTH OF RUMANIA AT CAMPINA KmMMB5BiSiaz5BBga^:7r In the province of Prahova, in the heart of the Rumanian oilfields, lies Campina, once a small place of some 3,000 inhabitants. Now it is alive with all the mechanism of ...

... I The Muddle of I the Petrol Rations A Sfafe of Affairs fhaf Would Never have Occurred had the Administration Been Handed Over to Those who Know Something About Transport By A. PERCY BRADLEY, M.I.A.E., A.M.I.Mech.E. AFTER the first misfire and the additional breathing space of one week we motorists are now carrying on under the petrol rationing scheme. Although the Government appeared to have ...

... W. H. Smith Son's IV. H. Smith Soil's THERE'S A WEALTH OF ENTERTAINMENT IN 66 INSIDE KNOWLEDGE A large number of the informative dia- interesting sectional drawings are reproduced grammatic drawings, chiefly by that well-known as panoramas, EACH MEASURING OVER artist G. H. Davis which have been published THREE FEET WIDE. They show British from time to time in THE ILLUSTRATED warshiptypes a ...

... GERMANY and RUSSIA Meef at Brest-Litovsk and Bialystock Scenes at the Conference which Carved up Poland WHAT MECHANISATION BRINGS IN ITS TRAIN IN POLAND-- A GERMAN ARMY JAM ON THE ROAD TO BREST-LITOVSK The military traffic is endeavouring to pass in opposite direc tions. On the left is an ordinary service car and on the right one of the curious coffin shaped cars bearing white Geneva crosses ...

... The Strategy of the War-No. II A W eek-by- W eek Commentary on the Military Situation By GENERAL SIR CHARLES HARINGTON, G.C.B., G.B.E., D.S.O., D.C L. DURING last week, previous to Friday, little had happened except that we saw the grip tightening daily on the gallant defenders of Warsaw, and we knew that the end was near. The end came on Thursday, the city being reduced to ruins and ...

... TYPICAL SAAR MINERS, NOTED FOR THEIR INDEPENDENT AND RADICALLY- INCLINED POLITICS IN PRE-NAZI DAYS A group of typical miners of the Saar district, the mining areas of which, it is reported, have been completely evacuated by the German authorities who are sending trainloads of these miners to the Ruhr. These men were noted for their independent attitude in pre-Nazi days THE UNHOLY ALLIANCE OF ...

... LIFE UNDER STALIN Scenes Military and Civil from the U.S.S.R. RUSSIAN CAVALRY DRAWN UP IN RED SQUARE, MOSCOW Following the Cossack tradition of Czarist days, the U.S.S.R. army still maintains a strong cavalry arm. This regiment is smartly accoutred IN THE STATE BANK OF THE U.S.S.R. The hateful system of capitalistic banking is in ope ration in Soviet Russia many Western features of social life ...

... The Supply Council And the much criticised Censor Bureau /^pHE recently created Ministry of Information (it 1 came into official being only on the outbreak of war) has aroused a storm of criticism from all sections of the nation in the brief month of its existence both on account of its Censorship activity and on account of its meagre bulletins and statements. The position fairly stated would ...

... THE MOSQUITO FLEET AT SEA Ihe Irawlermen Who are righting the Menace oi the Mine and Submarine in Their Tiny North Sea Craft |j=By j NOEL THOMPSON WE read every day of merchant ships being torpedoed. We read, too, of ships, often neutrals, being sunk through striking a German mine. Putting two and two together we are apt to exaggerate and make a big total of losses, a total which does not ...