... SMH Newsletter VH --No. VII 32-34 St. Bride Street, E.C. 4 Wednesday, October 18, 1939. THREE IN ONE DAY.-- All our fighting services are silent services to-day. But the Navy lived up to its tradition of silence when it announced last Friday night that it had bagged three submarines in one day. A Friday and the thirteenth of the month! The Admiralty allowed itself fifteen words in which to ...

... A WORLD SURVEY From Holland, Spain, Gib raltar, and TJorthern Japanese-controlled China THE ACUTE RICE SHORTAGE IN NORTHERN CHINA UNDER JAPANESE RULE In this crowd of hungry Chinese, waiting in a queue for their food rations from the Japanese army, there is doubtless a very strong feeling, but only the young girl dares to give vocal evidence of it THE FOUR MEN HANDED OVER FROM TIENTSIN ...

... I London's First I Big-Time Show The T[ew Crazy Gang Revue at the London Palladium THERE'S DANGER IN THE WALTZ, ONE OF THE BIG HIT NUMBERS IN GEORGE BLACK'S NEW PALLADIUM SHOW On Wednesday evening of last week, the first big musical show of the war was presented at the London Palladium Mr. George Black's The Little Dog Laughed, with the Crazy Gang as the principal performers. This is the ...

... EVIDENCE OF SHELL-FIRE ON WARSAW HOUSES The photographs reaching The Sphere from Warsaw seem to indicate that the greater damage is in the suburban areas. Several buildings show punctured holes and fragments knocked off fa?ades as from flying shell fragments. The cornice of the middle (white) building shown here has a damaged roof SHE CARRIES AN EMPTY MARKET BASKET AS SHE WATCHES THE SURREN ...

... LIFE STILL GOES ON Let's Get Away from the War for a Little While THE WOMEN'S LAND ARMY IN ACTION Women are bravely carrying on in many ways. This picture shows members of the Land Army following the tractor- drawn potato digger, gathering up the produce before it can be affected by the frosts PMKv.v LOVE STILL GOES ON A picture taken in a London park a few days ago which eloquently speaks for ...

... THE CONVOY SYSTEM of Ihe BRITISH NAVY al WORK The First Pictures Released by the Admiralty to Show How Raiding Submarines and Aircraft Are Being Beaten by the Navy in the North Sea A PICTURE WHICH DEMONSTRATES BRITAIN'S NAVAL SUPREMACY ON THE HIGH SEAS-- BRITISH WARSHIPS, WITH GUNS READY FOR INSTANT ACTION, PROVIDE AN INVINCIBLE GUARD FOR THE MERCHANT VESSELS UNDER CONVOY TO AND FROM THIS ...

... The War RECORDED BY MAP AND DIAGRAM 'Points of interest in the NORTH SEA ARENA I Scapa Flow Penetrated The outstanding piece of naval news last week was the stabbing of a British battleship by torpedoes within the en circling islands which form Scapa Flow. Expert opinion had been puzzled as to how this great ship had been hit-- the later official intimation that she had been torpedoed in Scapa ...

... BRITISH BREN MACHINC-GUN CARRIERS PASSING THROUGH A FRENCH VILLAGE ON THE WAY TO A RENDEZVOUS IT MIGHT BE WITH MARLBOROUGH IN FLANDERS: BILLETING DOWN IN A THOROUGHLY TRADITIONAL MANNER IN A FRENCH FARMHOUSE STABLE Notes from France include the following little items referring to Thomas Atkins reappearance in the villages across the Channel. British soldiers on their way to the front have ...

... TRANSPORT TRUCKS LADEN WITH EQUIPMENT AND FOOD STARTING OUT FOR THE DAY'S JOURNEY THE BRITISH SUNDAY MORNING SERVICE IS NOl FORGOTTEN A SCENE OUT SIDE A LITTLE FRENCH CHAPEL The Army Post Office is now dealing with thousands of letters every day for soldiers serving in France. There have been a number of complaints that letters and parcels sent by relatives have not reached their destination ...

... A moving impression from the bridge of one of our destroyers while on patrol duty. There is a constant watch for submarines, the Prime Minister was able to announce in the House during the third week of the war. Since his last statement to the House on the war at sea, the situation has been one of intense and continuous naval activity. The attacks had been made both by day and by night and the ...

... Above on left-- THE MOUNTED ARM IS A RARE BUT PLEASANT SIGHT This mounted infantryman is lucky enough to be able to sit astride good horseflesh. Carbine at his side, the moment may come when he can successfully use his added mobility Thousands of us are parcel car riers to-day gas-masks, camouflaged helmets, and j satchels with- A out number NOT WHAT A PEACE-TIME SALES MANAGER WOULD CONSIDER ...

... n PIERRE VERGER Bl Tt 1 1 A 7 HIND THE FRENCH HfflH bcenes from the ixegion where ureal /Activity nas Obtained by Pierre Verger, whose Camera \A een Manifested throughout September. Pictures rk has Frequently A bpeared in The Sbhere JDreaking a silence which had iastea for three weeks, French artillery began on September 25 the first bombardment of the German Jorlifications across the grey ...