... WAR WITH THE GLOVES I ON AT THE N.S.C. MR. CHARLES SWEENY, LORD :QUEENSBERRY, COUNT JOHN DE BENDERN AND MRS. PETER HORLICK MR. RICHARD ROWLEY AND LADY SIBELL ROWLEY MR. JOHN HARDINGE (right) AND MR. AND MRS. JACK HYLTON MISS ELSIE RANDOLPH AND MR. VICTOR BURNETT SIR NOEL AND LADY CURTIS-BENNETT FULL OF INTEREST AT THE RING SIDE SIR MATHEW WILSON WITH MISS FRANCES DAY (on right) MR. WILL HAY, ...

... BRITISH DOVE -DANCER Photo*. Bertram Park A novel feature of The Little Dog Laughed, the current Crazy Gang show at the Palladium, is the dove dance per formed by lovely Edna Squire-Brown, who represented England at the Johannesburg Exhibition two years ago. The doves are sacred birds, originating in the Near East, where Miss Squire- Brown bought them on her way back from South Africa. The ...

... HANDS OFF! A CONVOY AND ITS ESCORT IN THE NORTH SEA TEETH BARED AND READY TO BITE Two pictures which vividly illustrate some of the work that the British Navy is doing in the way of keeping our food-supply lines open. Whether the onslaught comes from above or below, the attacker does not find that he has things all his own way. The attacks by enemy aircraft have been a bit costly to the foe, ...

... BUBBLE and SQUEAK THE boat was two days out of New York when the drunk staggered from his state-room for the first time. He lurched to the bar, ordered a drink, and then leaned towards the bar-tender. Shay, buddy, he asked, where am I The bar-tender served him. You 're on board a liner, sir, he replied, and we are in the middle of the ocean. You don't shay! grunted the other. What ocean ...

... A FAMOUS IRISH POET-DRAMATIST-- I VERY MUCH AT HOME All these pictures, at Dunsany Castle, Co. Meath, were taken quite recently. The new grand son of Ireland's famous poet-dramatist and Lady Dunsany arrived after his father, Captain the Hon. Randal Plunkett, who is in a very famous Indian cavairy regiment, had been recalled from leave on the outbreak of war, and this may be the first he will ...

... I I I By W. G. McMINNIES I i I i Lighting the Pedestrian. THE slaughter of pedestrians during the black-out period calls for urgent remedy. That it has assumed such dimensions-- roughly twice the total of the equivalent month in I938-- is no surprise to anyone who has tried to drive either in town or country during black-out hours. Then the only guides to road navigation are the dim lights of ...

... Deben ham Freebody Debenbam Freebody i% /I f# [Vji/fph f AT DEBENHAM FREEBODY'S Coat of natural Mink 179 gns. Write for new catalogue of Furs of Authority WIGMORE STREET, LONDON, W.1 Langham 4444 i,Debenhams, Ltd.) ...

... ENGLISH HOTELS SAFETY ZONE ROYAL VICTORIA HOTEL ST. LEONARDS-ON-SEA Telephone: HASTINGS 869 Massive building on island site facing sea Wide, straight corridors, east, west and central staircases, central lift to all floors to entrance Gas-proof and splinter-proof rooms with lavatory Suites and rooms all centrally heated with h. and c., and multi- spring beds are available now. English staff, ...

... The First German Plane to Fall on British Soil The Big German Bomber Which Crashed on the Lammermuir Hills Scotland again came into the war zone last week-end and in dramatic fashion when a big German bomber swooped down from the clouds and began hedge- hopping over the East Lothian hills in a vain attempt to evade the pursuit of British fighter planes pouring machine-gun bullets into its ...

... Saturday morning of last week, fighting machines of the Auxiliary Air Force scored another success when they forced down a big German bomber on to the Lammermuir Hills. A stream of bullets had spattered every part of the bomber, including the metal pro- pellers. The first burst of fire crippled the machine and as she dropped it was evident that the port j engine was out of action and that the ...

... Let Me Put Myself In Hitler's Place Some of the Problems Which the German High Command Must Face. (The Strategy of the War VI) By GENERAL SIR CHARLES HARINGTON, G.C.B., G.B.E, D.S.O., D.C.L. THE events, as I write, are talking an interesting turn, and look as if they must lead shortly to some definite line of action. On the Western Front we can safely say that nothing of import ance has ...

... The Silent and the Secret Army Les An^liclies AAake Tliemselves Known to tlie Appreciative Citizens of France by HARRy J. GREENWALL Personal Impressions of tbe B.E.F. THE Young Bills who have come to France in the wake of Old Bill, who blazed the trail twenty-five years ago, came by an entirely different route. Having been privi leged to see the arrival of Bill père et fils I feel myself ...