... THE BRITISH EXPEDITION ARY FORCE MARCHES THROUGH RURAL FRANCE The men who cross the Channel find their way to their pre-arranged positions a! ig roads like this deep in the rural life of our ally. This is a by-road, but u: ke the autobahnen of Germany it is good because it has been here for centu s, not newly driven (like the autobahnen across virgin country) and thus st Js up well to the ...

... The King Decorates RAF. Heroes THE FOUR R.A.F. OFFICERS AND PILOT SERGEANT ON WHOM THE KING HAS JUST BESTOWED THE D.F.C. AND THE D.F.M. From left to right are-- Flying Officer A. McPherson, Flying Officer T. M. W. Smith, Flying Officer K. C. Doran, Flying Officer John Barrett, and Pilot Sergeant W. E. Willits T\uring the King's two-day tour of R.A.F. stations in the north of England and the ...

... One Mechanised Division=40 Miles of Road The Methods of the Last War Compared with Those of the Present. The Strategy of the War VII) By GENERAL SIR CHARLES HARINGTON, G.C.B., G.B.E., D.S.O., DG.L. I REMEMBER ending my last article with Anyhow, we shall know by next week. We do not. The Western Front is unchanged. Nothing whatever has happened and our war correspondents are reduced to ...

... A War New; .ETTER No. IX 32-34 St. Bride Street. E.C.4 Wednesday, November 1, 1939. RIBBEN-DE-TROP.-- Ribbentrop supplied for his Führer the mixture as before at Danzig. He is qualified for, and inured by practice to, doing all kinds of dirty work. He convinced the German people, the neutrals and sub versive elements among the Allies-- to his own satisfaction, we must believe-- that for ...

... MILITARY AVIATION IN TURKEY Aic^?d by British Experts, It is Making Great Progress SofrfTiabecial Conditions Induced bv Ihe Noondav Heat cv WARMING UP The gunner likes to rue rim nctntf know that his guns are THE GUN BEFORE warm when making A DAWN FLIGHT an early morning start ti_|c TiiDifl^i-l Fl YINPi These men are working at THE TURKISH FLYING aepja, photographs in front MAN IS AN EXPERT of ...

... PHILIP PAGE at the THEATRE Revues, Crazy and Intimate, Provide a Very Mixed Fare Opera Enthusiasts Hear Madame Butterfly at Sadler's Wells Irish Comedy at the Duchess LONDON now has almost a peace time supply of revues, both crazy and intimate. As I write, the pro portion is one crazy example to two intimate. This arrangement may be altered at any moment, but on the lines that it is, ...

... ^ WATCH AND WARD A gun's crew DURING DAY AND |n t.he„ act of i_UT loading an antl- NIoHl aircraft gun Above A powerful modern searchlight beam pierces the sky. Above on left-- The anti-aircraft squads wait at their guns the long hours are sometimes tedious, but the unit is there and ready to spring into instant action On left One of the latest searchlights with windows and the latest devices. ...

... THERE ARE, of course, OTHER THINGS THAN WAR. A Chronicle of the English Country Life, Which Still Goes On Despite Sterner Activities Elsewhere THE STATELY HOMES.-- Every day in the prosecution of one's ordinary business comes evidence that a use has been found for the stately homes of England at the very moment when the last straw of the war budget had made them of no further use to their ...

... Bomber v. Fighter in Aerial Combat The Obvious Difference Between this War and the Last is the Distances Involved The War in the Air Described by CHARLES G. GREY THE war in the air has been rather more active during the past week than hitherto-- that is to say, more things have happened in the air which come near to bringing the war home to those of us in Great Britain who hitherto have been ...

... THE BALTIC FUTURE: Strategic Islands In a Sea Where Values Are Altering Daily As Germany and Russia Vary Their Demands On Their Neighbours THE Baltic Sea, which is chang ing political colour so rapidly these days, contains a number of islands of great interest, some strate gically and others geologically. The case of the Aland Islands is well known. They form a kind of bridge between Finland ...

... FOR the dignity of the past and the improvements of modern times. The Kings Hotel Brighton Specially reduced terms for long term residence. In the quiet of the Cathedral Close Polished oak and panelled walls on the one hand, grill room, lifts and running water on the other. A fine example of an 18th-century English coaching house perfectly modernised. A place where eating and drinking is a ...

... Four Aspects of Europe i-- iii'iii 1 1 Tirr iiMwiwrwm r 11 i n imrn' -m*, ...