... The Element of Surprise Has Gone T^or Can the German Situation Change Without Our Knowledge (The Strategy of the War IX) By GENERAL SIR CHARLES HARINGTON, G.C.B., G.B.E., D.S.O., D.C.L. ALTHOUGH little of importance has happened in the field of operations by sea, land or air since I wrote last week, I do think that the situation as a whole is becoming more clear. Every day seems to bring us ...

... THE LITHUANIAN ARMY ENTERS VILNA OCTOBER 29 Jt was generally understood that, under the recent arrangement between the U.S. S. R. and Lithuania, the district and city of Vilna, the historic capital of Lithuania, was to be handed over to that country as part of the bargain. The ceding of this territory by Russia was a particularly interesting event, for it wa* a dramatic reversal of the recent ...

... THE VARIED TANKS WHICH THE BRITISH ARMY HAS EVOLVED: Special Types For Special Needs 111 l'i III 11 111 IH ll'llll I |IJ Hi1' I 1 1 Hi Ill III I ill ll I III IMMf IN ORDER TO MEET THE NEEDS OF ACTUAL WARFARE, THE ARMY DESIGNERS HAVE PRO DUCED NOT ONE TYPE OF TANK, BUT MANY Here, in these composite groupings, th forms of British tanks. Some are singk bigger complement; all have the cat? on ...

... HOLLAND PREPARES Youths Train, New Torpedo Boats are Launched, Civil Air Defence Intensifies, and Trenches are Dug TWO TORPEDO BOATS ARE LAUNCHED AT ROTTERDAM FOR THE DUTCH NAVY While seeking not to appear in any way militant, the Dutch authorities have been taking precautions against eventualities. Here two additions to the Navy are taking the water; one des troyer has done so, and the vessel ...

... 0RY GI3> A 0RY GIT* Rv A a THE ONLY GIN. THAT HOLDS THE BLUE SEAL OF THE INSTITUTE OF HYGIENE C.F.H. Mm ...

... H.M. THE KING OF THE BELGIANS WITH HIS SON, PRINCE BAUDOUIN A picture taken on Armistice Day, in Brussels, at the tomb of the Unknown Warrior. Belgium not being at war with Germany, the customary two minutes' silence was observed. The Prince Baudouin, Duke of Brabant, is His Majesty's heir, and was born in 1930. He has a younger brother, Prince Albert, who was born on June 6, 1934. H.R.H. the ...

... The last day of the season at Naas gave everyone who made the pilgrimage from round and about good value for money, and the big plat in the menu was Lord Talbot de Malahide's Bearer Bond, the Irish Cesarewitch winner, who capped that good performance by perhaps an even better one, for he won the Autumn Plate, giving away lumps of weight all round. He came through his field like a red-hot ...

... By SABRETACHE THE concerted attacks of the German Press certainly boded no good for them [Belgium and Holland], and they may have felt that they were in danger of being forced at the pistol's point to abandon their neutrality. And yet some people continue to ask what it is we are fighting about. It was further conveyed to Belgium that if she concluded any alliance with any other country ...

... The feeling that predominated on the first Poppy Day of the second German war was unquestionably one of severe disappointment that we should have to usher in the second chapter of a horrible story that we hoped had been put behind us. The work done for the Haig Fund was none the less thorough. It would be, naturally, and here are some of the people at some of the principal centres of ...

... The elder of Lord North's two Mr. Robert Alexander Clive G society's most popular young-] engagement to Miss Anne Page recently, succeeded on the deatl the Hon. Dudley Nortl fery attractive sisters married ham in 1937, and is one of arrieds. Lord North, whose was announced more or less of his grandfather, his father, having died in 1936 MRS. WILLIAM FISKE A RECENT PORTRAIT Bertram Park This ...

... TRÈS CHER-- You cannot realise, unless you have lived in France, how entirely civilian life is dis organised by the sweeping levy made by conscription as-she-is-spoke in this country. This unoriginal remark is inspired by your friendly query anent Miss Chrysler, 1924, and your wise advice about having her thoroughly overhauled before things really start. The spirit of the counsel finds me ...

... H.B. 60. Plaid wool bag and scarf set in vivid blended colours is a tonic for an/ outfit The bag is the new shape with its bow handle tied on top. Orange/ brown, red/yellow/ navy. 7£ x 6£ in. Set 21/- H.B. 56. Black velvet its sheen set off by a frame that is gilt encrusted with jewelled flowers. Lined with black rayon satin and fitted with mirror and purse. 8x7 in. 59/6 |_|ANDBAGS, but not ...