... THE OBSERVER CORPS The First Eyes of the A. A. Ground Defence System Which Culminates in the Bursiing Shell Upon the Air Target Described by NOEL THOMPSON ONE vital section of our aerial defences has received very little public attention. So little, in fact, that while I am an omnivorous reader of the daily and weekly papers, I can call to mind only about half a dozen mentions of their work. ...

... POLAND STILL LIVES ON .|HHI Angers, lis New Capital on the Maine River in France By HARRY J. GREENWALL WHEN the German and Austro-Hungarian Empires fell into ruins, and the Poles began to carve out an empire for themselves, I was an on looker at the commencement of the foundation of the new Poland which, four months ago, fell in its turn. When during the World War No. 1 little Serbia was wiped ...

... THE GREYHOUNDS t°Hfe MODERN ARMY I How the Bren-gun Carriers Have Become the Cavalry of To-day THE artillery of 1939 has found its running shoes at last. Modern field guns, of all calibres save the largest, are almost as mobile as modern motor cars, thanks to the develop ment of outsize pneumatic tyres and of ball bearings, as well as of caterpillar tracks and haulage tractors. Light guns are ...

... PHILIP PAGE ON THE THEATRE Keeping Politics Out of Entertainments Lady Precious Stream at the Kingsway IT would, perhaps, have been pleasant in these days to be able to cherish Christmas pantomime as something in which war and international politics are not permitted to put in their unwelcome and (to my mind) unfunny appearance. But, of course, a vast number of Christmas pantomimes will have ...

... AFTER LADY ANNE HOPE'S MARRIAGE The groom, Lieut. P. H. J. Southby, R.N.; the bride; and the bride's sister, Lady Joan Hope 'The Lady Anne Hope is the eldest of the three daughters of Their Excellencies the Viceroy of India and the Marchioness of Linlithgow. On November 6, Lady Anne was married to Lieut. P. H. J. Southby, R. N., younger son of Sir Archibald Southby, M.P., and Lady Southby, of ...

... Six Pictures which Only Indirectly Relate to the War) LINKING UP THE ISLANDS OF THE OUTER HEBRIDES Up in the far north west corner of Britain the problem of communications is an acute one; so sparse are the inhabitants that the rates cannot bear the burden of new roads and bridges. The former are often in a state of the acutest decay, and the latter are often of the most primitive nature. ...

... THE ALLIED AIR FORCE COMES INTO BEING A Little-known Chapter of Air History, Which Illuminates the Position To-day T he War in the Air Described by CHARLES G. GREY (formerly Editor of The Aeroplane THE announcement that an Allied Air Force commanded by a British officer is to be formed in France raises a number of interesting and possibly difficult questions. The official informa tion, which ...

... THE WAR BY SEA. SHIPWRECKED CREW RESCUED BY LIFEBOAT The Newcastle steamship Dairy an of 4,500 tons, struck a mine about 6 miles off the south-east coast a few days ago. She sank slowly in full view of watchers on the pier and promenade of a seaside resort. All thirty-eight members of the crew, together with a pilot who was on board, were brought ashore safely by lifeboat; and here the latter, ...

... WOMEN IN THE WORKSHOPS Preparing for Positions in the British and French Munitions Industries WORKING SIDE BY SIDE WITH THE MEN This picture was taken at the factory of one of the largest optical instrument makers in the country at present engaged upon contracts for the Ministry of Supply. Here are made such instruments as binoculars, telescopes, photographic lenses and other scientific ...

... THE MINE THREAT TO ALL SEA-BORNE CRAFT The Various Types of Explosive Eggs Now Being Empl oyed Described by FRANK BOWEN MINING, which has been the pet weapon of the German Navy since its earliest days, succeeded in sinking more Allied ships than any other method during the late war, so that it is not surprising that it is being used to an unprecedented extent in the present struggle. The ...

... Cl/^ LITIM/^ TLJC TAMI/C Smoke as an Invaluable Screen In War: I I I1 I I IN I ll lZ I A INI J i Increasing Speed as an Asset of Attack THE ASSET OF SPEED ONE OF THE NEW BRITISH TANKS MAKES A RAPID TURN Speed of advance would undoubtedly add to the power of a massed movement. The overpowering noise of the tanks' mechanisms, the dust and smoke from the guns, will produce an accumulative effect ...

... PLANNING TO DEFEAT THE TANK The New Science Which Is Rapidly Being Developed To Halt This Newest Menace In the Field OBSTACLES to the TANK AS the war progresses we are beginning to see how far tactics at sea and in the air, developed since the last war, are proving correct. Despite manoeuvres and lengthy tests it tikes actual experience to prove whether theories which seem flawless are, in ...