... I I w V _ I no II tLuwiu UI iiianvAuvi c nuo guai aniccu UJ mc aci upiallco Ul L II (J r ICC I nirnrill The NAVY Sweeps the MEDITERRANEAN Eighteen Hundred Miles Swept Clear of Enemy Craft, During Recent Operations by the Royal J^lavy AIRCRAFT-CARRIERS ASSIST THE ROYAL NAVY IN ITS HUGE SWEEP OF ITALIAN WATERS: in its 1,800 miles sweep just concluded, Britain's Mediterranean Fleet was assisted ...

... BRITAIN TO^ HAVE pHE great Belgian highway, which is one of the remarkable 1 man-made features of the country, is well described by Captain Owen Tweedy in his By Way of the Sahara, a volume in which he describes his journey in a small car from Rejaf to Algiers. The route goes by way of Aba to Buta which is a great central position for African traffic. The Belgians are justly proud, writes ...

... AIR COMMENTARY BY CHARLES G. GREY (Founder of The Aeroplane) The JTuisance Bomber must be Beaten in the Workshops Here are some of the Methods Already in Operation to Achieve this MORE and more, week by week, the fact is being driven into the people of this country that this is a man-hour war. And the Germans know it. The nation which can keep up the man-hours worked in its armament ...

... LONDON'S TWO GREAT CATHEDRALS DAMAGED The High Altar at St. Paul's Destroyed and the Henry VII Chapel Damaged by Bombs A WINDOW OF WESTMINSTER ABBEY DAMAGED BY BOMB BLAST: The leaded glass of this window was pock marked from top to bottom by splinters and by blast 'The guardians of London's historic buildings have been having some anxious nights recently for it is evident that the German ...

... YY/herever practicable, traffic at night was maintained throughout London even during some of the raids. Buses and trams continued to run. until the sound of firing indicated that the raiders were actually overhead. It is not surprising, therefore, to witness such sights as the above. Although some people were caught in public conveyances and private cars, the wonder is that there were not ...

... IN RAMSGATE TO-DAY Life in Britain's Most Heavily Bombed Town T IFE goes on in Ramsgate-- Britain's worst bombed but I in some ways safest town. With over 500 H.F.. bombs dropped during one raid alone, the people of Ramsgate are determined to see it through to the end, despite that Mr. H. R. Knickerbocker, the distinguished American journalist who recently visited the town, has stated that no ...

... Invasion Distance Problems Set Forth. The New R.A.F. Incendiary Weapon. The Prime Minis ter's Speech Geo graphically Set Forth WHY THE AREA, DUNKIRK TO BOULOGNE, WAS HEAVILY BOMBED Last week-end the coastal area between Dunkirk and Boulogne was strafed by the R.A.F. with one of the heaviest aerial bom bardments yet undertaken by that force. Barge concentrations at Zeebrugge, Dunkirk, Calais ...

... HITLER BOMBS SICK CHILDREN Destruction at the Children's Hospital, Great Ormonde Street ome along, we re going to take you out to see the searchlights. Behind those calm, smiling words, uttered by nurses and staff of the Hospital for Sick Children, London, to a group of some 46 little children is yet another story of men and women upon whom naturally falls the mantle of heroes and heroines ...

... THE PRIME MINISTER iN THE BOMBED AREA A Picture Taken During His Visit to the Dockland Area and the Raided East End Streets Mr. Winston Churchill paid a visit to the Dockland area of London which had been heavily bombed by the German raiders at the opening of the week. Pressure of business had kept him in Downing Street until the early evening, when he set out on an informal tour of Dockland. ...

... This remarkable picture was taken from the roof of a newspaper building in Gray's Inn Road whilst the great Dock land fire was at its height, in the early morning before dawn on Sunday, September 8. The whole of London was clearly visible so that the German bombers had little difficulty in finding their way to the capital. Had it not been for this, they would probably not have been able to ...

... FRENCH EQUATORIAL AFRICA The Vast Area in the Heart of the Black Continent which Has Now Come Under the Control of General de Gaulle Described by NEGLEY FARSON (Author of Behind God's Back(iust published by Goliancz), which Analyses Conditions and Life in this French Territory) ONLY one who has seen them in action can realise the bitterness with which the French officials in Equatorial Africa ...

... A.F.S. Auxiliary Fire Service The Auxiliary Fire Service employs a large number of women, not as taking the place of firemen, but to work in close connection with the fire service system, chiefly in the capa city of telephonists, an employment which often re quires great pluck and endurance. Those engaged in secretarial and tele phonic duties are equipped with a uniform, coat and skirt, others ...