... 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 ...

... i, New Oxford Street, W.C.i. Ministerial Inquisition.-- The present Government has been long enough in office for each chief Minister, whether in or outside the Cabinet, to have furnished proofs of his ability. Everyone has had his own particular day in Parliament-- some have figured in the House as principals on many occasions. There has been plenty of time to test the merits of each ...

... ANOTHER TRANSPORT COMMAND DISASTER The wreckage of the Royal Canadian Air Force Dakota after it had crashed at Chelsham, near Caterham, Surrey, with the loss of nine lives. In the foreground is the smashed tail unit, and the greater part of the fuselage lies in the distance. The plane, which was bringing Army and R.A.F. personnel home from Germany, crashed into the side of an 800 ft. ridge, ...

... WHAT MAY HAPPEN IN THE PACIFIC ON MAY I, WHEN AMERICA STAGES THE ATOM BOMB TESTS :A diagrammatic impression of the scene as an atom bomb explodes above the surface of the water and in the midst of the shipping arrayed by the American Navy Department for its vital experiments, the outcome of which wil' doubtless determine the future of capital ships. As the detonation takes place it is expectea ...

... pearl Harbour, the scene of the devastating Japanese attack in December 1941, when America's Pacific might was crippled at one blow by the Japanese carrier-based onslaught, is to-day better equipped by far than at the time of the disaster, and remains, as ever, the focal point of American naval activity in the Pacific. Such was the rate of naval construction in the fifty months between July ...

... FRANCE HONOURS BRITISH SERVICE CHIEFS Field-Marshal Lord Alanbrooke, General Alphonse Juin, Admiral of the Fleet Lord Cunningham, M. Rene Massigli (French Ambassador in London), Marshal of the Royal Air Force Lord Portal and Marshal or the Koyal Air rorce bir Arthur Tedder at the ceremony in London at which General Juin, Chief of Staff of the French Committee of National Defence, conferred ...

... No sooner had the sub-committee of U.N.O., which had been touring the eastern seaboard in search of a permanent site, decided upon the New York-Connecticut tract than a flood of protests was at once forthcoming, largely from the wealthy estate owners living in this exclusive residential area. They gathered in a body at Greenwich High School and, with local tradesmen to back them up, they let ...

... One of the last mission carried out by the Scharn horsl was the inglorious attack on Spitzbergen. This was carried out on Sep tember 8, 1943. On that day a large German naval force comprising the Tirpitz and Scharnhorst, with a destroyer escort, raided the lonely Arctic outpost of Spitz bergen, 10 deg. from the North Pole. The two principal mining settlements Barentsberg and Longyear City, ...

... HOW much will the public want to use the air after the war? I doubt if one could find a question to which such widely divergent answers are given. One is launched upon a sky of specu lation, of assertion and counter-assertion. To listen to some, the post-war generation is going to leap into the skies. Look, you are told. how they are all trying to get into the Air Force. That shows. Others, ...

... It was not long after the initial landings that the whole of the Arawe Peninsula was cleared of Japs there after attacks by their aircraft were carried out on the American land forces, but with little effect, three of them being shot down out of the comparatively small number the enemy were able to send into action. The aircraft shown in this drawing, half-buried in the dense tropic vegetation ...

... A BRITISH DESTROYER'S HAUL A captured German l-boat after it had been sailed into tsrindisi Harbour under a prize crew. On the night of November 9-10, H.M.S. Quilliam and H.M.S. Raider, two destroyers of the Fourth Flotilla, intercepted a Siebel ferry with an escort of two German I-boats off Corfu. The ferry, containing ammunition, was blown up with Quilliam s third salvo, and the I-boats were ...

... THE decision of Mr. Ernest Bevin to direct youths from all walks of life into the coal mines on a ballot system has caused mixed feelings and given rise to conflicting opinions. On the face of it, as a means of getting more coal immediately and tiding us over the next few vital months, the scheme would appear to have little practical value. A speaker in the recent debate in the House of ...