... W.R.N.S. Women's Royal Naval Service Members of the Women's Royal Naval Ser vice are concerned entirely with shore establishments. The majority of them must be familiar with wire less telegraphy and be expert secre tarial assistants.' Numbers of W.R.N.s are en gaged in relieving staff at the Port of. London Authority and deal entirely with stores. Others work at tracing and map plotting, and ...

... THE KING IN TUNIS MEETS PAULINE BERTOLI, A YOUNG GIRL GUIDE WHO HAS BEEN AWARDED THE FRENCH CROIX DE GUERRE for hiding thirty Allied escaping prisoners jf war whilst the Germans were still in occupation of the city A mongst the many visits paid by the King during his North African and Mediterranean tour was one to the city of Tunis. As he drove in, the citizens had lined the streets to greet ...

... Dusseldorf after the Terrific Raid by the R.A.F. on June II A Panoramic Impression Built-up from Reconnaissance Photographs Imagine an area stretching from Blackfriars in the east to Chelsea in the west, from Hyde Park on the north to the Houses of Parliament on the south: that is the area covered in the above panoramic view of the city of Dusseldorf, where more than 1,000 acres are now known ...

... The long series of naval and air operations designed to exhaust the garrison of Pantellaria began with the establishment of a motor-torpedo-boat patrol off the island on the night of May 11-12. Nightly patrols of destroyers and motor craft were thereafter maintained-- arduous work for the personnel of the smaller craft. On May 13 the first bombardment of the island was carried out by the ...

... WHERE WILL THE NEXT BLOW FALL! Germany's Anxiety Over the Middle East and the Attitude of Turkey On June 15 the frontier between Syria and Turkey was closed, by order of the Middle East Command. Germany appeared apprehensive of this incident, wondering what it might portend. Ever since the Adana Conference last rebruary, when Mr. Churchill met the Turkish President, General Ismet Inonu, and ...

... Where the Fear of Invasion Grows Daily ONE OF THE MANY INDIGNITIES WHICH THE ITALIANS HAVE TO SUFFER. A German Military Commission inspects Italy's defences The supervision of their country by German officers however much it may be welcomed by Mussolini and his Fascist colleagues is greatly resented by the populace throughout the length of Italy. Many people have not hesitated to give ...

... AWAY FROM THESE WARS Memories and Thoughts of the Years Between --A Fortnightly Causerie By J. G. THE Aftermath of Strachey.-- It would be presumptuous of me to add anything to Max Beerbohm's Rede lecture on the writings of Lytton Strachey-- the considered opinions, born after due time, of one of our first literary critics and masters of prose style. Anything I might say would be in the nature ...

... [he Connoisseurs Comment! 8 w- r 55\J THE /to VERMOUTH jl^jj The Connoisseur appreciates 'S instantly the Bouquet of the vAc Genuine choice wines blended Ij5 into this true Vermouth. Here Ln is a choice and healthful aperi- !/s1r tif or with added ingredients p ...

... the night of October 10 a joint Naval and Air Force assault on Cherbourg took place with very great success. T he appearance of the British Navy on the scene was a surprise to the German shore batteries, who began to return fire, by which time the British Fleet had begun to increase the range and draw out to sea again. The power of the mighty guns was aided by the bombing aircraft of the R.A.F ...

... PHASES of fhe AIR WAR Diagrams and Pictures by Sphere Artists SERVICING THE GUNS ON A FIGHTER AIRCRAFT Armourers are here busy at work on the eight machine-guns In the wings. After every flight the armament is over hauled, adjusted and checked there must be no opportunity for error. As soon as the aeroplane lands It is at once refuelled and re-armed, ready for instant action the moment need ...

... The Mystery of the Rhine Front as It Was Seen by Gordon Waterfield, a Reuter Correspondent, and Described in His New Book, What Happened to France ONE of the most informa tive of the books upon the last days of the war in France and the conditions which led up to the collapse of Army and Government is entitled What Happened To France (John Murray). It is from the pen of Gordon Waterfield, of ...

... Held Uncertainly by the Weak Vichy Government, the Fate of Syria Hangs Momentarily in the Balance By ALAN HOUGHTON BRODRICK AS you fly westwards across the world's desert belt which is the zone of Islam, that religion of the sands, the only green hills you see from the Indian desert to the fields of Tunisia are those of the Lebanon, rising like an island from the tawny wastes. The mountainous ...