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... THE Depth-Charge Nightmare of the Submarine Described by LIEUT.-COMMANDiER EDGAR P. YOUNG (R.N., Retired) THE now familiar depth-charge was one of the new weapons introduced into the naval service during the last war, and is, like the mine, handled by the Torpedo Department. It is, in effect, a submarine bomb, and is used for attacking submarines when they are submerged and are invulnerable to ...
... ON THE WESTERN LINE WITH BRITISH AND INDIAN TROOPS: Variefy of Weathers 306-- SPECIAL SECTION-- THE EMPIRE'S EFFORT THE INDIAN AUXILIARY TRANSPORT ON THE WESTERN LINE IS INSPECTED BY THE SECRETARY OF STATE FOR WAR Accompanying the fine body of Punjabi Moslems now in the French lines and an inseparable part of the picture are the mules which both carry loads on the back and draw light army ...
... t Guarding the French JH Coast 7hE FRENCH LISTENING EARS are different to ours. They look more like a pair of wings or bellows. Two men operate the instrument, which is placed on a movable turn-table mechanism of some complexity THE FRENCH COASTAL DEFENCE SYSTEM is a branch of the French Navy. The officers are regular officers, but the personnel differs completely from that of the crew of a ...
... OPERA and REVUE The Barber of Seville at Sadler's Wells and a New Edition of Black Velvet at the Hippodrome ROSSINI'S masterpiece, The Barber of Seville, has. I think, been given at Sadler's Wells already, but last week saw an entirely new decor, and a good one, by Mr. Powell Lloyd, who also plays the small part of Fiorello. The performance was very jolly. Professor Dent makes the best of a ...
... WHAT IS BEHIND HITLER'S STAND-STILL POLICY? We May Soon Know the Answer to This Question We Are Prepared. (The Strategy of the War XXIV.) By GENERAL SIR CHARLES HARINGTON, G.C.B., G.B.E., D.S.O., D.C.L. IT was always impressed on us by instructors at the Staff College that before one starts to write on any subject one must always say to oneself, What is my main object? and then stick to it. ...
... As far as is known at present, no less than 2,196 Barnardo Old Boys have answered the call of King and Country. They are distributed in the various forces, even in the South African and Canadian Navies and in the Mercantile Marine, thus helping to guard the 8,250 little boys and girls which the homes constantly maintain. Of the three Barnardo Old Boys stationed on H.M.S. Royal Oak, two were ...
... A WAR NEWSLETTER --No. XXVII 32-34, St. Bride Street, E.C.4 Wednesday, March 6, 1940 PALESTINE BLUNDER?-- I cannot imagine a harder decision than that which faced Mr. MacDonald and the Government over the question of the Palestine land transfers. The effect is that in certain areas the Arabs may sell no more land to non-Arabs, which means the further curtailment of such Jewish immigration as ...
... EVENTS AT HOME DRAW CROWDS OF SIGHTSEERS AND SOME INCIDENTS FROM THE WEEK'S NEWS AT SEA CAMBRIDGE WINS THE FIRST WAR- TIME BOAT RACE Crowds lined the sunlit banks of the Thames at Henley when Cambridge beat Oxford by five lengths. In this view the boats have just passed the winning-post flags, the time for the race being 9 mins. 28 sees. Oxford had the faster stroke but Cambridge the greater ...
... WHEN THE DEPTH-CHARGE EXPLODES I he Method of Launching the Charge and the Terrific Force of the Ensuing Explosion HOW THE MURDEROUS U-80AT IS BEINO HUNTED DOWN. BRITISH DESTROYERS METHODICALLY COMBING A GIVEN AREA WITH THEIR TREMENDOUS UNDERWATER BOMBS Against a modern destroyer, equipped with every device of destruction, the submarine (except in the rarest and luckiest circumstances) is ...
... COMRADES IN ARMS Australians, New Zealanders, and Indians Rally to the Empire's Cause TDeforc I left London, said Mr. Eden, his Majesty charged me to repeat to you at the moment of your arrival his congratulations for the safe accomplishment of your journey and his best wishes for your future welfare. It is my privilege on behalf of his Majesty's Government and every section of the people of ...
... The Canadian Airmen arrive Captain H. H. Balfour, Air Under-Secretary, said that the arrival of the Contingent gave the world just one more sign of the fact that as the months of war went on our united effort got stronger and stronger towards the achievement of the task which was common to every one of them. We are very glad to have your help and your support, he said hut remember that we are ...
... ORGANISERS OF THE WORLD'S WAR NEWS The Astonishing Organisation by which News is Collected, Dispatched and Teleprinted Instantaneously in Distant Capitals a Comparison of Reuters' and the B.B.C.'s Listening and Broadcasting Systems By NOEL THOMPSON EACH day ninety years ago a stream of pigeons would fly wearily into the lofts of a small and undistinguished-looking house at Aix-la-Chapelle. A ...