... THE QUARTER LATIN IN WAR-TIME French Students Revisit Ancient Haunts of Learning and -With British Airmen on Leave -Seek Dis traction from War at the Bookshops and Stalls IN FRONT OF THE PANTHEON IN THE QUARTIER LATIN A student returns to the once familiar streets by the Seine and wanders through them with his relatives and friends. Behind them is the huge domed building which houses the ...

... A BOW VIEW OF H.M.S. ARK ROYAL AS SHE ARRIVED AT PORTSMOUTH FOR REVICTUALLING AND REFUELLING. THE WHITE ENSIGN STILL FLOATS ABOVE HER FLIGHT DECK: Reported sunk by the Nazi wireless, H.M.S. Ark Royal has just returned home for refuelling and revictualling. Lying at her berth at Portsmouth, the huge aircraft-carrier presents a picture of grim efficiency in her war-time coat of grey. No battle ...

... FROM SURRENDERED TERRITORIES ON THE KARELIAN ISTHMUS AND THE HANGOE PENINSULA EVACUATING THE KARELIAN ISTHMUS When the stunning news of the cession of the Karelian Isthmus broke upon the Finns, a great trek began of both the Army and the inhabitants of the district which had been so courageously defended. Long processions of horsed sleighs proceeded northwards, bearing goods of all kinds, ...

... A GERMAN ARTIST'S WORK DEDICATED IN WESTMINSTER ABBEY The great Biblical candelabrum, which was recently presented to the Abbey by an anonymous donor and has now been dedicated by the Dean. This magnificent example in bronze, representing thirty-two figures from the Old Testament, is 6 ft. high and 7 ft. wide and was exhibited at the Royal Academy last year and judged to be of great artistic ...

... Members of a Naval Minesweeper Crew Carrying Ammunition lo the Gun The British Navy is still keeping the seas clear, and this fact is proved by the recent Admiralty announcement that not a single British or Allied ship was sunk in one whole week. The latest weapon of the Nazis the magnetic mine is being defeated by the magnificent and untiring efforts of the men aboard the minesweepers, whose ...

... PANORAMA of the WEEK (AR-TIME SCENES on SEA and LAND I RESCUED BY THE BRITISH SUBMARINE UNITY AFTER SIX DAYS IN AN OPEN BOAT This was the incident referred to by Mr. Churchill in his broadcast record of the sea war on Saturday. The Dutch fishing vessel Protinus had been bombed and machine-gunned and eight of the crew had been left adrift in an open boat. They were rescued by the British Navy ...

... The Terrific Baffles of 1914-15 and the Siege Operations of 1 939-40 set out in Comparative Tables 1914-15 Towards the end of the first six months of the Great War, the Western line extending from Verdun to the sea had become fixed, and although this picture was taken a little later, it typifies the mud and dirt of actual fighting condi tions. These men were moving up to trenches which might ...

... NOTHING TO REPORT But the War Goes on all Down the Line By HARRY J. GREENWALL THE other day, after I had addressed an informal meeting on various aspects of the war, the chairman, without reference, invited members of the audience to put questions to me. I wonder what's coming now, I thought to myself. Yet the trend of the questions set me thinking, because I discovered that people are puzzled ...

... Encountered by the Contraband Control in Neutral and Enemy Vessels NEATLY TIED BUNDLES OF BARK A naval search party is examining the cargo of a vessel which has been detained at a Contraband Control Station. The work is carried out as speedily as possible. Here a cargo of bark was being examined. Above on left is the Minister of Economic Warfare. Mr. Ronald Hibbert Cross 2>ACKS FULL OF ...

... AIRCRAFT IN H.M. SHIPS The Navy's Own Air Force Described by FRANK C. BOWEN CONTRARY to general belief, the Fleet Air Arm does not control all the aircraft which are used at sea; the coastal patrol flying boats which have done such gallant work convoying merchantmen and attacking German submarines are, for instance, under the Royal Air Force. The Navy is only concerned with the planes which ...

... Politicians and the Air Cannon A Little Gentle Criticism By CHARLES G. GREY (Founder of The Aeroplane THIS queer war has upset all calculations. We were fairly well prepared for a blitzkrieg, and then, as an intelligent young working woman remarked, the Germans let us down. So for six months we have had every chance of increasing our protective forces. Sir Kingsley Wood made some quite ...

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