... REALISATION COMES TO NORWAY'S CAPITAL: The first hours and days In Oslo presented some extraordinary scenes. At first, the fact that Germany had actually invaded their country seemed scarcely realised, Norway having been so long inured in the ways of peace. Then realisation came and large numbers of the citizens poured out into the countryside. There were runs upon the banks one such is shown ...

... I lie postage stamp was born in May, 1840. An exhibition in aid of the A Red Cross held in the London Museum replaces the International Exhibition at Earl's Court planned in peace-time. In 1840, 76.000,000 letters were posted to-day the number is twenty times greater. A century ago people were busy cutting slits in their front doors for this new-fangled idea. Until the Id. post was introduced ...

... Whatever plans you may be nourishing for the home this summer let them include some measures for making the lighting system a more perfect one. Perhaps you have been putting up with makeshift measures. Many have, and the worst of these have been dimmed lights. The problem of making windows completely light-proof has encouraged the use of electric lamps less powerful than one would normally ...

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... A WAR NEWSLETTER-No. xxxm 32-34, St. Bride Street, B.C. 4 IN NARVIK FIORD The first and the latest important releases of the truth of the great naval battle off (and for) Norway related to Narvik. Both called for reckless gallantry on the part of our Navy and Air Forces, both proved terribly expen sive to Germany, which, in Hitler's mad adventure, has lost in Narvik alone ten destroyers and ...

... SYMBOLS OF ENDURANCE War, Export and Home Production Since 1885, through crises and wars, depressions and good times, the Avon Company has continued to contribute its full share towards the evolution and development of Tyres and General Rubber Goods. Today the Company is proud to use its resources in furthering the common task, and the demands of His Majesty's Government receive absolute ...

... Little lives, once sad, may, with your help, be lifted up where brightness shall follow gloom, and laughfer take the place of tears. 5000 children now in our care. ...

... CAPTAIN B. A. W. WARBURTON-LEE, who com manded the destroyers which attacked the German flotilla in Narvik Fiord on April .10 and who died in H.M.S. Hardy after the brilliant action which was the prelude to the further action led bv H.M.S. IVarspite. Captain Warburton-Lee assumed com mand of the 2nd Destroyer Flotilla last July and next month he would have completed thirty years' service in ...

... fHE Air Force take part in the Norwegian Battles Special Sphere Drawings |nd Official Photographs vMright-- AIR FORCE AND NORWEGIAN NAVY CO OPERATE This picture was taken by a Royal Air Force aeroplane near Bergen on April 9. It shows a Norwegian gunboat rounding up suspect ships to establish their identity. The gunboat is the third vessel from the bottom of the picture I WEDNESDAY, APRIL 10-- ...

... WILL SWEDEN BE THE NEXT? The Upheaval in Scandinavia is Full of Menace for Her IF Sweden were swung round with its southern most point as the pivot, it would stretch all the way across Europe to Naples. Whilst the length of the country from top to toe is no less than 980 miles --corresponding to the distance from Newcastle to Madrid-- it is only just over 300 miles in breadth. This elongated ...

... FIGHTING IN THE CLOUDS: aO FZL1 --SPECIAL SPHERE SECTION Daytime Changes in Wind and How They Come About. Turbulence in the lower layers of air is responsible for a diurnal change in both the speed and direction of wind. During the day, turbulence is active. The wind at, say, 1,000 ft. gives up some of its momentum to the wind near the ground which, consequently, increases in speed, reaching a ...

... THE MAKING of a BIG GUN jjg^ How the Navy is Supplied With Its Mighty Weapons of Offence THE chief problem facing a manufacturer of big guns is the obvious one of sup plying his customers with weapons which will hit their enemies at ranges beyond which their enemies can hit back. In order to propel a shell farther than hereiofore, a greater propellant force must be let off behind it. Since the ...