... WAITING TO EMBARK AT A SCOTTISH PORT: Members of the British Expeditionary Force to Norway waiting to embark for their journey to Norway. Since this picture was taken, the British Forces, including Canadian troops, have landed at Romsdals Fiord, south-west of Trondheim. Another British force which landed at Namsos, 80 miles north of Trondheim, heavily defeated a German detachment sent from ...

... The IRON MOUNTAINS of SWEDEN The Importance of Tfarvik, 7T.ow in British Occupation; and of the Railway Line to GeUivare and Kiruna LITERALLY, they're iron mountains. Borings prove the deposits extend to a depth of 1,000 ft. beneath the dark surface of the lake and its flanking mountains. The 40,000,000 tons of ore removed represents a fraction of the deposit. Local experts estimate that there ...

... Britain Takes Over The Faroes Denmark's Fopd Commandeered Belgium Uses Old German Defences THE CHIEF TOWN OF THE FAROE ISLANDS: The First Lord of the Admiralty announced last week that the Faroe Islands had been taken over by Great Britain for the duration of the war. Subse quent news told of the pleasant way In which this little operation had taken place. The Faroe Islands, though fully ...

... THE SELECTION COMMITTEE OF THE ROYAL ACADEMY BEGIN THEIR TASK OF CHOOSING PICTURES FOR THE FIRST WAR-TIME ACADEMY For the Summer Exhibition opening on May 6 the Selection Committee have begun to choose the pictures at Burlington House. There is now a marked war atmosphere about the Academy. Many of the younqer painters, men and women alike, are engaged on war work and several of the leading ...

... 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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