... Above The battleship Scharnhorst top right the battleship Gneisenau. Both these vessels have been sunk the first by H.M.S. Renown, and the second by shore batteries in Oslo Fiord. On the right the armoured ship, Admiral Scheer-- not definitely claimed by the Admiralty as sunk, but so severely damaged by H.M. Submarine Spearfish that she will be out of the war for a long time. These three ...

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... The BOMBING of STAVANGER Official Photograbhs of the German- occubied Aerodrome and Seaplane Base Continuously Bombed by the R.A.F. by Day and Night THE SEAPLANE BASE AT STAVANGER, PHOTOGRAPHED BY THE ROYAL AIR FORCE Stavanger has the best and most modern aerodrome in Norway with, alongside, a seaplane base. Presumably it was to be used as a base for attacks on Britain by the Germans. The ...

... Mr. Winston Churchill The light metal of the Navy has had a terrific ten days off the Norwegiat coast since the German forces swooped unannounced on a neighbouring state News has come of several specific actions necessary to rout out the Germar forces from the fiords which they seized early last week, but in additior to these operations, constant naval action proceeded up and down wide ...

... NORWAY'S CAPITAL At the Head of an 80-Mile Gulf and Backed by Innumerable Lakes WOODED SLOPES ARE BROKEN BY BARE HEADLANDS on the way up the 80-mile gulf to Oslo harbour and city. The form of the inner portion is very irregular. Here on a bare rocky spit is a cable station on Oslo Fiord THE VISITOR BY WATER TO OSLO first catches a glimpse of the city through two low converging headlands. From ...

... I The NAVY'S LEADERS And the Three Principal Leaders of 7\[orway FIRST LORD OF THE ADMIRALTY-- the rt. hon WINSTON LEONARD SPENCER CHURCHILL, P.C., C.H., who has been a prominent figure since his first election to Parliament in 1900. During the last war he also held hioh office First Lord from 1911--15 Minister of Muni tions 1917 War Secretary and Secretary for Air, 1918-1921. During the years ...

... Clouds Used As Cover-- and Discussed IN the early days of aviation successful flights were largely due to favourable weather. Pilots had still to learn by experience how to circumvent perils of wind and cloud besetting their frail machines, and there was no meteorological service to give them accurate reports on weather conditions on their routes. Flying through thick clouds is the most fear ...

... FIGHTING in ie CLOUDS Some Actual Examples from Recent Communiqi ,f the Use of Cloud of R.A.F. Combafs A Special Article By NOEL THOMPSON IN the last war there were many stories of the skill of flying aces such as Ball, Bishop and McCudden in using clouds as cover for attacks on, or escape from, the enemy. In their comparatively light and slow machines they could circle and gain height rapidly ...

... NOW WE CAh USE NORWAY'! GEOGRAPHY The Strategy of the War i Turn with Germany's Invasio ie Air Takes a Definite New f the Scandinavian Countries By CHARLES G. GREY (Founder of The Aeroplane GERMANY'S occupation of Denmark and of bits of Norway, and the virtual conquest of Sweden, open up some interesting problems in air war, and pose some aero-political puzzles which will take a lot of ...

... Peaceful Interests in a War-' wracked World Building up a VCBig Library A Oreat and Sincere Journalist A REPRESENTATIVE LIBRARY.-- It is not a time at which it is wise to increase one's possessions or to anchor oneself still more firmly to one's present house and manner of life. Rather, one should be acquiring greater mobility and sawing through the roots which hold us down or keen us fixed. ...