... THE B.E.F. COMES ASHORE Scenes at a South-east Coast Port HOME AT LAST With the quays packed with naval vessels lying moored three deep, further vessels continue to arrive full of troops from Flanders. These men are getting their first sight of England after withstanding almost superhuman hardships in their long battle TRANSFERRING FROM SHIP TO SHIP A contingent of the B.E.F. passing from one ...

... WATCHING A WIDE STRETCH OF COUNTRY FOR ANY SIGN OF ENEMY ACTIVITY: The first weeks of intensive war on the Western Front produced a type of warfare which entailed a watchfulness on the part of the defence of a quality hitherto unknown. The depth of the vulnerable zone was increased by the new technique. The heavy attack from the air had to be met by a countervailing move by the air fighters of ...

... ISBEBMOUR OF ■■Qur navy A Special Sphere Section Dealing with the Im portant Question of Armour Protection By FRANK BOWEN THE first two problems which confront the naval architect who is designing a man-of-war are the best means of permitting his ship to get at the enemy, and to sink her when she has made contact, but the third is to keep the ship herself afloat, and this side of the design ...

... THE NAVY DEFENDS ITSELF FROM THE AIR A Varied Armament for Varied Needs THE recent sinking of a number of British men- of-war of the smaller types by enemy aircraft, and constant enemy air attacks on warships and merchant ships of all classes, has naturally had a tendency to make many laymen ask whether the Navy is adequately provided with anti-aircraft defence for itself and the ships in its ...

... THE RESCUE of the B.E.F. The Epic of Dunkerque and the Corunna Line m v/ii i i THE EVACUATION TRIANGLE THROUGH WHICH THE ALLIED ARMY OF THE NORTH RETREATED TO DUNKERQUE The area of the great rearguard fight Is here shown between the lines extending from the Nleuport-Dlxmude arc south wards through Ypres to Armentieres, then north westwards to the Cassel ridge, for which the Germans made such ...

... BOULOGNE'S GREAT STORY How the Last Soldiers and the Demolition Party Were Carried to Safety by Some Ten Destroyers IN a week of stirring deeds the great evacuation from Dunkirk is apt to overshadow everything else. We must not, however, let go unrecorded the brilliant work of the Navy and a demolition party, who had to examine the possibilities of holding Boulogne. A combined party of sea men ...

... NARVIK TOWN CAPTURED A Cleverly Executed Operation by Allied Forces in which 300 Germans Were Captured and the Rest DriyepL ,Btl^rd ■I 'w THE BRITISH STATION AT HARSTAD BOMBED: Harstad, a position on one of the outer islands just to the north of Ofoten Fiord, where certain of our ships have forgathered, was visited from time to time by German planes operating from advanced Norwegian bases. H M ...

... LONDON'S WAR-TIME FIRE-FIGHTERS The Work of the Men and Women Who Form the Capital's Fire Defence Organisation By NOEL THOMPSON IT has taken 728 years for history to repeat itself so far as one item of the fire-fighting defences of London is concerned. Circumstances and scale are, of course, unimaginably different, but the repe tition remains. In 1212, owing to the risk of fire, it was decreed ...

... THE WOUNDED COME HOME AS WELL AS THE FIT HIS ARM IS IN A SLING AND HIS TROUSERS SEEM TO HAVE BEEN SPRAYED WITH SPLINTERS, BUT THIS MEMBER OF THE B.E.F. IS FULL OF VIM THEY HAD A SMILE FOR ANYONE ON THE PLATFORM AT THE RAILWAY STATIONS AT WHICH THE TRAINS PULLED UP THE R.A.M.C. WAS IN ATTENDANCE AT THE STATIONS AND SOON THE SCISSORS AND LINT WERE IN EVIDENCE A DRINK AND AN APPLE REQUIRE SOME ...

... BRITAIN WELCOMES THE B.E.F. Ministering to the Welfare of Ihe Heroes of Flanders ESS? Z-- >aa iw--i _J-- IL v $8@£5&SI AT A BARN ADJOINING A STATION All the available villagers turned out to lend a willing hand in preparing meals for the hungry and thirsty men as train load after train load stopped for a few moments at this village station SANDWICHES BY THE THOUSAND: As fast as these women ...

... RESCUED FROM THE GERMANS: British Dockyard for Completion A SMART PIECE OF WORK BY THE DUTCH AND BRITISH NAVIES AND TUG- MASTERS When the German onslaught broke upon Holland there was in a Dutch naval construction yard a cruiser in the half-constructed stage. When the situation in Holland became very threatening it was realised that this Dutch warship must not be allowed to fall into enemy ...

... I THE RETURN OF THE r r f pi |p Scenes En Route D.t.r. from Manders and rrance: to Home Stations Jjk-\ „r,' --V v A FLYING OFFICER WAS AMONG THE RETURNED: HE CARRIED HIS FLYING HELMET AND OVERALLS DISHEVELLED AND TIRED, THE MEN COULD GIVE A CHEERY REPLY TO THEIR WELL WISHERS AS THEY PASSED THROUGH WAYSIDE STATIONS THIS GROUP OF THE RETURNED FROM FLANDERS AND FRANCE WERE IN MERRY MOOD WHEN THEY ...