... THE FRUSTRATION OF AN ENEMY HOPE The Fleet Air Arm Bomb a Big New German Gun Emplacement Cut in the Chalk Cliffs of Calais It has for long been a boast of the Germans that, when the Channel ports were in their hands, Britain would be bombarded by land guns. Well, the Channel ports are in their hands; at Calais the enemy hastened on with the work of building new gun emplacements in the chalk ...

... A WAR NEWSLETTER- -No. XLIV 32-34, St. Bride Street, E.C.4 THE LAST DOUBLE-CROSS. --One or two Empire journals gave us in the first moment of complete disillu sion at the Bordeaux treachery this one grain of comfort. We have reached the end of one kind of bad news. We have reduced the number of our European nigger-boys (those allies who swore solemn oaths to fight by our side to the last, only ...

... rT>he. national response to the L.D.V. movement has been remarkable for its wide spread character and the in tensity of feeling underlying the outward signs of drills, practices and marches. It is evident that the Govern ment has here an assurance of the determination of the people to resist invasion at all costs THE USEFULNESS OF THE MOUNTED MAN IN ROUNDING UP PARACHUTISTS: I A mounted L.D.V ...

... In his review of the munitions and armament situation Mr. Herbert Morrison, the Minister of Supply, gave some remarkable figures of increases in output. The production of various types of tank has increased by 115 per cent., whilst other arms have been increasing by leaps and bounds. The pictures reproduced here were taken at an Army distributing centre, and show some of our latest tanks ...

... THE CONSTANT WATCH ON BRITAIN'S COAST An Anti-tank Crew on Guard on the Foreshore When, last week, Germany's leader summoned Great Britain to capitulate to his will, the reply of this country was one of definite and complete defiance, with an immediate intensification of our determination to resist every effort he can make against this sea-girt land. At every point the front line watchers, the ...

... Barfolomeo Colleoni by H.M.A.S. Sydney AN OVERHEAD VIEW OF H.M.A.S. SYDNEY (6,830 TONS), ON WHICH THERE WERE NO CASUALTIES The view shows the four bow guns of the cruiser which did such good execution. Our forces, says the official communique, rescued no fewer than 545 men from the Colleoni, including the Captain. Our ships were bombed by the Italian Air Force while carrying out this ...

... NEWS of FRANCE Scenes at Bordeaux and the French Legation in London DHMBHBM1 Ml I IIIBI-- r |-1M M. CORBIN SITS FOR THE LAST TIME AT HIS DESK IN THE ALBERT GATE HOME OF THE EMBASSY n i 4 fB M. Corbin is 58. He is here seen seated under a portrait of the Due de Broglie, Ambassador to London in the early '70's and twice Premier of France. It was on June 27 that it was announced that M. Corbin ...

... THE BRITISH ARM TRAINS FOR DEFENCE --AND OFFENCE THE ARMY TAKES AN ACTIVE These circular masses of wire are slender and tenuous- PART IN PREPARING looking, but it is advisable not to try to rush them one nppPMr_c 0 D.OBC u#idc wi be held up in a n'6^tmare tangle. Below-- The coils of ucrcMV-O Ur bAKBtu WIKt wire are being spread out over a wide stretch of meadow land THE VERY USEFUL ART The ...

... I I Go fo fhe Soufh- East Coast Noel Thompson Discovers a Marvellous Sang-froid Among the Inhabitants of Britain's Front Line A TERRIFIC crackrrrumph which seemed to last about three seconds hurled me out of my afternoon nap, and in a flash I was on my hotel balcony wondering what had caused it. It was not a bomb, and the low scudding clouds made anti-aircraft fire out of the question. I ...

... ^AL DEFENCE LuSprealk Through the Country RAILWAY STAFFS HAVE JOINED THE L.D.V.s Employees of the L.N.E.R. have joined the local L.D.V. corps and are becoming proficient in the use of the rifle. This little station has certainly never before witnessed such a scene as this TO GAIN A SPECIAL KNOWLEDGE OF HOW TO STOP A BABY TANK L.D.V.s are being coached by experts who went through the Spanish ...

... WAR on the AFRICAN SEABOARD The Strange and Varied Features of the Desert Plateau Country which Stretches Along the Mediterranean Coast A DEEP GULLY CUT INTO THE DESERT SURFACE, SEEN BY MOONLIGHT FLAT-TOPPED HILLS SPRING SUDDENLY FROM THE GENERAL LEVEL OF THE DESERT: The strata underlying the desert surface is .generally horizontal, and where these sudden hills occur the harder capping on the ...

... CONSIDERATIONS of in vasion have revived public interest in the Martello towers of England, but it is odd that recent accounts of them have mostly omitted to mention the east coast. The towers in Essex and Suffolk were quite as important as those in Kent and Sussex because they were built on a slightly larger plan. even if not so numerous. Possibly the south coast Martellos are better known ...