... 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 ...

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... THE DEMILITARISED ISLANDS, AFTER BEING BOMBED AND MACHINE-GUNNED BY GERMAN PLANES ON JUNE 28-29, WERE OCCUPIED BY THE ENEMY ON JULY 1 AN AIR VIEW OF ST. HELIER HARBOUR, JERSEY: Both Jersey and Guernsey were bombed and machine-gunned on Friday and Saturday of last week. On the first day the inhabitants of Jersey in particular were totally unprepared for such a visitation and gazed up at the ...

... THE REWARD OF VALOUR-- OFFICERS AND SERGEANTS OF THE R.A.F. ON PARADE TO RECEIVE DECORATIONS FROM THE KING: His Majesty has iust completed a tour of over 100 miles, in the course of which he visited four R.A.F. Fighter Stations near London and decorated thirteen officers and two sergeant pilots who, between them, have accounted foi no fewer than 112 enemy machines. The average age of the men ...

... HIGHEST OF ALL BRAVE MEN- Mr. Winston Churchill T he King's Tour of Fighter Units During the Course of which He Decorated R.A.F. Pilots Who, Together, Have Brought Down 11 2 Machines THE D.S.O. FOR SQUADRON-LEADER JAMES ANTHONY LEATHART This officer flew a trainer aircraft to Calais Marck aerodrome to rescue a Squadron-Commander who had been shot down there but was uninjured. Whilst taking ...

... WHENCE COMES OUR IRON ORE? The Extent to Which Our Own Supplies Have to Be Met From External Sources By EDWIN H. JUDD IN this super-mechanical war, with its warships and merchant vessels, its tanks, munitions and guns absorbing millions of tons of steel, the question of the iron and steel supplies is of paramount import ance. Where does it all come from, and where are the sources of our own ...

... FRANCE'S GREAT COLONIAL EMPIRE A First Survey of the Varied Lands and Peoples She has Controlled During all the Previous Vicissitudes of Europe THE GREAT SAHARAN BLOC This scene at Colom Bechar is typical of hundreds of Arab towns under French control in an area of millions of square miles of desert. Below is Timbuktu in the southern territory The Great Bloc Africain, Madagascar arid Syria ...

... Some of the Problems of Air Defence by Night which he is Gallantly Tackling. Specially Illustrated for this Section Described by NOEL THOMPSON O O O IT is inevitable that as night raids by bombers continue and increase, the public will hurry eagerly to their early editions of the evening papers or the early wireless bulletins to discover how many of the raiders have been brought down. And it ...

... Britain's Air Defence by Night The Night Fighter's Problems and How He is Tackling Them Compare that with the fact that no German fighter has brought down a British bomber at night during our hundreds of raids over Germany. I I have not in this article dealt with the most important defence against night raids, the anti-aircraft fire. That is a subject on its own and we can trust ours to keep ...