... I KNOW most golfers will be interested to hear that the big professional Red Cross drive in the United States of America, sponsored by the P.G.A. of America, is producing wonderful results and in the month of July, when a particularly big national effort was made, there was a fine response. I have not the total figures for that month, but the Challenge Match between the P.G. A. Ryder Cup team, ...

... THE somewhat tedious boys' classic about Rugby in the days of Dr. Arnold, the headmaster who pretty well invented the English public school system as we know it to-day, has been cut down and speeded up by four Hollywood authors and the result is on view at the New Gallery this week. Sir Cedric Hardwicke is stern and awe-inspiring as Arnold, Jimmy Lydon is the none too heroic Tom Brown, ...

... ND DRAMATIC NEWS &Ul CCeM JM/f/eX J af&Uf &UISS Friday, SEPTEMBER 6, 1940. (jfi The Illustrated JF^ j J j\l £j I I and DRAMATIC News The Farmers' Mounted Home Guard Watches Over Exmoor. (iniifmui-ntr- No. 349S VOL CLXVIII For oooditioru ol ude ad rapnbr o! ^^rti^MdD^aeNews, rS. Slfl4 ST BRIDE STREET LONDON r r For mmn feu. m rmatuplM. I U *w troumluiM In U Onlt* Xloidom. Bntorf u .toond oUn ...

... By Ashley Courtenay AIR raids, as most people have by now discovered, are not so much a frightening experience as an infernal nuisance, and when one does get a break from everyday routine it is but natural to seek not only an hotel with good beds, but one so situated that there is a reasonable chance of enjoying them un disturbed. For a whole blessed week, while the enemy has been busying ...

... Services in the. Swim THANKS to the enterprise of one of the Hofne Guard commanders in the Maidenhead district, the Army, the R.A.F. and the Home Guard got together for a triangular swimming contest at the All Services Club, Maidenhead. There Was a large crowd, the Services being there in force, keen sport and perfect weather, and the meeting, the first of its kind, was an unqualified success. ...

... 1 QH^ 4TCH AT THE SUEZ The Famous Ditch Which Italy Covets But Which Britain Will Continue To Guard TO the average seaman the Suez Canal is only The Ditch, but it is the main reason for Signor Mussolini acting as jackal for Hitler and drawing the Italian people into a war which can only prove disastrous to them. His policy, which has been somewhat reluctantly swallowed by a large ...

... ABOARD A BRITISH DESTROYER Where Space is Valuable, and Life is Very Cramped it mr m rTlhe destroyer to-day, as in the last war, is playing a vital and ever increasing part in keeping the seas clear for the British Empire, and making them dangerous for our enemies. Convoying and hunting down U-boats have hitherto been the main jobs, but if ever Hitler's armada sets sail, the destroyers will be ...

... The KING and the BOCHE BUSTER Seated on a Bench in a Shed, the King and Queen Watch a Demonstration of Heavy Artillery During Their Tour of the Northern Command Last week the King and Queen continued their series of visits to the great industrial areas of Britain. They visited, among other places, a famous ship-yard in the Nort'n-West, and the super-heavy Artillery School of the Northern ...

... THE MEN WHO BOMBED BERLIN: Reporting Their Successes to the Intelligence Officers on Their Return to Their Station The pictures reproduced here were taken at the R.A.F. Station whence the bomb raids of Berlin were carried out they show a proportion of the personnel who took part in the big attacks on the German capital and thus shattered the myth, so sedulously circulated throughout Germany, ...

... ITALY LOOKS with Covetous Eyes on ANCIENT GREECE and Its Modern Ports WHAT MAY BE TAUGHT, I LEARN; WHAT MAY BE FOUND, THAT I STILL SEEK FOR; WHAT MUST COME BY PRAYER, FOR THAT I ASK THE GODS _ Lines written by a great Greek IN April, 1939, Greece accepted the Allied guarantee of protection should she be wantonly attacked. Strengthened by this guarantee, and her alliance with Turkey, Greece ...

... BY CHARLES G. GREY THIS WAR WAS STARTED WITH AN AIR FORCE NUMERICALLY BELOW THAT OF THE ENEMY OWING TO POLITICAL MACHINATIONS EXTENDING OVER MANY YEARS. NEVERTHELESS, THE CHRONICLE OF ACHIEVEMENT BY THE R.A.F. DURING THE PAST TWELVE MONTHS IS SOMETHING TO WONDER AT (Founder of The Aeroplane SUNDAY, September 1, was, by order of the High Authority, a day of prayer and intercession for the ...

... AN ESCAPE FROM THE WAR Literature to Pulp, Necessities to Luxuries Tlie Summer Past and to Come OBSOLETE NOVELS.-- The plea for the weeding out and pulping of hundreds of thousands of novels perforce stored in the British Museum has been received both as common sense and as vandalism. I confess that I regard it as common sense. Judged as literature, 90 per cent, ot the novels stored annually ...