... The BOMBING of LONDON The Great Nazi Onslaught by Night Raiders, and the Tragic Results of the Indiscriminate Attacks In the following pages we give a more or less complete impression of the results of the first five nights of indiscriminate bombing by the German night raiders. The pictures we reproduce are in no wise intended as studies in horror but it is essential that the rest of Britain ...

... STREET DAMAGE One of the Chief Causes of the Traffic Blocks in Central London The initial traffic blocks in London during the first days of the Nazi onslaught were the resuit of causes such as those shown here. So widespread were the attacks and so many bombs were loosed haphazard, that many roads were rendered temporarily impassable. Consequently traffic had to be diverted to other routes. ...

... THE CIVIL DEFENCE WORKERS The Civilian Heroes of the Mass Raids on London Tt is only now that we have suffered so much damage and all at the same moment --that the wisdom of the A.R.P. preparations in London has become evident. After months of inaction, all classes of Civil Defence Workers have been called upon to cope with tasks which would have been impossible had the organisation been less ...

... ''The British official statement regarding the West Indian bases says that His Majesty's Government will make available to the United States for immediate estab lishment and use of Naval and Air bases and facilities for entrance thereto and operation and protection thereof, on the Eastern side of the Bahamas, the Southern Coast of Jamaica, the Western coast of St. Lucia, the West Coast of ...

... CENTRAL LONDON'S FIRST AEROPLANE The Bomber Which Was Brought Down Actually in the Forecourt of Victoria Station A SUNDAY MORNING CRASH IN LONDON Sunday, like any other day, has its aerial attacks. While hymns were being sung in the hundreds of London's churches, the malevolent roar of an enemy bomber crashing at Victoria Station rose above every other sound WINGS AND FINS FALL ALL OVER LONDON ...

... SIZE IN SUBMARINES A Vital Problem By FRANK C. BOWEN EVEN the best of commanders and crews cannot do really successful submarine work without good ships, but the conditions under which they operate are so varied, and the restrictions imposed by these conditions are so great, that a submarine must be even more of a compromise than the other types of warship. It is probable that the ideal ...

... ^he most appalling feature of the bombing attacks has been the des truction of hospitals within the London area. Children's hospitals, maternity homes and lying-in wards, and General Hospitals have all been smashed by the rain of heavy bombs. When a famous children's hospital in Central London was hit, it was only owing to wise forethought that there was not a general holocaust. Churches, too, ...

... XT ever have the London nurses displayed a greater heroism than during the raids. Hospital after hospital was hit, yet the nurses had only thought for their sick and injured patients. Many of these have now been evacuated to places of safety elsewhere. So severe has been the damage amongst hospitals generally throughout the London area that it may be weeks before many of them will be able to ...

... How Britain Prepared to Meet the Two Occasions on which the Great Corsican Actively Threatened Invasion and How the Victory of Trafalgar Finally Compelled Napoleon to Relinquish his Dearest Scheme SUNDAY and Monday (Sep tember 15 and 16) of this week were the much advertised dates of the Hitler invasion of England. Large concentrations of small craft, barges and flat bottomed boats had been ...

... VICTORY in fhe AIR During the INVASION WEEK: Enemy Pilofs and their Planes Brought to Earth 1 _ A VICTORY ROLL CELEBRATES THE FALL OF A GERMAN PLANE In the right-hand upper corner of the view a British fighter plane is just celebrating its victory by executing the now famous victory roll, the spontaneously devised joy manoeuvre of the R.A.F. WHFN ROMRS nRDP ON THF OPEN COUNTRYSIDE THERE ...

... The Third (and concluding) Article of a Series Showing How Mr. Bevin and His Ministry Have Reorganised the Labour of Britain By GORDON BECKLES THE biggest bottle-neck in Britain's war effort is the problem of the trained worker. This was true in a parallel sense of Britain's peace-time fight against unemployment. If a man was a compositor, he remained a compositor; if his trade was iron- ...

... The King and Queen have shared many of the trials of their people during tne past few months; by the bombing of the Palace they have become victims-- like many of their subjects-- of the Nazi campaign of Terror. On Tuesday, September 10. a time- bomb exploded with terrific force at 1 .30 a.m. The bomb, believed to be a 250-pounder, fell near the Belgian Suite and buried itself 10 ft. deep, ...