... A.F.S. Auxiliary Fire Service The Auxiliary Fire Service employs a large number of women, not as taking the place of firemen, but to work in close connection with the fire service system, chiefly in the capa city of telephonists, an employment which often re quires great pluck and endurance. Those engaged in secretarial and tele phonic duties are equipped with a uniform, coat and skirt, others ...

... V.A.D. Voluntary Aid Detachment Nursing auxiliar ies from the Red Cross and St. John's Ambu lance work together in the United Women's Volun tary Aid Detach ments popularly known as the V.A.D.s. They must have spent at least forty hours nursing actually in hospital, and in addition, before they are ad mitted to this ser vice they must also hold a first aid certificate. The V.A.D.s come under ...

... THE TORPEDO ATTACK How it was Carried Out at Taranto by the Torpedo-Droppers of the Fleet Air Arm before in this war, or any other, has a new Arm so justified its existence and the hopes of its creators ^^■uch fashion as the Fleet Air Arm has justified itself at Taranto. Even in the last war, aircraft-carriers jWl' L^lu R°y;*l Navy; hut it was in the intervening years that this huge type of ...

... t ^T| .r^,^ S-lKirKAA Kipps in Production at Shepherd's Bush Ginger Rogers FILM NEWS from SIUDIU and UNtMA Comes to the Gaumont and Gary Cooper to the Carlton DIANA WYNYARD AS HELEN WALSINGHAM IN KIPPS: Diana Wynyard plays the wealthy girl who takes the aspiring Kipps under her social wing in the film version of Kipps, H. G. Weils' early novel. The film is being directed by Carol Reed ...

... the first fighter pilot TO WIN THE V.C. Flight Lieutenant James Brindley Nicolson receives the Congratulations of Fellow Pilots at a R.A.F. Hospital Fl pht-Lieutenant N'colson is twenty-three years of age and one of the tallest pNots in the R.A.F.-- -he is 6 ft. 4 ins. He pined the Air Force in iy.56 and was posted to a Spitfire Squadron the following year: later he was given command of a ...

... A.T.S. Auxiliary Territorial Service The Au x i 1 i ary T erritorial Service is run very much on ordinary Army lines the women are paid from 12s. per week and all their uni form outfit and equipment is'found. The duties of the members are con cerned with the Army alone and consist of cooking, canteen, secretarial and telephone work. There is in addition to the above a branch of skilled drivers ...

... AN AIRMAN AS C.-IN-C. IN THE FAR EAST: AIR CHIEF MARSHAL SIR ROBERT BROOKE-POPHAM For the first time Britain is to have a C.-in-C. for the Far East, and an airman has received the appointment. Sir R. Brooke- Popham is sixty-two years old he is the only survivor of the 1912 Air Battalion which was the foundation of the R.F.C. and then the R.A.F. He entered the Army in 1898 and ioined the R.F.C. ...

... It has to be remembered that in war on commerce the advantage is always with the attacker, who can choose his time, while the defending force has to maintain a ceaseless patrol and always remain on the alert. This means an immense fuel consumption, and with destroyers, who burn their oil at a great rate, or escort vessels, whose bunker capacity is limited, it demands refuelling bases as near ...

... The Aiming of a Bomb is a Science, for which One has to be Specially Trained. Here is a Description of How this Task Is Carried Out, with the Help of Scientific Instruments of Great Complexity BOMB aiming as a science has progressed far since that early evening of September 1, 1914, when an unnamed officer of the Royal Flying Corps flying over the woods north of Villers-Cotterets, for the ...

... The TWO Strategic ISLANDS IN THE GRECO-ITALIAN CAMPAIGN U ^Snrld lifirVi r T g^IT -f. i'tV.V - ...

... M.T.C. Mechanised I Transport Corps There are three distinct branches of the Women's Mechan ised Transport Corps the over seas, civil defence, and owner driver branches. The over seas branch trains women in advanced mechanics and de sert driving. Those selected for foreign service must be in a first-class state of health, for the con ditions under which they may be called upon to live may be ...

... A WAR NEWSLETTER- No. 64 32-34, St. Bride Street, E.C.4 TARANTO.-- The name will be written on Mussolini's heart. It puts the seal on a week-long judgment, a retribution for treachery dramatic in its speed, retribution by land, in the air and on the sea. In a few brief hours Italy ceased to be a Great Power, a position which under the later Mussolini she is not qualified morally or materially ...