... AFTER SIDI BARRANI-- BARDIA! And First Pictures of the Royal Navy in Action Against the Italians Off Sardinia ALL THAT WAS SEEN OF THE GALLANT ITALIAN NAVY-- A LINE OF SMOKE ON THE HORIZON AS THEY SCUTTLED FOR SAFETY UNITS OF THE ROYAL NAVY WHICH TOOK PART IN THE ACTION AGAINST THE ITALIAN FLEET SOUTH OF SARDINIA ON NOVEMBER 27 H.M.S. RENOWN PROCEEDING TO ATTACK THE ITALIAN FLEET, WITH HER ...

... S There are two schools of thought on this subject. One thinks that if we destroy all Germany's oil and cm ash all Germany's railways we can paralyse Ger man v's war effort. There are two schools of thought on this subject. One thinks that if we destroy all Germany's oil and smash all Germany's railways we can paralyse Ger many's war effort. Which is true enough if. But Germany has lots of ...

... I : By Professor Geoffrey w eih OF the City churches which suffered in the air raid of Sunday, December 29, perhaps the most important was St. Bride's, and its position hard by Fleet Street gives it an undeniable claim to be mentioned in any newspaper before all the others damaged on that night. St Bride's was one of the first group of churches to be undertaken in the scheme for rebuilding the ...

... An ESCAPE from Ac WAR A True Picture of Famous Whiss A Yardstick of Fame and Shame/ and Some Links with the Past A TRUE PICTURE AT LAST.-- I have been reading with great pleasure Lord Bessborough's Lady Bessborough and hey Family Circle. It gives us at last a true picture of the lives and characters of those two famous Spencers-- Georgiana Devon shire and Harriet Bessborough-- who, in a ...

... QUIET CORNER Peaceful Activities i n W ar 'time SCARBOROUGH FISHERMEN TAKING PART IN A CHARITY FOOTBALL MATCH ON THE SANDS TO ASSIST THE FISHERMEN'S CHARITIES On left A charity football match was recently played on the beach at Scarborough. This is an annual affair between the fishermen and firemen of the trawlers. The top-hats which they wear have to be kept on their heads while scoring, ...

... The SPEARHEAD of VICTORY The Tactics by which the Tanks and the New Mechanised Cavalry of Britain have Achieved Success in the Western Desert Described by DONALD COWIE IMAGINE the initial line-up of those British armoured formations before they began their swift stab of victory across the Western Desert. Gayda claimed the other day that we used 800 tanks in all. Probably he was exaggerating, ...

... AN OVERHEAD VIEW OF THE WASHED-UP NAZI BUOY, USED AS A REFUGE FOR GERMAN AIRMEN SHOT DOWN IN THE CHANNEL WITH THE RED CROSS PAINTED ON THE EXTER.OR ANOIHiR VIEW OF THE LUFTWAFFE'S REFUGE-BUOY FOR GERMAN AIRMEN J t was reported a few weeks ago that the Germans had erected a number of refuge-buoys in the English Channel close to the coast of Northern France. This was presumed to be for the ...

... The GREYHOUNDS, DF the FLEET -AND TWO NEW IDEAS FROM AMERICA The Mosquito Craft Now Being Used. he Royal Navy and the R.A.F. A HIGH-SPEED LAUNCH USED BY THE R.A.F. FOR RESCUE WORK IN OPEN SEAS THESE VESSELS ARE ARMED WITH LEWIS GUNS AMIDSHIPS AND AFT, AND THEY ARE USED TO RESCUE AIRCRAFT PERSONNEL SHOT DOWN OVER THE CHANNEL AND NORTH SEA A MOTOR TORPEDO-BOAT ON PATROL AT HIGH SPEED. WHEN ...

... The German Attack on British Shipping A Detailed Analysis of the Very Serious Situation Brought About by the Enemy's Attacks at Sea THE very serious losses of mer chant ships by enemy action, interesting every person in the country by reducing the tonnage space available for the im portation of foodstuffs and luxury commodities, have been given very serious notice by Mr. Ronald Cross, the ...

... rHE GUILDHALL AND NINE CHURCHES DESTROYED IN THE CITY INTERIOR OF THE BEAUTIFUL CHURCH OF ST. BRIDE, FLEET STREET, AS IT NOW IS The Gothic church of St. Brigid the Virgin of Fletestrete was burned down in the Great Fire of London and was rebuilt in 1680. Walls and steeple still stand THE CHURCH WHICH FLANKED THE ENTRANCE TO GUILDHALL YARD AS IT NOW The church of St. Lawrence Jewry was burned ...

... CONCEALMENT WHICH LED TO A SUCCESSFUL SURPRISE Against the Walled and Entrenched Italian Forts in the Barren Libyan Desert EXTEMPORISED CONCEALMENT IN THE DESERT During the preparations for the big attack on the Italian Army of Invasion, every type of concealment became a pressing necessity. As we have already recorded in these pages, even an old Roman tomb was made use of in this connection. ...

... BRITISH GIFTS FOR GREEK WOUNDED in a ward in a hospital at Athens an English woman visits the wounded from the Albanian front and brings gifts from Britain THE GREEK PRIMATE VISITS THE WOUNDED The Archbishop of Athens and Primate of All Greece gives his Blessing to a wounded Greek soldier from the Pindus fron GREEK SOLDIERS INSPECTING SOME OF THE ITALIAN WAR SUPPLIES CAPTURED DURING THE ...