... THE AGED RULER OF HALF OF FRANCE Marshal Petain, fully looking his great age, at a Vichy church where a Mass was said for French soldiers lost in the war. The Marshal's public appearances, even in his own capital, are now very rare GERMANS BEING REPATRIATED FROM RUMANIA These German peasants are being repatriated from Bessarabia which has been taken over by Russia. They are here seen on ...

... DARLAN MOUNTS THE BRIDGE IN FRANCE The T^aval Marshal Who has Become the Second Most Important Figure Across the Channel and an Analysis of the Reasons for His Strong Anti-British Attitude A Detailed Stud/ by w FERDINAND TUOHY IN fixing its attention on Laval from June to December this country failed to distinguish that Laval's co-apostle of vengeance (against Britain), Admiral Jean Françis ...

... phe life of London resumed its normal course as close up to the ruins as the police and A.R.P. workers would permit. In fact, there were cases of minor friction when merchants, business men, clerks and employees were kept out of buildings which they regarded as safe. Complaints were made of the delay in granting permits to occupy, so anxious was everybody to carry on, in spite of the smell ...

... v '\Jp> 1 The BATTLE for BARDIA First Pictures from the Actual Theatre of War in Ihe WESTERN DESERT A Series of Official Photographs Just Released for Publication. CHRISTMAS DAY, 1940, IN FRONT OF BARDIA: A SCENE IN THE BITTER COLD OF DAWN, AS A PRIEST CELEBRATES MASS IN THE DESERT. THESE MEN WERE ACTUALLY ENGAGED IN THE OPERATIONS IN FRONT OF THE ITALIAN STRONGHOLD PRAYER BEFORE GOING INTO ...

... ferial photography over enemy territory, both as an aid to subsequent bombing attacks and to ascertain the extent of the damage already inflicted, is of inestimable value to the R.A.F. Owing to the much greater heights at which the aerial photographer of the present war has to operate, instruments of far greater precision have had to be evolved, and such troubles as freezing, condensation of ...

... THE HALF-USED WEAPON-PROPAGANDA The Instrument which Brought Hitler to Power, and which should Eventually Bring him and his Regime to Collapse By FERDINAND TUOHY FOR some time I had impertinently visualised Mr. Churchill as a colossus splendid in the centre, but standing in need of reinforcing at either shoulder. The centre was the military conduct of the war. First and last a soldier, the ...

... LOOKING FORWARD to the GOOD THINGS of 1941 The Invasion of Britain is One of Them; And a Saner View of Affairs in Eire is Another. With a Few Comments on Current Topics Connected with Air Activities -By C. G. GREY (Founder of The Aeroplane ALL these Jonahs and Jeremiahs and Cassandras who keep on preaching to us about the awful position to-day of the British nation, and conse quently of the ...

... On Sunday fyight, December 29, in the Early Hours of the Evening, Enemy Planes Dropped Showers of Incendiary Bombs on the Ancient City Portion of London, Causing a Great Conflagration A LONDON CHURCH SPIRE SILHOUETTED AGAINST THE CHERRY-RED GLOW OVER THE CITY ON SUNDAY NIGHT When the conflagration was at its height the sky quivered with pulsations of rose-coloured light reflected on the smoke, ...

... FIRST PICTURES FROM THE GREEK FRON1 Greeks and Britons Side by Side Drive the Italians in Disorder Through Albania A PICTURE JUST RECEIVED FROM ATHENS, SHOWING MEN OF THE GREEK ARMY ON THEIR WAY TO THE FRONT Pictures from the Greek front are very difficult to obtain, as the fighting is taking place in such confused and isolated country where communications are not easy. The pictures reproduced ...

... Pictured by Patrick Fitzgerald The Burma-Yunnan Highway, or, more shortly, the Burma Road, is once again busy with motor traffic conveying stores of all kinds to Kunming, where it meets the internal roadway system of China. From Kunming the lorries proceed to Chungking, the capital of the un defeated Chinese Government. The road and the extra ordinary country through which it runs were ...

... 'The Royal Air Force has given, and is giving, considerable support to the Greeks in their resistance to the Italian effort in Albania not only by bombing troops at the front, but also by pounding at the Italian bases and harbours. R.A.F. bombers have persistently attacked aerodromes used by the Italians on both sides of the Adriatic, and the ports of entry in Albania Valona and Durazzo, in ...

... HOW THE GERMAN DIVE-BOMBING ATTACK WAS MET WITH THE MOST FURIOUS BARRAGE YET LOOSED ALOFT BY THE NAVY THE CRUISER SOUTHAMPTON, HIT BY BOMBS, WAS A FINE MODERN VESSEL: The Southampton gave her name to a class of cruiser which included eight vessels. She mounted twelve 6-in. guns in turrets as shown above. Her bulky appearance was due to the aeroplane hangars which extended the bridge ...