... niHE British people's love of the sea crops up in the most unexpected places. These London i- A.F.S. men. whose work puts them constantly in the path of the Nazi bombers, turned, in their spare time, to model ship-making. From old wood and bits and pieces of string, canvas and cloth, they fashioned these models of the Cutty Sark, the Bounty, the Victory, and other ships in which Britain's ...

... II |t 4T111 If *1 1 |l n> A Racing Library for Newmarket Prize Jl'll'JfWvI Vll Money in l!)4l>-i\. H. Obstacles to le Cleared ONE likes to hope that the Stewards of the Jockey Club, in spite of their various war-time occupations, are continuing to look ahead in all matters affecting the national sport. There certainly are many reforms still to be tackled and there may be improvements to be ...

... U] and Down tlic I, and THE GROWMORE SERIES of leaflets goes from strength to strength. One of the latest is entitled Shoot That Wood-pigeon, although it makes it clear from the start that nobody is expected to grow more wood-pigeons. On the contrary, we are to shoot more pigeons in order that the pigeons shall eat less of our food. The wood-pigeons themselves are only a by-product for the ...

... THIS title sounds extra topical just now, but sticking to my own subject, it is quite interesting to study your back swing, to pick up a club in the house and do a few swings and notice exactly where your hands are, half-way up, at the top and where the club shaft lies. Golfers can observe for themselves when they make a change in the position of their hands on the shaft, they can check up, ...

... Be Seeing Them How Hollywood changes these girls Who d recognise the gay young thing on the auto-cycle and the glamorous creature as one and the same Alexis Smith Alexis is another of those college-girl actresses to be snapped up by Warner's. She made her bow in 44 Flight from Destiny and they gave her a contract right away. Mary Martin, Paramount beauty, who has just finished work on 44 Love ...

... These Vessels are Doing a Great Amount of Work All Round the Shores of Britain. Two Phases of this are Shown in the Drawings Given on this Page From time to time mention is made in the Press of the work done by the small and fast motor vessels of the Royal Navy. But what is not appreciated by the general public is the amount and the variety of this work. Mr. Dawson here indicates two phases of ...

... ring of Spanish airfields (e.g. at Los Barrios) within a few minutes' bombing distance of Gibraltar Town and Harbour. It is conceivable that Gibraltar might be rendered untenable by ships, its town and dockyards destroyed by land and air bombardment, and its defenders driven to shelter in the snarirms subterranean caverns and nassaaes while maintaining stubborn resistance if overwhelming air ...

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... A WAR NEWSLETTER-No. 118 x, New Oxford Street, W.C.i Grounds for Satisfaction. --In these dark days of winter and the war, we have some solid grounds of comfort. It is hard pounding, gentlemen, and we shall continue to get some nasty jolts and setbacks all along the line at sea, in the air and on land, from Murmansk to Benghazi, and thence to Dover, and perhaps across the oceans to Hong Kong ...

... GREAT AIR JOURNEYS THAT STEER THE WAR The Development of the Long-distance Aeroplane has Made Possible Many Diplomatic Contacts and Movements in All Parts of the Globe. Some of the Journeys Already Achieved During the War are Here Described By FERDINAND TUOHY ONE day in the winter of 1870-71 the Prussians on Mt. Valérian overlooking besieged Paris were flabbergasted to see a balloon rise from ...

... 'Phe recent loss of the Ark Royal has once -L again drawn attention to the aircraft- carriers. Since the outbreak of the present war we have lost three of these vessels Ark Royal, in the Western Mediterranean, Courageous, tor pedoed in September 1939, and Glorious f sunk off North Norway in June 1940. Despite these grievous losses, the aircraft-carrier force is as strong as ever it was. There ...

... The map on the left is a key to the larger drawing of Sebastopoi repro duced above. It shows the position of the city on the spur of land projecting into the southern side of the Bay of Sebastopoi. The main railway station lies to the south this connected the city with Perekop, and then across the Isthmus with the Russian mainland. The town harbour is officially known as Meridian Bay and it is ...