... RINGED IN BY A CIRCLE OF FIRE: ST. PAUL'S CATHEDRAL IN THE MIDST OF THE BLAZING CITY, SUNDAY NIGHT, DECEMBER 29 Sunday night, in the words of the official communique, the enemy made a deliberate attempt to set fire to the City of London. In the early hours of the evening thousands of incendiary bombs were dropped over the historic area known as the City. Dramatic damage was done within the ...

... NECESSITY BROUGHT FORTH INVENTION IN THE DESERT: Owing to the pressing need for cover in the exposed stretches of flat desert, all kinds of burrows were invented. Here is a desert Jack-in-the-box with his Bren gun, waiting for an enemy plane which might seek to indulge in a low flying strafe. His camouflaged gun could come into action in an instant THE VARIETY AND EFFECTIVENESS OF THE BRITISH ...

... [THE WAR IN GREECE 'Where the Heroic Struggle Against the Might of Fascist Italy Continues BRITISH HELP FOR GREECE IS INCREASING RAPIDLY The British forces in Greece are now being continuously supplied with bombs, shells, and other munitions from overseas, thanks to our Naval command of the Mediterranean. This official photograph from the Air Ministry shows transport for the R.A.F. being ...

... 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. ...

... 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 ...