... THE SOUTHERN RAILWAY'S WORKSHOPS SMASH RECORDS TO AID RUSSIA- Mrs. Dolly Strover is a riveter in the workshops of the Southern Railway she is here seen at work, with men colleagues, on goods wagons destined for Russia. One thousand of these are now on their way, as the culmination of weeks of prodigious effort on the part of the men and women engaged on their construction. One hundred and ...

... PARACHUTISTS ARE (AS ON PREVIOUS OCCASIONS) IN THE NEWS AGAIN HERE IS A CLOSE-UP OF OUR OWN PARACHUTE TROOPS A picture taken during last Sunday's demonstration, which was witnessed by the King Cince the invasion of the Low Countries, parachutists have been consistently in the war news, and in Crete we are now witnessing the most serious attempt yet made by the enemy to capitalise to the full ...

... Where New Zealand, British, and Greek Troops are Fighting the Parachute Troops Dropped by the Germans in Successive Waves A special Sphere Section -ItKt int itvtKtil MbmlNb HAi I AKEN PLACE IHt MALEME-CANEA AREA IN CRETE From Maleme aerodrome (which at the beginning of the week was in enemy hands, although commanded by our gunfire) to Canea is an eight- to ten-mile stretch. It is .here that ...

... A BRIEF communique by the Admiralty in March, to the effect that H.M.S. Leander had encountered the fast Italian merchant-ship R.A.M.B. armed with 4-7-in. guns, and acting as a raider, and had forced her to surrender with her fifth salvo and in May, an equally brief one that a German armed merchant-cruiser had been intercepted and sunk by H.M.S. Cornwall, twenty-seven British merchant- seamen ...

... THE MEN WHO DO THE WORK The Officers and Sergeants of the Royal Air Force RANKS in the Royal Air Force seem to be more confused in the mind of the average man than those of any other Service. That is perhaps natural, for there are Flying Officers who have never flown, Squadron Leaders who have never commanded a squadron, and even some Wing Commanders who do not know one aeroplane from another. ...

... OTHER THINGS THAN WAR The Passing of Dinner and of Courtesy in Diplomacy Chance Immortality The Fog of Political Controversy AND NOW DINNER. --You may remember Duffer's Drift and how in one of his dreams of its defence, Lieutenant Backsight- Fore thought, beaten as usual by the Boers, had been ordered by his captors to surrender one by one his arms and pieces of equipment, and how at last ...

... The ESCAPE of the KING of GREECE from CRETE How He was Succoured in the Hill Country by Devoted Mountaineers THE escape of King George of Greece from his residence near Canea makes a stirring narrative. In some of its aspects it recalls passages in Shakespeare, where monarchs have had to flee their palaces and accept the kindly hospitality of peasants or goatherds. The King was in a house ...

... HOW THE BATTLE-CRUISER HOOD MET HER END The Danger of the Plunging Shell to the Vulnerable Turrets of the Washington Treaty Type of Warship THE tragic end of H.M.S. Hood has drawn attention, once again to a very serious weakness in the construction of certain vessels which were built under political considerations which it is not necessary to discuss here. The Hood was very frequently ...

... And the Advance on Diredawa, in Abyssinia Further pictures on pages 20-21) HOW KEREN WAS CAPTURED ON MARCH 27 THE ALMOST IMPREGNABLE KEY POSITION IN ERITREA: Right in the heart of Italy's colony of Eritrea, and astride the railway from the port of Massawa to Agordat and beyond, Keren was garrisoned by some 40,000 men. The drawing above shows how the defences were penetrated. The British ...

... AN ANALYSIS of the ROUNDABOUT SHOWN on the LEFT and BELOW- The running fight and the roundabout are the two forms of air combat which have most commonly been registered in photography. These two pictures show the same battle. The probable height of this was 25,000 ft., and the narrow ellipse shows it to have taken place several miles away-- probably over the south-eastern suburbs during an ...

... A WAR NEWSLETTER -No. 99 i, New Oxford Street, W.C.i. The Allies Have a Turn. --In the ding-dong of war we had in July to date the best of the round. Don't let us lower our guard. There are plenty of hard knocks to come to us, though I believe the K.O. on us has gone out in everybody's betting. Russian results have been throughout obscure. It is impossible with the best will in the world to ...

... THE RAILWAYS OF BRITAIN CARRY ON The Wonderful Repair Work Performed After Air Raids Described and illustrated by Roland Davies EVER since bombing was begun by the enemy on a big scale over Britain, the interruption of our transport system has been one of his objectives. Naturally, the railways have come in for a good deal of attention under this heading; and numerous bomb craters scarring the ...