... THE PREMIER SPEAKS TO THE DOCKYARD WORKERS Mr. Winston Churchill recently paid a visit to the North, where his programme included visits to various naval units. With him was Mr. Harry Hopkins, President Roosevelt's special envoy to this country H THE LORD PROVOST OF GLASGOW The Premier's tour also in cluded a visit to Glasgow, where he inspected the Civic Defence Organisation. Besides Mr. ...

... AN ESCAPE FROM THE WAR The Romance of a Peerage: Lord Nuffield's Pedigree: The Year' s Rainfall Green Peas at Christmas A Coming Centenary VOLUME XIII. COM- PLETE PEERAGE.-- The XUIth volume of the Complete Peerage deserves a special notice. If you have never looked inside this monumental work, begun by Mr. Vicary Gibbs and continued by Mr. Doubleday (with many strong supporters and helpers) ...

... 34,000,000 MILES FLOWN BY THE COASTAL COMMAND IN 1940 A Wonderful Record of Co-operation Between the R.A.F. and the Royal Navy Above the British Seas A SUNDERLAND FLYING-BOAT COMES DOWN LOW OVER THE ATLANTIC IN FRONT OF A CONVOY, TO EXAMINE A SPOT WHERE U-BOATS MAY BE LURKING 7h2 massive proportions of the aircraft may easily be visualised by a comparison with the size of the airmen at the ...

... THE FIGHTING TOPS OF THE BATTLESHIPS Their Development in Modern Tears for the Control of Gunnery at Long Range Described by FRANK C. BOWEN TO the layman the man-of-war's mast, whether it supports a towering pile of snowy canvas or the grimly practical instruments of modern science, is one of its most fascinating features, and although the naval architect is apt to regard it merely as an ...

... THE FIGHTING TOP OF A MODERN BRITISH BATTLESHIP, H.M.S. RODNEY: Before the completion of the five huge battleships of the King George V class, Rodney was one of our mightiest fighting craft. Built at a cost of £7,600,000, she was laid down under the 1922-23 Estimates she is a reduced edition of the 48,000-ton battle-cruisers ordered in 1921 and cancelled under the Washington Treaty, in which ...

... T ii r- a nri IDC C Dad I A 'r,na' Operations when the Italian Stronghold was I rl t v*/\ I U K t I D/\ l\ l_y I Captured and Nearly 45,000 Prisoners were Taken BRITISH LAND-CRUISERS GOING IN TO ATTACK AT BARDIA Roaring over the scrub- covered sandy wastes of the Libyan Desert, these giant British tanks are moving up for the final assault on the Italian harbour. The size and the speed of ...

... ITALY ON THE DEFENSIVE HOW THAT COUNTRY STANDS TO-DAY--I A Special Sphere Section Battered on all Sides, Italy is 7s[otu in Bad Condition on the Land, at Sea, and in the Air- By DONALD COWIE WHEN Italy entered this war her potentialities were distinctly disquieting. She had an army of 1,500,000, in ninety divisions, the fifth strongest navy in the world, and about 1,400 front-line aircraft. ...

... THE FATEFUL DODECANESE T he Possible Scene of Mussolini's 7s[ext Disaster SINGULARLY little attention has been publicly paid so far to the problem of the Italian Dodecanese, that beautiful group of islands in the Ægean Sea by the coast of Turkey, enemy occupied at the moment but doubly Grecian in their population and rare memories. This is especially remarkable because recent events, the ...

... Pictures from Venice, Albania and Libya THE CAPTURE OF ARGYROCASTRO BY THE GREEKS CAVALRY MOVING THROUGH THE OUTSKIRTS TO TAKE POSSESSION OF THE TOWN LORRIES CAPTURED BY THE GREEKS FROM THE ITALIANS IN ALBANIA THIS CONVOY HAD COMPLETELY BLOCKED THE MOUNTAIN ROAD AT THE TAKING OF ARGYROCASTRO SOLDIERS EXAMINING ITALIAN RIFLES FOUND IN THE WRECKAGE OF A BUILDING SMALL ITALIAN TANKS CAPTURED BY ...

... BRAGGADOCIO IN THE DESERT A monument to Mussolini found by the British forces on the Solium Road. The inscription reads, He who halts is lost. The A xix signifies that the monument was erected in the nineteenth year of Fascism ON THE WALL OF A HOUSE AT BARDIA Rex-Dux or King-Leader, with a very youthful- looking portrait of Mussolini, painted on a wall before the collapse of the Bastion of ...

... 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 ...

... l\/[ y chiefs only await the signal to march against the Italians I have the full support of Britain, said Haile Selassie. Emperor of Abyssinia. Already 500 chieftains, representative i of almost all Abyssinia, have rallied to the side of their Emperor, and with British aid they are determined to overthrow the rule of their hated Italian conquerors. The Emperor is now in the Sudan, where ...