... After Bardia How the Bastion of Fascism was Captured by Storm this, and on pp. 132 133 and 134--33 of this issue, we publish many striking pictures, from official sources, of the great victory at Bardia. These will serve to underline the reports of British war corre spondents and to visualise for our readers the conditions under which British and Imperial Forces in the Western Desert are now ...

... And a Series of Official Photographs Showing Scenes in BARDIA AFTER ITS CAPTURE A WADI CROWDED WITH STRANDED ITALIAN LORRIES AT BARDIA: The North African terrain is creased with numberless gullies or wadis like the one above: they have been used by the Italians for defensive works and for concealment. After the fall of Bardia these lorries were discovered hidden in one of the nearby wadis and ...

... BRITAIN'S FORTRESSES IN THE SEA A J\ew Scries of Pictures Just Released for Publication I/'ey points in the fixed defences on the southern coast of Britain are fortresses situated in the middle of the sea during the last six months, with the threat of invasion coming nearer, these strongholds have been enormously expanded. To-day, they are manned by naval and military personnel, and strong ...

... More Photographic Evidence of the Complete Italian Collapse in the Western Desert On left A BARRIER ON THE MAIN CAPUZZO-BARDIA ROAD BEFORE THE FALL OF THE LATTER TOWN BARDIA-- -DAWN, JANUARY 5, 1941 THE AUSTRALIAN TROOPS ADVANCE TOWARDS THE DEFENCES AT THE DOUBLE Bardia was really taken on the day I preceding when Australian troops had pierced the perimeter defences, crossed the anti-tan ...

... LAWRENCE OVER ABYSSINIA The Most Interesting of the Eastern Theatres of War is Ethiopia. What is Going on in that Crumbling Italian Empire, which was Conquered by such Inhuman Methods, is here Discussed By FERDINAND TUOHY JUST five years ago, when Kmperor Haile Selassie's armies were making their fatal error of fighting fixed battles with Badoglio's murderously-equipped invaders, instead of ...

... ITALY'S ETHIOPIAN EMPIRE THREATENED FROM WITHIN AND WITHOUT A Special Sphere Section THE crushing victory inflicted on the Italians in Libya by the British Army of the Nile makes the enemy's position in East Africa more hopeless than ever. Their last chance of being able to help their comrades elsewhere has gone, and their capitulation is only a matter of time. Since Italy declared war on us, ...

... FLYING THE BOMBERS ACROSS THE ATLANTIC The Air Ferry Service ivhich is now Bringing a Continuous Stream of Big Aircraft to Britain TWENTY-TWO years ago the Atlantic was flown for the first time non-stop by Alcock and Brown from Newfoundland to Ire land. They flew a Vickers Vimy, a modified bomber designed and built to bomb Germany in the last war. To-day a steady stream of American-built ...

... WHO IS AMERICA IN LONDON The Men Who Represent the United States in Britain By GORDON BECKLES THE most business-minded Embassy in London is awaiting with interest, but not with undue anxiety, the arrival of its new Ambassador. JNot with anxiety, because, whether an American Ambassador or not, the work of the U.S. Embassy goes on with machine-like precision. This is a strange reversal of ...

... U-BOAT PATROL A Story of the Under -VJater Kfavy By GILBERT HACKFORTH-JONES, j COMMANDER, R.N. IT was the prolonged bad weather that caused the loss of UZ43. This, of course, does not detract from the efficiency with which the Coastal Command aircraft despatched her. There was another con tributory factor-- the red wine of France. On their arrival at a French seaport the officers and men of ...

... The MEDITERRANEAN and the DIVE-BOMBER -By C. G. GREY (Founder of The Aeroplane The Cost of a Stuka as Against a Battleship Our Rhineland Air Front Shooting Parachutists The Song of the Little Guns MEDITERRANEAN affairs are becoming very interesting to those who can look at them dispassionately from the technical point of view, and free from prejudice in favour of particular weapons, services ...

... BRITAIN'S LATEST BATTLESHIP H.M.S. King George V A Note by FRANK C. BOWEN THE photographs of King George V show that the unofficial forecasts of her features, both in this country and abroad, have been tolerably accurate as far as they went, A few official details had already been published-- that she was to have a displacement of 35,000 tons and a main battery of ten 14-in. guns-- but most of ...

... LORD HALIFAX LEAVES FOR THE UNITED STATES-THE SCENE AT THE QUAYSIDE, IN A HEAVY SNOWSTORM Doth the departure from this country and the arrival in America of Lord Halifax, Britain's new Ambassador to the United States, were kept a secret from the enemy. Not until he had arrived safely in Chesapeake Bay was the news made public and then it was also disclosed that Lord Halifax had made the voyage ...