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... 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 ...
... The DIVE-BOMBER versus the ROYAL NAVY What the Dive-Bomber is, and What it Can Do at Sea and Belgium in turn. When the dive-bomber appeared over the Channel and the south coast of Britain, however, the R.A.F. very quickly shot it out of the skies. Designed for one purpose and one purpose alone its vulnerability was soon exposed. Having thus suffered total eclipse, the Ju. 87 was banished from ...
... AFTER THE CAPTURE OF BARDIA Official Photographs of Abandoned Material in the Western Desert Abov --THE DESERT ABOUT BARDIA STREWN WITH ABANDONED ITALIAN WAR MATERIAL. On right THE DESERTED ITALIAN DEFENCES AND CAPTURED TANKS OUTSIDE THE TOWN Not the least surprising part of the campaign in the Western Desert has been the vast quantity of war material captured from the Italians. Tanks, guns, ...
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... 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 ...
... 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 ...