... Factors in the Balkan Mix-up KING VICTOR EMMANUEL OF ITALY MAKES ONE OF HIS RARE APPEARANCES Long suppressed and completely overshadowed by Mussolini, the King of Italy has made but few appearances in public for many years. Since the war, however (probably owing to II Duce's waning popularity amongst the people), the King has been seen some what more often. Here he is seen approving a new type ...

... ENVOYS from the UNITED STATES -AMD OURS By FERDINAND TUOHY ANGLO-AMERICAN diplomatic failure to warn of the risk of utter French collapse, and of causes, underlined two weaknesses at latter-day British and United States Embassies. Ours would not mingle sufficiently with the popular life nor sink to such things as analysing the Egerias of foreign statesmen, nevertheless so important, while Mr. ...

... On right Dritish correspondents have given vivid pictures of the entry into Derna, just when the Australian advanced forces had encountered some topographical features which were new to the experience of the Army of the Nile. Two Australian companies came up against the canyon of the Wadi Derna, 1,000 ft. deep, and looked down for the first time into one of the great gullies which split the ...

... The WHEELS of VICTORY The Motorized, Army of the A NY students of our campaign in the Western Desert, after examining early photographs of the derations, must have been struck by the size of the .res on wheels of trucks and guns. These out- ;e balloons have, indeed, played an important par n the drive to victory. iyone wno nas driven a car over rougn ground will ippreciate the difference made ...

... 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 ...

... MOSS BROS COMPANY LIMITED J MOSS BROS COMPANY LIMITED J CIVILIANS for the use of A lot of us are in uniforn but a lot more of us have to carry on with the good work in mufti. And war time business conditions J being what they are and civil defence duties filling in the rest of the time, ihe Moss Bros, service of ready to wear mufti is proving a blessing to a man with a clothes sense but little ...

... The TUNIS TOUCHSTONE The Major Mystery of French 7s[orth Africa T^fow Controlled for Vichy by General Weygand By FERDINAND TUOHY ONE does not write these days against the calendar so much as against the clock. At any moment we may hear of the Nazi paw shooting out to Tunisia, although the bombardment of Genoa by the Royal Navy has probably seriously affected any existing plans! Weighing ...

... GERMANY'S STRENGTH IN THE AIR An Authoritative Survey of the Real Position With Regard to Aeroplane Strength SECRECY, designed as much for propaganda as for concealment, has veiled the figures for the strength of the German Air Force ever since it was founded by Göring, Milch and Udet in 1934. Fantastic figures have been quoted both for the total strength and the so-called first-line strength ...