... THE WAITING OF EIRE The Views of De Valera And the Irish Generally On the Most Important Irish Problem of T O'day By FERDINAND TUOHY IF Hitler descended on Eire, Britain would intervene by land, sea and air and the chances are all that she would evict the Germans, with the result that Britain would control the Irish ports which would determine the Battle of the Atlantic. Better for Hitler ...

... 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 ...

... VULNERABLE SPOTS WHERE BOMBS MAY FALL OH CITY ROOFS Incendiary bombs falling on the latest form of flat roof now larg-ely employed in recent building will not likely penetrate through the slag-foam concrete with thick, fire-resisting tiles embedded, but might, after sprinkling with sand, be left to burn themselves out, provided they were not likely to destroy cables, etc. The same might be ...

... WAIFS STRAYS WAIFS STRAYS 1 The WAR and HOMELESS CHILDREN Where do we go now THE SOCIETY CAN PROVIDE THE ANSWER WITH YOUR HELP CHILDREN NEEDING CARE AND PROTECTION BECAUSE OF THE WAR ARE DAILY COMING TO US FOR A HOME OVER 5000 CHILDREN TO FEED AND CLOTHE EVERY DAY Donations urgently needed auuib I T OLD TOWN HALL KENNINGTON, S.E.11 Bankers Barclays Ltd. ...

... A WAR NEWSLETTER-No. 75 32-34, Sr. Bride Street, E.C.4. AN EMPIRE DIES? --The news from Africa con tinues to be good. From all fronts on which the Fascists are receding from their light- come-light-go Imperial posses sions, the news tells of more and heavier blows delivered. From Libya, Eritrea, Abyssinia, Somaliland, the ice-cream is melting on the hot-plate. Authority seems at last to smile ...

... The LAST PHASE at BARDIA A Series of Official Pictures after the Fall of the Town on January 5 The town of Bardia itself was only the nerve-centre of a big defensive system into which thousands of Italian soldiers had been crammed. Apart from Fascist head quarters, which were located within Bardia itself, these thousands of defenders manned the perimeter defences encircling the harbour some 40 ...

... The MEDITERRANEAN CONVOYS Go Through: of the Navy in Action i Above AN ATTACK ON THE CONVOY, SHOWING BOMBS FALLING AHEAD OF A BATTLESHIP, WITH THE LEADING SHIPS OF THE CONVOY ON THE RIGHT UNTOUCHED, On right-- SOME OF THE SHIPS OF THE CONVOY STEAMING THROUGH THE MEDITERRANEAN UNDER THE PROTECTION OF THE BRITISH DESTROYER IN FOREGROUND The recent action in the Mediterranean, in which German ...

... 3yo ft. per second is fast enough for the pilot to have little time for cogitation during a 2,000-ft. dive. The pull-out is usually begun at about 900 ft. An instant after the pull-out has begun the bomb is released. This fact is not usually realised. Most people believe that the bomb is released while the bomber is still diving. The reason that the pull-out is begun first is that it gives the ...

... AN ESCAPE FROM THE WAR The Boasts of Heraldry The Lure of Murder Trials and Barchester Once More A LANG PEDIGREE.-- To what extent is a deep interest in one's ancestry a weakness-- mere snobbery-- and to what extent a genuine scientific interest in heredity? I often ask myself that question. The College of Heralds sup ports itself largely on that (healthy or unhealthy) interest. for Heralds ...

... A WAR NEWSLETTER-No. 77 i, New Oxford Street, W.G.i WHERE WILL IT FALL? --It is estimated that there are twenty divisions of Nazis fully equipped for a Balkan--Mediterranean drive in the Nazi manner, with headquarters cen tred at Bucharest. They are massing through Hungary, they have saturated Rumania (with whom we have broken off relationships), and they are fast saturating Bulgaria, which ...