... THE CRACKING OF THE ITALIAN EMPIRE: THE SCENE IN TOBRUK HARBOUR, CAPTURED BY GENERAL WAVELL'S ARMY OF THE NILE ON IANUARY 21-- THE END OF THE ITALIAN CRUISER SAN GIORGIO, WHICH IS SEEN BURNING FURIOUSLY AMIDSHIPS r\n December 23, broadcasting direct to the whole Italian nation, Mr. Winston Churchill declared that our armies are tearing, and will tear, your African Empire to shreds and ...

... A WAR NEWSLETTER-- No. 76 32-34, Sx. Bride Street, E.C.4. MR. CHURCHILL'S GREAT SPEECH-- FEBRUARY 9. --This latest speech of the Premier was perhaps the finest, as it was certainly the most confident and cheerful, of any which he has delivered since his Premiership began in the hour of our fate. Much has been done, yet much remains to do that was the keynote. What was new and infinitely ...

... MOVING UP IN ABYSSINIA British Officers Lead Haile Selassie's Forces into the Interior Against the Italian Garrisons The CRACKING of the ITALIAN EMPIRE (com.) BRITISH LORRIES WHICH BLAZED THE TRAIL INTO ETHIOPIA FOR THE CONVOYS OF TROOPS AND CAMELS TO FOLLOW TURBANED INDIAN SOLDIERS, WHO FORMED PART OF THE ADVANCE PARTY, HALTED IN THE DEEP ABYSSINIAN JUNGLE THOUSANDS OF CAMELS, TRADITIONAL ...

... BRAVERY REWARDED: Nineteen-year- old Gunner Stanley Martin, who has been awarded the Military Medal for his action in staying at his battery post when it was attacked by an enemy plane and finally bringing it down with a burst of fire from a light machine-gun. Diving low out of the clouds, a Dornier 17 made a determined attack on an anti-aircraft battery in East Anglia. Gunner Martin with held ...

... 'Phese illustrations are scenes from one of the new Ediswan -I short publicity films which compares the making of can dles with the manufacture of the modern electric lamp, under the appropriate title, Candle Power. Messrs. Ediswan have embarked upon a series of these short publicity films, included in the popular Signs of the Times film magazines. Two other titles are Let 's See and When ...

... THE PENETRATION OF ERITREA How British Troops have Captured Agordat and Continued to Advance along the Railway to Massawa and Threaten Gondar THE OLD FORT AND TOWN AT MAKALE, THREATENED BY THE ADVANCE FROM METEMMA The name figures largely on maps of Abyssinia, but actually the place is comprised merely of a largish old castle residence with a walled compound. The reader can see it in the ...

... THE RAT-CATCHERS OF THE NAVY --A STEAM TRAWLER PUTTING OUT TO SEA FOR A SPELL OF DUTY ON PATROL THE ENEMY OF THE SUBMARINE-- THE LAUNCH OF A CORVETTE IN CANADA The corvette is a new type of warship (which takes its name from an older type, once prominent in the Royal Navy) now being built on mass-production lines both in this country and in the Dominions. They will be used to fight the U ...

... BIG SHIPS and LITTLE SHIPS From Small Rat-catcher to Big Warship on Active Service at Sea ACK FROM PATROL UNDER ARCTIC CONDITIONS An indication of the weather conditions under which many vessels of the Royal Navy have to operate whilst out on patrol in the Atlantic in the winter. The foot-long icicles are still there, despite that this picture was taken after her arrival in a British port. ...

... SOME WAR-TIME LONDON SHOWS The Blue Goose at the Comedy Dear Brutus at the Globe ONE point in favour of The Blue Goose, the somewhat baffling entertainment at the Comedy Theatre, is that it brought back to the stage Miss Iris Hoey, whose genius shines in farce and who has not been seen in a play of any kind for a longish time. One of my earliest recollections of Miss Hoey is of her perform ...

... 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, ...