... THE NEW 44 RIDDLE OF THE SANDS A special Sphere Section devoted to One Aspect of the Invasion Question the Maze of Mud Flats Screening the Friesian Coast behind which lie the German Harbours of Wilhelmshaven, Bremerhaven, Cuxhavm, and others, which May Even J\[ow be Concealing Some of the Enemy's Plans (}THER ^aircraft bombed an enemy aerodrome on the island of Borkum, where barracks were ...

... 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 ...

... 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 ...

... THE LAST PHASE AT BARDIA: THE DESERTED BASTION OF FASCISM JUST BEFORE OUR TROOPS ENTERED: MANY OF THE BUILDINGS HAVE BEEN BADLY DAMAGED BY NAVAL AND AIR ATTACKS AND BY BOMBARDMENT FROM THE LAND BATTERIES I ast week we presented to our readers a series of pictures showing how Bardia was taken by assault by British and Imperial forces in the Western Desert. This week we publish above (and on ...

... JARABUB, WHERE AN ITALIAN GARRISON HAS PUT UP A RESISTANCE It is here that the Tenets of the Senussi, Strictest Order of Muhammadanism, are Taught This view of Jarabub, or Giarabub, taken from the air, shows the zawia or university centre of Senussidom, which lies some 130 miles south of Tobruk. It was at first thought that the local garrison had completely surrendered to a surprise attack by ...

... The Waffs and the Woffs and Saluting What the Observer Corps does for Us-- and What the Air Ministry doesn't for them AIR COMMENTARY- -By C. G. GREY (Founder of The Aeroplane) JUST for a change, after being for weeks the com plete optimist, and the regular purveyor of what the Communist Defeatists call sunshine talk cal culated to uplift the hearts of the Populace, I want to have a real ...

... 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 ...