... On Board King George V A Series of Pictures of Britain's Newest and Biggest Battleship, Showing Details of the World's Mightiest Fighting Machine THE EXTERIOR OF THE COLOSSAL AFTER-TURRET, WHERE FOUR OF THE TEN 14-IN. GUNS ARE MOUNTED The projection on the right is the armoured end of the range-finder. The thickness of the armour is shown at the angle of the turret and it is thick H.M.S. ...

... The AIR WAR in the BALKANS And Other War-time Aviation Subjects by C. G. GREY (Founder of The Aeroplane THOSE BALKANS.--More trouble in the Balkans this spring, too. One of the curiosities of history is the way in which certain quite small areas seem to accumulate all the wars. From Caesar's Gallic Wars, when one of his Three Parts of Gaul included those quarrelsome folk, the Belgae, down to ...

... SHE OPERATES A SMITHY ON WHEELS Although only twenty years of age, Mrs. Anne Hughes has been married for three years. With her husband, Alfred, she takes her miniature anvil round the villages of Surrey, towing it behind their tandem-cycle for miles around Woking. Then, with shoes already fashioned at the home forge, they shoe the horses on the spot, thus saving the horses' legs and the ...

... MORE ABOUT THE NIGHT RAIDER Notes on the Lesser-Knowri Duties of Our Anti-Aircraft Men MUCH has been written about the work of our anti aircraft batteries, yet many aspects of this most important occupation-- perhaps the most important single job in the Army to-day-- are not thoroughly understood. Two instruments, the predictor and the height-finder, have been frequently described, and ...

... MODERN instrument-flying has removed many of the terrors of the weather from long bombing raids. Without all the modern aids to navigation and blind flying, few of the long night flights over enemy territory would be possible, however perfect the aero planes in other respects. Nor could the steady stream of bombers be delivered by air across the Atlantic. Only three types of bad weather ...

... And an Admiral's Ideas on Air Attack by C. G. GREY (Founder of The Aeroplane) YEARS and years ago there was a blazing row between Admiral Sir Percy Scott, the gunnery specialist, and Admiral Lord Charles Beresford, who bombarded Alexandria, both since deceased, much to the diminution of the joy of nations. Com modore Scott, as he was then, I think, was going to take his squadron out into the ...

... WHERE FRANCE RECRUITS PART OF HER AFRICAN ARMY The Picturesque District Inhabited by the Mossi, Many of Whom are Recruited into France's Native Regiments in Africa In the huge territories which composed the Bloc Africain before the war, there is a picturesque district ruled by a dark skinned Emperor. He is the Ruler of the Mossi, exer cising local control of the region under the supervision of ...

... BACK FROM THE DEAD THE RESCUE SQUAD, AT THE END OF FIVE HOURS, BRING OUT A MAN WHO HAD BEEN BURIED ALIVE FOR SEVEN DAYS AFTER THE HEAVY RAID ON CLYDESIDE Deneath the debris of a bombed tenement two men lay for seven days before the rescue squads were able to bring them out. One of them, John Cormack, talked to his rescuers while they toiled to reach him, and as he was taken to hospital he ...

... News Pictures from the Home Front GERMAN PRISONERS OF WAR ARE STILL PASSING THROUGH LONDON Here is another batch on their way to the internment camp captured during raids on Britain. Some are wounded, some are boisterous, some are glad all are out of the war COLOURS FOR THE FREE FRENCH FORCES IN BRITAIN Frenchwomen kissing the Colours in a West of England town. General Petit (General de ...

... THE NIGHT FIGHTERS OF THE R.A.F. The Men Who Battle by Moonlight The Arrival of the New Liberator from the United States and the Wellington Heavy Bombers in the Middle East NIGHT-FIGHTER PILOTS IN READINESS WEAR DARKENED GOGGLES IN THE REST HUT SO THAT THEIR EYES SHALL BE ADJUSTED TO MIGHT CONDITIONS WHEN THEY GO INTO THE DARKNESS OUTSIDE TO TAKE OFF Y THE LIGHT OF FLARES ON THE AERODROME A ...

... LORD GORT IN THE SOUTHERN COMMAND The Inspector- General of Training recently paid a visit to the Southern Command, where he visited various units. Here he is seen talking to a Scottish soldier during his tour THE KING AND QUEEN VISIT PLYMOUTH This port and town has been severely bombed by the Germans. During their visit their Majesties visited Naval Establishments, toured the Dockyard and the ...

... THE remarkable speed of the attacks in East Africa upon the stranded Italian forces, fighting with out hope of reinforce ment, has impressed all the military critics. There are at least six fronts press ing in upon the garrison of Italian Ethiopia, and during the middle period of the present month it was possible to record steady, and in some cases exceptional, progress. The latest addition ...