... And the Advance on Diredawa, in Abyssinia Further pictures on pages 20-21) HOW KEREN WAS CAPTURED ON MARCH 27 THE ALMOST IMPREGNABLE KEY POSITION IN ERITREA: Right in the heart of Italy's colony of Eritrea, and astride the railway from the port of Massawa to Agordat and beyond, Keren was garrisoned by some 40,000 men. The drawing above shows how the defences were penetrated. The British ...

... AN ANALYSIS of the ROUNDABOUT SHOWN on the LEFT and BELOW- The running fight and the roundabout are the two forms of air combat which have most commonly been registered in photography. These two pictures show the same battle. The probable height of this was 25,000 ft., and the narrow ellipse shows it to have taken place several miles away-- probably over the south-eastern suburbs during an ...

... A WAR NEWSLETTER-No. 83 i, New Oxford Street, W.C.i. Poor Prince Paul.-- The Senior Regent of Yugoslavia, it seems, leaned at last to the Axis. (Or so we under stand to-day.) The more urgent and obvious danger loomed larger than the doom in the background. Poor Prince Paul has sold his King and country, in so far as it rests and rested with him to do so, and if report is true. Still as of old ...

... IN DEFENCE OF BRITAIN Some New Pictures of Defensive Work by the Army in the Country and on the Coast COASTAL DEFENCE ALARM PRACTICE The sentry keeps watch under the shadow of a big gun whilst the searchlight sweeps the sea ONE OF THE SEARCHLIGHT STATIONS, which is defended by a machine-gun post, the gunners of which are here seen on duty THE INTENSE BEAM WHICH SWEEPS THE SEA UNCEASINGLY to ...

... AN ESCAPE FROM THE WAR A Sermon for Pessimists and Notes on Popenjoys and the Albert Memorial CAPACITY FOR INNO CENT ENJOYMENT.-- Here is a warning to wanton pessimists-- a sermon, if you choose to call it so. Some of us, young and old, in the darker hours of these dark days, declare, and even believe, that this long suspense of constructive, sane interests and pleasures and recreations is ...

... HOW THE BA1 TLE WAS FOUGHT And the British Battleships Which Wrecked the Italian Fleet Off Crete (I) THURSDAY, MARCH 27.-- THE ITALIAN FLEET IS SPOTTED STEAMING EASTWARDS Cape Passero is at the extreme south-east of Sicily, about 120 miles S.S.W. of the Straits of Messina. Air reconnaissance on Thursday morning reported a force of enemy warships to the eastward of Cape Passero, steering to the ...

... Three Hundred Days of Matchless Warfare The Campaign in the Eastern Mediterranean A Classic of Co-operation Between the Three Services, Land, Air and Sea Described by FERDINAND TUOHY NEVER in the history of modern warfare has so much been achieved by the deaths of so few. With apologies to the Prime Minister, such thought is uppermost as one forms a mental picture of our Mediterranean-cum ...

... And the New Types of American Aircraft BY C. G. GREY Founder of The Aeroplane ALL this agitation in the newspapers for the bomb ing of Berlin, and to some extent of Rome, reminds one of the similar agitation in the last Anglo- German war for reprisals. I am all for reprisals, if they will help to win the war, but we have not, and can never have, bombers or bombs to spare for non-productive ...

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

... THE PACT THAT ISN'T: HITLER AND RIBBENTROP WELCOME THE YUGOSLAVIAN MINISTERS-- the scene at Berchtesgaden Before the Signing of the Vienna Pact, which will Not Now be Ratified r\n February 14 Messrs. Tsvetkovitch and Cincar-Markovitch (who were then Prime Minister and Foreign Minister of Yugoslavia respectively) arrived at Berchtesgaden for discussions concerning the Tripartite Pact. So ...

... IN THE CABINET ROOM AT 10, DOWNING STREET, MARCH 27-- Mr. Winston Churchill, watched by Mr. Winant, U.S. Ambassador, signs the historic Agreement Implementing the destroyers-for-bases deal between Great Britain and the United States, the Agreement has now been formally signed. The bases have been leased to America for a term of 99 years. The signatories for Great Britain were the Prime ...

... The UP-RISING IN YUGOSLAVIA KING PETER II. AND HIS PEOPLE The King is reported to be well liked by all sections of his people. He is here seen at one of the ceremonies which have endeared him to them, at the Royal Palace in Belgrade. During the Festival of the Christmas Tree, the head of every household formally receives the Christmas tree including the King. Here Peter II. is seen receiving ...