... 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 ...

... Specially Interpreted and Explained for Sphere Readers, to Indicate What Happens During Aerial Dog Fights THE research which has been carried out in connection with the photographs reproduced on these pages has been undertaken by Mr. S. W. Clatworthy, who will doubt less be known to many of our readers through his excellent diagrammatic drawings and who has given a good deal of careful study ...

... On left I BEDFORDSHIRE'S HOME GUARD This picture was taken on the occasion of the inspection of a section of the County's Home Guard by Lord Luke, who is the Lord Lieutenant of Bedfordshire and owns 3,000 acres of land in North Beds. On right MR. MENZIES SEES COVENTRY AT WORK Mr. Menzies, the Australian Prime Minister, re:ently visited Coventry, toured the bomb-damaged area, and inspec ed ...

... THE CAPTURE OF ADDIS ABABA, APRIL 7 After a Campaign the Like of which has Never Before been Witnessed in History IN ADDIS RAS MAKONNEN STREET --ONE OF THE PRINCIPAL THOROUGHFARES A town of nearly 200,000 inhabitants, there were some 41,000 Italians in the capital. It has been in Italian hands for only five years STREET SCENE IN ADDIS ABABA, SHOWING SOME OF THE MAIN BUILDINGS-- THE LARGEST OF ...

... The German Attacks onl Greece and Yugoslavia I And the Advance Towards Egypt THE FIRST EIGHT DAYS OF THE WAR IN THE BALKANS A GENERAL SURVEY The German thrust against Yugoslavia and Greece, which began with the bombing of Belgrade on Sunday, Apr'l 6, is here shown in a general diagrammatic survey, showing the German lines of attack streaming down through Bulgaria, first to western Thrace, then ...

... Everything Turns upon the Battle of the Atlantic, which is Proceeding with Growing Intensity on Both Sides The Prime Minister in the House of Commons, April 9 OUR OWN BRITISH-BUILT FLYING-BOAT-- THE SAUNDERS-ROE LERWICK-- A LONG-DISTANCE RECONNAISSANCE-BOMBER, WHICH IS BEING FLOWN WITH THE CONVOYS. IT IS BUILT WITH THREE POWER-OPERATED MULTI-GUN TURRETS THE UNIQUE WING-TIP OF THE CATALINA, ...

... THE ARMY TAKES TO THE WATER-- THE SERGEANT-MAJOR CRUISES AROUND IN HIS OWN MOTOR-BOAT. Preparing for rhe day when knowledge of such subjects will be necessary, a school of Bridging and Watermanship has bejr started by the Army in Northern Ireland. Here the troops are given instruction in the erection of temporary bridges ail! in the art of handling small boats. It is not difficult to visualise ...

... PATHS to GLORY IN EAST AFRICA The Re-Conquest of Abyssinia from the Italians By FERDINAND TUOHY NEARLY five years have passed since Mussolini bent low to receive the highest Order of the House of Savoy from its little head, who apostrophised: As Minister of the Armed Forces you prepared, led, and won the greatest colonial war which history records. Nor was this merely an Italian opinion. Mr. ...

... KEEP YOUR POWDER DRY and YOUR AMMUNITION GREASY A Note on the Proper Care of Essential Things By DONALD COWIE THE first part of the old military saw about keeping your powder dry and vbur ammunition greasy no longer applies in these days of shells and T.N.T., but it is still very necessary to observe the second part. If anything, lubrication of cartridge and shell is more important than it ...

... OTHER THINGS THAN WAR Verbal Atrocities; The y/ Romance of War; The Early Bird; A Note on Sherlock Holmes; This Island Fortress CONTACTED.-- Yes, in- deed. The word should be hung, drawn and quartered by the public hangman and buried at the cross-roads with other war atrocities of its kid ney which had their horrid hour in past times of trouble. The last World War gave us em-bus, de-bus and ...