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... Hitler's Bid For Syria By FERDINAND TUOHY WHAT sharply occupies us at the moment with regard to Syria is whether Germany will use its landing-grounds and harbours for pushing by air to reinforce Rashid in Iraq. We may get further warning in the shape of an intermediate move on Cyprus, which lies roughly 300 miles from Italian air-fields on Rhodes, and 150 miles from those near Damascus. As ...
... THE NAVY'S NEW ADDITION H.M.S. Prince of Wales, Which is Now in Commission With the Fleet Following on the recent news that the King George V is now in service with the Royal Navy comes similar news of her sister-ship, H.M.S. Prince of Wales. Costing seven million pounds, the new vessel is a 35,000-ton battleship launched at Birkenhead in May 1939. She has ten 14-in. guns, each of which fires ...
... BROADCASTING THE BATTLE OF KEREN Mr. Richard Dimbleby, the B.B.C. commentator, is here seen describing the progress of the battle. He is within sight of the troops up forward, and is making a record for transmission to listeners at home whilst actually under shell fire AT A ROAD JUNCTION NEAR KEREN Indian troops occupying what was formerly an Italian stronghold on the road to the mountain ...
... A DETACHMENT OF WOMEN DRIVERS FROM BRITAIN ARRIVE IN CAIRO FOR SERVICE WITH OUR FORCES IN THE MIDDLE EAST THE WORKING UNIFORM OF THE WOMEN'S MECHANISED TRANSPORT CORPS IN THE MIDDLE EAST A company of the Women's Mechanised Transport Corps has just arrived in Cairo for service with the Middle East Forces. It consists of fifty-one girls from the British Isles, with their Commandant and a number ...
... The United States Forges Ahead The Early Completion of the North Carolina and other 35,000-tonners-- â– Discussed by FRANK BOWEN THE commissioning of the new American battleship. North Carolina, a good months ahead of schedule time has naturally aroused the greatest and enthusiasm in the United States, for she is the beginning of the new first against Japanese aggression and marks a ...
... The Spanish Peninsular campaign revealed a weak spot when the Spanish people, and the Asturias in particu lar, defied the might of Napoleon THE glorious distinction of being the first of the peoples to rise belongs to the small province of Asturias in northern Spain which defi antly declared war upon the conqueror of Europe. All Spain was soon aflame, except the north, which was controlled by ...
... I With limited resources, Sir John Moore made I brilliant moves against i the French armies in I Spain, but was com- I pelted to retire, while I turning rearguard actions into victory LIKE Nelson, Sir John Moore gained immortal fame by dying at the moment of victory. He had been in com mand of an expeditionary force sent, at their earnest request, to assist the Spaniards against the French. He ...
... BY AIR TO ICELAND How Communication by Flying Boat is Maintained between Britain and Iceland under Wartime Conditions MAJOR-GENERAL H. WILLIAMS, DIRECTOR OF WELFARE TO THE FORCES, VISITING SOLDIERS IN HOSPITAL IN ICELAND Formerly a Danish pos- session, Iceland is now occupied by a force of British troops, greatly to the chagrin of the Germans, who saw in it a base for operations against ...
... after the bomb raids The Spirit of the People-- and their Humour-- is Unbroken SHOT TO PIECES IN THE AIR BY OUR FIGHTERS AM that remains ot a Nazi bomber shot to pieces in mid-air. Wreckage from this plane crashed over a wide area, and pieces were soon picked off it by souvenir hunters. The crew of three had baled out before the crash but the parachute of one of them failed to open HOW TO ...
... A YEAR OF DEFIANCE BY HEROIC MALTA Italian and German Airmen Have Rained Down Bombs, but Still the Spirit of the Islanders is Unbroken Described by FERDINAND TUOHY MALTA in June a normal June. Not so good, you 'll say? A baked, caked island of yellow stone walls and parched, walled-in fields. The people almost as weary as the vegetation. White drawn faces; and the frayed tempers from that ...
... The BATTLE of the ATLANTIC Phases of the Campaign Against the Enemy Commerce Destroyer Described by FRANK BOWEN IN spite of the many much-advertised side-lines of German effort, there is no doubt that the main German attack is against merchant shipping to Britain, primarily with the idea of starving us into submission, and secondarily to prevent the arrival of war supplies. The thwarting of ...
... The SECOND BATTLE of BRITAIN A List of the German Air Raids Carried Out on Provincial Towns During the One Month of April Alone ALL the world has heard of the First Battle of Britain and how the victory went to the R.A.F., fighting over the waters of the Channel and the fields of Kent and Sussex. For some months past a Second Battle of Britain has been waging with fierce intensity but under ...