... PARACHUTISTS ARE (AS ON PREVIOUS OCCASIONS) IN THE NEWS AGAIN HERE IS A CLOSE-UP OF OUR OWN PARACHUTE TROOPS A picture taken during last Sunday's demonstration, which was witnessed by the King Cince the invasion of the Low Countries, parachutists have been consistently in the war news, and in Crete we are now witnessing the most serious attempt yet made by the enemy to capitalise to the full ...

... Where New Zealand, British, and Greek Troops are Fighting the Parachute Troops Dropped by the Germans in Successive Waves A special Sphere Section -ItKt int itvtKtil MbmlNb HAi I AKEN PLACE IHt MALEME-CANEA AREA IN CRETE From Maleme aerodrome (which at the beginning of the week was in enemy hands, although commanded by our gunfire) to Canea is an eight- to ten-mile stretch. It is .here that ...

... A BRIEF communique by the Admiralty in March, to the effect that H.M.S. Leander had encountered the fast Italian merchant-ship R.A.M.B. armed with 4-7-in. guns, and acting as a raider, and had forced her to surrender with her fifth salvo and in May, an equally brief one that a German armed merchant-cruiser had been intercepted and sunk by H.M.S. Cornwall, twenty-seven British merchant- seamen ...

... THE MEN WHO DO THE WORK The Officers and Sergeants of the Royal Air Force RANKS in the Royal Air Force seem to be more confused in the mind of the average man than those of any other Service. That is perhaps natural, for there are Flying Officers who have never flown, Squadron Leaders who have never commanded a squadron, and even some Wing Commanders who do not know one aeroplane from another. ...

... OTHER THINGS THAN WAR The Passing of Dinner and of Courtesy in Diplomacy Chance Immortality The Fog of Political Controversy AND NOW DINNER. --You may remember Duffer's Drift and how in one of his dreams of its defence, Lieutenant Backsight- Fore thought, beaten as usual by the Boers, had been ordered by his captors to surrender one by one his arms and pieces of equipment, and how at last ...

... FOR RAIDS ON GERMANY Preparing Fresh Surprises for Military Objectives on the Continent Mr. Churchill has told us, more than once, that after having endured for months the terroristic bombings of German airmen, we shall soon be in a position to give it back with interest. Lord Beaverbrook, the Minister for Aircraft Production, has also paid tribute to the boys in the back room who have ...

... The U.S. Coast Guard Cutters Ten of which have been Sent from the U.S. MR. CHURCHILL'S announcement to the House of Commons that ten U.S. Coast Guard cutters had been placed at the disposal of the British Navy and would soon be in action, is of great importance, for this is a type in which the Navy is absolutely deficient and which can be of immense use for protecting the food ships. The title ...

... THE NEW GANAL AT GIBRALTAR FIELD-MARSHAL LORD GORT, who has been appointed Governor and Commander- in-Chief at Gibraltar WHERE THE CANAL HAS BEEN BUILT at the edge of the neutral territory between Spain and Gibraltar FOR THE PROTECTION OF GIBRALTAR FROM THE LANDWARD SIDE: The new water trench, which has converted the peninsula of Gibraltar into an island, and which is spanned by only one road ...

... A MASS DESCENT BY BRITISH PARACHUTISTS A picture taken during recent exercises by our newest arm of the Fighting Forces. This demonstration was witnessed by the Prime Minister, who may be seen in the little group on the left watching the men landing riNAL INSTRUCTIONS TO THE TROOPS BEFORE EMPLANING The man on the left (with the parachutists' badge on his sleeve) is an instructor. He is giving ...

... Some Facts about a Little-Known but Immensely Rich, Land and Its Attraction for Hitler To-day Described by DONALD COWIE, and Specially Illustrated IN a recent speech Mr. Churchill observed that Germany might soon threaten the Ukraine. Since then news has reached London of the formation of a Ukrainian Legion in German-occupied Poland, and the extension of the Ukrainian Bureau in Berlin. This ...

... The Big Fellows of the Coastal Command The Huge Short Sunderlands which Patrol the Seas in the Battle of the Atlantic Described by LEONARD R. GRIBBLE SUBMARINE on the starboard quarter! The look-out's cry brought men running to the rail of the plunging steamer, deep-laden with Argentine wheat. On the bridge Captain Schofield gave fresh orders. Below decks the radio operator tapped out an ...

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