... GETTING THE AMERICAN PLANES ACROSS A Problem which will Grow in Importance as the Stream Swells to a Torrent Here are Two Suggestions of How the Smaller Fighters Might be Ferried Across the Atlantic THE MEN WHO HAVE TO FERRY THE AMERICAN AIRCRAFT WHEN THESE ARRIVE IN BRITAIN The Minister of Aircraft Production, Colonel Moore-Brabazon, addressing Air Transport Auxiliary pilots and ground staff ...

... When the situation in Crete became acute, the King of the Hellenes left his house, which was situated to the south-west of the town of Canea, and joined the Greek Prime Minister at Perivola. The King then took up residence in a house commanding a wide view of the countryside this new house was protected by an escort of the Greek Gendarmerie and a platoon of New Zealanders commanded by 2nd ...

... WHAT AN INVASION BY AIR LOOKS LIKE: Pictures from the Island of Crete The methods followed by the Germans in their air attacks on the island of Crete are arly shown in the pictures reproduced here. (All of them are Admiralty pictures which have ju- een officially released and all of them were taken at Heraklion, near Candia.) The aero ime was first subjected to bombing from German aircraft ...

... WHO IS THE GRAND MUFTI, Vtaker of Trouble Amongst the Arab Tribes? THE flight of the former Grand Mufti of Jerusalem, Haj Amin al Husseini, from Bagdad on the approach of our troops is significant. He is said to have gone to Teheran in Iran. What he feared was arrest, and the British have a long list of charges against him. Indeed, there is every evidence that Haj Husseini was largely ...

... JUNE 13, 1941 TripleX the safety glass fortnightly The Illustrated SIMUWILM 1 ^^SmATIC News JH 8^88^' 4 Thn TrrrifMa [SPORT COUNTRY ra w-- Jg ...

... WAR TIME ECONOMY The most effective form of economyis to KEEP FIT Nothing compares with RIDING for Health and Fitness All Riding Requisites good value and low charges To Measure Jodhpurs 34'- to 75'- Breeches 30Mo65/- Jackets 63Mo126'- Ready to Wear Jodhpurs 45/-&55/- Breeches 40/-& 50/- Jackets 55/-to87/6 Children's Riding Outfits-a speciality Goods sent on approval against suitable refs. ...

... WM, SANDERSON SON LTD. WM, SANDERSON SON LTD. L E I T H Sande\4o?td LUXURY BLEND SCOTCH WHISKY VAT 69 &L- ...

... MOSS BROS CO LTO. MOSS BROS CO LTO. a v a I M Hilary, R.A.F. and General Outfitters COVENT GARDEN Comer of King St. Bedford St., W.C.2. TEMple Bar 4477 (12 lines) Also 3/5 Upper Union St., Aldershof. 76 Park St., Bristol. 5 St. Ann's Sq., Manchester. 13 The Hard, Portsmouth And Boscombe, Camberley, Dorking, Droitwitch, Heysham, Hove, llkley, Salisbury, Shoreham, Shrivenham, York f NAVY, ARMY ...

... Jesse Crannis Calls it a Day O'^ t ...

... for DOLLARS TN the days of Tulipomania, soon after the tulip was introduced to Western Europe in the sixteenth century, as much as ^300 was sometimes paid for a single bulb. No such fantastic sums are paid now, yet the bulb-growing industry is m; king a valuable contribution to British trade, for America has ordered £100,000 wo; tfi of tulip, hyacinth and Dutch and Spanish iris bulbs to take ...

... With a I Test Match I Flavour R.A.F. v. the Rest of England MEMORIES of pre-war Test cricket were revived at Lord's on Whit Monday, when over 4000 spectators watched the big gest match so far played at Lord's since the war-- Royal Air Force and Rest of England in aid of the R.A.F. Benevolent Fund. Both sides included famous Test and County cricketers, though the Rest were weakened by last ...

... *2^ r^cijtHeSL on Chateau Larose for the Derby Morogoro may be the Danger Starwort a Good Each-Way Bet WEDNESDAY'S New Derby will pre sumably go down to history not as So-and-so's Derby but as the- Derby- when- we- were- all- rationed. The horses are rationed, the jockeys are rationed (perhaps they don't mind the food rationing as much as the leave rationing, for many of them are now serving ...