... LEADERS OF BRITAIN'S WAR EFFORT: the prime minister and our fighting chiefs watch an a.a. demonstration during a visit TO AN AIR STATION OF THE BOMBER COMMAND The Prime Minister, still pursuing his plan of seeing things for himself, has just visited an air station of the Bomber Command, and other places of importance within this island. Amongst the things he witnessed was the launching of a ...

... A WAR NEWSLETTER -No. 93 i, New Oxford Street, W.C.i. Politics and Strategy.-- To defend our oil supplies and the Canal, all military common sense urges the supreme importance of our occu pying Syria and holding it strongly before the German grip on it becomes ineradicable. The political aspect en visages in such a move the final and open throwing of France into the arms of the Nazis, as ...

... TWO AMAZING PICTURES The End of a German Submarine During the Battle of the Atlantic Pictures which were taken just before the U-boat went down to her doom WITH ITS CONNING-TOWER WRECKED BY SHELLS, another U-boat goes down to its doom out in the Atlantic. The crew are about to abandon ship A DRAMATIC PICTURE SCRAMBLING OUT ON TO THE DECK, WHICH IS ALREADY AWASH, the crew of the German ...

... RESCUING THE R.A.F. The Dinghies Which Save the Life of Our Airmen In previous issues we have already drawn our readers attention to the formation of the Air/Sea Rescue Ser vice, rendered neces sary by the unceas ing Air Battle of Britain. This Ser vice is operated by fleets of 40-miles- per-hour R.A.F. and naval speed la unches and by Lysander aircraft specially equipped for the task. The ...

... Admiral Darlan's Newest Idea for the Building Up of his Fascist State the Reorganisation of the French Police Force on German Lines for the Control of Thought and Opinion Throughout the Region Governed by Vichy Described by FERDINAND TUOHY BEHIND Vichy's announcement that it pro poses to set up the best police force in the world is a scheme to coerce French people into fulfilment of the new ...

... The GERMANS in ANCIENT SYRIA The Bombing of Palmyra Aerodrome by the R.A.F. In ancient times from about A.D. 100 up to the fourteenth century Palmyra was a wealthy and magnificent city of Northern Syria, situated in an oasis on the northern edge of the Arabian Desert about 150 miles from Damascus. It is now remem bered mainly through its association with Zenobia, the ambitious queen who had ...

... The ASTONISHING OASIS of SIWA South of Solium and Sidi Barrani Lies this little-known Oasis which may, at any moment, be Threatened by War THE remote little desert town of Siwa, which lies some two hundred miles south of Sollum and Sidi Barrani (a mere trifle in these days of mechanisation!), seems likely at any moment to be drawn into the whirlpool of the war in north-east Africa, should the ...

... THE MEDITERRANEAN ISLAND OF CYPRUS The British Possession in the Eastern Mediterranean which Lies Athwart the Enemy's Route to Syria and the East fyprus is the third largest island in the Mediterranean, the other two being Crete and Malta. It is 1 48 miles long, and its width varies from 35 miles to 50 miles although there are rocky portions, it is stated that the central plains are suitable ...

... AFTER FIVE YEARS OF EXILE The Emperor Haile Selassie Returns in Triumph to Addis Ababa A Series of Official Pictures ON THE WAY TO THE BALCONY OF THE ROYAL PALACE The Emperor has just inspected the Guard of Honour. He is here seen with General Cunningham, G.O.C. East Africa NATIVE SCHOOLCHILDREN, WITH THEIR FLAGS, awaiting the passing of the Emperor through the streets of his capital, which he ...