... BRITISH MERCHANTMEN ARE REACHING THE ISLAND A view of one of the docks in Cyprus, showing a whole fleet of steamers discharging their cargoes to the shore warehouses under the eyes of British guards- -This is an Official War Office Photograph THIS IS A PLEASING SIGHT TO THE CYPRIOTES British light tanks (of which there are now a number) passing through one of the villages on the island A Light ...

... The BRITISH ADVANCE INTO SYRIA Damascus The Mother City of the World WHEN France took over Syria from the League of Nations it was expected that she would make Damascus the capital of her newly acquired mandated territory. That distinction, however, was conferred upon Beyrout, on the coast. Yet Damascus was, and always had been, the principal trading centre of Southern Syria. There is no city ...

... THESE amazing pictures, smuggled out of Occupied France, were taken last autumn at Dieppe: they are the first pictorial evidence of how serious the threat of invasion was last year. The pictures were taken from an attic overlooking the harbour, the only other witnesses of the strange scene being conscripted dock, labourers. Last September, Mr. Winston Churchill warned the country that Germany ...

... The DUKE of AOSTA GIVES UP The Surrender of Italy's Viceroy in Abyssinia at Amba Alagi AFTER HIS SURRENDER The Duke (who was Commander-in-Chief of all Italy's East African Forces) in British hands THE DUKE COMES DOWN FROM THE MOUNTAINS AT AMBA ALAGI, where he lived during the last stages of his campaign in a cave dug into the hillside THE ENTRANCE TO THE CAVE WHERE THE DUKE OF AOSTA LIVED ON ...

... ALONG THE COAST ROAD FROM TYRE AND SIDON TO BEYROUT It is along this wonderful road that British forces have been advancing northwards from Palestine. The road was built by the French since their occupation of Syria in many places there are magnificent tunnels, such as the one above, cut through the sheer rock. From the sea the road is commanded by the guns of the Royal Navy AN AERIAL VIEW OF ...

... THE BATTLE OF THE ATLANTIC GOES ON THE RESCUE OF THE CREW OF A BRITISH MERCHANTMAN AFTER THEY HAD BEEN ADRIFT IN THE ATLANTIC FOR SIX DAYS IN A SMALL OPEN BOAT r\n May 1 9, a British freighter, the s.s. Marconi, of 7,402 tons, was torpedoed by a German submarine the merchant man was one of a convoy when she was sent to the bottom. Some of the crew managed to launch two lifeboats, and for six ...

... The two amazing pictures reproduced here were taken by R.A.F. photographers over Maleme aerodrome in Crete, after its occupation by the Germans. In the upper picture over sixty aircraft can be counted on the landing-ground and it would be safe to say that each and every one was damaged in some way. Some of them (as the lower picture corroborates) will never fly again wings, fuselages and ...

... FRANCE: TO BOMB OR NOT TO BOMB? There are Areas in France which are Being Built Up into a Big Arsenal for Hitler Should the War Factories be Allowed to go Unmolested in this All-in, Totalitarian, Warfare? By FERDINAND TUOHY IT'S a pity that the Ministry of Economic War fare has a reputation for over-optimism as exemplified in its recurrent joke about German oil reserves. The department's ...

... Latest Official Pictures Taken During Anti-Invasion Manoeuvres A TANK GOES INTO ACTION AT SPEED IN THE SAND DUNES Moving off to take up position. As an indication to the others, this tank is clearly marked H.Q. Note the streams of sand thrown up by the massive tractors MACHINE-GUNNERS OF THE R.A.F. Now that aerodrome defence has taken on an even greater significance in view of what happened in ...

... THE CRUISER versus AIRCRAFT in NARROW WATERS A Note on Our Losses During the Operations off Crete ALTHOUGH the Axis claim that at least a dozen British cruisers, in addition to smaller warships, had been sunk during the Cretan operations was grossly exaggerated, the loss of the Gloucester and Fiji was bad enough, but with fighting at a disadvantage and taking the big risk inevitable in the ...

... IN COMMAND OF THE RED ARMT Marshal Semyou Timoshenko, the ex-peasant soldier, succeeded Voroshilov in 1940. He is the Soviet's Commander- in-Chief, and in control of ten million men IN COMMAND OF THE RED NAVY Admiral N. Kuznetsov is thirty-nine years of age. He is in charge of the four Soviet fleets in the Baltic, Black Sea, Arctic and Pacific THE TYPE OF MEN WHO MAKE UP THE RED ARMY The ...

... A series of official Air Ministry pictures 'The closest-guarded secret of the war has just been revealed by the R.A.F. It is Radiolocation, by means of which our fighting aircraft are sent to the exact spot where a raiding bomber is lurking, and, if conditions arc favourable, send it hurtling to its doom. The invention, for which credit has been awarded to Mr. R. A. Watson Watt, an expert on ...