... AT THE HEART OF SOVIET RUSSIA The Mighty Kremlin, the Citadel Within the City of Moscow, Which is the Seat of the Russian Government Qhortly after the establishment of Bolshevist rule throughout Russia, the seat of Government was transferred from Leningrad to Moscow, which had in centuries past been the capital. For a time Leningrad languished in consequence but very soon it revived, and to ...

... THE A.-A. GUN IN ACTION Pictures of the Very Efficient and Quick- Firing Bofors i THE BOFORS GUN IN ACTION AT NIGHT A picture taken by the light of the gun-flashes. This light anti-aircraft gun has a rapid rate of fire and is particularly useful against low-flying aircraft Still another lesson learned at Crete was the necessity for more, and yet more, A.-A. guns. The output is at last rapidly ...

... The U.S. Revenue Cutters The pictures reproduced on this page show some of the United States Revenue cutters, which will now operate with the Royal Navy under the Lease-and-Lend Agreement, at the start of their transatlantic crossing at New York, and on arrival at a British port. Down river from New York the American crews left the ships and British sailors took over. The 2,000-ton cutters are ...

... Other Things Than War J/ Twice Hit by Missiles of War The English Summer and English Cricket; Galloping Over the Garden; The Village Scrap=heap TWICE HIT.-- The other day a mill owner wrote to The Times to record how he had placed part of a German bomb beside a Cromwellian cannon-ball in his office. Both, by the orders of dictators, had penetrated the walls of his old mill. (Which is ...

... A WAR JHS. NEWSLETTER -No. 98 i. New Oxford Street. W.C.i. 5 to I on Freedom. I feel it in my bones that there are quite a number of people in the Reich to-day who are resuming the function of educated men and doing a bit of private thinking on their own account. I dare say a big percentage of those who have resumed their private reasoning powers were a year ago confirmed, dazzled, doped Nazis ...

... AMERICA FORMS a SCREEN of ATLANTIC ISLANDS --Part of Her New Strategy of Securing the American Mainland from Axis Attack by Air or by Sea from Enemy Island Bases Out in the Atlantic Ocean Described by FERDINAND TUOHY PRESIDENT CARMONA, Portugal's veteran soldier Chief of State, should by this time have landed on the Azores, eight hundred miles in mid- Atlantic, from Lisbon. Officially, the ...

... PANAMA'S BRIDGE of WATER The Great Artificial Link which Separates North and South America, but which Connects Atlantic and Pacific THE idea of a navigable channel across the isthmus is as old almost as the discovery of the Western Hemisphere itself. Nevertheless, it was left to M. de Lesseps to make the first serious attempt, and the world is acquainted with the terrible failure of the ...

... A BRITISH TORPEDO UNDERGOES ITS TESTS: A heavy type being fired on the range. It will later be fitted with a war-head In the Navy three sizes of torpedo are used 14-in. by the smaller naval vessels 18-in. and 2 1 -in. The weight of the latter is nearly I J tons and its length 22 ft. In the last war the efficient range of a torpedo was some 7,000 to 10,000 yards, and it would require about ...

... The NEW FLOATING RESCUE STATIONS of the R.A.F. First Official Pictures of the Stations to be Moored in the Channel ast autumn most of the battles in the air were fought over British territory. To-day the R.A.F. are waging war over France and on the far side of the Channel; thus, when pilots are forced down, they often find themselves a long way from home. It is now announced that floating ...

... The WORK of In this War Little Attention h( Service whose Members Ha\ in the Pursuance of their Dut/i THE ground which has already been won in Syria has involved con siderable fighting, and every branch of the Army is entitled to a share in the honours. Stretcher-bearers take by no means the last place on the list of courageous acts. They had a particularly sticky job last night when they ...

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... In one of our recent attacks on Germany, the loss of twelve of our machines was reported. This can be attributed to the extraordinary weather, which provided the defence with ideal conditions, as depicted in the above drawing. Strato-cumulus clouds were piled in layers up to 18,000 ft. without a break over the North Sea. Thunder and icing made the passage through them vet more difficult. One ...