... The German at home may fondly imagine that British ships are being sent to the bottom at a fantastic rate a certain number of them are being sunk in the Battle of the Atlantic but, pro rata, German and Italian shipping is suffering much more heavily at the hands of the R.A.F. And the enemy's need for what remains of his mercantile fleet is even greater than our own. More and more, owing to the ...

... A Series of Pictures of the Huge American-built Bombers which Carried Out the First Stratosphere Raids on the Scharnhorst and the Gneisenau SEATED WELL UP IN THE NOSE, a Squadron Leader of the R.A.F. operates the controls of the huge bomber he has with him in the aircraft a crew of from seven to nine i.-- i-- AN EXTERNAL VIEW OF ONE OF THE GUN POSITIONS There are five rifle-calibre guns, and ...

... How GERMANY has Worked on JAPAN: But Japan herself has yet to Decide her Own Destiny By HERMIONE BEAUCLERK AND Japan? Very small. Yet not so small as to have escaped the machinations of Nazidom, and large enough for politicians of every nationality to have to keep a weather eye aware of Japan's activities. Large enough to have overrun Korea and Manchuria, Formosa and the Peninsula of ...

... THE BURMA ROAD, LOOKING TOWARDS THE CHINESE FRONTIER and the native- built bombers which the Japanese are using in their air operations against China Working from their newly-acquired bases in French Indo-China, the Japanese are now within striking distance by air of the Burma Road. The bombers they are likely to use for this task are the Mitsubishi Otori 96, shown above. The Otori (which ...

... By Foresight All Hands On Deck PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT will certainly have been interested in the report which Mr. Harry Hopkins brought back to him from his trip to Britain and Russia. The President now has his full team assembled in Washington again. Mr. Sumner Welles, the Permanent Under-Secretary at the State Department had to deputise for two months for Mr. Cordell Hull, the Secretary of ...

... (A Hui TbAwuf By James Agate Pity The Poor Director FIRST they, meaning Hollywood, buy your play, novel, or whatever it is. Next they alter it so radically that you do not recognise it. Then they change the name. What, ultimately, they think they have bought is a riddle to which Hollywood has hitherto withheld the answer. On an evening in October, 1931, there was produced at the Apollo Theatre ...

... The Tatler and Bystander in Town and Country By Bridget Chetwynd Princess Royal THE PRINCESS ROYAL has been in the Alnwick district, inspecting members of various ambulance and war-work units up there. The inspection took place at Alnwick Castle, and the Princess arrived with the Duchess of Northumberland (in uniform), Lady Grey (who is President of the Northumberland Branch of the British Red ...

... Less Kia-Ora there may be; but not less good Kia- Or a. Good Health Lemon, Orange, Grapefruit, lame Juire Cordial 'J/6' Orange Bariey, Lemon Barley 2/S ...

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... THE R.A.F. OUT ON A DAYLIGHT HUNT FOR ENEMY SHIPPING IN THE CHANNEL- Drawine bv W. G. Whitakcr Now that the R.A.F. have established a superiority over the enemy in the Channel area, they are going out daily in quest of targets and in daylight, too Whenever the weather is propitious, Blenheim bombers range along the length of the French coast and the Low Countries. The success they have already ...

... ^he King has just completed a three-day visit to the Home Fleet in Northern waters, during which he slept aboard Britain's newest and mightiest battleship, the King George V. From the bridge this 35,000-ton vessel Admiral Tovey directed the Fleet in the action against the Bismarck J a°d the Admiral's cabin of the same vessel the Commander-in-Chief was invested with the K.C.B. >y the King. ...

... THE NEW ZEALAND PREMIER WITH DOMINION AIRMEN Mr. Peter Frazer, now in Great Britain, has just paid a visit to a New Zealand Fighter Command in the Home Counties. Here he is seen chatting to a Squadron Leader who has been awarded the D.F.C. and Bar, and who, in addition to shooting down a big bag of German machines, has himself been shot down eight times iiUSSIAN FILMS TO BE SHOWN IN ENGLAND In ...