... DAMAGED BOMBERS are MADE to FLY AGAIN: STRIPPED OF ITS WINGS AND ENGINES, A WELLINGTON FUSELAGE ARRIVES AT THE DEPOT FOR REPAIR This portion of the aircraft is handled as one whole unit SECTIONS OF THE FUSELAGE BEING REPAIRED: A picture which demonstrates the unique Geodetic (or basket-work) construction of the Wellington bomber Dombers may be damaged during raids, or on other occasions, but ...

... ON July 19 Moscow staged an elaborate air-raid test-- guns, planes and search lights being brought into action. Two nights later the city experienced its first real raid from German bombers. It was calculated that some 200 planes were employed in the raid, but only a few aircraft succeeded in penetrating the ten or twelve rings of A. -A. gun batteries which are stated to surround the city. The ...

... THE NEW AREA OF CONFLICT British and Soviet Forces Enter Iran to Frustrate Nazi Domination of that Country. By ROBERT FINCH GERMAN economic penetration and tourist infiltration have for years been more active in Iran than in any neighbouring country. Over 1,000 German technicians hold key posts in Iran's public services, and a Nazi Fifth Column has built up formidable strength. To Iran ...

... CEASELESS WAR by the R.A.F. Two Incidents of the Campaign in the Air Over Germany and Italy AFTER A RECENT RAID ON BREMEN A heavv bomber of the R.A.F. flies home after a serious outbreak of fire caused by shell bursts. --Drawing by Roland Davies The incident depicted by our artist above occurred on the return journey after a recent raid on Bremen. On their bombing run, the crew were subjected ...

... Modern fighter development is advancing at a very great rate to-day the coming of the cannon-gun is one of the principal factors with which the strategists now have to deal in planning future combat in the air. It has been stated that the new German Messerschmitt I09F has been equipped with a cannon which is probably the most formidable weapon ever installed in an aircraft this is a new type ...

... OTHER THINGS THAN WAR Labouring with One's Hands A Full House Lady Beatrice A Note on the Old School Tie St. Swithin Again BUSMAN'S HOLIDAY.-- I look back with satisfaction-- if not with a skilled craftsman's pride-- on business done in a long week's holiday in a farm house and out buildings. Items: Three chicken- houses neatly roofed with felt and slatted. Weather boarding repaired on cow ...

... BRITAIN'S EXPORT TRADE-- VI A Summary of the Difference of Conditions of Trade with the U.S.A. Compared with that of our Dominions and Colonies IN previous articles we have been dealing with the principal parts of the British Empire, such as Canada, Union of South Africa, Australia and New Zealand, all of which are only partially-developed countries with con siderable latent possibilities of ...

... THE CAVEMEN OF TOBRUK HOW THE AUSTRALIANS HAVE ADAPTED THEMSELVES TO LOCAL CONDITIONS The 11 beleaguered fortress of Tobruk is more than 1 a thorn in the side of the enemy.- Recently, it would appear that the initiative has passed to the Australians and now the attackers are having to defend themselves against the assaults of the attacked By day and night offensive operations are being ...

... By the Coastal Com mand of the R.A.F. A, fter sinking some 105,000 tons of enemy shipping during the course of opera tional flights ranging from Greenland to Norway, all down the German, Dutch, Belgian and French coasts to Bordeaux, and out into the Bay of Biscay, a Beaufort Squadron of the Royal Air Force Coastal Command has now been set to keep watch over the English Channel particularly at ...

... WHAT TOBRUK MEANS TO BRITAIN The Stubborn Defence of the Great Desert Stronghold Described by DOUGLAS GLEN THE defence of the Nile Valley and the regions that lie about it pro vide, as Mr. Churchill has said, a famous chapter in the martial history of Britain. What a splendid contribution to that defence has the garrison of Tobruk made week after week and month after month since the lightning ...

... THE BELEAGUERED COUNTRY A Full Description of Life in Switzerland To-day, Surrounded on All Sides by Warring Nations and Beset by Fears for Her Future By HANS HABE FOR two years Switzerland, gradually encircled, has been living in a state of siege. Among the still neutral countries of warring Europe, little Switzerland, with her 6,000,000 citizens (of whom only 4,000,000 live in the home land) ...

... In Two Years Many of the War Leaders Have Come-and Gone Many Men Have Loomed Largely Over the Continent Since the Outbreak of the War, but Very Few of Them Have Stayed the Course During the First Two Years By FERDINAND TUOHY TWENTY-FOUR months have rolled poundingly by since the voices of Chamberlain and Daladier told 100,000,000 of their fellow-countrymen and women that the war against ...