... THEY DRIVE BY NIGHT. The Men Who Bring Down the Big Lorries from the Ports and Industrial Centres of the North to the Capital Through the Long Black-out Hours Described by CHARLES GRAVES EVERY evening in the failing light convoys of great £3,000 lorries and still greater and more expensive tankers rumble off with their precious cargoes from London and the ports. Every morning they arrive, over ...

... ATLANTIC PATROL by the U.S. To Maintain a Constant Watch over Her Shores and to Check Up on Shipping the U.S. is Using Her Blimps THE BLIMP CHECKS UP The patrol airship L-l of the U.S. Navy hovers over the freighter Musa, of the Panama Lines, to check the vessel's identity. Tiny figures of men are just discernible on the freighter's forward deck fHE UP-AND-DOWN MAN Responsible for the vertical ...

... A STRIKING PICTURE FROM TOBRUK An armoured car manned with a captured Italian Breda gun I There are many points of interest about this picture. To begin with, the armoured car has become part of the static defences of Tobruk, or, in other words, it has sacrificed its mobility for greater precision. During the battles around Smolensk, in Russia, it was reported that the Russians had used many ...

... 4 But THREE of the PILOTS are SAFE The Work of the R.A.F.'s Own Lifeboat Service Described by PATRICK HAMILTON TWO seaside toys of a few years back now help in modified form to save the lives of bomber and fighter pilots shot down in the narrow seas round our coasts. One is a development of the American speed-boat which took holiday-makers for a thrilling 30-m.p.h. dash round the pier and ...

... THE WONDERFUL HOME AT SEVENOAKS OF LONDON'S NEXT LORD MAYOR Lieut. -Colonel Sir John Dawson Laurie, who will be assuming the Lord Mayoralty in November, is a bachelor, sixty-nine years of age. In the last war he commanded the 2-4th Royal West Kents and was awarded the Croi> de Guerre with Palm. Sir John became an alderman in 1931 and was Sheriff of the City of Londor in 1935-36. He is the ...

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... DR. BARNARDO'S HOME! Mother' and Father to 8,250 once destitute boys and girls now being trained for the duties of citizenship. 3,500 children admitted since War began, including 814 cases due to War conditions. f| feeds one child Ivr/ for 10 days. PLEASE HELP Cheques, etc. (crossed), payable Dr. Barnardo's Homes, should be sent to 20 BARNARDO HOUSE. STEPNEY CAUSEWAY, LONDON E.I. 8,250 ...

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... I I I H Su )]essness and resdess nights fP^jj may undennine your i fitness-for-service, which is so important to the f I national effort. E I I I 2 On the other hand, nothing can contribute so much to your health, vigour and cheerfulness as restful, nerve-restoring sleep every night. This is the best kind of sleep the sleep which a bedtime cup of Ovaltine will enable you 1 to enjoy. I J 1 I f ...

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... Champion Sparking Plugs, ensuring utmost engine-efficiency and economy by their unique gas-tight con struction,'*' are doing a work often unseen, more often out of mind, which counts invaluably towards dependable transportation. CHAMPION The SILLMENT Seal, exclusive to Champion, prevents gas-leakage. CHAMPION SPARKING PLUG COMPANY LIMITED ...

... ^l/l/I^Ajdldr (A ibi By James Agate A Runyon Film DAMON RUNYON is one of the great masters of the comic story in virtue of the fact that he has created an entirely new world. One of the many working definitions of genius might be that the possessor of it creates that which, but for him, would never have come into existence. The thing is quantitative rather than qualitative. Let me explain. I ...