... The Latest Pictures from the Russian Fro THE NEW ZEALANDER WHO IS COMMANDING THE R.A.F. SQUADRONS OPERATING ON THE RUSSIAN FRONT-- Wing-Commander H. N. G. Ramsbotham-lsherwood Born at Petone, in New Zealand, in 1905 and educated at St. Mary's School, Galong, in New South Wales, Australia, Wing-Commander Ramsbotham-lsherwood joined the firm of Clouston and Co. in 1927 he had already been ...

... 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 ...

... hiil*) i! hi -0/ DY APPOINTMENT TO H.M.KING GEORGE VI. 1 H ACHIEVED BY K ,.,wW ^\6^> 1 loPR bottuM B PEP 8|9 1 B V bott\e 4|fe i. bot^e -y >' ...

... 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 ...

... THE TANKS THAT WILL WIN THIS WAf How the Design of the New Types Fits into To-morrow's Strategical and Tactical Schemes ALL of us have heard of, many of us have seen some of the new types of that are being produced in increasing num bers by our factories. What is the strategies and tactical pattern into which they a designed to fit? I That appearances are deceptive, even in the tank-world, ...

... BULGARIA ON THE BRINK How the Tension has Grown Until Now She is no Longer a Free Agent> but Merely the Tool of the Nazis, Despite Her Close Ties with Slavdom HAVING become the tool of Germany, Bulgaria is expected at any moment to enter the war, either against Russia or Turkey, at Hitler's bidding. Up to the present time Bulgaria has congratulated herself upon being outside the conflict, not ...

... RUSSIAN-BUILT RATA MONOPLANE, which has been doing very good work against the German bombers of Leningrad. Drawing by Roland Davies iring the Spanish War, aeronautical observers throughout Europe were electrified by the bcesses of a new-type Russian fighter aircraft in many air combats its great manoeuvrability ab'ed it to shoot down numbers of German and Italian aircraft fighting on the side ...

... ONE OF THE NEW STANDARD STEAM TRAMPS BEING BUILT IN HONG KONG UNDER THE WARTIME PROGRAMME These fine-looking and serviceable vessels are 425 ft. long, 56 ft. in beam, and 35 ft. from deck to keel they have a dead weight of 10,050 tons. They are being built in shipyards in China and will prove a very welcome addition to Britain's mercantile navy, depleted owing to enemy action. Hong Kong is ...