... A WAR NEWSLETTER-No. 112== i. New Oxford Street, W.C.i. Complacency and Doubt. --It is abundantly clear that while a certain measure of cheerfulness (with its terrible implication of com placency) insists on breaking in before a third terrible winter of trial and privation and darkness closes in on Britain, a large measure of doubt is beginning to break in on the Nazis and Axis Powers. To ...

... From the TWO ENDS of the RUSSIAN LINE A NIGHT LANDING OF RUSSIAN SABOTEURS ON THE FINNISH COAST, from the fortified islets which extend from Kronstadt towards Finland. The object of these determined men is to harry supply traffic on the roads along the Gulf of Finland Drawing by Wm. MacDowell ON THE ODESSA FRONT ON THE BLACK SEA An attack by a Russian petty officer on a battery of six Rumanian ...

... TOBRUK has been HELD FOR OVER SIX MONTHS How this Great Feat has been Accomplished and How the Stukas have been Defied FOR over six months now Tobruk has been held by British and Impferial Forces against the Italians and the Germans. And to-day it is stronger than ever it was and this despite artillery bombardment and incessant dive-bombing attacks by Stukas. On April n the stronghold's ...

... THE WOMEN SCIENTIST! VHO WORK on BRITISH AIRCRAFT MISS J. SEUME, Technical Assistant at a Royal Aircraft Establishment, experimenting with one c the fascinating little models used in research work in connection with seaplanes MISS K. M. HUNTER (B.Sc., London) carrying out experimental work on a gun turret. In this branch of aeronautical science Britain leads the whole world to-day 1 MISS M. B. ...

... Six Months at Tobruk A New Series of Pictures from the Desert Strong hold, so Tenaciously Held by Imperial Forces THE MAN WHO IS IN COMMAND OF THE TOBRUK GARRISON Major-Genera! L. J. Morshead, C.M.G., C.B.E., D.S.O. A veteran of the last war, General Morshead is in command at Tobruk. During his service with the A.I.F. from 1914-19 he was awarded the C.M.G., D.S.O., and Legion d'Honneur and was ...

... THE KING AT LIVERPOOL, WHERE HE MET MEN OF THE ROYAL NAVY AND MERCHANT NAVY Leaving a corvette during the course of his tour through the docks GOING ABOARD ONE OF THE LANDING CRAFT from which troops and equipment are put ashore An incident during the King's inspection of Exercises in Scotland During the past few days the King has paid a visit to much-bombed Liverpool and inspected officers and ...

... A BEAUFORT OF THE R.A.F. COASTAL COMMAND OFF TO SEARCH FOR ENEMY SHIPPING Her torpedo is carried in the fuselage and is released through the bomb doors at the bottom When the war started, the Royal Air Force held the initiative in the use of torpedo aircraft and our enemies could testify to the remarkable manner in which this branch of the Service has since been developed and improved. These a ...

... FOUR CAPITALS WHERE OUR SECRETS ESCAPE These are Cairo, Washington, Dublin and-- London. In Each of These Centres the Axis Agents are Many and Alert. The Activities of These Gentry are Here Discussed By FERDINAND TUOHY ARE we doing all we can to restrict the jet of information to the enemy General Staffs? A period approaches during which vast plans may be translated into action, investing the ...

... WHAT THE NAVY LAUGHS AT Some Examples of the Light-Hearted Humour which Goes the Rounds of Naval Stations at Home and Abroad By CHARLES GRAVES World Copyright reserved) HAS it ever occurred to you that there are only two subjects which are absolutely sacrosanct on the professional music-hall stage? Well, they are the Roman Catholic Church and the Royal Navy which goes to prove that the British ...

... the coming of the fogs The Winter Routine in the Royal Navy By FRANK C. BOWEN ALTHOUGH fog is one of the least dependable of weather conditions, quite beyond any accurate prophecy, the October fog is generally along the coast line, due to the great difference in temperature by day and night, and generally dispersed during the forenoon. Where it lies it can be dense, but clear of the coast it ...

... I n the early days of the war the Coastal Command was under the inspired leadership of Air Chief-Marshal Sir Frederick Bowhill, and the staff he gathered round him gained vast experience. With its mixed force of fighters, bombers, and many other types, it is almost an Air Force within the Air Force. Bowhill has now gone to Canada to organise the ferrying of the wartime output of the United ...

... A WAR NEWSLETTER-No. NO i. New Oxford Street, W.C.i. Mr. Churchill's Review. --Another comforting speech came from Mr. Churchill on the last day of September. The bull-point which he released was no doubt his con sidered opinion that the Nazis have lost an alarming proportion of their air strength, a point which cannot fail to comfort the Home Front, if it em barrasses those in charge of the ...