... BRITISH PARACHUTE TROOPS IN TRAINING A Special New Series Taken During the Tast Few Days at an English Training Centre A visit a few days ago to a Parachute Troop Training Centre has produced the fine set of pictures presented to our readers on this and the following pages. The men are prepared for j 'killed and daring work by instructors of both the Army and the Royal Air Force, and their ...

... OFFICER PRISONERS, SOME IN CIVILIAN CLOTHES WITH IDENTIFICATION PATCHES, being exercised on the battleship s quarter-deck during the voyage !E OF THE CAPTURED ITALIAN SEAMEN, under close guard, parade on the deck for rcise. For these men the war is now over and it does not appear that they resent it LIGHT EXERCISE FOR GERMANS AND ITALIANS Scrubbing wire hawsers on the upper a work to which the ...

... THE ROADS TO MOSCOW AHD THE OIL CENTRES On left It was at Borodino that the Russians checked Napoleon's advance on September 7, 1812. The battle was a desperate one, resulting in huge casualties. The Russians occupied the foreground, being placed on rising ground facing them, and separating General Koutousoff's army from the French, was a deep ravine. The main road from Smolensk to Moscow also ...

... If and When We Invade Enemy Territory, the Role of the R.A.F. will be a Very Important One EVERY day on which the weather is favourable squadrons of the Fighter Command of the R.A.F. fly out on the offensive over France. A year ago the Battle of Britain was drawing to its close-- the Fighter Command had triumphed in defence. Now the R.A.F. is building up a solid foundation of offensive tactics ...

... mrarjg|gir C. PATRICK THOMPSON FERDINAND TUOHY DALE COLLINS JANE GORDON ...

... N° /JVs Earl Kitchener of Khartoum, 1850-1 gi 6 >ns\ IT was a May afternoon, but the wind was keen and brisk across the anchorage of the Grand Fleet lying in Scapa Flow. The wardroom, gunroom and seamen's fiats of the Iron Duke were brisk with gossip. It was him, a dozen different men were saying. I saw him. And he's not an easy man to mistake. Truly, Lord Kitchener was not an easy man to ...

... D ockland IVo Home Love is comparable with that of the Dwellers in Mean Streets By Ben Bennisnn A BABY girl, her chubby, unwashed face aglow with mischief, waddled and paddled through pools of rain and flopped down on a heap of rubble to play a game of make-believe, gloriously, roguishly, scooping into her tiny hands the crunchings of bricks and mortar with which to stock her dream shop. To a ...

... The P Janes Must Get Through An \ncident in the Atlantic Ferry Service Tdy Day Russell HAPPY LARSEN eased the big plane over a certain secret air- port in Newfound- land and brought it down to a perfect landing with the habit of years of experience. The flight from Montreal, undertaken at short notice, had been uneventful, and familiarity had long taken the novelty off the long land and sea ...

... Hind oft 81 v Jane fionlon IT is bad enough to go about your business sniffling, snorting, sneezing and coughing in peace time, but when we are at war, efficiency on duty becomes doubly important, and the common cold can very nearly be counted as a criminal offence. If you are in one of the Nursing Services, you require the routine of protecting yourself against ever type of infection except a ...

... History repeats itself, and outmoded fashions come up like new again. Patch work is the latest thing to make a come-back, and to start us wondering whether modern women can sew as well as their grandmothers. Anyway, our ancestors set a very high standard, and, one way and the other, turned the simple matter of joining coloured scraps of silk together into a high art. Now it is our turn to make ...

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