... BRAVING ATLANTIC TEMPESTS TO BRING SUPPLIES IN CONVOY TO GREAT BRITAIN, so THAT SHE AND HER ALLIES MAY CONTINUE TO STRIKE THE ENEMY WHEREVER HE IS ENCOUNTERED, AS MR. CHURCHILL RECENTLY DECLARED Bringing war supplies of ail kinds to Great Britain in Convoy in wartime is no easy task at the best of times but when gales of wind and rain, reaching almost hurricane force, descend upon the Convoy ...

... The Giant SUPERSTRUCTURE of a Modern MAN-OF-WAR The Massive Midship Section of the New King George V Class The drawing reproduced here, by Mr. McDowell, is an artist's impression of the towering mass of steel which is the modern counter part in a battleship of the cruiser's and the destroyer's bridge. It has been prepared to show how this huge mass towers up towards the sky, cul minating in ...

... Behind the Battle of Britain The Role of the Home Civil Defence Services Described By K. W. C. SINCLAIR-LOU TIT NEVER was so much owed by so many to so few. The truth of these words strikes home whenever September-October, 1940 comes up in retrospect. The few who gallantly fought off the German air fleets as they came to bomb London did so in an isolation which makes their gallantry all the ...

... The Noble Profession is Still Flourishing, But all its Prominent Exponents are Now Serving with the Armed Forces. Here is a Wartime Review of Boxers, Referees, Promoters and Others in the Fight-Game By CHARLES GRAVES THE manly art of fisticuffs is wisely encouraged by the heads of the three Fighting Services: They know that aggressiveness, quick reactions, stamina, resourcefulness and fitness ...

... THE SOUTHERN RAILWAY'S WORKSHOPS SMASH RECORDS TO AID RUSSIA- Mrs. Dolly Strover is a riveter in the workshops of the Southern Railway she is here seen at work, with men colleagues, on goods wagons destined for Russia. One thousand of these are now on their way, as the culmination of weeks of prodigious effort on the part of the men and women engaged on their construction. One hundred and ...

... WANTED Empty Cartridge Cases An Official Appeal to All Who Handle Shot-Guns THE ILLUSTRATED SPORTING AND DRAMATIC NEWS has been authorised to make an official appeal asking its readers and, in fact, all who handle a shot-gun to get together in the vital drive for saving paper. There is real value in used cartridge cases, and not a single cartridge fired by any thinking person should be ejected ...

... By E. L. Hawke, M.A., F.r.a.S. Secretary of the Royal Meteorological Society HALCYON days-- phrase beloved of journalists out to describe all that is brightest and best in summer weather, and used, by analogy, as a synonym for peace and plenty in human affairs. Few people seem to know the origin of the ex pression. It is a survival from classical times, when the ancient Greeks and Romans ...

... Foxhounds met at Great Westwood, King's Langley, Herts. Captain S. G. R. Barratt, the joint-Master, is on leave, and enjoyed a day's hunting with his many friends. Mrs. S. Barratt, in Captain Barratt's absence, is acting-Master and field-master, and is assisted by Miss E. M. White, acting as whip. MO VI NG OFF The pack starts the day's work. The Master (in uniform) and the acting-Master and ...

... Australia's Wonderland AT this moment, when the British Commonwealth and its Allies are fighting for their existence, reserves of munitions, raw materials and essential foods are vital for victory. The British Empire, founded by the enter prise of British people, is now providing these reserves in rich measure and no part more liberally than the Commonwealth of Australia, of which the State of ...

... 7 THE story of the Peg Tee, or, as it was known in the early days, the Reddy Tee, is a story with a moral, which is very obvious; but it is once again the story of an invention so simple that no one thought of it. It was a great commercial success until people began to infringe the patent and copy it, and finally unsuccessful law suits ruined the inventor's prospects of taking things easily ...

... By Foresight Vienna Diversion EUROPE is once more filled with rumours of peace. Hitlerian peace! Hitler is planning to call a Continental Confer ence to proclaim his New Order. Nazi agents are spreading the tidings everywhere and in every way. Neutrals like Sweden, and probably Turkey,' are to be bidden to the feast. Vienna has been selected as the meeting place. But no date has been finally ...

... By James Agate Jinks on the Ark Royal I SAT through Ships With Wings more in anger than in sorrow. In this film a fortune has been expended, and the aid ol the Admiralty invoked, on behalf of a story at which a schoolboy must laugh. And yet it's all so simple. Why, before thousands were poured out and the Fleet Air Arm was incommoded, did not Mr. Balcon summarise his plot on half a sheet of ...