... The LOSS of the PRINCE OF WALES and REPULSE Sunk off Malaya in Action Against, the Japanese Wednesday, December 10 VY/ithin three days of the opening of hostilities with Japan, the British Navy suffered a grievous loss with the sinking of the battleship Prince of Wales and the big battle- cruiser Retoulse. Apparently, and according to their own statements, the Japanese Fleet had been ...

... BATTLE IN THE DESERT --THE THIRD WEEK General Rommel is Forced Out to the West and the Tobruk Connection is Re-established Special Sphere Diagrams On right When the two to three days of recuperation had passed, British patrols began to break out northwards, to begin the harassing of arty German or Italian forces which they were able to discover north of the T righ-Capuzzo Road. The two Panzer ...

... Alter the opening days of the offensive against General Rommel in Cyrenaica, when the Royal Navy actually participated in the land operations by bombardment from the sea, our warships have been concentrating on the destruction of the enemy's shipping and convoys carrying supplies across the Mediterranean to the sore-pressed Axis forces opposed to General Cunningham's Eighth Army. Our artist. ...

... THE UNITED STATES ON THE BRINK, Early December 1941 Impressions of a Flying Visit just Before the Devastating Attacks by Japan, which Brushed All the Trivialities and Bright Lights Aside and Brought America Grimly into the War Described by VERNON FANE AT a house on Long Island, quite close to where Walt Whitman lived, I took a glass of wine with a man who had dined in England on the previous ...

... THE LAST MOMENTS OF THE ARK ROYAL: Further Official Pictures HEELING OVER TO STARBOARD AFTER THE TORPEDOING A picture taken by a Catalina aircraft whilst a destroyer was proceeding alongside to take off survivors ANTI-AIRCRAFT GUNNERS GO OVER THE SIDE by a rope attached to a gun sponson. There was a destroyer waiting to rescue the men at the other end A NUMBER OF AIRCRAFT WERE LINED UP ON THE ...

... The Submarine of To-day The Slim Lines of the New U.S. Types Compared With Those of the More Bulbous British Vessels On left This submarine was one of two British underwater craft, details of whose performance in icy Arctic waters have just been published. Trident, under the command of Commander G. M. Sladen, D.S.C., sank three enemy ships, left four others so badly damaged that they probably ...

... By Foresight Greetings THE Prime Minister's sixty-seventh birth day found him in the plenitude of his power and the fullness of his confidence. Mr. Churchill's health has never been better, nor his energy as boundless. No burden of detail, however large or small, halts him in his purpose, nor dims his vision. He lives and works for victory in a manner which commands the simple admiration of ...

... By James Agate Three Good Films WHAT is a good film? I think that one of the ways to answer this question is to transpose it and ask: What is a good picture? Meaning the thing which is painted by hand and hangs on a wall. It is a good picture if, all things considered, you prefer it to the bare wall. But, say you, being argumentative, even a bad picture may be better than empty space. ...

... Miss Penelope Steele Miss Penelope Steele is working at a Chelsea First- Aid Post and also helps at the Beaver Club, the London rendezvous of Canadians in this country. She is the daughter of Mrs. Gerald Steele of 66, Prince's Gate, S. W., and before the war she teas a student at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art, and intended to take up acting as a career Miss Janet Attlee Miss Janet Attlee ...

... The Viceroy's Daughter Larly Anne Southby and Her Four-Months-Old Son Lady Anne Hope, eldest daughter of the Marquess and Marchioness of Linlithgow, married Lieut. Patrick Henry James Southby, R.N., in 1939 in India, returned to England when her husband left his post as A.D.C. to her father, the Viceroy, to go on active service, and is now living at Field House, Burford, in Oxfordshire. Her ...

... Get a Load of This There Is Music, Laughter, Dancing, Drama and Death in George Black's Two-Floor Show at the Hippodrome Dancing time in the cabaret belongs to Jeanne Ravel of the lovely legs. She dances alone and with tall blond partner, George Gray. Jeanne is married to Ronnie Boyer, now in the Navy, with whom before the war she danced her way through Europe and South America Table ...

... By Elizabeth Bowen Obscure Lives IN front of the great winds of world events, the lives of the little people are blown like straws. Nowadays, too much happens: our imaginations grow strained and tired with the effort to take in happenings on a colossal scale-- so we turn with relief to small lives, to individual people, and wonder how they make out, how they see things through. Miss E. M. ...