... SINGAPORE y Gateway to the Far East Described by W. ROBERT FORAN SINGAPORE has justly been styled the Gate of the Far East. It is no idle claim. The island of Singapore stands on the sea's highway between China, Japan and Australasia in the east, and India and Europe in the west. Geographically, and in actual fact, it is the halfway house. ro cms greac pore come snips irom every corner 01 ...

... ON the evening of Saturday, December 27, after a week of strenuous professional theatre-going, a young friend of mine, with a spot of embarkation leave, asked me to take him to a play. We visited fourteen out of the twenty-nine theatres open, as I write, in Central London, and at not one of them could a seat be secured for either love or money. The twenty-nine theatres, nearly all of them ...

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... NOW IN COMMAND OF ALL ALLIED FORCES IN THE SOUTH-WEST PACIFIC General Sir Archibald Waveli inspecting the Fixed Defences of Singapore in November last. With him are the G.O.C. Singapore Fortress (Major-Gen. Keith Simmons), and the Commander of the Fixed Defences GENERAL WAVELL'S DEPUTY Major-Gen. G. H. Brett, Deputy Supreme Com mander in the South-West Pacific to General Sir Archibald Wavell. ...

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... More Pictures from Libya T V. eu.t-eneral N. M. Ritchie (in command of the Eighth Army) and Air Vice-Marshal Coningham (A.O.C. Air Forces in the Western Desert on left) studying the map at their Desert Headquarters MEMBERS OF THE CRACK GERMAN AFRIKA CORPS being searched by one of their captors, a member of the New Zealand forces serving with the Eighth Army in Libya A GERMAN PETROL DUMP ...

... HOW THE R.A.F. CONTROL THE CENTRAL MEDITERRANEAN WATERS This picture shows the Italian island of Lampedusa, which lies between Sicily and the African coast, and behind which convoys for Tripoli and Libya were wont to shelter. A 9,00G-ton enemy merchant vessel had been attacked by Swordfish aircraft of the Fleet Air Arm, and the stricken ship was beached on the island Blenheim aircraft were ...

... THE DUTCH NAVY And Its Work in the Far East A Note by F. C. BOWEN RECENT events in Malayan waters have drawn particular attention to the Royal Netherlands Navy, which has already scored many notable successes against the Japanese. Although it has been necessary to maintain the strictest censorship with regard to most of its doings and its present strength, repeated general statements have been ...

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... LEADERS ,fc WAR EFFORT DIRECTOR-GENERAL OF GROUND DEFENCES Major-General C. E. Harden, C.B., D.S.O., formerly Inspector-General of Aerodrome Defences, has just been given the post of Director-General of Ground Defences in the Air Ministry. It is reported that he will be given the title of Commander of the Royal Air Force Regiment, a corns of aerodrome defence THE COMMANDER-IN-CHIEF OF THE U.S. ...

... With the Entry of the United States into the War, We Can Now Have Very Little Contact, and Few Peep-holes, in the Continental Countries Now Under the Nazi Yoke By FERDINAND TUOHY WHEN Napoleon's Continental System was at its height, the European mainland may have been as closed to Britain as it now is; assuredly at no other period was it ever so sealed. The termination of American presence in ...

... STRIKING at the ENEMY'S AIR-POWER -HOW AN AERODROME IS ATTACKED FROM THE AIR A Complete Exposition of the Different Methods Pursued in the Destruction of Air Base and Aircraft, as Exemplified in Warfare of To-day in All Theatres of War WHEN the Japanese bombers attacked the American airfields at Hawaii, our allies lost many planes in a few hours. Likewise, when our own R.A.F raided a Japanese ...