... CASUALTIES on the LIBYAN FIELD Saving the Wounded, and Honouring the Dead under Desert Conditions By DONALD COWIE HERE is a true story of the Libyan campaign that illustrates the difficulty of giving wounded men proper attention, and the splendid work of the Royal Army Medical Corps in spite of that. A twenty-four-year-old bombardier was filling ammu nition clips under German artillery fire ...

... The Enthronement of a Bishop And Other News Items from the Home Front THE NEW BISHOP IS ENTHRONED AT WINCHESTER CATHEDRAL-- Dr. Haigh asks admission on his arrival Dr. Mervyn George Haigh was formerly Bishop of Coventry. A few days ago he was enthroned as the new Bishop of Winchester. No bells were rung for the occasion and the silence of the bells has been regretted by many leading churchmen, ...

... redetermined to switch the blame for the war on the French, the Germans insisted on the War Guilt Trial at Riom. But the proceedings are not going according to plan, if reports from Vichy be correct. The defendants include the two ex-Premiers, MM. Blum and Daladier (M. Reynaud is to follow later) General Gamelin, the French Generalissimo and other highly-placed former Ministers. Gamelin is ...

... ATTACK BY SUBMARINE The Shelling of Elwood, on the Californian Coast, and the U-boat Attacks on the Atlantic Coast Elwood is a huge oilfield and oil refinery on the Californian coast, some 8 miles north of Santa Barbara and some 80 miles north-west of Los Angeles. Here the field runs out actually under the sea it is made the more conspicuous by its giant derricks, some of which run out from ...

... THE FIRST PICTURE FROM THE FRONT IN EGYPT SHOWING HOW THE 8TH ARMY'S OFFENSIVE OPENED: A GERMAN STRONG-POINT IS CAPTURED AND THE WAY PREPARED FOR A FURTHER ADVANCE- -Picture by radio This picture was sent to Cairo from the front line in the Desert, and radioed by Cable and Wireless to London. It shows how our troops went into action as zero hour came at 10 p.m. on Friday night of last week. ...

... r|Ao every corner of the globe General Smuts' fine analysis of the war situation has now penetrated through the medium of the Press and radio. The South African statesman, paying his first visit to this country for ten years, spoke for an hour to an Assembly which comprised members of both Houses of Parliament. He delivered an oration which closely analysed the events of the past three years ...

... CLOTHING the ARMY and the AUXILIARY SERVICES The Work of the Director-General of Equipment and Stores Described by CHARLES GRAVES ON the top floor of a building in a mean street in London is one of the most intriguing sights in Great Britain. For here is one of the main pattern-rooms of the Director-General of Equipment and Stores. As far as I can make out, no reporter has previously been ...

... The BRITISH SWOOP on the NAZIS in OCCUPIED FRANCE --Official Pictures The Raid carried out on the night of February 27-28 had as its objective a valuable German radio-location unit at Bruneval, twelve miles north of Havre; in the operations the Royal Navy, Army and Royal Air Force each played an equally important and inter-dependent part. The carrying force of bombers (the Force Commander of ...

... A bout the middle of February a new place-name suddenly appeared in the war news. It may safely be said that the name Aruba meant little or nothing to the average lay reader, although to the oil world this oil-refinery island off the coast of Venezuela was a very well-known and notable spot. It came into the news by reason of a number of attacks by enemy U-boats. Both Aruba and the ...

... Continued from page 304) On the question of luck, there is no doubt it has been with us at least once in this war, on the sinking of the Bismarck. This brand-new thirty- five-thousand-tonner was dangerously near the safety of the French coast when, for the second time in the hunt, one of our planes defied the hail of flak to score a hit with a torpedo. This time it hit the most vulnerable spot ...

... THE FIRST AID TO RUSSIA DEMONSTRATION IN AUSTRALIA: This picture comes from Melbourne, a city notable for the number and variety of its street processions to celebrate all kinds of occasions. It shows the first Aid to Russia demonstration ever held in the Commonwealth. The scene here is the intersection of Flinders and Stanton Streets a decorated car bears portraits of Stalin and Churchill, ...

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