... The ESCAPE of the GERMAN BATTLESHIPS The Full Story of the Action in the Channel AT about eleven o'clock on the morning of Thursday, February 12, R.A.F. aircraft brought the first news that an enemy squadron consisting of the battle ships Scharnhorst and Gneisenau and the cruiser Prinz Eugen, accompanied by destroyers, torpedo-boats, E-boats and minesweepers, was approaching the Dover Straits ...

... The Invasion of Singapore Island And the Stages by which It was Carried Out until the Island's Surrender Special Sphere Diagrams and Drawings THE INVASION OF SINGA- PORE ISLAND BEGINS The main attack develops on the north-west of the Island across the Johore Strait (see notes on right) On left With the main Japanese ad vance down the Malay Peninsula threatening both the north-west and the ...

... THE MILITARY LIFE OF THE ISLAND OF MALTA goes on without pause Undergraduates pass out at the Royal University at the end of their vacation training ONE OF THE DEFENCES OF MALTA This boom defence protects the harbour. It can, of course, be opened to permit the passage of ships when necessary. But, ordinarily, it is effective in preventing the entrance of submarines to points where they could ...

... The Defence of Singapore Island Which Began on the Night of Friday, January 30, 1942 After fifty-five days of delaying actions fought through jungle, rubber plantations, rice fields, and swamps, British and imperial forces retired across the Johore Strait, last week-end, the enemy making little effort to interfere with this operation. These actions gave time to the defence forces centred on ...

... i AMERICAN OFFICERS ALREADY IN GREAT BRITAIN stretch across to greet the newcomers as the transport draws in to the quayside of the Northern Ireland port Qn Monday, January 26, the first American troops to land on British soil since the last war arrived at a port in Northern Ireland. The men number several thousands and belong to an Infantry Division the first of a number of American ...

... Some of the Tricks which are To-day being Adopted by Reformers to Check the Freedom of the Forces-- of Both Sexes-- in Carrying on in Great Britain By FERDINAND TUOHY WE repeatedly learn from the best sources that this is going to be a long war (twenty-nine months of it is apparently to be regarded as the fish, or, at most, as the entrée stage). While I take leave to doubt if this august ...

... IN THE BALKANS ESPECIALLY, THE BITTER WINTER OF 1942 HAS MADE ITSELF FELT From Syria up to the Alps great blizzards have (for the second time) swept the whole of Southern Europe, bringing almost unprecedented snows Drawing by G. Lambert In January ol this year hurope experienced a second Ureat blizzard, which swept down from Russia across the whole of south-eastern Europe with disastrous ...

... THE DANGER OF PROXIMITY And the Menace of the Air-borne Torpedo to the Bis Capital Ship IN the early days of the big capital ships of the Royal Navy, when one spoke of dreadnoughts and two keels to one, one always thought of mighty vessels armed with huge guns with ranges fatal at 20 miles. At this colossal distance mortal blows were delivered whilst the enemy was still only a speck, or ...

... In the process of driving southwards towards the mam British and Dutch possessions in Malaya and the East Indies, the Japanese directed one of their attacks in force on Rabaul, the newly-constructed capital of New Britain (formerly a German island, subsequently mandated to Australia). The town was occupied only after a vigorous defence, the Australian forces in occupation there taking to the ...

... BRIDES, BRIDEGROOMS, WAR-WORKERS, ARTISTS: ALL PEOPLE IN THE NEWS OF TO-DAY. KEY LARGO, new play by Maxwell Anderson was given its English premiere by the Cambridge A.D.C. MICHAEL BENNETT played the hero, an American volunteer in Spain who deserts when he thinks his cause lost and finds life with courage lost is not worth living. This is Act I., the gambling scene. MISS CHRISTINA CHAN, ...

... The No Trouble Investment Issued by The National Savings Committee A Yes I've got Dad to buy some of his Savings Certificates through our School Savings Group. Every 15/- he puts in will grow like billy-o till it's £1. 0. 6 in ten years and he won't have to pay a penny Income Tax on the increase. DAD'S GONE BACK TO SCHOOL AGAIN i ...

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