... 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 ...

... On left H.M.S. Valiant, a battleship of 3S,000 tons, which was following astern of the Barham when the latter was hit. Valiant is seen on the left of Mr. Dawson's drawing above THE SINKING OF THE BARHAM OFF SOLLUM, AS THf fE RESULT OF FOUR TORPEDOES FIRED BY A GERMAN U-BOAT From a painting by MONTAGUE E DAWSON (Based on a description given by Captain C. Morgan of the Valiant The latter ...

... Both the Dutch Navy and the U.S. Navy Have Scored Some Notable Successes by Torpedo against the Japanese Two drawings by Wm. McDowell Very creditable work has already been performed in Japanese home waters by submarines of both the Dutch and American Navies. In attacks against Convoys and against enemy war vessels, a number of successes have been scored, and alarm and despondency must have ...

... WATCHING HIS COMRADES CARRY ON IN THE AIR ABOVE AFRICA After bombing, with devastating effect, an Italian supply column (seen blazing in the background), this R.A.F. sergeant-pilot was shot down by anti-aircraft fire over North Africa and captured by the Italians. In this eloquent picture, the pilot is seen between two of his captors watching his colleagues carrying on with their bombing ...

... During a flight over the Mediterranean on December 22 a Sunderland flying-boat of the R.A.F. met with two Messerschmitts. The encounter was brief: one was shot down, and the other was damaged and made off. During the battle, however, the starboard engines of the flying-boat were hit and ceased to function. Land was in sight, but the bunderland lost height rapidly, and a forced landing in the ...

... THE CAPTAIN OF BRITAIN'S LATEST CAPITAL SHIP: CAPTAIN C. H. J. HARCOURT, O.B.E., R.N., ON THE BRIDGE OF THE BATTLESHIP DUKE OF YORK, NEWEST VESSEL OF THE ROYAL NAVY TO JOIN THE FLEET The importance of the Capital Ship in maintaining supremacy of the seas is, by this time, well known to all if only through the unhappy sequence of events in the Far East brought about by the loss of the Prince ...

... THE CAMPAIGN OF THE RED ARMIES ON THE EASTERN FRONT THE RECAPTURE OF MOJAISK By the Russians AFTER an anxious period of three months, when the Germans stood in front of Moscow at Mojaisk on the big motor highway from Smolensk, the town was once again brought into Russian hands towards the end of January. Its occupation was then secure enough to admit of visits by War Corre spondents to the ...

... A NOTE ON THE LOSS OF THE BARHAM. By FRANCIS McMURTRIE FROM Press accounts of the torpedoing of H.M.S. Barham off the Libyan coast on November 25, it appears that she was one of a squadron of three battleships steaming in the formation known as line ahead, i.e., in a single column, one ship following another. Normally, ships proceeding in this formation preserve a distance of from 2½ to 3 ...

... WANTED-A CONTROLLER OF WARTIME CAMOUFLAGE What has been Done, and what Still Remains to be Done, in the Art of Concealing Objectives. This is More Necessary Now than in the Last War, Owing to Aerial Reconnaissance By CHARLES GRAVES CAMOUFLAGE is literally as old as the hills. And yet this French word for protective colouring did not become part of the English lan guage until the World War. ...