... . Brigadier (acting) JOHN CHARLES CAMPBELL, D.S.O., M.C., Royal Horse Artillery, has been awarded the twenty-seventh V.C. of the war for his most conspicuous gallantry and devotion to duty at Sidi Rezegh on Novem ber 21 and 22, 1941. He has created a remark able record by being awarded the V.C. and D.S.O. and bar within ten months. He also holds the M.C., which he gained in 1919. The first ...

... . MRS. PERCIVAL is the wife of Li exit. -General Arthur Ernest Percival, C.B., D.S.O., O.B.E., M.C., who defended Singapore against the Japanese hordes until lack of water, food and supplies forced him to surrender. She sent a message to the women of Britain through a daily paper saying The duty of wives at home is to go on showing that they are not second in courage to [3 their fighting ...

... THE 44 BRAINS TRUST, or B.B.C. Oracle, which guarantees to provide information and entertainment by answering questions put to it, was founded on a cold and dismal January day in 1911 when London had been taking it through a long winter of almost continuous air raids. As a result of the first session. Professor Joad Commander A. B. Campbell, and Dr. Julian Huxley received fifteen questions. ...

... BLACK i WH ITE BLACK i WH ITE £cofch! V A REAL TREAT To men who have an appreciation for fine whisky, a glass of Black and White is always cl Yectl tYCClt. ...

... Comus and the Lady Anthony Ballet is a magpie art, thieving unscrupulously from the rich stores of its sisters, here a poem, there a picture, and from somewhere else a symphony. Sometimes its thefts stir the critic's fury sometimes a true creator's touch reveals new magic in old beauty, translating for to-day's public the remoter language of another century. Robert Helpmann, the latest thief, ...

... 3ne Star Differeth From Another1 Rise Stevens Youngest-Teamed Star Rise Stevens made her screen dSbut with Nelson Eddy in 44 The Chocolate Soldier 11 a film based on Molnar's 44 The Guardsman 11 with music by Oscar Straus. She is a star of the Metropolitan Opera House New York. Her voice is lovely her eyes are naturally mocking, she has a rare sense of comedy and she is easy on the eyes. Can ...

... THE SNOW-COVERED STEPPES OF RUSSIA, where tens of thousands of Germans are now freezing in the icy blasts from the Urals A column of the enemy, with their mechanised transport, comes to a halt in the bleak, wintry countryside GERMAN WAR PRISONERS IN RUSSIA PROTEST AT THE GERMAN TREATMENT OF SOVIET PRISONERS GERMANS SIGNING A MESSAGE OF PROTEST to the International Red Cross Committee at Geneva ...

... THE ISOLATIONISTS CHANGE THEIR CLOAK But Not Their Spots! From Isolationists Urging that America Do Nothing in the War, They Have Now Become Indignationists Professing to be Enraged that So Little Has Been Done to Encourage War-Mindedness By FERDINAND TUOHY DIRECTLY after Pearl Harbour the news went forth that there was no such thing any more as an American Isolationist. The Lindberghs, ...

... NAVAL WARFARE in the PACIFIC As It Affects the American Fleet By FRANCIS McMURTRIE Ever since the catastrophe brought about by Japanese treachery at Pearl Harbour on December 7, the Naval Problem of the Pacific has occupied the attention of every student of the war in the Far East. What has happened since that tragic morning What to-day is the strength of the United States Fleet What has it ...

... A FORTRESS in the SEA One of Britain's Coastal Defences in the North A GENERAL VIEW OF THE HEAVILY ARMOURED SEA FORT, showing mem bers of the garrison lined up on the deck below the searchlight windows and (top) gun turrets commanding every approach ON ONE OF THE FORTRESS'S PROJECTING BALCONIES Men of the garrison engaged in cleaning and maintenance work on one of the searchlights. In the ...

... SAVING OUR CRIPPLED SHIPS The Work of British Divers in Salvaging Valuable Vessels and Cargoes Lost at Sea through Enemy Action Described by CHARLES GRAVES IN the old days of manual tools, divers had to use the hammer and chisel, the saw or the brace and bit. To-day, new tools are employed. There are pneu matic chisels for cutting rivets; there are rivet busters and drilling machines. These ...

... Give up your Binoculars every pair is needed for National Servica KERSHAW'S BINOCULARS British and best, the world's standard of quality, will be available later. SO HO LTD., SALES DEPT., COLHAM MILL ROAD, WEST DRAYTON, MIDDLESEX (Branch of A. Kershaw fc Sons Ltd.) SPEED and the A m FOR CE How soon can you fix ine up with a greatcoat enquired an R.A.F. fighter pilot the other day. Now, we ...