... MINEFIELDS LAID ON LAND The Traps for the Tanks which have been Sown by Both Sides in Libya and in Russia Described by E. J. VILLIERS IN this war-- especially in the fighting in Libya and in Russia-- frequent references have been made to mine-, fields. Hitherto this phrase has been used mainly in connection with the war at sea. To-day, however, means have been found of sowing mines on land ...

... A WAR NEWSLETTER -No. 132 i. New Oxford Street, W.C.2. Bombers over Paris. One of the chief reasons for the collapse of France was undoubtedly the fact that a majority of the leaders of the nation knew that they could not take it and preferred to sacrifice their national honour and liberty rather than to endure a rain of bombs on Paris. Has Paris spared one fraction of the glory of scarred ...

... TUP R F 'S SMASHING ATTACK ON BILLANCOURT Mazing Official Pkotogropfc showing the Wreckage of the great Renault Week, in a Paris Suburb, Raided by Aircraft of Bomber Command on the Night of March 3 On the night of March 3 Bomber Command made a smashing assault on the German war effort, by attacking the huge Renault works at Billancourt in the south western suburbs of Paris. These works are ...

... mc-rc WF MAKE TO THE GERMAN INTELLIGENCE STAFFS Some of the Vital Information which we Gratuitously and Needlessly Present to the Enemy and thus Acquaint Him with Our Intentions and Methods during Coming Operations By FERDINAND TUOHY THERE is no harm in periodically reminding ourselves that somewhere across the Channel there continues to exist a West Front Headquarters, at which a Nazi General ...

... OOZ How the Enemy has Swept Through the Whole of the South-West Pacific-- -Described by ROBERT FINCH WITHIN three months, the Japanese have become masters of the south west Pacific, and conquerors of vast rich territories in south-east Asia and the East Indies. They chose their time well: their first blows were treacherous, sudden and successful; they sent huge and heavily- protected convoys ...

... Broadcasting is the Only New Weapon of this War, and its Use Has Been Fully Exploited by all the Axis Countries. Now it is Becoming Our Opportunity of Letting the Enslaved Countries and the Enemy) Know the Exact Truth By CHARLES GRAVES THE sum of £1,300,000 voted for Empire and foreign broadcasting has come very late in the war. Let us hope that it is not too late. Broad casting is the only ...

... The Tatler and Bystander in Town and Country Panto. Party CHILDREN Who were taken to see Jack and Jill at the Palace recently had a lovely surprise awaiting them. They found there not only the traditional fairy princess, but two real princesses, our own Princess Elizabeth and Princess Margaret Rose. I he royal princesses were dressed alike, m dusty rose, and stood one each side of the Queen in ...

... Moscow Bells Opera, Ballet and Musical Comedy at the Coliseum Lukomsky9 s Curtain in The Great Fire of Moscow 99 Professor Lukomsky designed the curtain for one of the most spectacular scenes in the Anglo- Russian show at the Coliseum 44 The Great Fire of Moscow. Born Prince Lukomsky, the artist was curator of the Tzar's treasures at Tzarskoe Selo till 1917, and was kept on at his post when ...

... 46 Comus I Robert Helpmann's First Ballet is Based on Milton's Masque, With Purcell Music 44 Come, let us our rites begin *Tis only daylight that makes sin In the woodland scene designed for their revelry by Oliver Messel, Comus's 44 rout of monstersy headed like sundry sorts of wild beasts, but otherwise like men and women, welcome midnight with grotesque and clumsy dancing. Their master, a ...

... By Elizabeth Bowen Family Group QUEEN VICTORIA, who was to stamp her own reign with such a titanic respecta bility, was herself the child of a dashing age and of a family noted for high living. More than this, the blonde, discreet, plump little girl grew up in an atmosphere tense with domestic intrigues that had political, sometimes international, interests behind them. In and round the ...

... By James Agate SOME few days ago a kind friend sent me a copy of The Cornhill Magazine for 1876 in order that I might peruse an unsigned article on the Italian opera of the period. It was a good article, but next to it I came across real treasure-trove. This was an essay, also unsigned, on the Nature of Humour. As the article might-- though I do not think it will-- elucidate the problem of W ...

... Delia Lipinskaya Russian Born Star of Moscow Bells Delia Lipinskaya is not yet well known in this country. She came here from Vienna shortly before the war broke out, and since then has appeared at the Windmill Theatre and in cabaret at the May Fair Hotel. Now she is in Moscow Bells (see pages 362 and 363) and is rapidly making a name for herself with her brilliant impressions and sparkling ...