... Saving the Lives of the Merchant Navy J-T very week now, new im provements and life-saving devices to help the men of the Merchant Navy are being taken up by the Ministry of War Transport. Fireproof hoods for the crews of tankers anti- explosive suits fitted with elec tric lights, so that the wearer can be spotted at night; and motor lifeboats fitted with auto matic radio, vitamin rations and ...

... WUBBBSBUBBBmmKBBtmmBKM i ^1 C i A T T ll AT THESE air pressures llrLHl c iu __ b 0 lb- dpB RECOMMENDED T PRESSURES V RUBBER WASTED X NO X RUBBER It cannot be too strongly stressed that a tyre consists of a waited/ cover, a tube, and the air inside the tube. It is the air ^WSBKK&l 1 that carries the load and if the air pressure is incorrect, the cover and tube cannot work effici- --Hi I :B ...

... The use of these secret weapons was revealed by the Russians recently, in connection with the fighting around Starava Russa, where a large Ger man Army is now trapped and being systematically attacked. The aero-sleighs are thrown into action rathei like tanks but, of course, at much greater speed they charge in perfect order and then disgorge machine gunners right at the point I to be attacked ...

... The Lessons We Must Learn from the Mala/an and Libyan Campaigns By E. J. VILLIERS THE Japanese have rubbed in two lessons in Malaya and Java: first that the command of the sea is worth any cost, and secondly that troops must be agile and fast-moving, not overburdened with kit, and their weapons must be of the same mobile nature. Remedy ing. our naval weakness in the Pacific will be a long-term ...

... THE EXPLOITS OF A BRITISH WRECKING PATROL A lorry party raids enemy aerodromes along the Gulf of Sirte and destroys ninety-one Axis planes in two weeks APPROACHING RY IORRY THF WRFCKERS THEN ATTACK ON FOOT Bombs are placed in the aircraft and vital parts are ripped and smashed. -Drawings by Roland Davies In the desert around the Gulf of Sirte a special wrecking patrol J has been at work ...

... THE M.L.'S OF E-BOAT ALLEY The E-boat is short for Enemy Boat its happy hunting-ground is E-Boat Alley, which lies off the East Coast of Britain its chief foe is the M.L. of the type illustrated on these pages. This speedy, compact craft is a destroyer in miniature, some of which have already carried out notable work against their German counter parts. Usually officered by sub-lieutenants ...

... , , Until then When the lamps of freedom are lit again, not least bright will be the glittering news that art and its artistes once more know no frontiers. But while the world continues to revolve around an uncertain axis, we must forego the opera, and a new Ford car to take us there until Victory is the overture to Peace. Until then, Ford marches on with the unique Ford Spare Parts and ...

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... REFUGEES FROM SINGAPORE HIDE IN A JUNGLE BAY Leaving the harbour by night, the small liner ran to a secluded island and lay there inconspicuously throughout -the day. She then pushed on in darkness until the next day, when the same process was repeated AT AN INTERMEDIATE PORT AFTER LEAVING SINGAPORE the outgoing tide left one of the refugee ships stranded high and dry for some hours. Because ...

... CAPITAL OF THE DUTCH INDIES Batavia, the Amsterdam of the Orient Described by J. B. GOODSON FROM Batavia comes the news of the enterprise and skill of our Dutch Allies operating in the Far East; yet the man in the street is often in doubt whether the name refers to a town, or an island, or an archipelago. Batavia is a city of over a quarter of a million inhabitants; it is the entrepôt and ...

... WHEELS VERSUS TRACKS for the TANK The New Ideas Evolved for the Big Fighting Vehicles to Render Them Less Liable to Breakdown IT is somewhat paradoxical that, at a time when the output of tanks from British and United States factories is growing into a broad and steady stream, the feeling should have arisen that all is not quite well with this powerful war weapon, as it has been evolved to ...

... MEMORIES OF FIFTY YEARS- An Experiment in Autobiography-- V By J. G. CHOOSING A HOUSE.-- My father's income, never large, gradually increased, and he grew tired of inspecting and renting holiday houses, and craved for something of his own for such uses. Per haps he brought disillusionment upon himself. I have referred to his engaging characteristic of con servatism, which in truth was the ...