... -^4 By Sabretache Hitler v. Hirohito THIS action for infringement of copyright, which has been incorrectly listed as In re Hong Kong. I understand has been settled out of court, the parties having come to an amicable arrangement. That Scrap of Paper Miss Megan Lloyd George, of the charming voice and alert brain, when reminding us all of the urgent necessity for saving every scrap of paper to ...

... BY M. E. BROOKE A triumph of line and simplicity is the maternity frock above from Dickins and Jones, Regent Street. It is provided with clever devices for helping to preserve the outline of the figure. It is cut in one and consists of a coat and adjustable panel. There are many variations on this theme, some provided with boleros and others with boxy coats. For women who work in the house or ...

... The AMERICAN NAVY ATTACKS in the PACIFIC First Pictures of the Assault on the Gilbert and Marshall Islands DAWN PATROL OVER HONOLULU An Army heavy bomber of the Hawaiian Air Force checks the identity of a warship cruising in the Pacific below. Aircraft ar now co-operating with the U.S. Navy in patrolling the vast areas of the mid-Pacific In the continuous task of guarding the vast mid-Pacific ...

... FIGHTING METHODS OF TO-DAY An Examination of the Lessons of the Far East in Dealing with Attack from Land and Air By DONALD COWIE LITTLE has been said about the actual ''style'' of the fighting in Far Eastern theatres, though undoubtedly the methods adopted may have been responsible in large measure for our disasters. Major-General Gordon Ben nett, of the Australians, was the best local ...

... A U.S. AIRCRAFT-CARRIER AT SEA The First Major Engagement Between an American Fleet at Sea and an Attacking Japanese Air Force THE official announcement of the first major engagement between an American fleet at sea and an attacking air force was recently made by the U.S. Navy Department in Washington. In this engage ment, in which pilots from an American aircraft-carrier flew through a hail ...

... The CHANGED ROLE of the LUFTWAFFE Heavy Reverses and Losses Over Britain and Russia have Weakened that Once Mighty Striking Arm. In the Spring the Effect of these Reverses will Begin to Tell More and More ON the night of May 10 last year the Luftwaffe staged its most spectacular after-dark attack on this country. Hundreds of bombers for hours on end roared over London, dropping their lethal ...

... A VITAL TASK IN WAR How the Demolition of Strategic Bridges is Carried Out THE DEMOLITION OF A MASONRY BRIDGE IS NOT AN EASY, OR QUICK, TASK. During a rapid retreat, a complete demolition of this sort could not be carried out and a simpler method (shown in another drawing on this page) would have to be employed On left Either gun cotton or dynamite is used for this purpose. Our drawing shows ...

... No. 495 The Gauleiter wants you No. 495 was christened John Winston Smith (known to his mother as the precious lamb) His home was small but filled with all those things that money can't buy love, happiness, and laughter off the chest. His daddy hadn't much money but he had a lot of fine dreams about young J. W. and was going to struggle to make them come true. But one thing daddy forgot ...

... 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 ...