... THE FLAGSHIP AND THE C.-IN-C. OF THE MEDITERRANEAN FLEET ADMIRAL SIR ANDREW CUNNINGHAM AT THE CEREMONY OF THE HOISTING OF THE COLOURS ON BOARD H.M.S. QUEEN ELIZABETH The Admiral may be seen, in the right centre of this picture, at the salute as the morning colours are hoisted on board the flagship and the National Anthem is played by the Royal Marines Band. For many months now this famous ...

... A GROUP OF WHIRLWIND PILOTS seen in front of one of their planes as they watch comrades return from a daylight offensive sweep TWO WHIRLWIND FIGHTERS TAKE j OFF Note the four forward guns, and the wheels which are just being retracted A CLOSE-UP OF THE NOSE OF A WHIRLWIND Her engines, being placed in the wings, leave the nose free to mount these four deadly aero-cannons The first demonstration ...

... RANGOON-BURMA ROAD -CALCUTTA Is this the Japanese Strategy in Their Westward Drive NO one has exactly understood the precise Japanese objectives-- that has been our trouble in the Eastern war. But the pattern is now clearer. Let us examine the events in Burma so far. What has the enemy gained to date? Firstly, some fine loot, which ranges from oil-wells producing 200,000,000 gallons, valued at ...

... - M AND ALA Y has just experienced the first touch of war after a period of over half a century of peace under the British Raj. Under her own independent monarchs, Burma was constantly at war with her neighbours, Siam, China and India, but after her conquest by the British in 1887, the land enjoyed peace and increasing prosperity. All Eastern cities are apt to appear to the European visitor as ...

... The Role of the Ministry in the Distribution of Foodstuffs; How the Racketeers Secure their Supplies and Still Operate Within the Law and the Various Methods of Proceeding Against what has Become a Public Scandal An Enquiry by CHARLES GRAVES A STUDY IN CONTRASTS THE new measures against operators in the Black Market have long been demanded by public opinion, and everyone except the racketeers ...

... WAY #F THE WAR By Joresight Spring Offensive ONE of Britain's ablest career diplomats, Sir Archibald Clark Kerr, has reached Russia from Chungking to be Britain's new Ambassador to the Soviet Union. He arrives at a time when the relations between Britain and Russia are closer than they have ever been in the last twenty-five years. It is M. Stalin's belief that they should be even closer, and ...

... The Tatler and Bystander in Town and Country Family Neics NEWS that the Duchess of Kent will not be seen in public for the next few months came as a surprise to most people, though a few friends of the family had been expecting an official announcement. It is some time now since the Duchess made a really public appearance, not counting her visits to war production factories, and the last time ...

... The Dancing Debs Queen Charlotte's Ball at Grosvenor House, in Aid of the Hospital Lord and Lady Aberdare, nearest to the camera, brought tico sons and a daughter to the ball. Sitting next to them are Mr. R. V. Lloyd and Mrs. Paul Bridgeman The Hon. Rosalind Bruce, debutante daughter of Lord and Lady Aberdare, was with Lord Shuttleworth. His elder brother was killed in an air battle in 1940 ...

... Ball of Fire Patch My Pantywaist It' s Lamb-Pie Gary Cooper and Yum- Yum Barbara Stanwyck 1, Tor nine years the eight professors have been working on a new encyclopaedia at the Totten Foundation. Their conglomeration qf books papers and bottled snakes defies the efforts of their housekeeper to keep any sort of order. They have reached the letter 44 S and one of their number must go out on a ...

... Mrs. J. K. Whiter is the former Rachel Meynell. She is the younger daughter of Col. Francis Meynell (a kinsman of Lord Halifax) and Lady Dorothy Meynell the only sister of the present Earl of Dartmouth. Rachel Meynell who is a Comman dant of the Red Cross, was married in the autumn of last year to John Kift Winter, the eldest son of the late Air. W. de L. Winter and Mrs. Winter, of ...

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... - GENERAL MacARTHUR, the Napoleon of Luxon, for being a belLto-breakfast baby who has been appointed supreme commander of the entire Western Pacific, from Singapore to America. A MERICA'S GENERAL r\ DOUGLAS MacARTHUR, the Philippines brilliant de fender, is a realist, and as such his appointment as Commander- in-Chief from Australia of the Allied Forces in the Western Pacific is welcomed ...