... A VISIT TO OXFORD IN WARTIME The Life of the Undergraduates is Hard, and Each has to do His Stint of National Service. Food, Luxuries and High Living are Rarities, and Against all Scholastic and Social Endeavour Looms the Background of War and Grim Preparation for It By CHARLES GRAVES IT was with a kind of contemptuous envy that I went up to Oxford this week. But that mood changed very quickly ...

... THIS IS NASHCRETE, a concrete which can be sawn and nailed In a factory near London women are busily turning out this new wartime building product invented by Mr. T. F. Nash It looks and behaves like concrete, but it has the added advantage that it can be sawn, and nails can be driven into it with ease. This is because it contains a large proportion of sawdust a waste product. Miss Elsie Bell ...

... A WAR NEWSLETTER -No. 136 i, New Oxford Street, W.C.i. St. Nazaire.-- The latest com bined Services raid into Occupied territory, if it proved more costly than others, appears to have achieved its main object, which was of great importance in the present less satis factory phase of the eternal Battle of the Atlantic. This raid had many features in common with Zeebrugge the greatest of all such ...

... How the Japanese Use Torpedoes In Defiance of Recognised International Law On right THE THREE METHODS by which the Japs make use of their torpedoes The enemy in the South-West Pacific have been using various devices on their torpedoes to ensure that these costly and deadly missiles are used to the full despite that, in at least one case, they are disregarding International Law. One type ...

... The Use of the Carley Float in Wartime ^he Carley Floats are shallow, oval-oblong rafts round the edges runs a large copper tube com- partmented so that if a few sections are holed, there is still no great loss of buoyancy. Hand lines and paddles are provided condensed milk, fresh water, hard tack, and rum constitute the provisioning. They are excellent devices for what they are, and they are ...

... Good work-- good whisky Born 1820 still going strong ...

... i, New Oxford Street, W.C.i The Turn of the Year.-- For two thousand years, at least, suffering and ever hopeful humanity has found in the season of Easter the year's occasion for renewing its hope and repairing its faith in the ultimate good, in seeking again some far-off, divine purpose in the tragic pilgrimage to eternity. The Easter egg is the symbol of that rebirth the bird's song and the ...

... AT A MEETING OF THE MIDDLE EAST WAR COUNCIL IN CAIRO At regular intervals this War Council, which runs the war not only in Libya but throughout the whole of the Near East, meets at G.H.Q. to discuss policy and strategy. Its members include General Auchinleck, Admiral Cunningham, Air Marshal Tedder, the British Ambassador to Egypt, and other Chiefs. Here General Auchinleck, C.-in-C., and Air ...

... /Milestones I Vmmi r v MILES 'MONARCH' W* A the most otvnable aeroplane x in the World The Aeroplane June 22 *^1958^/' w ITH British Service monoplane trainers in the full swing of large-scale production, our designers remembered their first customer, the private owner, and returned to their blue prints of a new and wondrous aeroplane that was calculated to warm the heart of the enthusiast at ...

... PAUL REYNAUD'S J'ACCUSE A Very Remarkable Document which the Fighting ex-Premier of France Sent to Philippe Petain, the Ruler of Vichy, after His Imprisonment. A Copy of this was Smuggled Out of France, and Vital Portions of it are Given Below. Amongst Other Things it Tells the Inner Story of the Franco-British Union Proposed by Winston Churchill, and the Truth about the Proposal to Carry On ...

... THE NAVY'S COMMANDOES The Sailors who are Being Trained to Strike at Enemy- Occupied Regions Special Admiralty Pictures 'T'he series of pictures repro- T duced here show sailors of the Royal Navy being trained for demolition work in enemy- occupied countries. During train ing, ratings are instructed in the laying of charges and detonators for the destruction of enemy property and installations ...

... INVASION BY BARGE? How Would it be Carried Out by the Germans and from which Direction Would Invasion Come By FRANK ILLINGWORTH WITH monotonous regularity, Whitehall charges us to watch from the cliffs and the beaches for the long-heralded invasion of Britain, and though the threat of attack no longer carries the implications of 1940's hectic summer, the passage of the Scharnhorst, Gneise nau ...