... Dy crossing more than a thousand miles of enemy and enemy-occupied territory in daylight, the new four- engined Lancasters of Bomber Command have just carried out one of the most daring flights of the war. Their objective was the fac tory of the Maschinenfabrik Augsburg Nurnberg A.G., where heavy tanks and Diesel engines for warships are made. Setting out in the after noon, the twelve ...

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... XL D A C I IDVA What Air Superiority Can Do I he K.A.r. Ill LlDI A an ...

... PIGEONS of the R.A.F. Carried by the Long-range Hying Boats for Use in an Emergency TO-DAY, in the R.A.F., 500,000 homing pigeons are being used for operational work. Of this number, 2,000 birds are on duty daily with Coastal Command, ready to carry messages from long-range reconnaissance aircraft when circumstances demand that the radio shall remain silent. At first a large number of trained ...

... The U.S. aircraft-tender Langley was recently sunk in the Pacific by near misses from Japanese bombs. Water, being incompressible, conveys explosion waves for considerable distances anc a near miss by, say, 30 yards, is often sufficient to open up seams in a ship's plates whicl will flood her below the water-level and eventually sink her without a direct hit being scored 3 THE DESTRUCTIVENESS ...

... to Frequently an officer will order his uniform from us in his home town during short leave and arrange for fitting to take place at another of our shops situated near to his unit. Sometimes he is moved suddenly to some new station before the uniform is ready. No matter how many times he changes his location there is, in most cases, an Austin Reed shop within reach where fitting arrangements ...

... Bulmers BY APPOINTME NT TO H-M. KING GEORGE VI MADE BY THE AUTHENTIC CHAMPAGNE PROCESS CHAMPAGNE CIDER Obtainable at all the best Hotels and Restaurants 1 McVITIE PRICE M U Biscuits k K Y of Highest Quality By Appointment Have you ever thought how you would miss salt with your meals (ekeJfoi \tf &RD0NJ4 1 *C%*'*NS\ 1 small PaA ...

... 1 I says OLD HETHERS though I say it myself! Nobody would think that rhubarb would make a really delicious flavouring for barley water, would they I was not so sure myself till I tried it Upon my word, it's good! But I'm not asking you or anyone else to take my word as gospel I'm simply asking you to try my rhubarb barley water for yourselves. As soon as you can get hold of a bottle put it to ...

... The M.L. (of which we published a complete series of photographs I in our issue of March 21), has now been allowed by the Admiralty to take a bow as an E-boat destroyer one of the principal functions for which it was, in fact, designed. They are very fast little craft, capable of 40 knots and over in the distance, or in misty weather, they might be mistaken for destroyers, so closely do they ...

... THE SUPPLY POSITION The Crookes Laboratories regret that C.rookes' Halibut Liver Oil will no longer be readily obtainable in cap sules, but only in liquid form. This is due to priority demands of national importance. In the interests of national health the Crookes Laboratories have taken every precaution in their power to ensure adequate supplies of Crookes' Halibut Oil in all parts of the ...

... Johnnie was questioned on his way home from school A little chill of fear runs through the family, a sudden stillness falls upon the tea-table. What might the little chap have said that could be twisted What exactly was he asked Don't keep on saying it couldn't happen here It happened last week to the little son of that nice restaurant proprietor in Brussels, it will happen to-morrow to the ...

... A WAR NEWSLETTER -No. 138 i, New Oxford Street, W.C.i. India.-- If ever the wise saw of keeping silence even from good words applied with force, it does so to the debacle of Sir Stafford's mission to India. A man who writes knows-- if he knows anything-- that what is written in ignorance is written in impotence and is not worth writing or reading. We in Britain know all too little of India and ...